COLIN
PENNEY
MINSTER SHEERNESS
ME12 3SQ
(01795) 87 2788
NOTES RE THE COLLECTION OF VARIOUS DATA .
CEMETARY RECORDS FROM HALFWAY
,SHEERNESS,
BOOKS OF DEATH
BOOK ONE APRI L 1857 TO SEPTEMBER 1869
BOOK
BOOK
BOOK
THERE ARE TWO SETS OF THESE RECORDS. I HAD
ACCESS TO THE BEST SET EXCEPT FOR BOOK THREE. HENCE DATES MAY NOT RUN
CORRECTLY.
THESE BOOKS WERE KEPT IN THE POTTING SHED
AT THE CEMETARY IN A VERY DIRTY DESK. THESE MAY BE HELD BY THE
THIS DATA WAS COPIED FROM THE ORIGINAL
BOOKS.THE DEPTH OF GRAVE, LOCATION ETC WAS NOT NOTED.
PLEASE CHECK THE ORIGINALS FOR ANY ERRORS.
ETC,.
PLEASE CHECK ANY DATA USED.IT HAS NOT BEEN
CHECKED AND WAS COMPILED FOR USE BY COLIN PENNEY.
COLUMN ONE;-IS THE NAME OF THE PERSON (F) DENOTES FEMALE (M) DENOTES MALE.
.COLUMN TWO;- IS
THE AGE OF THE PERSON.(O) DENOTES AGED ONE YEAR OR UNDER.
COLUMN THREE;- IS THE
ADDRESS.
COLUMN FOUR ;- IS THE
OCCUPATION ,WHERE KNOWN.
COLUMN FIVE;- IS THE DATE WHEN BURIED.
IN ALL OF THESE RECORDS I TRY TO USE;-
S/N =SHEERNESS
Q/B =QUEENBOROUGH
E/C =EASTCHURCH.
B/T =BLUETOWN
CHAPMAN CODES ARE USED MOST TIMES.
SOME RECORDS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO READ .
AROUND THE 1910 DEATHS I NOTED A FEW
ADDRESSES WERE GIVEN AS "CLIFF HOUSE" THIS IS THE TIME THE TOWN WAS
TRYING TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE WORKHOUSE.
I NOTED SOME PAGES WERE MISSING E.G. AUG 1896
TO APRIL 1904 ;SEPT 1895 TO JAN 1896 SEP AND OCT 1909.
IN MY RECORD OF BIRTHS THE EARLY BIRTHS
ONLY GAVE THE FATHERS NAME ONLY.SOME LATER RECORDS GAVE BOTH PARENTS,
O DENOTES STILL BORN, T DENOTES TWINS B
DENOTES BAPTISMS
WHILE SEARCHING FOR MY FAMILY IN THE LOCAL
(SHEERNESS) LIBRARY I NOTED THEY HAD TWO SETS OF HARD COPIES (SHEERNESS TIMES
AND THE SHEERNESS GUARDIANS) BUT NOT THE COMPLETE SETS. AT ONE STAGE THESE
BOOKS WERE SENT TO SITTINGBOURNE LIBRARY ,THEN THEY
WEE RETUNED . AFTER A WHILE THE COMPLETE SETS OF THE NEWSPAPER WERE ON MICRO
FILM, THE ODD HARD COPIES WERE THEN GIVEN TO THE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY.
I EXTRACTED THE B,D,M,
FROM ALL THE VARIOUS HARD COPIES OF THE
PAPERS.
ISLE OF SHEPPEY
CENSUS 1851. HO 107
1628.
PAGES 5 TO 27 ARE QUEENBOROUGH.
PAGES 32 TO 53,58 TO 75, 80 TO 98, 102 TO
122, 127 TO 145,150 TO 167 ,171 TO 186, 191 TO 212,216 TO 233 ,238 TO 257(VERY DIFFICULT TO READ)
261 TO 272 ARE SHEERNESS.
PAGES
273 TO 278 ARE NAVAL TERRACE.
PAGES
300 TO 310 ,315 TO 336,(323 TO 327
ARE MINSTER WORKHOUSER) ARE MINSTER.
PAGES
348 TO 350 ARE EASTCHURCH.
PAGES
341 TO 344 ARE ELMLEY.
PAGES
357 TO 382 ARE EASTCHURCH.
PAGES
387 TO 388 ARE WARDEN.
PAGES
389 TO 396 ARE LEYSDOWN
WHEN I STARTED THIS PROJECT I WAS GOING TO
COPY THE WHOLE CENSUS BUT THAT WOULD TAKE A
I ONLY COPIED FULL NAMES, AGE, CENSUS PAGE
NUMBER AND BIRTHPLACE. NO SHIPS CREWS HAVE BEEN RECORDED.
ISLE OF SHEPPEY CENSUS 1881
RG11/978 REEL 1
RG11/979 REEL1
RG11/980 REEL 1
AND
RG11/980 REEL 2
TRANSCRIBED BY COLIN PENNEY
"COPPERS"
MINSTER SHEERNESS
REEL 1 RG11/978-PAGES 4 TO 22 ARE QUEENBOROUGH
REEL1 RG11/978-PAGES 26 TO 29 ARE MINSTER.
REEL 1 RG11/978-PAGES 40 TO 43 ARE MINSTER UNION WORKHOUSE
REEL1 RG11/978-PAGES 47 TO 62 ARE MINSTER,HALFWAYAND
SCRAPSGATE.
REEL 1 RG11/978-PAGES 66 TO 129 ARE SHEERNESS.
REEL1 RG11/979-PAGES 4 TO 17,21 TO
35,39 TO 55,59 TO 80 (VERY DIFFICULT TO READ)
84 TO 114,118 TO 141 ARE SHEERNESS.
REEL 2 RG11/980-PAGES 4 TO
NOTE;- REEL 1 IS
COMPLETED.ONLY THE FIRST PAGE WAS COPIED ON REEL 2.MAY BE DONE LATER????I
I HOPE THE DATA IS OF USE TO YOU COLIN.