Folkestone St Mary and St Eanswythe, Kent Genealogy

Guide to Folkestone St Mary and St Eanswythe, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
FOLKESTONE (St. Mary and St. Eanswith), a parish, in the union of Elham, hundred of Folkestone, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent; comprising the sea-port and incorporated and market town of Folkestone, which has a separate jurisdiction, the hamlet of Ford, and part of the chapelry of Sandgate. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, and Wesleyans.

Folkestone St Mary and St Eanswythe is an Ancient Parish;Folkestone Christ Church, Kent Holy Trinity and St Peter were formed from this parish.

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel dates from 1866; Independent Baptist and Society of Friends Chapels were also built. The South Kent Methodist Circuit includes Folkestone St Andrew and Folkestone Methodist Church

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Civil Registration
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.

Registration Districts

 * 1837-1941 Elham Registration District
 * 1934-1941 Dover Registration District
 * 1941-1974 Folkestone Registration District

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Kent ($)
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records

 * Ancestry UK Census Collection ($)
 * 1841-1891 Census Returns for Folkestone
 * Findmypast Census ($)

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.


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

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Church of All Souls British Listed Buildings
 * Church of Holy Trinity British Listed Buildings
 * Church of St Martin British Listed Buildings
 * The Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe Folkestone Free Pages Roots
 * Church of ST Paul British Listed Buildings
 * Church of ST Peter British Listed Buildings
 * Church of St Saviour British Listed Buildings
 * Folkestone Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Holy Trinity Folkestone Kent Churches
 * Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, Including the Presbytery to the South East British Listed Buildings
 * St Marks Garrison Church British Listed Buildings
 * St Mary and St Eanswythe Folkestone Kent Churches
 * St Saviour Folkestone Kent Churches
 * St Peter Folkestone Kent Churches
 * The Baptist Church British Listed Buildings
 * The Parish Church of ST Mary and ST Eanswythe British Listed Buildings
 * United Reformed Church British Listed Buildings