Boughton Aluph, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
BOUGHTON ALUPH (All Saints), a parish, in the union of East Ashford, hundred of Wye, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 4 miles NNE from Ashford.

Boughton Aluph is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent Boughton Aluph Wikipedia The civil parish includes the village of Boughton Lees Boughton Lees Wikipedia

Boughton Aluph All Saints is an Ancient Anglican parish in the Diocese of Canterbury within the Wye, Kent parish and one of three churches in the parish; including the redundant church of Eastwell, Kent St Mary

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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)

Census Records

 * Findmypast Census
 * Findmypast Census

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. 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

 * All Saints British listed building
 * All Saints, Boughton Aluph Kent Churches
 * Boughton Aluph GENUKI
 * Boughton Aluph Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks