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Rainham


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Your Online Parish Clerk for Rainham is:

David Auger

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David is currently offering lookups from the following:

1841 census of Rainham

Rainham is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sittingbourne.  The church is named for St. Margaret with registers commencing 1592.

Rainham is a village and a parish in Milton district, Kent.  The village stands near the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, 4 miles east-south-east of Chatham;  and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Sittingbourne with a a money order office and a savings bank.

The parish extends to the Medway;  and comprises 3,608 acres of land and 260 of water.  Real property as of 1860, £6,671.  Population in 1851, 1,155;  in 1861, 1,422.  Houses, 270.  The increase in population arose from the sale of freehold land for the erection of houses.

The manor belongs to Sir R. Tufton, Bart..  Berengrove House is the seat of W. Walter, Esq..

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £520 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church is partly of the 12th century;  has a nave, a north aisle, and two chancels;  and contains a carved rood-screen, three stone sedilia, and monuments of the Tuftons.  The burial vaults of the Earls of Thanet are beneath the north chancel.

There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, a national school and charities £22.1

1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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