Loose, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Loose, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Loose, Kent | |
|---|---|
 Loose All Saints Kent | |
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Maidstone |
| County | Kent |
| Poor Law Union | Maidstone |
| Registration District | Maidstone |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1559; For more records see Maidstone | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1564 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Sutton |
| Diocese | Canterbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Canterbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Kent Record Office | |
Parish History
LOOSE (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Maidstone, lathe of Aylesford, W division of the county of Kent, 2½ miles S from Maidstone. [1]
Loose (pronounced looze) is a village and civil parish 2 miles south of the county town of Maidstone and the church of All Saints lies close to the river Loose. See Loose Kent Wikipedia
All Saints was originally a chapelry of Maidstone All Saints, Kent which was later enlarged to form an Ecclesiastical parish in the Diocese of Canterbury. The church is on the site of a former Saxon church and the oldest part of the building dates from the 14th century and church warden's accounts from 1364.
The church was restored and additions made in subsequent centuries; in 1819 and 1860 North and South Aisles were added. In 1878 serious fire damage lead to major restoration.
The Parish church of All Saints, Church Street, Loose has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building
See Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 359-365 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
The Reverend Richard Boys was vicar here and is buried in the churchyard. He was chaplain to St Helena during the exile of Napoleon Bonaparte. The church also has memorials to the Fairfax family who held the Leeds Castle estates. One former vicar of the parish assumed the arms and name of Fairfax and the estates.
Resources
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Civil Registration
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.
- See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
Church Records
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
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
Hover over the collection's title for more information
| Loose Online Parish Records | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-Kent | ||||||
| Parish Registers-Kent | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-Kent ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Banns-Kent ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Kent ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- Joiner Marriage Index - Kent ($)
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - Kent ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
Nonconformist Records
"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.
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
Census Records
Census returns for Loose 1841-1891
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Poor Law Unions
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.
Local FamilySearch Centre
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- 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
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Websites
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 175-179. Date accessed: 19 August 2013.