Ide Hill, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
IDE HILL, a chapelry, in the parish of Sundridge, union of Seven-Oaks, hundred of Codsheath, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W division of Kent, 3¾ miles WSW from Seven-Oaks.

Ide Hill is a village within the civil parish of Sundridge with Ide Hill See Ide Hill Wikipedia and Sundridge with Ide Hill Wikipedia

Ide Hill St Mary is an Ecclesiastical Parish formed in 1818 from Sundridge, Kent Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester.

The village had a chapel in 1807, built by the then Bishop of London; St Mary's church was built in 1865 and "has the distinction of being the highest church in Kent" [The Kent Village Book], as well as boasting a beautiful lychgate, crafted by local builder Cecil 'Dusty' Boakes. See also Kent Churches website

The National Trust garden at Emmet's Hill was laid out in the 19th century and the stone bench near the church commemorates the Trust founders Octavia Hill.



The church is part of the united benefice of Sundridge, Kent with Ide Hill and Toy's Hill whose three churches serve the benefice.

Other places of worship included:

Calvinist Ark, Ide Hill. (1840-1941)

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Civil Registration
See Sundridge, Kent Sevenoaks Registration District 1837-1941

See Tonbridge 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
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

 * See also the 1911 census

Poor Law Unions

 * Sevenoaks 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.


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

Local Family History Centre

 * Orpington Family History Centre, Kent is within reach of the Sevenoaks district, located adjacent to Orpington Station.

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