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Revision as of 10:53, 12 September 2014
Guide to Chevening, Kent family history and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Chevening, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Chevening St Botolph Kent | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Codsheath |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Sevenoaks |
| Registration District | Sevenoaks |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1561 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1670 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Shoreham |
| Diocese | Pre-1845 - Rochester; Post-1844 - Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1845 - Court of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Deaneries of Arches, Croydon and Shoreham; Post-1844 - Search the courts of surrounding parishes |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CHEVENING (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union of Seven-Oaks, hundred of Codsheath, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, W. division of Kent, 3½ miles (N. W.) from Seven-Oaks. [1]
Chevening is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent see Chevening Wikipedia.
Chevening St Botolph is an Ancient Parish in the Diocese of Rochester;a map of the parish boundary may be found at A church near you The Church of St Botolph, Chevening Road has been designated as a grade B listed building and dates from the 13th century.
See Edward Hasted The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3 (1797), pp. 105-126 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
Chevening House is the official residence of the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Chevening House Wikipedia and has been designated as a grade I listed building British listed building
The former Non-Conformist Chapel Chipstead Chapel High Street Chevening dates from the 17th century and has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
See Sevenoaks Registration District 1837-1941
Tonbridge 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]
Chevening, Kent Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FS PRs = England, Kent, Parish Registers (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[4] |
| Chevening, Kent Genealogy Parish Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1876-1884 | |||||
| FS PRs | 1561-1876 | 1561-1876; 1824-1900 (banns) | 1561-1877 | |||
| IGI | 1561-1729 | 1561-1727 | ||||
| IGI | 1730-1875 | 1722-1873 | ||||
Kent Online Parish Clerks (OPC)
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Chevening 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.
Find my Past census search 1841-1901
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Sevenoaks 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
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Local Family History Centre[edit | edit source]
Orpington Family History Centre, Kent is within reach of the Sevenoaks district, located adjacent to Orpington Station.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 586-593. Date accessed: 15 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 7 November 2013.
- ↑ 'England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911,' FamilySearch, accessed 12 November 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Kent, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 15 November 2013.