Brenchley, Kent, England Genealogy

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Brenchley

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

Brenchley
Brenchley All Saints Kent
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Brenchley and Horsemonden
Poor Law Union	Tonbridge
Registration District	Tunbridge
Records Begin
Parish registers	1560
Bishop's Transcripts	1715
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Malling
Diocese	Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - Canterbury
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Pre-1845 - Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester; Post-1844 - Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

BRENCHLEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Tonbridge, hundred of Brenchley and Horsmonden, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 4¼ miles N from Lamberhurst. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists.
Brenchley is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells borough and district of Kent. The parish includes neighbouring village of Matfield.

Brenchley All Saints is an Ancient Parish.
Paddock Wood St Andrew Queen Street This parish was formed from part of Brenchley parish also Yalding, Kent and Nettlestead, Kent parishes.

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.
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

• 1837-1979 Tonbridge Registration District
  
• 1980-2003 Tunbridge Wells 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
  

Hover over the collection's title for more information

Brenchley 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 at 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 Brenchley, Horsmonden, Kent Pembury, Kent and Yalding, Kent available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832

Images for Borough of Yalding are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1831 The borough of Yalding comprised Yalding, Kent Horsmonden, Kent Brenchley and Hunton, Kent within the Land Tax bundle at the Centre for Kentish Studies Maidstone.

Poor Law Unions

• Tonbridge Poor Law Union, Kent
  

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
  
• Vision of Britain
  

Websites

• All Saints A Church Near You
  
• All Saints British Listed Buildings
  
• All Saints Brenchley Kent Churches
  
• Brenchley GENUKI]
  
• Brenchley North West Kent Family History Society
  
• Brenchley and Horsmonden: Introduction British History Online
  
• Parishes: Brenchley British History Online
  
• St Andrew Paddock Wood Kent Churches