Cuxton, Kent, England Genealogy

Cuxton

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

Cuxton

Cuxton St Michael Kent
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Shamwell
Poor Law Union	North Aylesford
Registration District	North Aylesford
Records Begin
Parish registers	1560
Bishop's Transcripts	1719
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Rochester
Diocese	Rochester
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester
Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

CUXTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of North Aylesford, hundred of Shamwell, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 3 miles WSW from Rochester.^[1]

COOKSTONE.NOW usually called and written Cuxton, lies the next parish northward from Halling. It is written in Domesday, Coclestane, and in the Textus Rossensis, Cucolanstan and Cuclestena. This parish, with others in this neighbourhood, was antiently bound to contribute to the repair of of the first pier of Rochester-bridge.^[2]

Cuxton St Michael is an Ancient Parish on the left bank of the River Medway opposite Rochester and includes the hamlet of Lower Bush.

The church dates from the 12th century with additions in subsequent centuries and was restored in 1863-1868. ^[3]

Resources

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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

1837-1884 North Aylesford Registration District
1884-1923 Strood Registration District
1923-1941 Strood and Hoo Registration District
1941-1998 Chatham 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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Cuxton 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
MyHeritage-Archdeaconry of Rochester Birth and Burial Indexes ($)	-	1500s-1900s	-	-	-	1500s-2000s
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

England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records 1780-1832

Poor Law Unions

North Aylesford Poor Law Union, Kent (renamed Strood)

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.

Websites

Cuxton Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
St Michael and All Angels, Cuxton, Church of England GENUKI]
St Michael Cuxton Kent Churches

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 751-755. Date accessed: 22 July 2013.
↑ Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Cookstone', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3 (Canterbury, 1797), pp. 389-403. British History Online [1] Date accessed: 28 October 2021.
↑ British listed building Church of St Michael Date accessed 28 October 2021.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A.,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 751-755. Date accessed: 22 July 2013.

[2] Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Cookstone', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3 (Canterbury, 1797), pp. 389-403. British History Online [1] Date accessed: 28 October 2021.

[3] British listed building Church of St Michael Date accessed 28 October 2021.

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