look up request,

[WHITSTABLE]

hello, im havingsome difficultie finding william hook baptism christerning or birth 1851 to 1881i have him and hiswife sarah ann living seasalter whitstable kent with children , no problem there but i want to find where he actualy comes from as one census states he was born milton in kent when i thougth it was whitstable being he was born abt 1809 im not sure where to look i can not even find the marriedge of william to sarah ann ? can anyone help , much appreciated lizzie ,

[scintilla]

As you probably know there are 2 Milton's in Kent. Milton-next-Sittingbourne and Milton-next-Gravesend. I have transcripts for baptisms 1782-1845 at Milton-n-S but can't see any HOOK baptisms there. The registers for Milton-n-G are online at Medway Ancestors on CityArk
http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/query/results/?Mode=Search&PathList=%2FZ4a_Medway_Ancestors%2F%0A&SearchWords=&DateList=

You can search through for a baptism which at that time would be at St. Peter 7 St. Paul's

[bearkat]

Whitstable parish records are gradually being put online. 

http://oystertown.net/famhist/parish.html

You will have to be patient as they haven't got as far as H yet.

[WHITSTABLE]

hi yesthank you for replying , i will have alook at cityark, very confusing to have two miltons:)

[Zacktyr]

Hello and Happy New Year!

There are 3 Miltons in Kent.  The Milton missing from the earlier posts of that of Milton-juxta-Canterbury.

If you look at the schedule of parishes and the maps at
http://www.kent-opc.org/maps.html
you will see that Milton near Canterbury is numbered M8 and is positioned with
Harbledown (H6) to the north
Chartham (C14) to the west
Thanington (T4) to the east
Hackington (H1) to the south.

Milton-next-Sittingbourne is modernly referred to as Milton Regis to help distinguish it quickly from the other two parishes of similar name.


Milton near Canterbury is not too far from Whitstable so it might be that this is the Milton to which your fellow referred.

[WHITSTABLE]

hi ooh, thank you zacktyr, well i did not know that i knew there possibly was two miltons  but did not know there was one so close by, i had a look at the mapsso its inbetreen chartham and petham villages ,thank you

[WHITSTABLE]

hmmm bit confused now just found william on 1871 census saying hes born wateringbury , wheres that ? can any one look it up for me please thankyou liz;

[bearkat]

Wateringbury is about 6 miles west of Maidstone.

[scintilla]

Thanks Zacktyr, I hadn't heard of the Milton near Canterbury, something new I've learnt today.