East Sutton, Kent

Historical Description

Sutton, East, a parish in Kent, 3½ miles N of Headcorn station on the S.E.R. Post town, Staplehurst; money order and telegraph office, Sutton Valence. Acreage, 1596; population, 336. There is a parish council consisting of five members. East Sutton Park is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Sutton Valence. The church is old and interesting.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient County	Kent
Ecclesiastical parish	East Sutton St. Peter and St. Paul
Hundred	Eyhorne
Lathe	Aylesford
Poor Law union	Hollingbourne

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast have the following online for East Sutton, SS Peter & Paul: baptisms 1648-1919, marriages 1650-1919, burials 1651-1965

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for East Sutton from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sutton, East (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.