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Stewart.. if you want meaningful advice you have to give us some pretty detailed information about what you want to do with these cameras. Are you solely intending to attach it to a monster telescope and take pictures of faint galaxies or are you hoping to go to the tennis and get a crisp shot of a backhand down the line as well?
You're looking at entry level DSLRs.. the low-light sensor performance on these is pretty good and all the specs of the high-end DSLRs won't gain you much for astrophotography, unless you move up to full-frame. But then the cost of glass goes way up as well or you need an awesome scope that can fully and sharply illuminate a full-frame size sensor.
The 'feel' of a kit lens is pretty much irrelevant. Choose the DSLR body you want to start with (bearing in mind what you may expand to in future) and then choose the lens, whether that is the kit lens or something else instead of or as well as. The kit lenses are good value but hardly expensive and pretty irrelevant to the purchase decision which is likely to lock you onto that brand in all respects for some time to come.
I have shot with the 1100D.. for the price you can't go far wrong and can spend the dollars you save on more lenses assuming you intend to stick with cropped sensor.
Phil
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