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Tyler, Frank Watt, Tyler Index to Parish Registers



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  • Title Tyler, Frank Watt, Tyler Index to Parish Registers 
    Source ID S2175 
    Linked to Deborah Beken
    Dinah Beken
    Joseph Beken 

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    • Tyler, Frank Watt, The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies: The Tyler Collection. Tyler Index to Parish Registers. Digitised. ancestry.com. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1901/ : 2010.

      Extractions of baptism, marriage, and burial information from parish registers in East Kent, England are available in this database. The information was compiled by Frank Watt Tyler who recorded genealogical data about families in the East Kent area. Parish records—primarily baptisms, marriages, and burials—provide the best source of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration. These records also include some tombstone inscriptions. The majority of these records come between the years 1538 and 1874, although the full range of records extend from the early 1500s to the late 1900s.

      A series of mandates in the sixteenth century required clergy to compile records of baptisms, marriages, and burials within each parish. As the clergy were also obliged to send an annual copy to