My transcript for this volume of burial records is being prepared for publication at Kent Online Parish Clerks in due course.
The parish includes Brasted,Brasted Chart Toy's Hill and some entries from Emetts which at the time was farmed.
The record begins with impeccable clarity during the period of Reverend John Gibbons as Rector. There is an example of Bishop's Transcript collection in the form of two entries on a cut sheet of transcript. There are omissions in some years which are picked up by the process of return to the Rochester registry.
However in 1822 Reverend Jones arrives as curate. Reverend Jones had become familiar to me in the Sundridge burial register. His particular talent apart from faint and blotted entries is misspelling surnames of the prominent members of the parish and demonstrating his familiarity with parts of the district. His "Goaters Common" for Goathurst Common in both the Ide Hill and Sundridge registers illustrates his approach to surnames. I had therefore to examine Monumental Inscriptions to make sense of many of his burial entries. Some of his entries can only be replicated as they appear but are unlikely spellings. His last entry is in 1833 when order returns to record keeping in the register.
Exhumation of human remains in consecrated ground is rare and requires a Bishop's faculty. In the case at Sundridge authority was obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury. The child had died in Italy and was buried in January 1832 some months after the death at Florence before 17 November 1831. On application by the deceased's brother Captain E H Turton the Archbishop of Canterbury acceded to the request and on 27 January 1853 the Archbishop's agent authorised and supervised the exhumation of Robert's remains for the purpose of reinterment by the Rector of Kildale Yorkshire. The Turton family home was Upsall Castle.
From 1844 it became practice to record the date of death in marginal entry although in the 1850's this ceases near the end of the register. All local deaths with rare exceptions contain this information and only those deaths outside the parish in hospitals or Bromley Union workhouse prevent such detailed record.
There are a number of Coroner's order burials and unknown travellers. The large number of cholera deaths in the parish in the 1854/5 are in contrast to neighbouring Sundridge which records the absence of cholera. The outbreak could be an outlying cluster from the Broad Street oubreak in London.
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