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

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Teston is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, see Teston, Kent Wikipedia.

Teston St Peter and St Paul is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester; a map of the parish boundary is available at A church near you

The church of St Peter and St Paul has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See Kent Archeological Society and Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 126-136. Date Accessed: 18 November 2013. at British History Online

See Teston North West kent Family History Society and Teston St Peter and St Paul

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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]

Teston, Kent, England Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)^[1]
FMP = FindMyPast - (£)^[2]^[3]
FS BTs = England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts (FamilySearch) - free^[4]
FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers (FamilySearch) - free^[5]
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free^[6]

Teston, Kent, England Genealogy Parish Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
BIVRI	1538-1759, 1824-1900 (gaps)		1541-1754
FMP			1686-1811, 1769-1796 (Banns)
FS BTs		1716-1900		1716-1900		1716-1900
FS PRs		1538-1822, 1886-1901		1538-1809, 1813-1837, 1882; 1755-1811, 1824-1901 (banns)		1538-1822
IGI	1761-1857, 1875-1876, 1897-1900		1755-1852

International Genealogical Index Batch Numbers

Christenings 1761-1857; 1875-1876 1897-1900 Batches C135162 , C135163
Marriages 1755-1852; 1882 Batches M135162 , M135163

Land Tax[edit | edit source]

Images for Teston are available at FamilySearch Records see England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) 1780-1831

Census records[edit | edit source]

Census returns for Teston 1841-1891

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 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.
[1] to locate local Family History Centres in UK
[2] to locate outside UK.
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

Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

Maidstone Poor Law Union, Kent

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]

TESTON (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Maidstone, hundred of Twyford, lathe of Aylesford, W. division of Kent, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Maidstone. ^[7]

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

Web sites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ '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.
↑ 'Coverage of Kent parish banns', Find My Past, accessed 5 November 2013.
↑ 'England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts, 1560-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 11 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 18 November 2013.
↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 314-321. Date accessed: 25 May 2013.

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[1] 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 7 November 2013.

[2] 'Coverage of Kent parish marriage records', Find My Past, accessed 6 November 2013.

[3] 'Coverage of Kent parish banns', Find My Past, accessed 5 November 2013.

[4] 'England, Kent, Bishop's Transcripts, 1560-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 11 November 2013.

[5] 'England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 13 November 2013.

[6] Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 18 November 2013.

[7] Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 314-321. Date accessed: 25 May 2013.

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