Newenden, Kent, England Genealogy

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Newenden St Peter

Parish History

Newenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent , see Newenden Wikipedia

Newenden St Peter is an Ancient Parish in Kent; part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Northiam, Sussex and Beckley, Sussex A map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you

The Parish church of St Peter, Beech Road, Newenden, has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See Edward Hasted 'The township and parish of Newenden', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7 (1798), pp. 163-172. at British History Online which records the Roman and Saxon history and also describes the manorial history of Lossenham and the 13th century Carmelite Priory there. Hasted describes Newenden as a township.

See Kent Churches website

Resources

Civil Registration

This parish was part of Tenterden registration district Ashford 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

Online Newenden, Kent, England Genealogy Parish Register Images and Indexes
		Baptisms						Marriages						Burials
Earliest		1559						1559						1560
Images
Indexes		1559-1812		InternetArchive				1560-1813		InternetArchive				1560-1812		InternetArchive
		1559-1812		FamilySearch				1560-1813		FamilySearch

Original deposited registers were formerly held at:

Centre for Kentish Studies,County Hall,Maidstone,Kent ME14 1XX

From Spring 2012 material formerly held at
Centre for Kentish Studies,County Hall,Maidstone,Kent ME14 1XX
is available at Kent History and Library Centre see Kent Archives which also enables a search of the catalogue for Kent Archives material deposited at Canterbury Cathedral Archives

Family History Library film numbers
Newenden

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Land Tax

Images for Newenden available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1832

Census records

Census returns for Newenden 1841-1891

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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.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

Ancestry UK Census Collection

Find my Past census search 1841-1901

for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

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.
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.
Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions

Tenterden 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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Web sites

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