Snodland, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
SNODLAND (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Malling, hundred of Larkfield, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 2½ miles NE by N from West Mailing.

Snodland is a small town on the River Medway in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent, see Snodland Wikipedia.

Snodland All Saints with Christ Church is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester which included Holborough and Rookery. There are two churches within the Ancient Parish which form the benefice; see church website.

Lower Birling Christ Church dates from 1896 and was built to accommodate the growing population in the area; see Kent Churches website

The church of All Saints Mill Street Snodland has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 463-470. Date accessed: 21 October 2013.


 * at British History Online and Kent Churches website
 * Snodland North West Kent Family History Society which includes other places of worship in the town of Snodland and Snodland All Saints

The disused church of Our Lady of the Meadow, Wrangling Lane, Snodland has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

Congregational Church: Providence, Holborough Road dates from 1822 and moved later to the High St (1888). Original registers begin in 1836.

Swedenborgian (New Jerusalem) Church in High Street Snodland dates from 1880/1881. The Church of New Jerusalem has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

Civil Registration
This parish was from 1837 in the Malling registration district

See Maidstone 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
Snodland parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

International Genealogical Index Batch Numbers
 * Christenings 1559-1860 Batches (C135131, C135132)
 * Marriages 1559-1837 Batches (M135131, M135132)

Land Tax

 * Images for Snodland available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Census Records
Census returns for Snodland and Paddlesworth, 1841-1891

FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
 * Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
 * Introduction to Family History Centers to locate outside UK.
 * Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable).

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.


 * Ancestry UK Census Collection.
 * Find my Past census search 1841-1901.

Poor Law Unions

 * Malling 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.

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