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Recently received burial record of Mark Spice and wife Alice Spice. If anyone plans to visit the cemetery, I would appreciate photograph of their Mark and Alice's mutual grave. Chichester District Council Cemetery Map shows it as Plot 39 - Square 187. Monument described as Stone Mousetrap Kerb with Chips.
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The following appears in the Hawkhurst (Kent) Parish Register for 1828 - and I mention that because what I am asking may not be a common place abbreviation to all Parish Registers everywhere and at all times.

It relates to a marriage - which was by Banns - where the groom is described as OTP Lamberhurst, i.e., marrying in Hawkhurst but whose abode was in Lamberhurst.

The bride however is OTP Hawkhurst Cons

QUESTION: She is living in Hawkhurst but what is the meaning of “Cons”?

The word/abbreviation “Cons” is not a unique entry to her, i.e., thee are a few but not many other examples.

Thanks for any input.

Hello:
 
I have asked the following question of the Kent Family History Society re information on one of its CDs that I purchased - and they cannot provide an answer . . . so let me ask the experts at RootsChat!

“What does the notation ‘Pd.’ mean as it relates to Baptisms?”
 
8894 1788 10:12 Samuel son Samuel & Elizabeth WOODLEY Pd.
9033 1791 09:11 Jane dau Samuel & Elizabeth WOODLEY Pd.

The CD contains transcriptions of Parish Registers from 20 Kent Parishes.

Examples of “Pd.” or “P.” can only be found in two of them - Hawkhurst and Sittingbourne.

Hawkhurst by far exceeds the examples that appear in Sittingbourne.
 
In the Hawkhurst Baptisms there is for example (but not limited to), a block of some 400 baptisms that embrace the years 1783-1794 that include the notation “Pd.”

The notation is not one that defines a “Private Baptism” because that is well defined and in any case none of them have a follow up notation about being “Received into the Church”.

In addition to the “Pd.” notation some have an expanded notation:  ‘BB’, ‘Poor’, ‘Poor BB’, ‘Strangers Poor’, ‘Tax Paid’ . . . and a curious one "Paid by Rev. Mr. Kennedy of Langley’.

I suspect that "Pd" is an abbreviation for "Paid" and that (as presumably with marriages and burials) there was a fee to be paid for having the vicar baptize a child?

But if so, what was so peculiar about Hawkhurst . . . the specific block of years . . . and are there other examples in the Prishes of other Counties?

Thank you for any input as to an explanation and any relevant history.

Just returned from visiting England.

Spent a day walking round Hastings/St. Leonards searching for some two dozen ancestor related addresses/locations and photographing them . . . but ran out of time and got some directions confused . . . with the end result that I missed two.

As I am now 6,000 miles away would some kind Rootschatter please help complete the collection?

I need photos of the following specific addresses and streets . . . :

Number 4 Wellington Terrace - Hastings
. . . on the map it appears to be sandwiched between Queens Road and Stonefield Road . . . but Hastings Council of Listed Buildings lumps it together with Portland Terrace - both part of Portland Place?

8 Highland (or Highlands) Mews - Boscobel Road - St. Leonards
. . . Pike’s Blue Book of Hastings and St Leonards, 1923, describes it as being in St. Leonards at the back of the Highlands Hotel. The same book gives the address of the Highland Hotel as Boscobel Road. Boscobel Road still exists in St Leonards as does Highlands Mews, which is situated between numbers 1 (a hotel at the southern end of Boscobel Road on the corner of West Hill Road) and 2, Boscobel Road.

My thanks for any assistance.

If anyone has access to Canadian Birth Records I would appreciate you looking for the details of the following individuals - both the children of Albert and Alice Ball:

Dolly Alice Florence BALL
born (probably during June-August) 1914
Appleton, Ontario  (perhaps as specific as Ramsey Township, Lanark County).

Albert BALL
born 4th  or 14th March 1921, Toronto, Ontario

Thanks