Guide to Sandwich St Mary, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Parish History
Sandwich is a town and civil Parish, a Cinque Port within the Dover District of Kent, see also Sandwich Kent Wikipedia for a history of the town.
Sandwich St Mary is an Ancient Parish.
The church which is redundant, contains remains of the Saxon church on the site. The Danes raided the town several times and the French attacks of 1217 and 1457 damaged the church built about 1200. An Earthquake in 1578 damaged the building and is thought to have been the cause of eventual collapse of the tower in 1667. The church was restored by Joseph Clarke 1869-1874
In 1948 the three parishes were unified and Sandwich St Clement, Kent became the parish church at which time St Mary became disused. Despite plans to demolish it in 1956 it was restored and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It remains consecrated and is used for some services but has been the Sandwich Arts Centre and is available for hire as well as being a concert and event venue in the town.
The building has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.British listed building
See also Edward Hasted's 'The town and port of Sandwich', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 10 (1800), pp. 152-216. Date accessed: 30 September 2013. at British History Online and Kent Churches website.
Resources
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Civil Registration
Eastry Registration District and Thanet Registration District
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
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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Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
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.
Census Records
Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.
Poor Law Unions
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.
Local FamilySearch Centre
Maps and Gazetteers
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References
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