Hello Linda Your wish to get a certificate for the death of Leonard Lamkin for the year 1763 is destined to fail. Ceretificates came in with the start of the registrations in July 1837. Your best chance is to find the parish register of the parish where Leonard was buried.These parish registers record the b.m.d's of the parish where each event occourred. The sad thing about these registers is that some have vanished for one reason or another and some are damaged with parts being unreadable. Other places to look are probate records and family documents if there are any. Probate offices provide free access and the records are very easy to use. If you are not a member of your local family history society you should consider joining as they are a great help in researching family history. Regards, Dennis Bramble. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Lambkin" <lclambkin@shaw.ca> To: <KENT-ENG@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:58 AM Subject: [KENT-ENG] RECORDS > Hi Could some one please tell me were to send for Death record. > I found Leonard Lamkin Bur 9 July 1763 Horsmonden. Would like to send for > it. I keep getting my emails back. I found him on the Family search pilot > when looking up for info for someone else And the cost Thanks Linda > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ______________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by Netintelligence > http://www.netintelligence.com/email > ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email

dennis bramble wrote: > Your best chance is to find the parish register > of the parish where Leonard was buried.These parish registers record the > b.m.d's of the parish where each event occourred. The parish registers have a record of the CMBs for the parish, not the BMDs although some baptism (christening) registers do give the date of birth and some burial registers do give a cause of death but not usually the date of death. The additional information wasn't required by law and is only included at the whim of the incumbent or parish clerk or whoever made up the registers. The registers weren't made up at the time of the event but were done once a week, once a month or even one a quarter or longer. In the interim, the baptisms and burials were noted on scraps of paper or, worse, committed to memory with the result that some events were missed out of the registers altogether. For that reason it's always worth checking the Bishop's Transcripts (BTs)as well because sometimes an event missed from the registers is included in the BTs. -- Charani (UK) (who's currently working in a record office) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk