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November, 2007
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Nov 3: I am sorry to announce that the OPC for Canterbury Cathedral and St. Peter parish has discontinued his involvement with the Kent OPC project. We wish Jim Halsey all the best in his current ventures. Both posts are now open to receive new OPCs as are the OPC posts for many other parishes throughout Kent.
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October, 2007
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Oct 13: New parish pages created and added today for: Eastbridge, Eastchurch, Eastry, Eastwell, Ebony, Edenbridge, Egerton, Elham, Elmley (Sheppey), Elmsted, Elmstone, Ewell, and Eythorne.
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Oct 8: Happy Thanksgiving Canada! Only fitting that we should have three significant additions to the Kent OPC project to report and for which we are grateful.
New transcripts have been added today: West Malling baptisms 1851-1879 and West Malling baptisms 1880-1910. Many thanks to Debra Buchanan, a dedicated and hard-working OPC volunteer.
A new OPC has volunteered! Wickhambreaux now has an Online Parish Clerk. Karen Munro, has graciously volunteered to take on the responsibility for this parish as its OPC. Karen has provided me with an outline of the records that she is able to contribute for the parish and we are certainly very grateful for her gracious commitment to the project and to Wickhambreaux parish. As Karen provides me with records for the parish they shall be posted to the website and a notice added to this news page. Please visit the Wickhambreaux parish page for more details. |
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Oct 8: New links have been added to the Farnborough parish page.
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August, 2007
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Aug 26: New "parish news" pages have been established for Bethersden. With great thanks extended to Mr. Brian Robinson, I have now been put in the know concerning the location and availability of the original Parish Registers. Much has also been learned about the Bethersden Parish Register Society. Please visit the following pages for further information about the society and its holdings: Bethersden Parish Records; Bethersden Parish Records Society; and, Bethersden Parish Records Society, Newsletter No. 16, January 2007. |
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Aug 26: A new Parish News Index page has been constructed to index the news items related to several parishes. I feel that, in this way, the important news items will not get lost amidst the lists of the many other transcript entries. So, now, clicking on the "Parish News" button at the top right-hand side of each parish and ancillary page will lead one, first, to the Parish News Index page. From that page links will be provided to the various news items. |
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Aug 25: New transcripts have been added today: Hildenborough burials 1845 to 1891; and, West Malling christenings 1813 to 1853. Many thanks to Debra Buchanan, a dedicated and hard-working OPC volunteer. |
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Aug 25: New links to the Cityark website have been added to the Rainham parish page now facilitating the access to baptisms, marriages and burials from 1592 through to approximately 1950. |
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Aug 25: New parish pages created and added today for Leigh and West Malling. |
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Aug 25: Suzannah Foad has graciously offered to take photographs within the Margate area for any family researchers. Please visit our Margate parish page and/or Margate parish photographs page for details on how to contact Suzannah. Many thanks, Suzannah, for your kind and generous offer. |
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Aug 25: New link to the family of John Cobb (c1324) of Kent has been added to our Families page. I have also disabled the link to Peter Blanche's Kent and Canterbury Resources website and have attempted to contact him for an update to its' URL. |
May, 2007
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May 16: New parish pages created and added today for Harbledown, Littlebourne, Lower Hardres and Upper Hardres. |
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May 9: A new OPC has volunteered! Herne now has an Online Parish Clerk. John Newport, has graciously volunteered to take on the responsibility for this parish as its OPC. John has provided me with an outline of the records that he is preparing for the parish and we are certainly very grateful for his gracious commitment to the project and to Herne parish. As John provides me with records for the parish they shall be posted to the website and a notice added to this news page. Please visit the Herne parish page for more details.
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May 9: Now online are parish register transcripts for North Cray christenings 1812 through 1881.
Also posted today are parish register transcripts for North Cray marriages 1813 through 1881, both transcripts, again, with many thanks to Debra Buchanan for the same. |
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May 8: Two new parishes have been added to the Kent OPC project - Erith, including several photographs of the church provided courtery of our Plumstead OPC, Derek Crompton, and Stockbury with a photograph of the church provided courtesy of a new contributor to the project, Robin Christopher. Robin has also graciously provided photographs of the churches at Bredgar and Boxley and those, too, have been added to the respective parish pages. |
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May 8: David Auger, our OPC for Rainham, has made a few amendments to the parish and has kindly provided descriptions of the church brasses and stained glass windows, as well as the manors within the parish as of 1828. Included in his update is a description of the parish as it was in 1828. |
April, 2007
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April 24: A new page has been added to the primary lineup of Kent information. Municipal Cemeteries and crematoria have been added to the website with a link placed in the left-hand navigation bar on the primary pages of this site. If you have any additional information that you would like to add to this page or any corrections please email me with the details. |
March, 2007
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March 12: A photograph page has now been added for Bexley. Photographs of Standard Road, an important roadway in Bexley, are provided courtesy of L. Earl Chamberlain. If you have any additional photographs of Bexley that you would like to add to this page, please email me with the details.
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March 4: A new OPC has volunteered! Eynsford now has a parish page and an OPC. Debra Buchanan, has graciously volunteered to take on the responsibility for this parish as online parish clerk. She is also the OPC for Snodland and St. Mary Cray and her hard work and dedication in transcribing records are very welcomed. We are very grateful for her generous contributions. She will take lookup requests in the Eynsford register post-1836 at least until she has transcribed the register for that time period. Please visit the Eynsford parish page for more details.
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March 4: A new family link has been added for the Cheeseman family of East Peckham. Please visit our Families page to reach the link.
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March 2: New photographs have been added to the site, in total 167 for numerous parishes. On the parish list page you will see that I have now added two new icons - a camera and a church steeple. The camera icon will be placed next to each parish that has photographs other than the church. The steeple icon will be placed next to each parish that has photographs of the church. So, in many instances, such as Hernhill you will see both a camera and a church steeple icon. Also added today are several new parish pages, as follows: St. Peter in Thanet, Canterbury Overview, Canterbury Black Prince's Chantry with 1891 census (only 3 individuals in residence), Eastling, Frant, Herne, Hernhill, Loose, Luddenham, Newnham, St. Nicholas at Wade, Oare, Postling, Shadoxhurst, Teynham, Ulcombe, Westwell, Woodnesborough. |
February, 2007
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February 20: I believe that I have finally conquered the Firefox problems! All pages should now function and display properly in Firefox web browsers. |
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February 17: A new OPC has volunteered! St. Mary Cray now has an OPC. Debra Buchanan, after completing many parish register transcripts for this parish has graciously volunteered of taking on the responsibility for this parish as online parish clerk. She is also the OPC for Snodland and her hard work and dedication in transcribing records are very welcomed. We are very grateful for her generous contributions.
Now online are parish register transcripts for St. Mary Cray christenings 1700 through 1902, marriages 1700 through 1813 and burials 1725 through 1941.
Also posted today are parish register transcripts for North Cray burials 1837 through 1901, again, with many thanks to Debra Buchanan for the same. |
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February 17: Most of the incompatibility issues with Firefox web browser have now been resolved. Firefox users should now be able to view the primary pages with little difficulty. A few minor issues insofar as in-page navigation is concerned still remain, though, and will be gradually corrected. |
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February 1: Parishes up and running and added today are the following: (all of the following have a corresponding page for the 1891 census) Chatham, Cheriton, Chevening, Chiddingstone, Chilham, Chillenden, Chiselhurst, Chislet, Cliffe at Hoo, Cobham, Coldred, Cooling, Cowden, Cranbrook Crundale, Cudham, Cuxton, Darenth, Davington, Fordwich, Frindsbury, Frinsted, Frittenden, Gillingham (including separate pages for 2 directory excerpts, 1 almanack excerpt and old postcards), Godmersham, Goodnestone next Faversham, Goudhurst, Graine, Grange, Graveney, and Gravesend. With the exception of the 1891 census page for Frant, all 1891 census files have now been reposted to this site. New parish page created and added today for Goodnestone by Wingham. Unfortunately, there is no corresponding 1891 census for this particular parish. |
January, 2007
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January 28: Parishes up and running and added today are the following: Brabourne, Brasted, Bredgar, Bredhurst, Brenchley, Brenzett, Bromley (with 1891 census for Bickley), Brook, Brookland, Broomfield, Broomhill, Buckland near Faversham, Burham and Burmarsh. |
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January 27: Parishes up and running and added today are the following: Bapchild (with 1891 census), Barfreston (with 1841 census, 1891 census and marriage 1603-1810), Barming (with 1891 census), Bearsted (with 1891 census), Beckenham (with 1891 census), Bekesbourne (with 1891 census), Benenden (with 1891 census), Bethersden (with 1891 census), Bicknor (with 1891 census), Bidborough (with 1891 census), Biddenden (with 1891 census), Bilsington (with 1891 census), Bircholt (with 1891 census), Birling (with 1891 census), Bishopsbourne (with 1891 census), Blackmanstone, Blean (with 1891 census), Bobbing (with 1891 census), Bonnington (with 1891 census), Borden (with 1891 census), Boughton Aluph (with 1891 census), Boughton Malherbe (with 1891 census), Boughton Monchelsea, Boughton-under-Blean, Boxley, Dunkirk, Farnborough, Faversham and Preston-next-Faversham. |
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January 22: Parishes up and running and added today are the following: Acol (with 1891 census), Acrise (with 1891 census), Addington (with 1841 and 1891 census), Adisham (with 1891 census), Aldington (with 1891 census), Allington (with 1841 and 1891 census), All Saints, Canterbury (with 1891 census), Archbishop's Palace, Canterbury (with 1891 census), Hoo Allhallows (with 1841 and 1891 census), Appledore (with 1891 census), Ash-next-Ridley, Ashurst (with 1891 census), Ashford (with 1891 census), and Aylesford (with 1891 census). |
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January 20: Parishes up and running and added today are the following: Kingsdown by Milton (new), Speldhurst (new), Staple (new), Staplehurst, Stourmouth, Tenterden, Throwley (with christenings, marriages and burials newly reorganized and alphabetized by surname), Tunstall (new). |
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January 17: Parishes back up and running and added today are the following: West Kingsdown (by Dartford), Horton Kirby, Southfleet (with photographs and a Parish News page), Horsmonden with 1841 census, North Cray, Foots Cray with 1891 census, Crayford with 1891 census, St. Paul's Cray with christenings 1862 through 1908, and St. Mary's Cray with burials 1813 through 1863 and marriages 1813 through 1837. |
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January 14: Parishes back up and running and added today are the following: Minster, Sheppey and Sheerness, Sheppey. Also added to all active parish pages are links to the various historical directories available for free search on www.historicaldirectories.org. New pages added to the main level of this site are Introduction, Volunteer and Donations leaving only the Maps and Vision pages yet to be completed. The maps are proving stubborn and I am still working to overcome some coding problems that refuse to allow the maps to be displayed for more than a few brief seconds. |
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January 7: Parishes back up and running and added today are the following: Sandwich, now broken out into three separate parish pages - St. Clement, including marriage banns, St. Peter and St. Mary; West Langdon (including 1861 census); West Farleigh; and, Wingham. |
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January 6: Parishes back up and running and added today are the following: Trotterscliffe, Northbourne, Snodland, Birchington, Tunbridge aka Tonbridge, Tilmanstone (with 1851 census transcript), Shipborne (with photographs) and Plumstead (with Pigots 1840 Directory and several photographs). |
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January 4: Parishes back up and running and added today are the following: Monkton, Nonington (a wealth of transcripts here), Ringwould, Rainham (transcripts of 3 19th-century directories, an index to Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills and an index to the marriages as found on the CityArk website). Also, new photographs have been added to Lyminge. |
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January 1: H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! May every one of your have a wonderful 2007 that is filled with the best that life has to offer in every department. May we all find our long lost ancestors! |
December, 2006
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December 30: Parishes back up and running on and added today are the following: Chelsfield with 1891 census transcript, East Malling, Ham, Hartley, Lyminge with several parish register transcripts, Horton Kirby and Marden. A new page has been constructed for Margate providing "A View of the Parish" with links to many resources, most of which are on Barry White's web site of Thanet resources. |
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December 29: Parishes back up and running on this new site are the following: Ash next Sandwich, Alkham, Badlesmere, Barham, Betteshanger, Bexley, Bridge, Buckland near Dover, Canterbury Christchurch (Cathedral), Canterbury St. Peter, Charlton near Dover, Dartford, Denton, Doddington, Farnborough, Folkestone, Guston, Margate, Minster-Sheppey, Monks Horton, Ospringe, Ramsgate, Sheerness, Southfleet, Staplehurst, Stourmouth, West Kingsdown, and West Farleigh. More will follow over the next few days. All of the resident parish pages, identifiable by the red and white colour scheme, now have links added for monumental inscriptions, 1881 census and tithe apportionment records in addition to the pre-existing links, as available, for parish records and 1841 through 1891 census. |
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December 24: I am happy to announce a new home for the Kent Online Parish Clerks here, at www.kent-opc.org. My name is Susan Young and I am the new administrator and co-ordinator for the Kent OPC project. I look forward to working with all of the current OPCs and am very interested in making this project a success. I aim to have the site newly redesigned but on an equal footing with the old site no later than January 5, 2007. From thence forward new parish pages will be added and new resources linked as they become available. |
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