Kent Online Parish Clerks, Kent Family Garden

View looking down Wheeler Street in Maidstone, toward Jeffery Street.

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Welcome to the Kent Family Garden! We hope you find some useful genealogy for your family history research, here. There are currently 18,612 individuals entered on 5 different family trees, 4,082 places, 3,419 notes, 159 sources with 4,189 citations, 84 timeline events, and 29 repositories.

The Kent Family Garden of the Kent OPC project is meant to offer an avenue of online public data sharing to those who do not otherwise have the facility or ability to post their own data to other sites such as Ancestry.co.uk, Find My Past, and other independent web hosts.

If you have ancestral lineage in Kent, England and would like to have your data published to our website please read our Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Use that apply to all submitted data. These two documents are accessible from any page within the Kent Family Garden by clicking on "Histories" in the left navigation bar and selecting the Terms or Privacy from the list of documents listed there.

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Royal Tunbridge Wells One of the most popular inland watering-places in England, with 33,373 inhabitants, is finely situated in a hilly district on the borders of Kent and Sussex.

Hever Castle and the Boleyn or Bullen family. The family of Boleyn or Bullen, originally of French extraction, was transplanted to England soon after the Norman Conquest and settled in Norfolk.

Explosions at Faversham. Newspaper accounts of the several explosions at the gun-cotton works in Faversham that occurred during 1847.

Kentish Dialect The story of Dick and Sal, a Kentish poem in 100 stanzas, aptly introduces the reader to the Kentish dialect. A short dictionary of some of the more obscure provincialisms contained in the poem are included.

The Outrages in Kent A widespread uprising of agricultural labourers, the so-called ‘Swing Riots’, occurred in southern and eastern England in 1830. The men were protesting against agricultural mechanisation and harsh conditions. The spark that ignited the countryside occurred in Kent, in the Elham Valley, between Canterbury and Folkestone, where threshing machines were destroyed.

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