Horsmonden, Kent Genealogy

England   Kent Horsmonden

Parish History
Horsmonden is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells district of Kent. The early 14th century church of St Margaret in Brick Kiln Land is distant from the main settlement of the village Horsmonden Wikipedia

The parish of St Margaret Horsmonden is an Ancient Parish which included the hamlets of Rams Hill, Sherenden and Caple Cross.

The Parish church of St Margaret has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building

There is an 1848 Gazeteer entry; A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 553-557. here and Kent Online Parish Clerks (See link below) have other gazetteer entries.

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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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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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