Acrise, Kent Genealogy

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

Parish History
ACRISE (St. Martin), a parish, in the union of Elham, partly in the hundred of Folkestone, but chiefly in that of Loningborough, lathe of Shepway, E. division of Kent, 5 miles NNW from Folkestone, near the road to Canterbury.

Acrise is a village and civil parish in the Shepway district of Kent Acrise Wikipedia

Acrise St Martin is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury; the parish of Acrise St Martin and Swingfield, Kent St Peter is within the Hawkinge with Acrise and Swingfield benefice see A Church near You

The parish church of St Martin Acrise has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building


 * Kent Archaeological Society and Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (1799), pp. 111-117 at British History Online and Kent Churches website

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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

 * Elham Registration District
 * Folkestone 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 ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
 * Census returns for Acrise 1841-1891 FamilySearch
 * Ancestry UK Census Collection 1841-1911
 * FindMyPast Census 1841-1911($)

Land Tax
Images for Acrise, Elham, Stelling and Upper Hardres are available at FamilySearch Records Elham is a sub-district and a parish. The sub-district includes the parishes of Stelling and Acrise. There is no information regarding Upper Hardres. Elham is included in items 5-7, while Stelling and Upper Hardres are in item 6, and Acrise is in item 7.
 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records FamilySearch 1780-1832
 * England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments, 1689-1832 FamilySearch

Kent Archives Office reference: Q/RPL/120-122

Local Family History Centre

 * Canterbury Family History Centre, Kent
 * Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent

Poor Law Unions

 * Elham Poor Law Union, Kent
 * England, Kent, Workhouse Records, 1777-1911 Elham Union (Lyminge)
 * England, Kent, Workhouse Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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