Charing, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent



Parish History
Charing is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing+ Charing Wikipedia]

The Ancient Parish of St Peter and St Paul was extensive. The ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity, Charing Heath, was created in 1874 to serve the villages of Lenham Heath and Charing Heath.

The Parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

The church of the Holy Trinity,Church Hill Charing which dates from 1874 has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building See also Ashford Deanery website

Charing Methodist Church, Station Road Charing, is part of South Kent Methodist Circuit Church website

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.

Church records
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)

Original deposited registers are held at:

Centre for Kentish Studies,County Hall,Maidstone,Kent ME14 1XX

01622 694363

Fax: 01622 694379

archives@kent.gov.uk

Family History Library film numbers

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
West 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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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