A View of the Parish

Your Online Parish Clerk for Birchington is:  VACANT.  

Birchington is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Westbere.  The church is named All Saints with registers commencing 1538.

Birchington is a village and a parish in Thanet district, Kent.  The village stands adjacent to the Kent Coast railway, 3-1/4 miles west-by-south of Margate;  and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Margate.  It occupies a gentle declivity, with extensive prospects by sea and land;  and is about 3/4 of a mile long.

The parish is within the cinque port liberty of Dover;  and comprises 1,680 acres of land and 390 of water.  Real property in 1860, £8,885.  Population in 1861, 813.  Houses, 186.  The property is divided among a few.

The manor belonged, from the beginning of the 15th-century, to the family of Quex;  and passed by marriage, in the time of Henry VII, to the Crispes.  One of its owners, a distinguished puritan, in 1657, was carried off from it to the Continent, by the royalist captain Golding, and long kept prisoner at Ostend and Bruges.  William III frequently rested at the manor house on his excursions to Holland.  The present mansion is modern;  bears the name of Great Quex;  and is the seat of H. P. Cotton, Esq..  Two towers stand in the park, and are good sea-marks;  and one of them contains a fine peal of bells.

The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Monkton, in the diocese of Canterbury.  The church consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, with tower and spire;  and on the north side of it is a chapel of the manor, containing some fine monuments and ancient brasses.

There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, and a national school.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

The majority of the links, below, are PDF files of transcripts completed by Barry White and reside on his on comprehensive web site of Thanet records.  The christenings, marriages and burials are from the registers of All Saints church.  Many other records, including some for Margate and Monkton, can be searched on Barry White's site.

• Monumental Inscriptions
• Christenings 1558-1640
• Christenings 1641-1700
• Christenings 1701-1800
• Christenings 1801 to 1880
• Marriages 1558-1640
• Marriages 1641-1753
• Marriages 1754 to 1909
• Burials 1558-1640
• Burials 1641-1700
• Burials 1641-1800
• Burials 1801 to 1887
• IGI batch #s, Boyds, Pallots, BVRI, NBI
• Published Records

• 1801-1831


• 1841


• 1851


• 1861


• 1871


• 1881


• 1891


• 1901

• Settlement Certificates
• Removal Orders
• Bastardy Examinations
• Parish-assisted Immigrants
• Churchwarden's Accounts
• Overseer's Accounts
• Surveyor's Accounts
• Workhouse Records
• Pew Rents
• Donors' Rolls
• Vestry Minutes
• Bishops' Visitations
• Parish Magazines
• Parish Histories

• AD index 1448-1857
• CC index 1448-1857
• PCC 1338-1858
• PPR 1858-1925
• Depositions
• Quarter Sessions
• Militia Lists
• Muster Rolls
• Description Books
• Tithe Apportionment c1830s
• Transportations
• Protestation Rolls c1641-1643
• Oaths of Allegiance c1720s

• Poll Tax
• Hearth Tax
• Window Tax
• Hair Powder Tax
• Land Tax Assessments 1780-1831
• Land Tax Assessments 1799-1805

• Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824
• Illustrated Guide to the London and Dover Railway, 1846
• History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 1: Counties & Localities]
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories]
• Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1882
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 1. Kent: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]

• Parish Map
• Deeds, Mortgages, etc.
• Rated Property Returns
• Returns of owners of land, 1873
• Manor Court Baron
• Manor Tenancy Rolls
• Manors, Castles & Holdings of Significance

• War Memorials
• Apprenticeships
• Immigration
• School Records
• Notable Events
• Nefarious Activities
• Newspapers