Guide to Capel-le-Ferne, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Parish History
CAPEL-LE-FERNE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Dover, hundred of Folkestone, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 3¼ miles NNE from Folkestone. [1]
The church is of Norman origins, but its present character dates from the late thirteenth/early fourteenth century.[2]
Capel-le Ferne was originally a chapelry of Alkham, Kent Ancient Parish.
The modern parish is served by St Radigund's church Capel-le-Ferne.
Capel-le-Ferne St Mary is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust since 1986.
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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
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Census Records
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Poor Law Unions
Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish.
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