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London & Middlesex Quarterly Meeting.
Births
1644-1838 with supplement 1694-1836.
M.
1657-1837 with supplement 1670-1770.
B.
1661-1837 with supplement 1678-1785. (includes Esher, Croydon,
Kingston, Wandsworth, Southwark, Peckham, Dept, Westerham, Plaistow, Epping,
Barking & Waltham Abbey)
(insert CD 1578)
QUARTER SESSION INDEXES
Calendar of Quarter Session Records 1653-1671,
1686-1715
(fiche Ken 1217-1223)
New
Westerham & Edenbridge Quarter
Sessions & Assizes Part 1.
(insert CD 1745)
New
West Kent Quarter & Petty Sessions
Index.
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VISITATIONS
The Visitations of Kent 1530, 1574 & 1592
(CD)
The Visitation of Kent 1619
(CD)
WILL ABSTRACTS
Weald of East Kent Index to Will Abstracts
held in the Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury. 1535-97.
(Covers the following Parishes:- Benenden, Bethersden, Biddenden,
Cranbrook, Frittenden, Goudhurst, High Halden, Hawkhurst, Headcorn,
Marden, Newenden, Rolvenden, Sandhurst, Smarden, Staplehurst, Tenterden,
Wittersham & Woodchurch)
(fiche Ken 401-403)
Hawkhurst (Vol. 8) Wills. 1535-1597.
(fiche Ken 146)
Marden (Vol. 10) Wills. 1535-1597.
(fiche Ken 686)
Benenden (Vol. 1) Wills
1536-1597
(fiche Ken 1278-1279)
Bethersden (Vol. 11) Wills
1536-1597
(fiche Ken 1280-1281)
Smarden (Vol. 14) Wills
1536-1597
(fiche Ken 1282-1283)
WILLS INDEXES
Wills before 1858 were proved in Ecclesiastical Courts.
The principal ones for Kent were the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
and the Archdeaconry of Rochester. The Superior Court was the PCC. Prerogative Court of
Canterbury (See England General).
West Kent Probate Index 1750-1858.
Includes: All Courts and Peculiars in the Diocese of Rochester.
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Archdeaconary (?) of Kent Will Registers
1449-1564
Difficult to read. In Latin and English. Copies of actual Wills.
The following give their names to the start of new sections:
William Felowe folio 394
John Bysshop folio 394-396
John Lucas folio 397
Richard Brekynden folio 397-398
Richard Knyght folio398
Joanna Howchan folio399