Wouldham, Kent, England Genealogy

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


Wouldham
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Wouldham All Saints Kent
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
County Kent
Hundred Larkfield
Poor Law Union Malling
Registration District Malling
Records Begin
Parish registers 1538
Bishop's Transcripts 1718
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Rochester
Diocese Rochester
Province Canterbury
Probate Court Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester
Archive
Kent Record Office


Parish History[edit | edit source]

WOULDHAM (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Malling, hundred of Larkfield, lathe of Aylesford, W division of Kent, 3¼ miles SSW from Rochester. [1]

Wouldham is a village and civil parish in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent. Wouldham Wikipedia Please see Burham, Kent parish history. The legal name of the parish is Burham and Wouldham and the parish is situated in Wouldham Road. The Burham parish history explains the loss of the replacement church in Burham and conservation of the Ancient parish church building.

The church of All Saints Wouldham Road has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed buildings Kent Archaeological Society

See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 399-408 at British History Online for Wouldham and Kent Churches website

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

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

This parish was from 1837 in the Malling registration district.

See Maidstone 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[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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Wouldham 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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MyHeritage-Archdeaconry of Rochester Birth and Burial 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]

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

Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 692-695. Date accessed: 08 May 2013.