Thank you Ann and Andy for your help and advice on the general parish record keeping during that period. You have both described the problem well. However, I understand that some parishes continued to maintain the registers during the period in question, presumably being more traditional Anglicans, and others copied the facts back into the registers afterwards. I was being lazy in trying to avoid systematically going through each of the seven parish registers to see what happened in Thanet, in the hope that others might already have encountered that problem for one or more of those seven parishes. Roger Young ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Young To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 7:21 PM Subject: Continuity of Thanet Parish Registers Can anyone advise as to whether there any notable gaps in the Parish Registers caused by the 17C Civil War and more importantly the subsequent Commonwealth, or was there a basic continuity during the period 1642 to 1660? I am writing up my family history at the moment and as background want to assess the extent to which the records reflect the impact of the puritan movement in Thanet. My impression is that there are no notable gaps, or obvious insertions of the missing years after the Restoration. But I do not have copies of all 7 parishes to hand. certainly Lewis writing in the 1720/30s does not make much of an issue of war and Commonwealt affecting Thanet. Many thanks. Roger Young