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Society publications are usually derived from our project work, which you can read about by clicking here.
We have published a number of new disc items recently. They are from the LB of Bromley Archives holdings. There are nine discs containing facsimiles of parish registers of twelve churches in the parishes of Beckenham, Bromley, Bromley Common, Chelsfield, Chislehurst, Farnborough, Keston and Penge. They contain all the material for these Parishes that is in a fit condition to be handled. We continue with our attempts to obtain permissions to publish the remaining Parish Registers held by Bromley.
To order, see Parish Register & Cemetery Register Publications.
Our disc CD 39, containing transcriptions & an alphabetical index of Greenwich St Alphege baptisms registers for 1813-38 is now available for sale. The data comprises over 15,000 entries and includes several pages of baptisms that were omitted when the registers were filmed many years ago. This missing data is not available on Ancestry either.
We are grateful to Society member Phil Taylor who during 2009-10 recorded and typed up a listing of all the gravestones in Dartford's East Hill Cemetery. He reports:
"There are 973 gravestones with the names of 2,121 people. I divided the cemetery into 8 sections and have produced the following - an introduction explaining how the MIs have been recorded; a short history of East Hill Cemetery. Then eight documents listing the MIs in each section; a hand drawn plan of the cemetery showing the location of each section and 8 plans showing the gravestones within each section; an index in Excel; lists of prominent people buried in the cemetery; accidental deaths, and WW1 and WW2 dead."
The files have been added to our existing CD-MI-2, see Mixed PR & MI Transcripts.
We have just published a full transcript of burials at Gravesend Cemetery 1839-1901. The CD contains both chronological and alphabetical listings of more than 20,000 burials. Price £10, see Parish Register & Cemetery Register Publications.
This interesting new CD includes around 2730 facsimile pages taken from 17th-19th century Parish Chest material deposited at Medway Archives & Local Studies Centre, Strood. It includes various Churchwardens Accounts, Poor Law records; Settlement Examinations & Removal Orders; also Surveyors of the Highways Accounts etc., for the parishes of Darenth, Dartford, Horton Kirby, Longfield, Meopham, Southfleet and Swanscombe. Each document is supplied as a PDF file, see Miscellaneous Publications for a more detailed listing.
We have published a number of new items recently. These include a full index of Northfleet Cemetery burials 1893-1983; a transcript & index of the burial register for St Luke Charlton 1754-1963; and assorted Methodist Church baptisms & marriages for Dartford area - Dartford (Spital St) Methodist, Crayford Methodist and Farningham Methodist, c.1837-2004.
The transcripts & indexes of St Margaret Lee parish registers, produced many years ago by Josephine Birchenough, have been scanned and published in PDF format. These have not been generally available before and cover burials 1813-50 & marriages 1754-1821.
Rob Cottrell has recently published a small number of new discs in his Riverside Parish Register index series. His ever popular series on Watermen continues to sell well, copies are available from the Society.
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During the 1990's the Society published on microfiche a number of transcripts based on our project work, these were mainly of memorial inscriptions (MI's) and parish registers.
Sales of these fiche have been falling for some time, so it was decided this year to re-launch them on CD-Rom. Each of the original publications has been converted to a file in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format. The data has been scanned from fiche masters of variable quality so it cannot be key-word searched in the usual way, but since most of the transcripts incorporate their own surname indexes, finding individual entries is not difficult. The collections are arranged into three geographical areas - Bromley, Sevenoaks and Dartford. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
See Mixed PR & MI Transcripts for pricing details and precise coverage.
The Society has produced a new CD containing facsimiles of original Vaccinator's registers held in Bromley Archives.
The six registers, ranging from 1899 to 1930, contain the names & addresses of approximately 3000 persons of all ages vaccinated in the local Union building (not inmates).
In addition to these six registers there are about 25 other volumes in the Bromley Archives which are Maternity Hospital based and contain details of a large number of infants vaccinated. These are not on the disc.
See Miscellaneous Publications for pricing details.
The Society has just published on CD-Rom 'Edenbridge - An Index of People and Places 1200-1851'. This work is the result of many years of research by its author, Lionel Cole. It collates a large amount of data he has gathered on the inhabitants of and the places in Edenbridge. Based on many record sources including - parish registers, the parish chest, title deeds, wills, taxation records, judicial records, manorial records, local newspapers and the Tithe Award survey it is divided into two parts. The first part, organised in chapters each of 50 years, lists alphabetically all individuals who can be identified for that period in chronological order. The second part lists chronologically the main points in the history of every house in the village and every farm or group of fields in the countryside, and is illustrated with maps and with photographs of all buildings in the village which were present in 1851. We understand that the Author welcomes feedback from his readers and he continues to research Edenbridge and adjacent parishes so that this work can not be regarded as a final product but as a step forward in a process of discovery.
It is available as either a DVD or a 2 CD set, see pricing information on the Miscellaneous Publications page.
April sees the launch of several important new Parish Register image CD-Roms covering a number of populous parishes in the London suburbs. Although some of this data has been available in transcript form for a number of years, most of these are patchy and/or finish in the 19th century, or are not easily available for purchase. The new material, while unindexed, covers in most cases the entire set of deposited registers. The highlights are:
| Parish | Covering Dates |
|---|---|
| Deptford St Nicholas | 1563-1933 |
| Deptford St Paul | 1730-1966 |
| Greenwich St Alphege | 1615-1989 |
| Lewisham St Mary | 1703-1921 |
| Plumstead St Nicholas | 1654-1898 |
| Woolwich St Mary | 1670-1988 |
These are all now available for purchase on CD-Rom or DVD (with a few exceptions which are not quite ready but will be added soon). The images are grouped into PDF files and each register page is a high-quality scan similar to this extract this example (from Deptford St Paul marriages, 1740).
Full details and ordering information can be accessed from the main Publications page, look at the section entitled 'Parish Register & Cemetery Register Publications'.
The Society is indebted to Projects Coordinator Bob Woodward who has arranged for the microfilming & scanning of this material, the originals of which are held by the London Metropolitan Archives.
