Ebony, Kent

Historical Description

Ebony, a parish in Kent, 3 miles W of Appledore station on the S.E.R., and 3½ SE of Tenterden. It has a post office under Tenterden money order and telegraph office, Apple- dore. Acreage, 2215; population, 174. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Appledore, in the diocese of Canterbury; joint value, £2 20. The church, known as Ebony Chapel, was restored in 1894. Eboracum. See YORK.

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	Ebony St. Mary
Hundred	Tenterden
Lathe	Scray
Poor Law union	Tenterden

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

Church Records

Findmypast have the following online for Ebony, St Mary the Virgin: baptisms 1572-1919, marriages 1572-1919, burials 1572-1922

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 Ebony from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ebony (St. Mary))

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.