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2. Principal Libraries with Family History resources
Sheerness Library
Russell Street
Sheerness
Sheppey
Kent
ME12 1PL
Tel: 01795 662618
Fax: 01795 583035
Email:
Contact: Lois Pratt
Opening hours:
Monday: 0930-1800
Tuesday: 0930-1800
Wednesday: closed
Thursday: 0930-1900
Friday: 0930-1800
Saturday: 0930-1600
Other Libraries:
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3. Research Service
Service available?
Yes
Fee-based?
Yes (first 30 minutes free then charges apply)
Provided by local Record Office?
Yes
Contact: Centre for Kentish Studies, Sessions House, County Hall, Maidstone, ME14 1XQ Tel: 01622-694363
4. Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registrar General's Indexes from 1837 (microform), or Registrar General for Scotland's Computerised Index from 1855.
Locations
None
5. Census returns
1841 - 1891 Minster-in-Sheppey, Queenborough, Sheerness, Eastchurch, Warden, Leysdown, Harty, Elmley
1881 Census Name Index Kent (microfilm)
6. Directories
6(a) County and Regional Directories
Kent 1799-1938
6(b) City and Town Directories
Local directories: 1901, 1904/5, 1915, 1922, 1936, 1938, 1953, 1954, 1962, 1964, 1966
6(c) Telephone Directories
Current edition only
7. Electoral registers and polls books
7(a) Electoral Registers
1970 to date
7(b) Poll Books
Photocopies of early Kent Poll books dated 1734, 1754, 1790, 1852, 1857, 1863, 1865, 1868
8. International Genealogical Index (IGI)
None
9. Unpublished Indexes
Comprehensive index to 2 local newspapers 1988 to date,
Partial index from start of Sheerness Guardian (1858) and Sheerness Times (1868) (now Sheerness Times Guardian (Sept 1939 to date)
Index to Sheppey Cemetary records Vol 1 12 April 1857 to 26 September 1869
10. Parish Registers
Microfilm copies of parish registers:
Minister-in-Sheppey
Holy Trinity, Sheerness
St Paul's, Sheerness
Holy Trinity, Queenborough
Eastchurch
Harty
Leysdown
Elmley, St James
11. Periodicals (excl. newspapers)
Bygone Kent
12. Published Transcripts of Archival Material
No
13. Other material
14. Guides to Collections
Guide to Local Studies Collection.
15. Local Record Offices
Centre for Kentish Studies
Sessions House
County Hall
Maidstone
Kent
ME14 1XQ
Tel: 01622 694363
Fax: 01622 694379
Email:[email protected]
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