Seasalter, Kent, England Genealogy

Seasalter

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

Seasalter

Seasalter St Alphage Kent
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Whitstable
Poor Law Union	Blean
Registration District	Blean
Records Begin
Parish registers	1558
Bishop's Transcripts	1563
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Westbere
Diocese	Canterbury
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

SEASALTER LIBERTY (St. Alphage), a parish, in the union of Blean, hundred of Whitstable, lathe of St. Augustine, E division of Kent, 5¼ miles NW by N from Canterbury. There is a place of worship for Independents. ^[1]

Seasalter is a village and district council ward in the Canterbury district of Kent Seasalter Wikipedia

Seasalter St Alphage is an Ancient Parish; a map of the parish boundary showing both the Old church and the Seasalter St Alphage Christian Centre is available at A church near you

History of the parish

The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent provides an excellent view on this little village and its chapel. Visit British History Online and Kent Churches website with a history of Seasalter and the Whitstable shoreline history. ^[2]

Resources

Find Neighboring Parishes

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Civil Registration

See Blean 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.

See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

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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Seasalter 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.

Poor Law Unions

Blean 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.

See England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records

Local FamilySearch Centre

FamilySearch Center Portal This centre has access to the FamilySearch Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
Publication of the restricted access images England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records and England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments - FamilySearch Historical Records means that it is advisable to telephone the centre to reserve a computer if you wish to view these

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites

Seasalter on GENUKI

References

↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 36-40. Date accessed: 22 May 2013.
↑ Halsted, Edward The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (1799), pp. 499-504. Date accessed: 30 September 2013.

[1] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 36-40. Date accessed: 22 May 2013.

[2] Halsted, Edward The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8 (1799), pp. 499-504. Date accessed: 30 September 2013.

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