Northbourne

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Your Online Parish Clerk for Northbourne is:  VACANT.  

Northbourne is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sandwich.  The church is named for St. Augustine with registers commencing 1586.

Northbourne is a village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent.  The village stands 2-3/4 miles west-by-south of Deal rail station;  takes its name from a brook or burn which runs to the Stour at Sandwich;  and has a post office under Deal.  The parish contains also the hamlets of Finglesham, Little Betshanger, Marley and West Street;  and includes the detached tract of Tickenhurst.  Acres, 3,628.  Rated property in 1859, £6,870.  Population, 890.  Houses, 193.  The property is subdivided.

The manor was given, in 618, by King Eadbald, to the monastery of St. Augustine at Canterbury;  went, after the dissolution, to the Crown;  and belongs now to Sir W. C. James, Bart..  Northbourne Court, was a residence of the monks;  is supposed to occupy the site of a palace of King Eadbald;  was, for some time, in the possession of the Sandys family;  had then famous hanging gardens, parts of which are still preserved;  and is now a ruin.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £360 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  The church is Norman, transition, and early English - large, cruciform, and interesting;  has a massive central tower;  and contains a triangular-headed piscina, and a splendid monument to Sir Edwin Sandys of 1629.

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

More information about Northbourne can be found on the village web site.

• 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

• Poll Taxes
• 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
• 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