Acrise, Kent, England Genealogy

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Acrise

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

Acrise
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Loningborough
Poor Law Union	Elham
Registration District	Elham
Records Begin
Parish registers	1541
Bishop's Transcripts	1563
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Elham
Diocese	Canterbury
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office

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 see 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.

Resources

Find Neighboring Parishes

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

• Type the name of the parish in the search bar
• Click on the location pin on the map
• Choose Options from the pop up box
• Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
  

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

• See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
  
  
  

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:

• Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
  
• Dates in the following table are approximate
  

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Acrise Online Parish Records
Collections	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only	Indexes and images	Indexes only
FamilySearch Collections-Kent	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Parish Registers-Kent	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-	1700s-1800s	-
FreeREG	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Findmypast-Kent ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Findmypast Banns-Kent ($)	-	-	1500s-1900s	-	-	-
Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Kent ($)	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s	-
Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s 1500s-1900s	-	1500s-1900s
Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	1500s-1800s	-	-
National Burial Index-FMP (Free)	-	-	-	-	-	1800s-1900s

Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

• 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

Nonconformist Records

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

• 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
• England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages at Findmypast — index & images ($); coverage may vary

Census Records

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Land Tax

Images for Acrise, Elham, Stelling and Upper Hardres are available at FamilySearch Records

• England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments 1689-1832 FamilySearch Historical 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.

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

Local FamilySearch Centre

• Canterbury FamilySearch Centre, Kent
  
• Maidstone FamilySearch 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

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

• England Jurisdictions 1851 <brS>
• Vision of Britain
  

Websites

• St Martin A Church Near You
• St Martin British Listed Building
  
• Kent GENUKI
  
• Kent Online Parish Clerks