Birchington, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Birchington, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Birchington, Kent | |
|---|---|
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Ringslow or Isle of Thanet |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Thanet |
| Registration District | Thanet |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1538; For more records see Monkton | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1572 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Westbere |
| Diocese | Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BIRCHINGTON (All Saints), a parish, within the cinque-port liberty of Dover (of which it is a member, though locally in the hundred of Ringslow, or Isle of Thanet), union of Thanet, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 3½ miles W by S from Margate. [1]
From: 'Bintree - Birkenhead', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 248-255. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50801 Date accessed: 26 September 2012. Birchington-on-Sea is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent. Within the churchyard is the burial place of the 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Quex Park, a local 19th century manor house, is home to the Powell Cotton Museum and a twelve-bell tower built for change ringing.
Birchington All Saints which dates from the 13th century was originally formed as a chapelry within Monkton, Kent Ancient Parish; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you
The church of All Saints Canterbury Road Birchington has been designated as a grade B listed building British listed building See also Kent Archeological Society and Kent Churches website
The Birchington Methodist Chapel Linington Road Birchington has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building
See also Birchington-on-Sea Wikipedia
Edward Hasted refers to St Nicholas chapel Wood alias Woodchurch within this Ancient parish and the deanery of Westbere. See The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7 (1798), pp. 226-237 at British History Online
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Birchington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = findmypast - (£)[2][3][4] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[5] | |||||
| KOPC = Kent Online Parish Clerks - free[6] |
| Birchington Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1538-1880 | 1538-1880 | 1540-1909 | 1540-1909 | 1538-1887 | 1538-1887 |
| IGI | 1538-1675 | 1538-1553 | ||||
| KOPC | 1801-1880 | 1754-1909 | 1801-1887 | |||
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Birchington 1841-1891
FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through FHC Portal Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Category:England Family History Centres to locate local Family History Centres in UK
- Introduction to Family History Centers to locate outside UK.
- Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.
Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate records[edit | edit source]
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.
Local Family History Centre[edit | edit source]
- FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Publication of the restricted access images England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records and England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records means that it is advisable to telephone the centre to reserve a computer if you wish to view these
- FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
- Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC) (Birchington)
- Acol Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC) (Acol)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England,(1848), pp. 248-255. Date accessed: 1 July 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury baptism records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury marriage records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 14 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury burial records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 14 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 15 November 2013.
- ↑ Kent Online Parish Clerks, accessed 20 November 2013.
