Ebony, Kent, England Genealogy

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Ebony

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

Ebony
Reading Street St Mary the Virgin (Ebony) Kent
Type	Chapelry
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Oxney
Poor Law Union	Tenterden
Registration District	Tenterden
Records Begin
Parish registers	1708; For more records see Appledore
Bishop's Transcripts	1566
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Lympne
Diocese	Canterbury
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

EBONY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Tenterden, partly in the hundred of Tenterden, Lower division of the lathe of Scray, W division, but chiefly in the hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E division, of Kent, 4 miles SE from Tenterden.

Ebony is a hamlet within the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony on the Isle of Oxney in the Ashford district of Kent; see Ebony, Kent Wikipedia and Stone-cum-Ebony Wikipedia Isle of Oxney Wikipedia
Ebony St Mary the Virgin was formed as a chapelry within Appledore, Kent Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury. The original church was on a site some way away but the settlement moved to Reading Street and the original church abandoned. In 1858 the present church was moved stone by stone and erected to a similar design as the original which is referred to in the list of churches from 1070 AD for Kent.

There is now no evidence of the Isle in the tidal River Rother on which the church stood other than in the place name. The modern parish is part of the Wittersham and Ebony benefice, fortnightly services are held in the church.

Resources

Find Neighboring Parishes

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Civil Registration

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

• See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
  
  

Registration Districts

• 1837-1894 Tenterden Registration District
  
• 1894-1998 Ashford 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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Ebony 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

• 1780-1831 England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records
  

Poor Law Unions

• Tenterden 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

• Ebony Parish Kent Online Parish Clerks
  
• Parish Church of ST Mary the Virgin British Listed Buildings
  
• Parishes: Ebeney British History Online
  
• St Mary Stone In Oxney Kent Churches
  
• St Mary the Virgin A Church Near You