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Kent / Re: Royal Dockyard Records
« on: Thursday 14 June 07 08:56 BST (UK)  »
Hello Verna

They will probably be at TNA at Kew; here's one of their guidance leaflets to start you off:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp?sLeafletID=50
There are others so search their catalogue for "dockyards" and check the leaflets.

Good luck

Colin

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The Common Room / Re: Christening outside home parish?
« on: Wednesday 13 June 07 14:50 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: mike175 on Wednesday 13 June 07 10:32 BST (UK)
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My problem is that the only possible match I have found is in the IGI which shows a Thomas and Mary with sons Thomas and Robert christened in Stepney in 1784 and 1792 respectively....

Don't forget that there are a lot of baptisms and marriages that aren't in the IGI.
Hugh Wallis's website is a good place to start checking whether a particular parish/period is indexed but it's some years out of date now, so it's not infallible:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryEngland.htm#PageTitle

Colin

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Question re: Church of England
« on: Wednesday 13 June 07 08:55 BST (UK)  »
I suspect that it was up to the individual vicar.

Pre 1837 when everyone but Jews and Quakers was required by law to marry in the CoE there would not have been such a requirement - RC or non-conformists, for instance, would not have been baptised into the CoE before marriage.

Colin

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The Common Room / Re: LDS
« on: Wednesday 13 June 07 08:50 BST (UK)  »
Go here:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

and seach for New Zealand

Colin

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: prison records etc
« on: Tuesday 12 June 07 17:09 BST (UK)  »
Hello Squid

You could try this site:
http://www.lightage.demon.co.uk/index.htm#Police%20Index
You'll have to pay to get useful information.

Read the TNA guidance leaflet on the subject:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=253

Try searching the Times online archive; you'll have to use a library to access it (but search the RootsChat archive for more details of how you could do this).

Good luck

Colin

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Scotland / Re: passport/papers emigration
« on: Monday 11 June 07 11:28 BST (UK)  »
This TNA guidance leaflet might tell you all you need to know:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=109

Colin

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Sussex Lookup Requests / Re: W Sussex Catholic Registers
« on: Friday 08 June 07 22:31 BST (UK)  »
Your local library should be able to order up copies of the CRS publications for you via an inter-library loan.

Colin

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Sussex Lookup Requests / Re: W Sussex Catholic Registers
« on: Friday 08 June 07 19:21 BST (UK)  »
Michael Gandy's excellent booklets (Catholic Missions and Registers, 1700-1880) are very helpful in this situation; they list all know registers, the periods they cover and where they are located as well as what transcriptions, if any, have been made.

The relevant booklet records that baptisms in Arundel in 1802 might have been carried out either in the Chapel of Slindon House or in the domestic chapel of the Duke of Norfolk; that there are indexed transcripts for both chapels in West Sussex Record Office and that alternatively transcriptions of the Slindon House registers are in Catholic Record Society (CRS) publication 7 and the Duke's chapel registers in CRS 27.

Here's the CRS website:
http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/crs/

Good luck

Colin

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The Common Room / Re: Access to Divorce Records
« on: Friday 08 June 07 19:02 BST (UK)  »
Hello Anna

Others may know better but I doubt that there are any websites with the information you want.

First, read the National Archives guidance leaflet on the subject, here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=53

I would suggest that the best source of information for you would be newspapers, preferably local newspapers for the area where the parties lived. Unfortunately they are very unlikely to be online either, you would have to visit either the British Library newspaper collection at Colindale, North London, (http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html) or the local studies library for the relevant area (you could try writing to them if can't visit and you know the dates of the hearings or the decrees) - search for the local studies library here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/.

You could also try the Times newspaper, there might be a report in that; it has the advantage that it is fully searchable online but you will need to access it through a library or something similar, it's only available on subscription to institutions, not to individuals.

Good luck

Colin

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