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Archdeacon Records c.1566 -
1730
Hastingleigh 'Parish
Records' date
from c.1730 to
c.1930. The earlier
Parish Records
have
been
missing for
nearly 200
years. These original
books are
the
Holy
Grail of Hastingleigh records,
and
perchance you find them
stowed
away in your inherited
book collection,
Canterbury Cathedral
Archives would
dearly like to get them
back.
As it
is, without
these books
we can only get a snapshot of the records
before then, from
examining the
individual sheets of
paper sent once a
year to the
Archdeacon
at Canterbury and
which are supposed to
be a thorough account
of BMDs for the
year. I am fairly
confident that for
the
most part a
high
percentage of events
were recorded, but as
some are duplicated
in two
consecutive
years records, and some
years are
missing, it will never
give the
whole picture.
The Calendar was
based on the Julian
Calendar,
which
made March the start of the year until
1752.
The Archdeacon returns
were sent
every Michaelmas to Canterbury
Cathedral.
If you
are
researching a
family or individual
after c.1730,
then please goto
the
'Parish Records'
pages
by clicking the
right panel
button marked
'Parish
Records'.
Please allow time for the pages to appear,
some of the
files are very large and will
take a few
seconds.