Hoping to trace records of ancestors who may have lived in Walmer?
The following websites might help your research:

Deal and Walmer Ancestry website (includes random extracts from parish records): http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/deal_kent_ancestry

Kent Genealogy website: http://home.thezone.net/~mrawson/

Kent Family History Society: http://kfhs.org.uk

Kent Family History Research: http://www.kentgen.com/

Births, Marriages and Deaths

Birth, Marriage and Death certificates may be obtained from the local Registrar or from the Office of National Statistics at Southport. Copies cost £7 with an express service at extra cost. The Canterbury Cathedral Archives provide an additional source of information on marriage records (see below).

Church Marriage Registers

Very often, marriage registers are not stored in churches after they are full. Locally, one copy goes to the Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths and the other to the Canterbury Cathedral Archives. The Archives department staff can normally produce a copy of a marriage certificate, if they are provided with the necessary details of date, and names of the couple. There is a charge for a copy certificate (currently £7) and there might be an additional charge for a 'search' fee.

For more details, contact: The Cathedral Archivist, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Cathedral House, The Precincts, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2EH.
( 01227-865330, fax: 01227-865222, e-mail:
website: http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/archives.html

Other sources of information

Family history website: www.genuki.org.uk

Family Records Centre website: www.familyrecords.gov.uk

Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) International Genealogical Index website: www.familysearch.org

Society of Genealogists website: www.sog.org.uk

National Archives website (see catalogues section and also details for county records offices): www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Federation of Family Histories website: www.ffhs.org.uk

General Register Office Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths: www.findmypast.com

General Register Office for England: www.gro.gov.uk

International Genealogical Index: www.familysearch.org

BBC's detailed advice for people searching for family history: www.bbc.co.uk/familyhistory

Genealogy information sources (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Genealogy

Electoral Registers: The British Library has the national collection of electoral registers from 1832 to the present day. The collection is complete from 1947 onwards, but less so before then. Registers are arranged by constituencies and polling districts and there is no alphabetical list of voters. www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/offpubs/electreg/electoral.html

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