Worth, Kent Family History Guide

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Worth is a chapelry of Eastry Ancient Parish in Kent.

Alternative names: Word

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1720
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1564

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

  • Minster
  • Sandwich St Clement
  • Sandwich St Bartholomew’s Hospital
  • Woodnesborough
  • Stonar
  • Sholden
  • Northbourne
  • Ham
  • Sandwich St Mary
  • Eastry

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WORTH, or Word, a parish, with a small village and two hamlets, in Eastry district, Kent; on the coast, 1½ mile SSE of Sandwich r. station. It has a post-office under Sandwich.

Acres, 7,431; of which 1,285 are water. Real property, £7,753. Pop., 430. Houses, 87. The property is much subdivided. Upton house is the seat of J. Henderson, Esq. There are two coastguard stations.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £375. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is ancient but good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Kent, Worth – Buildings, dwellings, etc. ( 1 )
Cottage near Stone Cross, 1617, 1623

England, Kent, Worth – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions, Worth, Kent, England, abt. 1700-1900

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

England, Kent, Worth – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Worth, 1564-1898
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Worth (Kent)

Parish register extracts, 1576-1681
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Worth (Kent)

Parish registers for Worth, 1726-1958
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Worth (Kent)

England, Kent, Worth – Land and property ( 1 )
Deed of Worth, 1598

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • Civil Registration District: Eastry
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Canterbury (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Canterbury
  • Rural Deanery: Sandwich
  • Poor Law Union: Eastry
  • Hundred: Eastry
  • Province: Canterbury