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I had one sideways link who was in Maidstone prison in 1851.  I found him in the Quarter Session records at CKS Maidstone - on microfilm.  However, the first sentence for passing counterfeit half crown would have been completed before the census and the second offence, for stealing cut grass and feeding it to his donkeys, wasn't until after census night, so I'm still none the wiser as to why he was there for the census.

Hi

This is the first time for ages that I've been onto Rootschat - but I came across the thread with a Google search!

I'm scurlockgirl's contact who has been looking at Swanscombe fiche.
I've got two sets - both Kent FHS published.  The 1559-1812 set are Colyer-Fergusson transcriptions, the second set is just 1750-1862 by Rob Cottrell; these are indexed by surname so it was easy to pick out all the BRAZIER/BRASIER entries.

I was looking at Google because you'd asked/commented about how the registers got so damaged.  According to Wickipedia:
"The flint-built parish church of St Peter and Saint Paul, partially Saxon, had a spire on its tower until 1902, when the church was struck by lightning causing extensive damage."
I guess they used lots of water to put out the fire caused by the lightening.   

I also came across a chap recently looking for his gt gt grandma Faith Hope Charity Smith- a romany.
Needless to say I only found her listed as such once.
By the time she was a teenager she was just plain Faith.

I'm doing some indexing at Medway Register Office and found one little girl born in the workhouse who was named Faith Hope.  I guess her unmarried mother thought she'd had enough charity.

In my own family the most unusual surname is CUPHIS

BrendaP

The Register Office at 114 Maidstone Road, Chatham (tel+44 1634 844073)
covers all of the present Medway Council area - which is no longer administered by Kent County Council.  The registration districts include:
Hoo, Strood, Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham, although over the years there have been some changes as to the exact boundaries of the districts.

We (volunteers from Kent FHS) are currently working on indexing onto computer all the birth records.  Hoo was done some time ago, we recently finished Strood to 1941(when the boundaries changed) and have started on Rochester & Chatham.

as far as I know there are no plans to put the indexes on-line as is happening with the Kent register offices, but MALSC (Strood Archives) have recently been given a substantial grant from the heritage lottery fund to digitize all the parish registers they hold (Rochester diocese, so more than just Medway).  These digital images will be put into the CityArk database and be available on-line.  Hopefully it will all get done in the next 18 months.

BrendaP