Alkham Kent Family History Guide

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Alkham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Kent. Capel-le-Ferne is a chapelry of Alkham.

Alternative names: Alkham with Capel-le-Ferne

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1563

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

  • Hougham
  • Capel-le-Ferne
  • River
  • Swingfield
  • Temple Ewell
  • Lydden
  • Hawkinge

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALKHAM, a parish in Dover district, Kent; 3 miles SW of Ewell r. station, and 4 W of Dover. Post Town, Ewell under Dover. Acres, 3,200. Real property, £3,567. Pop., 520. Houses, 102. The property is much subdivided. A nailbourne here breaks out occasionally with such “store of water as would carry a vessel of considerable burden.”

The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Capel-le-Ferne, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £152. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is partly Norman, partly early English, and in very good condition.

Reindein House, contiguous to Alkham, is extra-parochial.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Kent, Alkham – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Alkham, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Kent, Alkham – Church records ( 4 )
Alkham (Kent) parish register extracts, 1558-1877
Author: Tyler, Frank Watt

Archdeacon’s transcripts, 1563-1812; Bishop’s transcripts, 1607-1898
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alkham (Kent)

Parish registers for Alkham, 1558-1988
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alkham (Kent)

Parish registers
Author: Kent Family History Society; Kent Family History Society. Global Branch (England)

England, Kent, Alkham – Land and property ( 1 )
Deeds of Alkham and other parishes of Kent, 1543-1933

England, Kent, Alkham – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessment for Alkham, 1780-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Kent); Kent Archives Office

Administration

  • Civil Registration District: Dover
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
  • Diocese: Canterbury
  • Rural Deanery: Dover
  • Poor Law Union: Dover
  • Hundred: Folkestone
  • Province: Canterbury