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Guide to '''Ditton, Kent family history and genealogy:''' parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. | Guide to '''Ditton, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. | ||
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Guide to Ditton, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Ditton, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Ditton St Peter-ad-Vincula Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Larkfield |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Malling |
| Registration District | Malling |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1663 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1720 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Malling |
| Diocese | Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1845 - Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Rochester; Post-1844 - Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
DITTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Malling, hundred of Larkfield, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent, 3½ miles (N. W. by W.) from Maidstone.[1]
Ditton is a village and civil parish in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent, see Ditton Kent Wikipedia
The parish of Ditton St Peter ad Vincula includes Larkfield and is a parish in the Diocese of Rochester.
The Church of St Peter ad Vincula, New Road, Ditton has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building
See Edward Halsted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 455-463 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
Resources[edit | edit source]
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. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Ditton, Kent Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Ditton, Kent Genealogy Parish Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1813-1885 | |||||
| FMP | 1665-1749 | |||||
| FS PRs | 1663-1812 | 1663-1812; 1755-1819 (banns) | 1663-1812 | |||
| IGI | 1567-1599, 1663-1812, 1850-1885 | 1500s, 1665-1834 | ||||
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
Land Tax[edit | edit source]
Images for Ditton are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1830
Census records
[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.
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.
See England, Kent, Wills and Probate (FamilySearch Historical Records)
Local Family History Centre[edit | edit source]
Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent
- FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History 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 collections using the portal.
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]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 60-63. Date accessed: 20 July 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 7 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish marriage records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 13 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 15 November 2013.