Kent County Council, Parish Register Browse

The information available in these registers varies depending on the register type you are exploring and the date of the register. Generally, you can discover all or some of the following details:

Baptisms

• First name(s)
• Last name
• Birth year
• Birth date
• Residence
• Baptism year
• Baptism date
• Parish
• County
• Country
• Father’s first name
• Mother’s first name
• Father’s occupation

Banns

• First name(s)
• Last name
• Dates the banns were announced
• Place
• Marriage year
• Spouse’s first name(s)
• Spouse’s last name
• Groom’s parish
• Bride’s parish
• Announcer of the banns
• County

Marriages

• First name(s)
• Last name
• Birth year
• Marriage date
• Place
• Spouse’s first name(s)
• Spouse’s last name
• Groom’s age
• Groom’s father’s first name(s)
• Groom’s father’s last name
• Bride’s age
• Bride’s father’s first name(s)
• Bride’s father’s last name
• Witnesses
• Occupation of bride and groom
• Occupation of bride’s and groom’s fathers
• Residence at the time of marriage for both bride and groom
• Officiator of the ceremony

Burials

• First name

• Last name

• Age

• Birth year

• Burial date

• Burial place

• Dedication

• Residence

• Occupation

• County

• Notes (on marital status, parents’ names, if foundling)

Kent is a county in the southeast of England. It borders London, Essex, Surrey, and Sussex, and nominally France, midway through the Channel Tunnel. Maidstone is the county town of Kent. Parish records are a fabulous resource for those family historians who have hit the pre-registration, 1837, wall. By discovering parish records, you can extend you family tree back another generation or two.

These records constitute a valuable resource for researching ancestry in Kent and have been provided in association with Kent County Council.

• You can search by year and title.

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• If you wish to search transcripts of these records, which will allow you to search by names, follow the links in the Useful links and resources section.