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Upchurch Parish

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St. Mary's Church, provided courtesy of Mike Gunnill and Upchurch Matters
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A View of the Parish Your Online Parish Clerk for Upchurch is: VACANT. Upchurch is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sittingbourne. The church is named for St. Mary the Virgin with original parish registers commencing 1633. Archdeacon's Transcripts commence as early as 1560. Upchurch, is a parish, with a village, in Milton district, Kent; on the creeks of the Medway, 1-3/4 mile north of Newington rail station, and 5 east of Chatham. It has a wall letter box under Sittingbourne. Acres, 5,138; of which 1,520 are water. Real property in 1860, £5,564. Population in 1851, 468. Houses 99. The property is divided among a few. Low islets and peninsulae, engirt by creeks, form much of the surface; bear the name of salterns or saltings: appear to have been the site of an extensive Roman pottery manufacture; and have yielded many pieces of Roman pottery and many Roman coins. There are also extensive gravel pits, abounding with fossils. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £243 with a habitable glebe house. Patron, All Souls College, Oxford. The church is chiefly decorated English; and has a spire, which serves as a landmark. Charities £8.¹ ¹John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870). For more information and photographs of the parish and some of its residents visit Upchurch Matters. Parish Council information for Upchurch can be found on the council's website.
Church Registers	Census	Parish Records	Wills & Court Records
Monumental Inscriptions Christenings 1558-1640 Christenings 1641-1700 Christenings 1701-1775 Christenings 1776-1900 Marriages 1558-1640 Marriages 1641-1700 Marriages 1641-1700 Marriages 1776-1900 Burials 1558-1640 Burials 1641-1700 Burials 1641-1700 Burials 1776-1900 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
Tax Lists	Directories	Land Records & Maps	Other
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 Parish & Area Map, 1797 Hasted's History 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 Francis Frith photographic collection Apprenticeships Immigration School Records Notable Events Nefarious Activities Newspapers Visitation, 1612



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