The findmypast.co.uk blog tells of new records recently added to the site: 277,834 new Thames and Medway parish baptism records on the site for the period 1721 to 1970.
These baptisms are transcriptions, not indexes, and include, among others, such key London historical periphery parishes as those in Brentford, Deptford, Ealing, Greenwich and Rotherhithe. As well as the Thames-side parishes, the coverage extends down the estuary and the north Kent coast to the Medway towns. This release of records represents the first part of a collection licensed from local specialist Rob Cottrell.
These baptisms are transcriptions, not indexes, and include, among others, such key London historical periphery parishes as those in Brentford, Deptford, Ealing, Greenwich and Rotherhithe. As well as the Thames-side parishes, the coverage extends down the estuary and the north Kent coast to the Medway towns. This release of records represents the first part of a collection licensed from local specialist Rob Cottrell.
findmypast.co.uk also plans to publish burial records in August and marriage records soon after. In due course, occupational records of Thames watermen and lightermen will also go online at findmypast.co.uk
You can search the parish baptisms for your Thames and Medway ancestors at http://www.findmypast.co.uk/parish-records-collection-search-start.action?redef=0&event=B
