Hello Kate, sorry I cannot help with your Cunninghams directly but I too am interested in the Independent religious institutions in Ramsgate. I am going to check my files but we got some looked up and a possible relative married at Ebenezer c 1840, but the records for Ebenezer were patchy and for others non-existant. Two thing occurred to me about sources. First, if the chapel or circuit records were poor, perhaps someone (LDS?) did a paid general.search at the registry ie the local registrar of BMDs. This is not comonly done and but was recently shown on an edition of 'Heir Hunters' on BBC1. That way they might pick up on all the Independent BMDs registered after 1837. It does seem to be a good way of getting lots of info within a registry catchment area but it seems to be charged by ones time in the registry so may be rather stressful. .So perhaps the key starter question is what were the dates of the entries you found? Second, is it possible that a register is in private hands? I recently found someone with a Cof E private register kept because their remote chapelries near Gloucester kept switching between 2 or 3 main parishes. Incidentally, I believe that Kent Registry Service has an online marriage index but only a few births and deaths indexed. A few months back I asked Kent registry service if the file prefix letter on the marriage index corresponded to the place eg C for Canterbury and they said no....... Perhaps someone knows how to read the file refs to narrow the search field.?? Dick Fowler ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:00 AM Subject: ISLE-OF-THANET Digest, Vol 4, Issue 159 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. LDS member submitted information and Life Boats and Ebenezer > Independant Ramsgate (Kate Cunningham) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:39:52 +1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) > From: "Kate Cunningham" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Isle-of-Thanet] LDS member submitted information and Life > Boats and Ebenezer Independant Ramsgate > To: "Thanet List" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello everyone, > > I was wondering if someone knows the answer to these three questions? > > 1. I was searching the IGI for various branches of the families who > married > into my Thanet Wellard's and came across a lot of LDS member submitted > entries for christenings and marriages (yes, I do know to take this > information very carefully). > > Scattered amongst these entries were some actual extracted entries which > did > help to tie in some of the member submitted ones. > > Does anyone know where THEY got their information from? Did they take it > from original registers? > > 2. Does anyone know when the Life Boat service started in Thanet? > > This is just a long shot but I'm unable to find a christening for a > William > Wellard in Thanet in approx 1684 and had the thought that he may have been > born elsewhere in the County and moved to Thanet to either work the Life > Boat or something else in the nautical trade. > > 3. Would there be any original registers available for the Ebenezer > Independant at Ramsgate? I have 3 of my Tompson line being christened > here. > Lewes (Lewis) 1713 > George 1711 > Mary 1709 > > I'm currently interested in the following Thanet families:- > > Wellard - anywhere in Thanet > > Fox - St Lawrence > > Tomson/Thomson/Thompson/Tompson (and other spellings) - Ramsgate > > Spencer - St Lawrence > > Cheers, > Kate Cunningham > Wellington NZ > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ISLE-OF-THANET list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the ISLE-OF-THANET mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ISLE-OF-THANET Digest, Vol 4, Issue 159 > ********************************************** >