Harbledown, Kent, England Genealogy

Harbledown

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

Harbledown

Harbledown St Michael & All Angels Kent
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Westgate
Poor Law Union	Bridge
Registration District	Bridge
Records Begin
Parish registers	1557
Bishop's Transcripts	1560
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Canterbury
Diocese	Canterbury
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Bishop of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

HARBLEDOWN (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Bridge, hundred of Westgate, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 1 mile WSW from Canterbury.^[1]

Harbledown St Michael and All Angels is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Canterbury. The west is the extensive extra parochial area of Dunkirk, Kent and the neighbouring parish registers such as Harbledown are significant for those living in the extra parochial area.

"The old leper church of St Nicholas: The church was built as part of the original St Nicholas's Hospital – a leper hospital, probably the first in England, founded c.1084 by Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury 1070-89, and in operation until the end of the C14. Henry II visited St Nicholas's on his penitential journey to Canterbury in 1174. After c.1400 the hospital became an almshouse for the poor; it was recorded to have had sixty places for poor men and women in 1562. The foundation was reconstituted in 1565, and the domestic ranges were rebuilt in 1685 and again in 1840. It is still an almshouse today, for retired people."^[2]

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

1837-1974 Bridge 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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Harbledown 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

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

Poor Law Unions

Bridge 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.

Websites

Church of St Michael British Listed Buildings
Harbledown GENUKI
Parishes: Harbledowne British History Online
St Michael and All Angels Church, Harbledown Kent Archaeological Society
St Michael Harbledown Kent Churches
St Nicholas Harbledown Kent Churches

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 404-407. Date accessed: 12 August 2013.
↑ British Listed Buildings The old leper church of St Nicholas Date accessed: 27 November 2021.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 404-407. Date accessed: 12 August 2013.

[2] British Listed Buildings The old leper church of St Nicholas Date accessed: 27 November 2021.

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