Garrett family lookups

[alison2763]

I am looking for any information { BDM's, parents siblings children etc} on the following family:
James GARRETT b abt 1780 Chatham Kent, married Jemima BRAND . They had a daughter Jemima Mary GARRETT b 1815 Kent. Jemima was my ggg grandmother. She married a John COLLIS and they moved to Australia. Any information would be great.
Alison
Australia

[willow2670]

Hi Alison

Is this your family?


1841 census HO107/487 Folio 35
James Garrett 65                         Shoemaker
Sarah Garrett 55 
Sarah Garrett 30                          Dressmaker
Jemima Garrett 20 
Westcourt St, Chatham, Kent
(all born in county)

Sue

[Eyesee]

Alison

Welcome to Rootschat.

As pointed out on the other board the Medway area PRs are at CityArk website. Some registers have indexes, but a lot do not and it is simply a matter of trawling through the pages one by one. Sometimes the IGI at www.familysearch.org will have one or more of the family you are looking for and from the parish named you can go to CityArk, bearing in mind it is only the Chatham, Rochester area parishes that are there.

Jemima GARRETT is on the IGI as is a sister, both bapt Chatham. There may have been others. Do not forget to check the burial registers either.

The marriage for James and Jemima at St Werburgh, Hoo mentions that James was of the parish of High Halstow. The PRs for HH are on CityArk. Being "of" HH does not necessarily mean he was born there but was living there when he got married. Good place to start looking though.

I have been through a number of the registers myself looking for CONSTABLEs and remember the GARRETT name, so it is from the area.

Ian C