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[[Image:Challock_St_Cosmos_&_St_Damian_Kent.jpg|thumb|right|Challock St Cosmos & St Damian]]
Guide to '''Challock, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.  


== Parish History  ==


Challock is a village and civil parish in the Ashford borough of Kent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challock+ Challock Wikipedia]<br>
{{England Parish Infobox
| Place = Challock
| default =
| image = Challock St Cosmos & St Damian Kent.jpg
| caption = Challock St Cosmos & St Damian Kent
| Type = [[Chapelry]]
| County = Kent
| Hundred = Felborough
| Poor Law Union = [http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Strood East Ashford]
| Registration District = East Ashford
| PRbegin = 1558; For more records see Godmersham
| BTbegin = 1564
| Province = Canterbury
| Diocese = Canterbury
| Archdeaconry =
| Archdeaconries =
| Rural Deanery = Bridge
| Parish =
| Peculiar =
| Chapelry =
| Probate Court = Court of the Bishop of Canterbury
| Archdeaconry Court =
| Bishops Court =
| Prerogative Court =
| Archive = [[Kent Record Office]]
}}


Challock St Cosmas and Damian was a originally a chaperly in [[Godmersham, Kent]] Ancient Parish.<br>
== Parish History ==


The present church dates from the 13th century rebuilding on the site of a former Saxon church. The church was heavily damaged in the Second World war but has been restored.A map of the parish boundary may be found at [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/challock-st-cosmas-st-damian/+ A church near you]<br>
CHALLOCK (St. Cosmas and St. Damien), a '''parish''', in the union of East Ashford, hundred of Felborough, lathe of Shepway, E division of Kent, 6 miles S from Faversham.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50865#s4 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England''](1848), pp. 545-549. Date accessed: 15 July 2013. </ref>  


The church of St Cosmos and Damian,Church Lane, Challock has been designated as a grade II* listed building [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-181399-church-of-st-cosmas-and-st-damian-challo+ British listed building] <br>
Challock St Cosmas and Damian was a originally a chapelry in [[Godmersham, Kent]] Ancient Parish. <br>


See [http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01/03/CHO.htm+ Kent Archeological Society] and Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7 (1798), pp. 332-340 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63422&amp;strquery=Challock+ British History Online]<br>
The present church dates from the 13th century rebuilding on the site of a former Saxon church. The church was heavily damaged in the Second World War but has been restored. <ref>[http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01/03/CHO.htm Kent Archeological Society] and Edward Hasted, ''The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent'': Volume 7 (1798), pp. 332-340. </ref> <br>


== Resources ==
== Resources ==
=== Find Neighboring Parishes ===


==== Civil Registration ====
Use [https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ 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<br>
=== Civil Registration  ===
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.<br>
The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. <br>
There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD]. <br>
==== Registration Districts ====
*'''1837-1941''' [http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/east%20ashford.html East Ashford Registration District]<br>


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.  
=== Church Records ===
<font color=blue> Due to the increasing access of online records:</font><br>
*<font color=blue>Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified<br>
*Dates in the following table are approximate </font><br>
'''''Hover over the collection's title for more information'''''
{| class="wikitable" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1"
|-
| bgcolor="#b6cee2" align="center" scope="col" colspan="7" | '''Challock Online Parish Records'''
|-
| bgcolor="#efdcc3" | <center>'''''Collections'''''</center>
| bgcolor="#d9bfbf" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Baptisms'''''</center>
| bgcolor="#bfd9bf" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Marriages'''''</center>
| bgcolor="#cac4d4" colspan="2" | <center>'''''Burials'''''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" |
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes only''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>''Indexes only''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>''Indexes and images''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>''Indexes only''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| FamilySearch Collections-Kent
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=0&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CKent 1500s-1900s]</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=1&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CKent 1500s-1900s]</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|<center>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=2&q.recordCountry=England&q.recordSubcountry=England%2CKent 1500s-1900s]</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Parish Registers-Kent
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>{{RecordSearch|1952887|1500s-1900s}}</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>{{RecordSearch|1952887|1500s-1900s}}</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|<center>{{RecordSearch|1952887|1500s-1900s}}</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|<center>{{FS Bishop's Transcript}}</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| FreeREG
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center> [https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://www.freereg.org.uk/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"|Findmypast-Kent ($)
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" |  <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/kent-baptisms 1500s-1900s] </center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|  <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/kent-marriages-and-banns 1500s-1900s] </center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/kent-burials 1500s-1900s] </center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"|Findmypast Banns-Kent ($)
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"|  <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/kent-marriages-and-banns 1500s-1900s]</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Kent ($)
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61746 1500s-1900s]  </center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center> [https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61746 1500s-1900s] </center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center> [https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61746 1500s-1900s] </center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($)
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9841/  1500s-1900s]<br>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1351/ 1500s-1900s]</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" |  <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9852/ 1500s-1900s]<br>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1352/ 1500s-1900s] </center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9840/ 1500s-1900s]<center>
|-
| bgcolor="#dbe7f0" align="center" scope="col" colspan="7" | ''Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage''
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free)
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/england-boyds-marriage-indexes-1538-1850 1500s-1800s]</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
|-
| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| National Burial Index-FMP (Free)
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/national-burial-index-for-england-and-wales 1800s-1900s]</center>
|-
|}
'''''Other Websites'''''<br>
These databases have incomplete parish coverage. <br>
*[http://joinermarriageindex.co.uk/marriage-records/Kent/ Joiner Marriage Index - Kent] ($)<br>
*[https://ogindex.org/ Online Genealogical Index] -  Links to online genealogical records<br>
*[https://parishregister.co.uk/online/kent-parish-records The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent] ($)<br>
*[http://www.dustydocs.com/ UK Websites for Parish Records] - Links to online genealogical records<br>
====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.<br>
*'''1717''' [https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/england-and-wales-roman-catholics-1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717] at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
*[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/england-roman-catholic-parish-marriages England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages] at Findmypast — index & images ($); coverage may vary


The Mansion House<br>(Certificate Centre)<br>Grove Hill Road<br>Tunbridge Wells<br>Kent TN1 1EP <br>  
=== Census Records ===
Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See [[England Census|England Census]] for more resources. <br>


Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The [[England Civil Registration|civil registration]] article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is [http://freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD].
=== Poor Law Unions ===


==== Church records  ====
*[[East Ashford Poor Law Union, Kent]]<br>


Family History Library film numbers<br>{{FHL|England%2C+Kent%2C+Challock|subject|disp=Challock}} <br>See also [[England, Kent, Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]<br>
=== Probate Records ===


Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. <br>
Go to [[Kent Probate Records|Kent Probate Records]] to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction.<br>
Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish. <br>


==== Census records  ====
*[[England, Kent, Wills and Probate - FamilySearch Historical Records]]<br>


FamilySearch Records includes collections of census indexes which can be searched online for free. In addition FamilySearch Centres offer free access to images of the England and Wales Census through [http://fhc.familysearch.org/ '''FHC Portal:'''] Computers here have access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.<br>[https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Category:England_Family_History_Centres] to locate local Family History Centres in UK<br>[https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Introduction_to_LDS_Family_History_Centers] to locate outside UK.<br>Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.
== Maps and Gazetteers ==


Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.<br>
 
*[https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/ England Jurisdictions 1851] <br>
The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.  
*[https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]<br>
 
[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/group/ukicen/UK_Census_Collection.aspx+ Ancestry UK Census Collection]  


[http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/search-menu/census-land-and-surveys+ Find my Past census search 1841-1901]  
== Websites ==
 
*[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/challock-st-cosmas-st-damian Challock St Cosmas and Damian] A Church Near You<br>
[http://www.1881pubs.com/+ for details of public houses in the 1881 census]
*[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-181399-church-of-st-cosmas-and-st-damian-challock Church of St Cosmas and St Damian] British Listed Buildings<br>
 
*[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63422&strquery=Challock Parishes: Challock]British History Online<br>
Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.
*[http://www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Challock St Cosmas And St Damian Challock] Kent Churches<br>
 
The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. <br>Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.<br>[http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/census/1911/person?ukwid=394505&sourceid=1&utm_source=Google+FMP+Main_CPC&utm_medium=Key+Keywords&utm_campaign=1911+census+ Find my Past 1911 census search]<br>
 
==== Poor Law Unions  ====
 
[[East Ashford 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|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  ==
 
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.<br>  


*[http://maps.familysearch.org/ England Jurisdictions 1851]
== References ==
*[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Vision of Britain]


== Web sites  ==
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