Nursted, Kent Genealogy
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Nurstead Court and its church are within the civil parish of Meopham in the Gravesham district of Kent. See Meopham Wikipedia for a description of the local settlements in the Meopham civil parish.
Nurstead (in some sources Nursted) St Mildred is an Ancient Parish near Meopham.
The mediaeval church is dedicated to St Mildred a local saint (born at Minster in Kent) and is the surviving part of the Nurstead Court ancient manor.
The church of St Mildred, Nurstead Church Lane, Meopham 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 3 (1797), pp. 351-356 at British History Online and Kent Churches website
See Nursted North West kent Family History Society and Nursted St Mildred
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
North Aylesford Registration District
Strood and Hoo Registration District
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]
Nursted (or Nurstead) St Mildred Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1561-1997 reference P 272
digital images may be searched online at Medway Archives City Ark project http://cityark.medway.gov.uk
Family History Library film numbers
Nursted
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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records.
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census returns for Nursted 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.
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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.
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[edit | edit source]
North Aylesford Poor Law Union, Kent (renamed Strood)
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]
Gillingham Family History Centre, Kent
Canterbury Family History Centre, Kent
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]
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Web sites[edit | edit source]
Contributor: Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.