Minster in Sheppey, Kent, England Genealogy

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Minster in Sheppey

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


Minster in Sheppey
Minster St Mary(Minster Abbey) Kent.jpg
Minster St Mary(Minster Abbey) Kent
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Kent
Hundred Isle of Sheppey Liberty
Poor Law Union Sheppey
Registration District Sheppey
Records Begin
Parish registers 1568
Bishop's Transcripts 1566
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Sittingbourne
Diocese Canterbury
Province Canterbury
Probate Court Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office


Parish History[edit | edit source]

MINSTER-in-Sheppey (St. Mary and St. Sexburgh), a parish, in the union of Sheppy, liberty of the Isle of Sheppy, lathe of Scray, county of Kent; containing the port of Sheerness. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans and a Roman Catholic chapel. [1]

Minster St Mary (the Minster Abbey church) is an Ancient parish in Minster in Sheppey.

The church dates from the 11th and 12th century with additions in subsequent centuries and restored by Ewan Christian in 1863.

The church is designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage.

Minster is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale district of Kent and should not be confused with Minster (Thanet) in the same county see Minster, Kent.

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

  • Type the name of the parish in the search bar
  • Click on the location pin on the map
  • Choose Options from the pop up box
  • Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Minster was a sub-district in Sheppey registration district.

Kent County Council Registration Services
Invicta House
County Hall
Maidstone
Kent ME14 1XX Telephone 08458 247 400 http://www.kent.gov.uk are developing online search for all birth marriages and deaths as a result of a community volunteer effort. Not all events are capable of search but the index is updated annually.

Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.

The Mansion House (Certificate Centre)
Grove Hill Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent TN1 1EP

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

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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Minster in Sheppey Online Parish Records
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Parish Registers-Kent
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Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
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FreeREG
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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]

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Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 321-325. Date accessed: 17 April 2013.