Documents dated after 1834 can be particularly detailed and useful, often giving details of parents and even grandparents. The Index is comprehensive, including any items relating to settlement where both parishes are given. About a quarter of the parishes in the area have surviving parish collections though few if any are completely comprehensive and several parishes have only a few documents surviving. The list on the attached sheet is of all surviving parish collections for East Kent parishes, all of which are included in the Index. Petty and Quarter Sessions records - these can help to fill in gaps in parish collections and may feature records for parishes which have no collections of documents.
Current coverage is detailed on the attached sheet.
Other Sources - including diaries of Justices of the Peace, Accounts of Overseers of the Poor, Vestry Minutes and various incidental references. Around half of the Index entries come from sources other than parish collections of loose documents. If your ancestors' parish does not appear on the list on the next sheet, it does not mean that there are no settlement documents for them, as there may be some among the Petty and Quarter Sessions papers, Vestry Minutes, etc. The Index contains some 39,000 entries to date and is complete except for items in the Wingham Petty Sessions Minutes 1818 onwards and Upper Scray Petty Sessions Minutes April 1816 onwards. These volumes are being indexed but, due to their size, likely to take some time yet to index in full.