Barfrestone, Kent, England Genealogy

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

Barfrestone
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Barfrestone St Nicholas Kent
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Kent
Hundred Eastry
Poor Law Union Eastry
Registration District Eastry
Records Begin
Parish registers 1572
Bishop's Transcripts 1564
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Sandwich
Diocese Canterbury
Province Canterbury
Probate Court Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office


Parish History

BARFRESTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Eastry, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 5 miles S by E from Wingham. [1]

The hamlet of Barfrestone may be found spelt as Barston, Barfreston or Barfreystone depending on the age of the record and record author's choice. Barfrestone Wikipedia The hamlet is in Eythorne, Kent and neighbours Shepherdswell and Nonington.

Barfrestone St Nicholas is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury in the Dover District of East Kent. It is in the civil parish of Eythorne and near the mining villages of Elvington and Snowdown Elvington Kent Wikipedia Snowdown Wikipedia

Resources

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Civil Registration

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

Registration Districts

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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Barfrestone 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
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Parish Registers-Kent
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
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1700s-1800s
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1700s-1800s
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FreeREG
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1500s-1900s
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1500s-1900s
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Findmypast-Kent ($)
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Findmypast Banns-Kent ($)
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Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Kent ($)
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Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)
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Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage
Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
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National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
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Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.

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.

Census Records

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

Land Tax

Poor Law Unions

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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Websites

References

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848), pp. 141-145. Date accessed: 1 July 2013.