East Kent Settlement and Removal Index Sources

East Kent Settlement and Removal Index

Other sources:

Ashford Petty Sessions Minutes 1773-1793 (493 entries).
Bearsted Petty Sessions Minutes 1748-1764 (466 entries).
Canterbury City Quarter Sessions papers and minutes 1598-1617, 1636-1877 (387 entries).
Canterbury Board of Poor Law Guardians General Court Minutes 1776-1834 - in progress, 1776-1814 indexed so far (550+ entries).
Dover Poor House admissions 1767-1785, 1798-1803 (place of birth given) (29 entries)
Faversham Borough Records.
Maidstone Poor Law Union Settlement Appeal papers 1896-1905.
Queenborough Petty Sessions Minutes 1821-1850.
Romney Marsh area Settlement Examinations and Removal Orders, with a few Certificates 1723-1822 (over 700 entries).
Sheldwich Baptisms Register - parents who 'belong' another parish 1813-1818 (31 entries).
Lathe of St.Augustine Home Division (i.e.the Western Division) examinations to settlement 1722-1762 (647 entries).
Upper Scray Petty Sessions Minutes 1722-1729, 1760-1765, 1776-1794, 1812-March 1816 (April 1816 onwards in progress) (4000 entries to date).
Wingham Petty Sessions Minutes 1703-1744, 1756-1769 (covers the eastern division of the lathe of St.Augustine) (2490 entries).
East and West Kent Quarter Sessions papers - Removal Orders, Appeals and other assorted items 1653-1836 (3118 entries).
Settlement Appeals heard by Sir Edward Knatchbull 1819-1822, 1830-1835.
East Kent entries from Eastern Sussex Settlement Certificates 1670-1832 (130 entries) and Sussex Quarter Sessions Settlement Orders and Cases 1701-1749 (40 entries).
East Kent entries from Mitcham (Surrey) Settlement Certificates 1700-1806 and removals from Lambeth, Surrey 1767-1800.
East Kent items from Essex Settlement Examinations: Rochford 1728-1830, Rawreth and Rayleigh 1720-1844 and South-East Essex 1724-1843.

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Updated April 2024