Cranbrook, Kent, England Genealogy

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


Cranbrook
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Cranbrook St Dunstan Kent
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Kent
Hundred Cranbrooke
Poor Law Union Cranbrook
Registration District Cranbrook
Records Begin
Parish registers 1553
Bishop's Transcripts 1560
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Canterbury
Diocese Canterbury
Province Canterbury
Probate Court Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office


Parish History[edit | edit source]

CRANBROOK (St. Dunstan), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Cranbrooke, Lower division of the lathe of Scray, W division of Kent, 7 miles E from Lamberhurst, and 48
SE by E from London.[1]

Cranbrook is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of West Charing. The church is named for St. Dunstan with registers commencing 1559.

Cranbrook, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred in Kent. The town stands in the Weald, on the river Crane, 5 miles south-by-west of Staplehurst rail station, and 14 south-by-east of Maidstone; consists chiefly of one long street; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place; and has a post office under Staplehurst with a savings banks and a money order office; another banking office, two
chief inns, a market house, a parish church, five dissenting chapels, a free grammar school, and a workhouse.[2]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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

Registration Districts[edit | edit source]

Church Records[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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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Cranbrook Online Parish Records
Collections
Baptisms
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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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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[edit | edit source]

"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[edit | edit source]

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

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.

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]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 713-717. Date accessed: 22 July 2013.
  2. Kent Online Parish Clerks Cranbrook Parish Date accessed: 26 Oct 2021.