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Last update 29 Sep 2011
Removed BDM indexes these are now contained in the Static Database, also removed my own index in favour of freefind.com. Also removed the Durham census project which is also contained within the static database.

 2 Sept 2009 tweaked the marriage index navigation which missed out a complete pane of records, several sets of records added, to various sections including  several actual birth records from certificates and also a few more parish records.

17 Jul 2009

Added new frame to take "other records" to introduce Land owners 1873.

 7 JUL 2009
Discovered a missing entry in the marriage index for 1986 3Q. I am trying to link census entries to Birth, Marriage and Death records hope to have the first proof up soon.

11 June 2009 Added more marriage details from the Goons marriage Index; Ann F 3rd quarter of 1839, Eliza 3rd Quarter 1842. William James 4th quarter 1843, William Goldstone 3 quarter 1844,  John 3rd q of 1849, Thomas Featherstone 3rd quarter of 1852, Martha Featherstone q.2 1853, William q 4 1868

11 May 2009 Added details of marriages in the Kings Norton district, see Frances Gertrude Featherstone 25 Oct 1909,
Catherine Featherston 1 Jan 1854, Charlotte Fetherston 4 Jan 1891, Vincent Albert Featherstone 8th Apr 1894.
also Richard Umdon Featherstone Dec 1873, and Timothy Featherstonhaugh Oct 1838 in the county of Devon

Also marriages which took place in Lincolnshire in various Parishes

17 Apr 2009
Added extracts from the London Gazette 1778 -1901, Records from the India Office, Burial records from St Mary's, Chatham Kent

Added Parish Baptisms for Hastingleigh in Kent, and the marriage of the parents in Wye Parish of all the children in Hastingleigh

Added a page visitor counter, to keep track to see if it is worth maintaining this page

24 Feb 2009 Added Cornish Baptisms and Marriages and Burials also Non Conformist baptisms

Added a couple of marriages from the GOONS marriage challenge.
Added Family Group Sheet for Joseph (1817-1886) b. Cork, Ireland & Joseph (1878- born East Retford) & Thomas Featherstone cir 1760. Henry cir 1740 Middlesex
Added various Census extracts from 1851, 1871 1891 and 1901
Added only our second Military Record for the Royal Marines

Added various Baptism records both to the birth registration pages and the the individual parish records

20 Feb 2009
Added Marriages 1912-1920 now with spouses surname
added Births 1911 to 1920
Anyone notice a upgrade of the software now using MS WEB Expression

26th June 2008

Added Marriages 1925-1983 & Deaths 1916-1983 for surnames beginning Feth*

23 June 2008. Added parish baptisms, Marriages, burials/wills from Devon

22 June 2008 New Births Fetherston etc now available up to 1940 available thro' on line index.
Added Marriages & Births from Kent.:- St Mary the Virgin, Dock Road , Chatham. St Margaret of Antioch , Rochester. Higham with Merston, St. Mary's Church, Church Street , Lower Higham. St Mary the Virgin Parish Church , Burham- Kent marriage registers. St Mary's Higham. St Mary the Virgin parish church Burham- Kent baptisms register

21 June 2008. Added marriage index from 1913-1924 for all marriages with surnames beginning Fe* provided by Howard Eastcott. up to 1940 available thro' on line index.

20 June 2008 Added births indexes for all surnames beginning Fet* 1911-1984 provided by Howard Eastcott.

These are not yet available in the name search archive mentioned below. Coming soon Marriages for the same names and the same period.

15 June 2008. Added a link to my Guild of One Named Study marriage archive, so you can now search by name, this includes the spouse. Added a link from the marriage navigation page. Also added to marriages the detail from the Featherstones recorded in the Guild marriage index which contains brides name and  date of marriage and brief place detail.

12th June 2008 Added link to my Guild of One Named Study Deaths archive so it is now possible to search births and deaths by name. Added link from death navigation page.

10th June 2008
My GOONS archive for births now on line and link added to Birth navigation screen.

4th June 2008 Added  7 marriages from Bristol thanks to a GOONS marriage challenge all with images of the faux certificate and links to PDF files of the same. from the years 1837,1848,1849, 2x 1856, 1860 and 1864, the names in year order John, John, William, Adelaide, Lousia, Eliza and Mary Ann.

Also discovered that part of the marriage index was missing for Jun 1849 now on site.

Added 4 marriages from Kent.

2nd June 2008 Added this family to birth and death records taken from a family bible with addition by researcher of the index references
Children of Robert Featherstone and Jane Smith
? Featherstone born 14 May 1870 Worcester died 20 May 1870
Emily Jane Featherstone born 27 Jan 1873 Worcester died 26 Oct 1875
Margaret Ellen Featherstone born 22 Jan 1875
Frances Robert Featherstone born 22 Oct 1876 Worcester
Ralph George Featherstone Born Q1 1881 Worcester
Reuben Thomas Featherstone Q1 1886 Worcester he died 27 Aug 1917 WW1
Zillah Edith Featherstone born 1 Oct 1889 Worcester she died 26 May 1976
Leonard James Featherstone born 1 June 1895 Worcester

26 May 2008 Added Old Bailey Trials, various odd census entries, a new leases section index, a new family group sheet,[Dec. of Christopher]

24th May 2008 Added Baptisms and burials, grave markers for Chiswick Middlesex

18th May 2008 Added Boyd's marriage indexes for Middlesex, Cumberland, Hampshire, Herfordshire, Huntingdon and one for all the Fetherstonhaughs (and variants) collected so far. See the navigation bar, also corrected an error when navigating to the indexes.

16th May 2008 Three Census entries for Wilks Wm. Featherstonhaugh 1851, 1861, 1871

4th May 2008 Marriage of Elizabeth in Rochester, Kent 1854 added, also parish extracts from Essex transcribed by Iris Woodall, reconfigured information we already had to make it all available on one page, and re-jigged navigation, please report any problems. Added page up dated to lots of pages as a means of informing you when the page was last changed- suggest you ignore this date for today as all I added was the date.
Added poor Law records for Frant Parish in Kent
Added four baptisms for Middlesex
Added a Census entry for 1871 Royden Essex
Added a Census entry for 1841 Southwark Surrey
Added a London Directory entry from 1846. This and the above Census are linked.

2nd May 2008 Added new transcription from parish register of a marriage at St Albans in 1907 from the Goons marriage challenge.

23 March 2008. Added years 1912 to 1915 to the death indexes.

21 Feb 2008 Updated Southern Counties Project file now on site
15 Feb 2008 Repair a couple of broken links in the will section of the site

14 Jan 2008 New Family Group sheet for Thomas Featherstone born before 8 Sept 1833 Brenchley Kent this ties in with the previous sheet as he is the father of Robert Marshall Featherstone (see below) I have made some changes to the layout of the pages to make certain lines easier to read

2nd Jan 2008 Two entries from St Nicholas  Strood  Kent burial register

28 Dec 2007 Last act of the old year added Family group sheet for Robert Marshall Featherstone born (1859-)Horsmonden, Kent. Son of Thomas Featherstone
24 Dec 2007
Found an error in 1907 Marriage index added 4 missed from the index in June. Added details from three certificates two marriages one from Kent in 1907 one from Essex in 1910, and a related birth in Kent in June 1886. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas

7 Dec 2007 Added four marriages from Wiveliscombe Parish from the Civil Registration district of Wellington Somerset dates 1843 1st Quarter, 1863 3rd Quarter, 1866 1st Quarter, 1870 4th Quarter

14 Nov 2007 Started on producing Family group sheets. The aim is to link (starting with the marriage indexes) information to all the UK census from 1841 to 1901. Added so far a total of 39 names to the new database. Have produced two family group sheets they are all the descendants of Martin Featherstone b. cir 1809-cir 1879, who appears on the first extraction  of the marriage indexes in Sep. 1837. He had 14 children so it has taken some time. I will ignore all the indexes where we have information from actual certificates as I suspect someone is researching that name already and those that are in the Southern Counties project (Kent, London, Surrey, Sussex, Essex)

8 Oct 2007 Two more Kent baptisms added
11 Sep 2007 More Kent parish records added

10 Sep 2007
20 new pages of birth indexes from 1906-1910 and more parish records for Kent

09 Sep 2007
Major over haul of UK Birth Marriages and Death indexes. It has taken me two days and many hours. Mainly typos found but three errors which I have highlighted on the pages as corrections. with over 16,000 entries, I was able to view the entries in all sorts of order, to find all (hopefully) the anomalies. Below is a list of all the pages where some change was made, even if it was a change of name of place by substituting a m for an n. at the end of a place.

5 Sept 2007 Lots of Kent records added to both Baptisms, Marriages & Burials. New South Eastern Counties update loaded

1 Sep 2007 Completed change of navigation on Birth and Marriage Index (Civil) to allow access directly to quarters rather than stepping through the year quarter by quarter.

31 Aug 2007 Added records from various parishes, Co. Durham , Yorkshire

30 Aug 2007 Started on a Navigation change to allow direct access to quarters ie Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec on the death index pages. Completed

29 Aug 2007 A marriage and two offspring added one of which does not appear in the indexes.

23 August 2007 New update of the South Eastern Counties project (previously Kent) version 31 now with 5133 individuals and 1302 marriages

15 Aug 2007 Calendar of patent rolls added to (The volume Henry VI 1446-1452 was missing now supplied)

10 Aug 2007 Two Early marriage records from the Marylebone Registration district added
Sep 1837 and June 1839
18 July 2007, Started changes to navigation of Birth indexes 1837-1850 you can now jump to the exact quarter from the navigation side bar. Corrected miss link on site contents link.

10 July 2007 As below only 1905, Changed navigation 1891-1905 to give access directly through quarters as well as of stepping through.

9 July 2007 Added Birth registration England & Wales 1901-1904

8 July 2007 New Kent database up load, now with a considerable amount of Essex information

20th June 2007 Added 6 Marriage records from Hartlepool St. Hilda's both to parish and GRO birth indexes

7th June 2007 Added quite a few parish marriage records for Nottinghamshire

17 May 2007 Added 4 birth certificate records, one death and one marriage record to our indexes all in Kent

3rd Apr 2007, details of 2 marriages and two births from Co. Durham added.

27 Mar 2007 New version of the KENT project loaded.

26 Mar 2007, added 4 new marriage details to the index all from Whitechapel in the late 1880-90's.
Linked Marriages and one death from Nova Scotia back to the birth index's.  See section on Canada>Nova Scotia>Halifax

24 Mar 2007 Added a Indenture translation of William Robinson to Edward Featherstonhaugh of Deptford Co. Durham

23 Mar 2007 Added Records from Snaith Parish Records Baptisms, Burials and Marriages

21 Mar 2007 A Featherstone extraction from Pallots Marriage index

25 Feb 2007 First 6 parish pages added- a new project to capture information on UK parishes and to link together the information on site on single pages.

14 Jan 2007 Added the Final part Parish from The IGI Durham -Stanhope Marriages

10 Jan 2007
Scottish Parishes page added from I.G.I. also Irish Parishes and index added

8 Jan 2007

Parish index added for Fe(a)therston(e)haugh's from the IGI

07 Jan 2006

IGI Parish Index now on site and all links made

29 Dec 2006

Redesigned I.G.I. Pages to give it a frame page of it's own- still under construction but all counties for Featherstone in England and Wales now on site plus a county index, Parish index will take a little longer as some 1,000 links to be made, but it is progressing slowly.

19 Oct 2006 More Parish extractions from IGI see index page

15 Oct 2006 More Parish extractions from IGI see index page

10 Sep 2006

Added 5 more county extractions from the IGI see index page

31 Aug 2006

Added IGI extraction for Cumberland see the index page
27 Aug 2006 added 11 pages of extractions of Featherstones from the IGI for the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Dorset, Durham, Greater London, Hampshire, Sussex together with a new index page

27 Aug 2006

New combined 1851 and 61 census of Durham

8 Aug 2006 Added marriage cert details 1900 Alice Maud  and three marriages for Thomas Walker one in 1852, 1861, 1879

26 Feb 2005, Two Baptisms at Brompton in Kent. Marriages in St Peters, Parish Church Irthlingborough in the County of Northamptonshire on the following dates all with the Featherstonhaugh surname; 4th Aug 1859, 1 Jun 1852, 2 Aug 1855, 13 Sept 1866, 13 Oct 1873, 30 Dec. 1884, 5th July 1886, 18th April 1892, 1st July 1895 see the marriage index

24 Feb 2006 Marriage of Stephen added to indexes

22 Feb 2006 Two Baptisms at Rainham- Kent added

19 Feb 2006 Updated the Kent project file

22 Dec. 2005. Added two marriages one in 1877 and one in 1887

4 Dec 2005. Added Society Project The transcription of the 1861 census of Durham

19 Nov 2005 Added two marriages to the civil list details for 1867 and 1902 from the GOONS marriage challenge in Bromley Parish

16 Nov 2005; Cleaned up part of the back of book index, added a marriage to the Middlesex index

16 Oct 2005. Added bits and pieces of information from the Featherstone List, Halstead baptisms,  Middlesex 1871 census, Kent stray in Gloucestershire in 1901 census. Tithe records of Kent

15 Oct. 2005 Added further years to the England & Wales Marriage indexes 1904-1911

9 October 2005 Added marriages (7) taken from British Record Society Publication of 1930 for Nottinghamshire Licences. see parish marriages for Nottinghamshire for details

30 Sep 2005 Added Marriage indexes from 1887-1903

14 September 2005 Added marriage from St Mary Parish Church Hemel Hempstead for a George Featherstone and Sarah Chandler which took place in 1859

24 Aug 2005 Added marriages from the parishes of Kirkhaugh and Knarsdale found on GenUKI

5 July 2005 Parish records of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials added

3 July 2005 Added extract from 1851 census of Gloucestershire

15 May 2005 Added 1861 census of Worcestershire

5 May 2005 Added 1861 of Lancashire available

5 April 2005 Census of 1861 Counties of Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, Essex or see what is available for this year

31 March 2005 Page of Parish of Eythorne, Kent updated with birth dates

11 March 2005 Added Baptisms - Halstead - St Andrew's, Essex

24 Feb 2005 New Kent project file added

15 Jan 2005 Added Death indexes for years 1905-1911

29 Sept 2004 Death Index of England and Wales 1984-1992, useful as dates of birth given.

6 July East Yorkshire 1861 Census Humber to the Tees

28 June 2004 New version of the Kent Database uploaded now contains lots of entries from Surrey.

8th June 2004 Added deaths from Yorkshire Newspapers cir 1900

1st June 2004 Added index to the Times Newspaper

28 May 2004 Added details of 4 marriages in Weardale, Durham

27 May 2004 Added details of three births and one death certificate.

6 May 2004 Added Birth Registrations for England and Wales first two quarters of 1900

12 March 2004. Added a small snippet of information re the 1851 census in Islington London of a Thomas who lived in Lincolnshire.

6th March 2004 Added 1851 Census entries for Blean,  St Dustan, St Stephen in Kent . Parish births for Eythorne, and small entries for Sussex(1841) and Surrey 1891, and 1841 in Sheerness Kent.

28 February 2004 added Marriage records from Egglescliffe. Co. Durham

31 Jan 2004 Added more Birth and Marriage details from Certificates

27 January 2004 Added marriage details and Death details from information from Certificates

26 Jan 2004 Added more Transcriptions from Volumes of Surtees Society

22 Jan. 2004 More Patent rolls added from the reigns of Henry III, Edward I, II and III

4th December 2003 More Parish records from Kent added to Births, Marriages and Burials

3rd December 2003 New version of our Kent project loaded

28 November 2003 Transcriptions from Volumes of the Surtees Society new will of John from Ulcomb  in Kent 1707

21 November 2003 More Patent rolls added

9 November 2003 Added one more will from Kent from 1746

29 October 2003 Added two wills from Kent- two Richard Featherstone's 1732 and 1762

27/October 2003 Added to patent rolls added index of Kings and Queens

24 October 2003 Added to the Calendar of Patent Rolls, and A will of seaman James Bradley Featherstone 1809

15 October 2003

Volumes entitled 'Calendar of Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office' transcribed by one of our members

14 October 2003 Added four more wills from the PCC plus a will naming a Featherstone as a beneficiary

8 September 2003 Added two more wills from the PCC

4 September 2003 Added 6 Wills to the site from the Prerogative Court at Canterbury

28 July  2003 Added details of 6 BDM certificates one in Auckland County Durham (Crook) and the others London and Middlesex

 14 July 2003 Added two wills from the Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury Thomas 1833 & Robert 1836

5th July 2003 Added extracts from the 1851 & 1861 census of Selby extracted by member number 4.

1st May 2003 A new version of the Java program used to format the pages for the Kent Project uploaded.

22 April 2003.  Parish births for Smarden parish Kent added to site, new version of the Kent Project added now with some 2750 records, of which 741 are marriages.

10th April 2003. Added death certificate details for the wife of the person below- and Birth Certificate details of a daughter who died shortly afterwards

14 March 2003 added Death indexes, for the years 1902-1904, added marriage certificate details for Wilson Featherstone

13 March 2003. Added Marriage index years 1896 and 1897

12 March 2003 Added Death indexes England and Wales 1896- 1901, Also UK marriage Index from 1888-1895

7 March 2003 Added 5 years of death indexes 1891-1895 more to follow. Added registered births in the England and Wales for 1900

16 Feb 2003 Updated Kent Project now has 2704 individuals and 727 marriages

2nd Feb 2003 Added two probate accounts from the 1600's in Kent Henry 1606 and Thomas 1616/7

17 Jan 2003 Added 1851 census extracts for Devonshire, Norfolk, Warwickshire

15 Jan 2003 Updated Kent Project to version 19, now has 2681 individuals and 720 marriages..
                       Full 1891 census transcription of Yorkshire now available on site.

8 Jan 2003 Updated the Kent project to version 18, added a link to our new search facility for this project and other trees

26th Dec. 2002.Added a map plot of UK births between 1837 and 1900.

19th Dec. Added birth certificate details of my Great grandfathers brother after contact with his Great Grand daughter.

13th Dec 2002 Updated Kent project file

6th Dec. 2002 Updated Kent project file

29 November 2002 Add various Birth and Death Certificate information sent in by members

24 November 2002 added two probate accounts to the Will section from the court at Canterbury one from 1606 and the other from 1617/8

14 Nov. 2002. New edition of the Kent Featherstone project loaded version 14

12 Nov 2002.  New full transcript of Will of Albany Featherstonhaugh of Lancs. 1871 added also a document obtained via member Margaret Clough researching the Featherstonhaugh- Parkinson link written in 1856 by a Thomas Parkinson which explores not only that link but traces the links between The Castle Featherstonhaugh's and the Stanhope and other Featherstonhaugh branches. My thanks to Lynn Hill for transcribing the handwritten document.

10 Nov. 2002 New page created for the UK section of our records, to record changes to this part of the site. Separated Full contents index into separate alphabetical pages for quicker loading.