Smeeth Kent Family History Guide

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Smeeth is a chapelry of Aldington Ancient Parish in Kent.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1660
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1559

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

  • Mersham
  • Sellindge
  • Bircholt
  • Brabourne
  • Aldington

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SMEETH, a village and a parish in East Ashford district, Kent. The village stands near the Southeastern railway, 4½ miles ESE of Ashford; was once a market-town; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post-office under Ashford, and fairs on 13 May and 29 Sept.

The parish contains also the hamlet of Ridgway, and comprises 1,611 acres. Real property, £2,968. Pop., 486. Houses, 113. The manor, with the Paddock, belongs to E. H. K. Hugessen, Esq.

The living is a rectory. Value, £461. The church is Norman. Charities, £38.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Kent, Smeeth – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Smeeth, 1569-1904
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Smeeth (Kent)

Extracts of parish registers for Smarden, 1744-1786, and Smeeth, 1570-1780
Author: Tyler, Frank Watt; Church of England. Parish Church of Smarden (Kent); Church of England. Parish Church of Smeeth (Kent)

Parish chest records for Smeeth, 1735-1900
Author: Smeeth (Kent)

Parish register extracts, 1569-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Smeeth (Kent)

Parish register transcripts, 1569-1838
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Smeeth (Kent)

Parish registers for Smeeth, 1738-1916
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Smeeth (Kent); Kent Archives Office

England, Kent, Smeeth – Land and property ( 1 )
Deeds of Westwell etc., 1737

England, Kent, Smeeth – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest records for Smeeth, 1735-1900
Author: Smeeth (Kent)

England, Kent, Smeeth – Public records ( 1 )
Parish chest records for Smeeth, 1735-1900
Author: Smeeth (Kent)

England, Kent, Smeeth – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Smeeth, 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Kent); Kent Archives Office

Administration

  • Civil Registration District: East Ashford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Canterbury (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Canterbury
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, 1845-1864 – Lympne, Post-1863 – North Lympne
  • Poor Law Union: East Ashford
  • Hundred: Bircholt Franchise and Barony
  • Province: Canterbury