Tunbridge Wells Holy Trinity, Kent, England Genealogy

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Tunbridge Wells Holy Trinity

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Tunbridge Wells Holy Trinity
Trinity Arts Centre Tunbridge Wells Kent
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Kent
Hundred	Rotherfield; Tonbridge Lowey; Washlingstone
Poor Law Union	Tonbridge
Registration District	Tunbridge
Records Begin
Parish registers	1533; Separate registers exist for Tunbridge Wells King Charles the Martyr beginning 1745
Bishop's Transcripts	1745; Separate records exist for Tunbridge Wells King Charles the Martyr beginning 1745
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	None
Diocese	Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - None
Province	Canterbury
Probate Court	Pre-1845 - Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester; Post-1844 - Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury
Archive
Kent Record Office

Parish History

TONBRIDGE, or TUNBRIDGE WELLS, a market-town and chapelry, partly in the parish and lowey of Tonbridge, and partly in the parish of Speldhurst, hundred of Washlingstone, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent. The district church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There are places of worship for the Connexion of the Countess of Huntingdon, Independents, and Wesleyans and a Roman Catholic chapel.

Royal Tunbridge Wells (usually shortened to Tunbridge Wells) is a town and district in Kent. Royal Tunbridge Wells Wikipedia

Tunbridge Wells Holy Trinity was created as an Ecclesiastical Parish in 1833 from Tonbridge St Peter and St Paul, Kent.

The church was designed by architect Decimus Burton (1800-1881) and was the first Anglican church in the new Georgian town of Tunbridge Wells.

The church was decommissioned and declared redundant in 1975. The building became Trinity Arts Centre in 1983.

Here is an important jurisdictional perspective by Samuel A. Lewis, "A Topographical Dictionary of England" (1848) pp. XXX-XXX. Date accessed: 25 November 2013.

Resources

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Cemeteries

• Emmanuel Churchyard, Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries

• The Monumental Inscriptions of the Old Churchyard, Paddock-wood, Tunbridge, Kent(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Civil Registration

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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Tunbridge Wells Holy Trinity 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

• Tonbridge 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.

Maps and Gazetteers

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• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain