Society of Genealogists - England: Kent Resources

Kent

Shelf Mark: KE

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Kent parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 4: south east England, Kent, Surrey & Sussex. London: SoG, 1980. [TB/PR] (N.B. new edn of Surrey in vol. 4 part 1 & Sussex in vol. 4 part 2)

Canterbury city parishes: a practical guide for the family historian [Shelf 9]

Genealogical research in Victorian London: West Surrey FHS research aids 6. 6th rev edn. [MX/G 258]

Genealogical research in late Victorian & Edwardian London. 4th rev. edn.: West Surrey FHS research aids 15 [MX/G 258]

The genealogist's consolidated guide to parish register copies & indexes in the Outer London area 1538-1837. 3rd edn. [London/Middlesex tracts box]

Guide to Parish Registers deposited in the Greater London Record Office. 2nd rev edn. [Middle Library enquiry counter]

Kent Archives Service handlist of parish registers & transcripts at East Kent Archives Office Canterbury, West Kent Archives Office Maidstone & Medway Area Archives Office Strood [Typescript.] [KE/R 264]

Parish register typescripts prepared by W H Challen from parishes in London, midlands & southern counties in 87 volumes: Reference tracts, vol. 2 [Middle Library enquiry counter]

The parish registers & records in the Diocese of Rochester: a summary of information collected by the Ecclesiastical Records Committee of the Rochester Diocesan Conference: Kent records, vol. 1, 1912 [KE/PER]

The parish registers for London & Middlesex, reprinted from the Transactions of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, new series, vol. 8, part 1: London/Middlesex tracts, vol. 6 [Summer Palace shelves]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on The Origins Network.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at FamilySearch.org

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

FLEET: M 1686-1754 relating to Sussex, south west Kent & south east Surrey ... listed by the parish of residence reported by the bridegroom & bride [Typescript.] [MX/R 270-272]

Fleet marriage index 1667-1754 [Typescript.] [MX/R 267-269]

Bishop Richard Challoner's memorandum book: C 1730-60, Easter communicants, catechisms, confirmations, converts, deaths & one or two marriages 1730-80 for London, the home counties & beyond [Photocopy of Ms.] [RC/REG]

Dr. Williams' Library: Z 1742-1837 (Kent only) [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]

Index to Lyson's environs of London [Manuscript.] [MX/M 57]

Kent parish registers, vol. 1 [CD-ROM.] [CD-ROM cabinet (KE/REG)]

Mary Wigan's will & register abstracts of families & people mostly of Kent: letters A-B [index] [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]

Miscellaneous births, marriages & deaths etc. from the Universal Town & Country & European magazines (1775-1817), the Kent Messenger (1862, 1864-66) & various army lists (1778-72) [Manuscript.] [UK/REG]

Out of area collection 1, 1975-76 [UK/REG]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Kent Quarterly Meeting: Z 1646-1837, MB 1658-1837 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3393]

Thames & Medway Riverside parish series on CD, vol. 9 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (KE/REG)]

Woolwich & district FHS 1st strays collection [KE/G 58]

Marriage Licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Networks

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network

Canterbury licences (general) 1568-1646 [to teachers, physicians & surgeons, midwives, parish clerks, curates & preachers, etc., with some marriage licences, caveats, etc. (contains ML 1570 from the Act Book which are missing from KE/R 246) [KE/G 36]

Canterbury marriage & general licences 1812-40 [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]

Canterbury marriage licences, 1568, 1574-1750 [KE/R 246-251]

Canterbury marriage licences, 1751-80: bonds & affidavits [KE/R 252]

Canterbury marriage licences, 1781-1837 [KE/R 253-254]

Consistory Court of Rochester: index to administrations, 1608-20; index to marriage licences 1617-20; index to unregistered wills & administrations 1841-57 [Microfilm.] [Mf 747]

Crisp's abstracts of miscellaneous marriage licences from London parishes [Typescript.] [MX/R 335-341]

Diocese of Rochester Marriage Licences 1637-1783 [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]

Index to Rochester marriage licences 1637-39, 1715-16, 1731-67, 1770-72, 1774-75, 1777-1840: Kent Family History Society Record Publications, 742-743 [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]

Peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Deaneries of Croydon & Shoreham: Marriage allegations 1707-1804 [Microfilm.] [Mf 4147-4150]

Weald of east Kent: M before 1601, together with an appendix containing entries from the Sussex Marriage Licences & Canterbury Marriage Licences ... [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

Greater London cemeteries & crematoria [Middle Library enquiry counter]

London cemeteries: an illustrated guide & gazetteer. 2nd edn. [MX/M 54]

Anglo-Indian monumental inscriptions in Kent & Sussex, reprinted from Bengal past & present, vol. 49: Bullock's Indian index [to] Bengal past & present, 1931-37 [Typescript.] [IND/M 3]

Bullock's Indian index: an index to a series of 2000 English monumental inscriptions in India, which were printed in "Bengal past & present" 1931-37: Bullock's Indian index [to] Bengal past & present, 1931-37 [Typescript.] [IND/M 3]

Epitaphs & inscriptions from the churches of Kent [Typescript.] [KE/M 31]

Index nominum to In search of gravestones, old & curious by W T Vincent, 1896 [Typescript.] [Box 35/folder 9]

Index to Lyson's environs of London [Manuscript.] [MX/M 57]

Index to the monumental inscriptions in Thorpe's Registrum Roffense [KE/M 30]

London parishes, vol. 3: London outside the City (Battersea - Whitechapel) being genealogical notes mainly taken from editions of Stow's Survey of London & Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum [Manuscript.] [MX/G 94]

Monumental inscriptions in England relating to West Indians: Caribbeana, being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, & antiquities of the British West Indies, vol. 1-5 [Apply to library staff]

Thorpe's collection of church notes: funeral monuments from several churches in the Rochester diocese [Microfilm.] [Mf 353]

Who's buried where in Kent: dedicated to the memory of all those listed herein & all others who in any capacity great or small have served Kent [KE/M 28]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

KENT - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

KENT - DIRECTORIES

or KENT - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at the National Archives.

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at findmypast.com

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court e.g. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

KENT - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-C

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Kent. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

D-K

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Kent. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

L-R

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Kent. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

S-Z

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Kent. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

Visit the GENUKI pages for Kent