Brabourne, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
BRABOURNE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of East Ashford, franchise and barony of Bircholt, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 7 miles E by S from Ashford. There is a chapel for Calvinistic Baptists. Brabourne is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent and grew as a settlement in East Brabourne around the parish church.

Brabourne Lees is a village within the civil parish of Brabourne.

Brabourne St Mary the Virgin is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; it is part of the Smeeth (St. Mary) with Monks Horton and Stowting and Brabourne benefice

The Norman church dates from 1144 and is one of the oldest church buildings still in use for worship in England. The church tower was restored in 1923-1924. Brabourne Lees nearby in the parish has a Zion Strict Baptist Chapel.

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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 East Ashford Registration District
 * 1941-1998 Ashford 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)

Land Tax

 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831 Images for Brabourne and Brook

Poor Law Unions

 * East Ashford Poor Law Union, Kent

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish.
 * Kent Probate Records 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

 * Boxley Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Brabourne GENUKI
 * Parishes: Braborne British History Online
 * St Mary, Brabourne Kent Churches