Hawkinge, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Hawkinge, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HAWKINGE, or Hackynge (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Elham, hundred of Folkestone, lathe of Shepway, E. division of Kent, 2 miles (N.) from Folkestone.

Hawkinge is a village and civil parish in the Shepway district of Kent, see Hawkinge Wikipedia

Hawkinge St Luke is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you

The former ancient parish Church of St Michael was declared redundant in 1980 and is now a private residential dwelling Hawkinge former St Michael Church. The Baptist Church premises in The Street were also sold and the congragation now meets at Hawkinge Community Centre see Hawkinge Baptist Church website

The Parish church of St Michael, Church Hill, Hawkinge has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

Hawkinge housed RAF Hawkinge the closest operational airfield to France RAF Hawkinge Wikipedia part of the airfield which has not been developed for housing includes Kent Battle of Britain Museum Wikipedia

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (1799), pp. 147-151at British History Online and Kent Churches website

Civil Registration
See Elham Registration District Folkestone Registration District

Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.

The Mansion House (Certificate Centre) Grove Hill Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1EP

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records
Hawkinge parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.

Poor Law Unions
Elham Poor Law Union, Kent

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Kent Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

See England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

Local Family History Centre
Canterbury Family History Centre, Kent

Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent


 * FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
 * Publication of the restricted access images England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records and England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records means that it is advisable to telephone the centre to reserve a computer if you wish to view these

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain