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National Burial Index (Woolwich & District FHS)

• Transcription and conventions used
• Coverage
• Checking
• Grouping
• Abbreviations and codes
• Contact details
• How to buy
• Copyright

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Transcription and conventions used

The transcription consists of 3,772 entries from Woolwich from the period before 1837.

The index includes the following fields - there may be more information in the original record:-

• Forenames.
• Surname (in CAPITALS).
• Date (separate fields for day, month and year)
• Age at death (inf indicates an infant, generally under one year of age).
• Place - sometimes called the 'parish'.
• Description - usually the dedication of the church - but it may be the address of a non-conformist register or a cemetery.
• Denomination - the denomination when the records were registered - not always a valid assumption.
• County - Chapman code relating to place.

Note: where there is parish such as 'Anytown St Martin' (where the St Martin appears to be part of the placename) we also enter the Description (dedication) as 'St Martin'.

Coverage

The following places or parishes are included in this database. Note that there may be more than one church, chapel or burial ground in each place.

Checking

All entries remain to be checked.

Grouping

There are no record groups in this database.

Abbreviations and Codes

The Chapman County codes have been used. 'KEN' is the code for Kent.

Contact details

For more information about the Woolwich & District Family History Society please contact them using the address on the members' pages on the web site www.ffhs.org.uk of the Federation of Family History Societies.

How to buy

Please write to the society as above for details of publications. It would be wise to include a A5 stamped self-addressed envelope.

The second edition of the National Burial Index with 13.2 million burials and a flexible search program is available in a package of four CD-ROMS from many family history societies and GENfair, the online bookshop of the Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd.

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Woolwich & District Family History Society.

While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the originals of the appropriate registers (or facsimiles thereof, e.g. microfilm) and to form their own interpretation. The Woolwich & District Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the registers.)

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