Talk:Guston, Kent Genealogy

New Parish Table
Guston parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Kent Online Parish Clerks has indexes available for select parishes. Records are also available at the Kent Archives.

Burials in the parish churchyard include children from the nearby Duke of York's Royal Military School (a boarding school). The children would have succumbed to childhood illness and disease. Eleven burials are lined up either side of a memorial cross inscribed: "In Loving Memory of Boys of the Duke of York's Royal Military School. Sons of the Brave, may all be gathered, Bravest of all, at last to thee! O Lord, with all thy faithful soldiers, Give us the Palm of Victory!" The last two sentences are taken from the school's hymn. The youngest "Dukie" interred at Guston Church was "Sergeant Monitor P V Barnett, who was 14 years and 6 months when he died on 11th July 1914".