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Good morning Mary,

Can't believe how much effort you are putting into this for me you are very kind. There is an amazing amount of information here since I last looked yesterday, in response to which is an entry which confirms Sarah's parents and marriage to Alexander which may be useful.

Sarah /HEALD/11Apr1802 C097551 Joseph /HEALD/Rachel [/MARSDEN/]London, Old Jewry Presbyterian LND(b. 19 Mar 1802 -VRI; m. Alexander /GLENDINNING/ 1826; d. 1870 -REL) VRI FHL 813809 Dr Williams Library 3590 (Par of St Lawrence, LND) CEN 1881 (Speldhurst, KENT)

My apologies, I don't know why I thought Louisa was in the vault it is indeed Ada, Sophia and their father. I have the death certificates for the girls and your details are correct. As for the marriages, the registers for this period must be at the Centre for Kentish Studies, i.e. the archives in Maidstone. I haven't been for there for ages but will add these checks to my list for next time.

Hello Mary,

Just back in from shopping, what a fantastic trawl you have done, I must try to analyse where to go next.

Many thanks for such a rapid response.

I actually have all BMDs for the occupants and would like to see if there are any family descendants with an interest in their past who may have old family papers re. the vault as it must have been very expensive to build a sit is the full width of the nave and runs 14' west from beneath the chancel steps. Builders have told me that to construct this after the chapel was built would not have been at all likely / possible so must be ca. 1821.

There is a family story here as well as the wife / mother was buried in tunbridge wells and not brought back to the family vault. Possibly due to her husband and her being separated and him dying whilst living with his "nurse and constant companion" elsewhere!