According to "West Kent Sources", there are no surviving Bishops Transcripts for East Farleigh between 1670 & 1799. Those BTs that do survive are not held at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives since East Farleigh was not in Canterbury Diocese. East Farleigh was in the Exempt/Peculiar Deanery of Shoreham and in the Diocese of Rochester. BTs 1669-70 & 1799-1812 are held at Lambeth Palace. Later BTs were at the Centre for Kentish Studies, and presumably now at the new Kent History Centre. The parish is not responsible for missing BTs. Very few 18th century BTs for the Shoreham Deanery have survived. Pauline On 19/07/2012 14:34, John wrote: > A DAY line with a similar DNA profile to mine came from this parish. > My understanding regarding this parish is that both the parish records went > missing for a particular period and also the Bishops Transcripts for the > same period as well which to me seemed odd at the time I checked this out, > thus I concluded that those records were not kept properly at that time by > the parish and that what was available was either stolen, destroyed or not > kept at that time. > > John > South Australia > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jill Coles > Sent: Thursday, 19 July 2012 10:02PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [KENT-ENG] EAST FARLEIGH > > Hi all, does anyone know if the "missing/lost" records for East Farleigh > are available in the Bishops/Archbishops records in the Canterbury Cathedral > archives? > Have had a missing whole in my "tree" for the last 20 years or so. > Thanks in anticipation, > Jill Coles