goodwin

[Spidermonkey]

Frindsbury should come under the North Aylsford registration district

[jane l]

yes thats stephen thomas father and yes to area if you say so you would know better than me cause you're amazingly fast and too good for me

[Spidermonkey]

There are some public trees online on Ancestry  that have this man birth date varies betweeen 1851-1858 Kent parents down on all trees as Stephen Goodwin and Sarah?one has Sarah Ballard is this the right family?

Welsh Lady

It does look like the only possible marriage on freebmd - Jun qtr 1853, North Aylsford 2a 413

[Spidermonkey]

yes thats stephen thomas father and yes to area if you say so you would know better than me cause you're amazingly fast and too good for me

Not really - but this is far more appealing than the pile of marking that I should be doing 

[jane l]

very true im quite knew to all of this but cant leave it alone used to be a works bore now im an ancestry 1 but having fun and learning so much. this stuff on my mums side of goodwins has been bugging me for ages cause i couldnt find anything so thanks again and keep it coming it's great

[Spidermonkey]

Glad we can help! 

Have you got the marriage cert for Stephen and Sarah Ann Ballard?  If not, I've found it on City Ark and if you want I'll talk you through finding it!

[jane l]

no i haven't so yes please

[Spidermonkey]

Ok, first place to go is to here:
http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/query/results/?Mode=Search&PathList=/Z4a_Medway_Ancestors/

Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you will see a list of the parishes that the database covers.

In this case, we want Frindsbury, All Saints, so click on the 'click here' hyperlink.

This will show you a page of all the records for Frindsbury All Saints.  We want marriages in 1853 which is result number 16.  This is a scan of the register of marriages between 1848 - 1855.  Click 'view images'

You then have a list of scanned pages - unfortunately, the names of the pages do not give away the date so you have to estimate and then work forward and backwards!  Stephen and Sarah's marriage is on scan 00000095.

Click on that, the page should load and their marriage is the second one (bottom left)

Hope that makes sense!

[jane l]

found frindsbury all staints but sorry cnat do anything with it