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30 Aug 2011Search 18,000 new Thames and Medway records
If you have Thames and Medway ancestors in your family tree, you’ll be pleased to know that we have just published 18,219 new Thames and Medway baptism, marriage and burial records on findmypast.co.uk
Local specialist Rob Cottrell provided findmypast.co.uk with these records. This release represents the latest update to our Thames-side and Medway records collection.
See the table below for the details of these records:
|
Type of
records |
Number
of records |
County
|
Parish
|
Date range
|
Dedication
|
|
Baptisms
|
1,673
|
London
|
Rotherhithe
|
1840-1871
|
Christchurch
|
|
Baptisms
|
7,245
|
Kent
|
Greenwich
|
1825-1837
|
St Alphege
|
|
Marriages
|
642
|
London
|
Rotherhithe
|
1840-1871
|
Christchurch
|
|
Marriages
|
1,076
|
Kent
|
Greenwich
|
1825-1837
|
St Alphege
|
|
Burials
|
7,583
|
Kent
|
Greenwich
|
1825-1837
|
St Alphege
|
Read more about this exciting collection on our Thames-side and Medway page
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In the 1840-1871 period of the Rotherhithe baptism and marriage records in the Thames and Medway Records, Rotherhithe is listed as being in the county of London whereas, at that time, it was actually in Surrey. This inconsistency with your other records which do have Rotherhithe in Surrey leads to incomplete search results. As my ancestors moved along the Thames from Rotherhithe to Battersea, I entered the surname and “Surrey”. It was only later that I discovered that, if you search for surname and “Rotherhithe”, you get a mixture of Surrey and London in the county column. Could you please rationalise this?
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