Bobbing, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
BOBBING (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Milton, Upper division of the lathe of Scray, E division of Kent, 1¼ mile W by N from Milton. Bobbing is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent. Bobbing Kent Wikipedia

Bobbing St Bartholomew is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury. The Church of St Bartholomew, Sheppey Way, Bobbing dates from the 14th century and was restored in 1863 by R.C. Hussey. The village and civil parish are a mile north east of Sittingbourne in whose urban area it is included for local government purposes.

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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 Milton 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

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Land Tax

 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832 Bobbing

Poor Law Unions

 * Milton 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
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 * [ England Jurisdictions 1851]
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Websites

 * Bobbing Kent GENUKI
 * Bobbing Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
 * Parishes: Bobbing British History Online
 * St Bartholomew A Church Near You
 * St Bartholomew British Listed Buildings
 * St Bartholomew Bobbing Kent Churches