Publications

Books about genealogical research in Kent

Kent Communicants Lists 1565, Part 3

A mini-census, listing communicants (those over 14 years) at Easter 1565. In many cases names of wives, children under 14 and servants are given for a period where several of the parishes do not have surviving parish registers, so the returns are important for establishing names of inhabitants in these parishes in the mid-1560s. Covering: Boughton Malherbe, Doddington, Newnham, Norton, Ospringe, P...

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-CL-3

Canterbury Blackfriars Baptist Chapel births and burials 1780-1836

Transcript of the Registers, which include Baptists from 26 other places in Kent and a few from London. Introduction, Indexes of Surnames and Places. Paperback, 33 pages (1995)....

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-4-X

East Kent Militia List 1831

List of officers and men, with details of abodes and biographical information on some. ...

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-1074

Kent Communicants Lists 1565-1567 - Part 1

A mini-census, listing communicants (those over 14 years) at Easter 1565, with two lists for Appledore - one 1567 and one undated. In many cases names of wives, children under 14 and servants are given for a period where seven of the 14 parishes do not have surviving parish registers. Covering Appledore, Brookland, Burmarsh, Dymchurch, Ebony, Fairfield, Lympne, New Romney, Orlestone, Saltwood, Sto...

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-CL

Kent Communicants Lists 1565, Part 2

A mini-census, listing communicants (those over 14 years) at Easter 1565. In many cases names of wives, children under 14 and servants are given for a period where several of the parishes do not have surviving parish registers,so the returns are important for establishing names of inhabitants in these parishes in the mid-1560s. Covering: Bicknor, Bobbing, Bredgar, Frinsted, Milsted, Milton next Si...

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-CL-2

Kent Dissenting Ministers' Declarations 1689-1836

Alphabetical list of 291 Kent non-conformist Ministers who declared they were of the Christian faith and not papists. There is an introduction to the legal background and the documents dealt with in this volume, followed by biographical notes on some of the Ministers signing the Declaration and some who did not, then an alphabetical list of Ministers and finally an Index of Places. Paperback 32 pa...

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-3-1

Kent Enrolments under the Navy Act, 1796

List in alphabetical order of surname of 461 men enrolled in Kent into the Navy under this Act. Includes name, place of birth or settlement, age and occupation, many physical descriptions. Almost three quarters of the men were born or settled outside Kent. Introduction. Index of Places. Paperback, 57 pages (1996)....

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-7-4

Kent Settlement (Poor Law) Records: A Guide and Catalogue. Part 2: West Kent (Diocese of Rochester).

A catalogue of West Kent settlement records. 68 pages, published 1994....

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-1-5

Kent Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1801-1803

An alphabetical list of testators, with Public Record Office references for the wills and admons concerned....

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-WA

Quakers in Kent - Some Birth, Marriage, Burial and Other Records 1648-1806

A complete transcript of a Quaker register not surrendered to the Registrar General in 1837, which covers the period 1648-1778 and includes entries from a number of places in mid- to south-east Kent. Also Quaker burials at Cranbrook 1708-1806, other stray Quaker items from parish registers and Quakers Affirmation rolls of 1723. Introduction, Select Bibliography, Indexes of Surnames and Places. Pap...

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-6-6

Staplehurst Congregational Chapel

Covering Baptisms 1746-1793, 1797-1837, Marriages 1788-1792, Deaths 1787-1793, Burials 1842-1912, with a few Births 1716-1791. Only the registers of baptisms covering 1797-1837 are deposited at the Public Record Office and can be expected to be included in the IGI - however, tests show that not all these baptisms are included. The other entries are taken from unpublished original registers still k...

Supplied by: Kent Family History Research Product Ref: KFH-8-2

Vagrants, Gypsies and 'Travellers' in Kent 1572-1948

Book comprising: outline of the laws against vagrants 1349-1824; guide to what records can be used to find out more about vagrants etc.. in Kent; the uses this material can be put to in studying aspects of vagrancy etc..; lives of some vagrants, gypsies and travellers in Kent looked at in detail; catalogue of the surviving records to be found in Kent Archives and outside Kent (as of 1995); Select ...

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