parish register Images

A very impressive project please contact Adrian Furminger <freereg.kent@btinternet.com>
to help with indexing

Cityark - Search Results: "Medway Ancestors is Medway Council's project to publish images of the original parish registers in its custody on the Medway Archives web site CityArk. The registers are held on deposit from the local parish churches and cover the Rochester Archdeaconry area, extending from Dartford and Gravesend in the west to Rainham in the east and focusing on the Medway Towns.

The project has been made possible by a grant of £49,500.00 by the Heritage Lottery Fund under the Your Heritage scheme. Below you will find links to the parish register images, arranged by parish in alphabetical order.
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For customers lacking a copy of The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers please note several maps are published on CityArk to help you identify the relevant parish:

• Medway area (i.e. Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Hoo Peninsula or eastern end of Rochester Archdeaconry) area:
  click here
• Dartford, Gravesend and Cobham area, showing parishes at the western end of the Rochester Archdeaconry area:
  click here

[Note on Civil Registration marriage registers after 1 July 1837 and Medway Ancestors Following the publication on the HMSO web site (click here) of revised guidance on the copying of marriage registers the Medway Ancestors project has now been extended to include marriage registers from 1 July 1837 - 31 December 1953. Paragraph 3 confirms that the chief officer of a Diocesan Record Office is permitted to issue a marriage certificate. Paragraph 5 states The Marriage Act and the Parochial Registers and Records Measure permits [sic] the making of certified copies of marriage certificates and the copying of marriage registers [Borough Archivist's underlining] by those persons listed in paragraph 3 above and paragraph 6 includes as copying the placing of material on the internet. (Medway Archives is recognised by the Bishop of Rochester as the Diocesan Record Office for the Rochester Archdeaconry area and the parishes of Burham and Wouldham under the Measure and The Borough Archivist is de facto the chief officer also under the Measure.)]

File updated by Borough Archivist 14 August 2006

[Note on Civil Registration marriage registers after 1 July 1837 and Medway Ancestors Following the publication on the HMSO web site (click here) of revised guidance on the copying of marriage registers the Medway Ancestors project has now been extended to include marriage registers from 1 July 1837 - 31 December 1953. Paragraph 3 confirms that the chief officer of a Diocesan Record Office is permitted to issue a marriage certificate. Paragraph 5 states The Marriage Act and the Parochial Registers and Records Measure permits [sic] the making of certified copies of marriage certificates and the copying of marriage registers [Borough Archivist's underlining] by those persons listed in paragraph 3 above and paragraph 6 includes as copying the placing of material on the internet. (Medway Archives is recognised by the Bishop of Rochester as the Diocesan Record Office for the Rochester Archdeaconry area and the parishes of Burham and Wouldham under the Measure and The Borough Archivist is de facto the chief officer also under the Measure.)]

File updated by Borough Archivist 14 August 2006

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