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The
2002 Second Edition
of the Guide for Genealogists of East Kent Parishes |
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About David Wright and the East Kent Parishes Guide: Dr David Wright, a London classical scholar, has been writing, lecturing and researching on Kentish genealogy and history for nearly thirty years. A long-standing member of the Kent Family History Society and Society of Genealogists, he has three decades' experience of genealogical research and a deep knowledge of the historical county of Kent and its many and diverse records. The history and geography of London, along with the records of its many archives, is also one of his primary fields of research. A specialist in Latin palaeography and textual criticism, he can help with the translation, transliteration and interpretation of English and Latin documents of all ages, advise on the construction of pedigrees and the problems connected with them, and conduct investigations into missing persons and beneficiaries to estates. His long and enthusiastic love for Kent led a decade ago to the publication of EAST KENT PARISHES, immediately recognised as a research manual waiting to be written. The second edition has just been published and is now available directly from him. If you have an interest in any of the 300 and more parishes which comprise East Kent (the Diocese of Canterbury), you will probably soon consider it to be an indispensable vade mecum. Kentish records at the Canterbury, Maidstone and Whitfield Archives, as well as those housed in London, are listed right down to the latest accessions in April 2002. The details of the contents page is displayed here (below left) for reference together with a sample page from the exhaustive gazetteer (below right) which includes every ancient and daughter parish (as well as nonconformist chapels) extant in the diocese before 1900, with their jurisdictions and records. Note the final unique index of over 1,000 East Kent manors - their records are often the only way to take pedigrees back before the parish register period. The
Guide consists of 170 pages and is soft bound. ISBN 0 9517580 1 2
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THE FOLLOWING FOUR SAMPLES ARE WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO FIND IN THIS NEW GUIDE |
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Details of the contents page from the new guide: |
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Details of the text from the back cover of the guide: |
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300 PARISHES ACCURATELY SURVEYED
Where is this East Kent parish? Are there others with the same name? Does it appear in the Domesday Book? What was its early population? .Which civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions exercised control over it? Have the parish registers survived, and if so, where are they, are they complete and have they been copied? What other parochial and national records exist? What material has been indexed? A minor best seller
a decade ago, this second edition is completely rewritten and reset,
and incorporates the last ten years' developments in the worlds of East
Kent genealogy and local history. |
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Details of part of the contents from page 35 about Civil Registration - there is more in the guide: |
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| CIVIL REGISTRATION
This is a large
and important field and closely allied to the Victorian census returns
in as much as both were arranged in exactly the same registration districts.
Much fuller details of the registration districts and their parishes,
and the census returns with their records and indexes for the entire
county of Kent, are available in a companion volume to this book, currently
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front
page | enquiry form
order form (pdf format) | order
form (text format)
the Kentish Census Returns | Kent Probate Records
the
London Probate Index | East Kent Burial Index
the
West Kent Probate Index on CD 1750-1858