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Thank you all for the help. Found them now.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4926272

Also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2423184

Finally found the headstone for Joseph and wife Mary...not legible so not on lists although on original church grave plots. There are three grass plots next to the stone with no markers. Thank you all for your help.

hi
church is still there lovely church

Thank you very much. I will go along there and see if I can find them. Hopefully they are in marked graves. sonya

Joseph Exall was the Clerk to the Union Workhouse in Tenterden and actually died there after a bad fall and a broken leg. He was instrumental in the case for Tithe change in the area. He had a battle with the Rev Ward minister for St Mildreds (wife was Nelsons Daughter Horatia) The Church won the long, expensive legal battle and Joseph Exall was not popular with the local farmers. His son took over the Clerk job but was accused of fraud andforgery and went to Van Diemens Land. Died in NZ as newspaper editor.!

Wow...that would be so kind. Thank you.

OH is going to Canterbury Cathedral archives on Tuesday, 17th Feb and he will see if he can find anything.

Thank you all but where were they buried? I have checked all the graveyard lists for the area and looked in old burial grounds. I cannot find more than one Baptist graveyard and no lists.

East Kent Burial Index Transcription (Find My Past)

First name(s) ELIZA
Last name(s) EXALL
Age at death 15
Birth year 1809
Birth date 1809
Death year 1824
Burial year 1824
Burial day 10
Burial month Nov
Residence Tenterden
Record set East Kent Burial Index


First name(s) ANN
Last name(s) EXALL
Age at death 0
Birth year 1825
Birth date 1825
Death year 1825
Burial year 1825
Burial day 01
Burial month Nov
Residence Tenterden

(FMP has above)


29 March 1842 - Kentish Gazette - Canterbury, Kent, England

Death
March 19, at Tenterden, after a short but painful illness, Mr. Joseph Exall, Clerk of the Tenterden Union, and formerly Baptist Minister in that town.

Chris :)


~~ Jules in Wiltshire~~ Report 28 May 2012 18:49
Hi

Joseph Exall was buried on 25/03/1842 in Tenterden, Kent..
Mary Exall buried on 31/07/1856 in Tenterden, Kent..
Rachael Greenhill buried on 17/02/1845 in Rolvenden, Kent..

(above from your other 'Thread')

The FS batch # specifies a particular church and a block of dates. They were useful when FS had a severely limited search function, but much less so now.

The film # identifies what film was being transcribed - you can do an FS catalog search for this # and see what it covered, where the filming took place, and related film #s.
You can rent the film to view at some nearby FHC and see images of the original.

Some Kent images are online, see:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND

My guess is that this collection isn't fully transcribed and indexed on FS, so it's still worth "browsing the images" for some places.

Lewis (1848) says:
TENTERDEN (St. Mildred), a market-town and parish, within the cinque-port liberties, having separate jurisdiction, and forming the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Tenterden, Lower division of ihe lathe of Scray, W. division of Kent, 18 miles (S. E. by S.) from Maidstone...
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england


A search at https://familysearch.org/catalog-search for Tenterden yields:
Kentish monumental inscriptions : inscriptions at Tenterden
Authors:Duncan, Leland Lewis, 1862-1923 (Main Author) etc
[The London Library has a copy - you can also rent a film to view at some nearby FHC]

Very occasionally, I have seen a plot # written in the margin of the burial register - however, I've not seen a plot map, so I suppose one would have to note several other plot numbers to try and build your own map - I've never had occasion to do this.

The original records for St Mildred's & for St Michael's are held at the Centre for Kentish Studies in Maidstone, England.
The Bishop's Transcripts are the church's own back up copy - these are held at the Canterbury Cathedral Archives.

hi
was reading how ashford was bombed in the 2 wars perhaps some churches were
bombed
http://www.parishregister.co.uk/

Thank you..I have looked but the only ones in Ashford control that have lists of graves were opened after my dates. I have also tried the Baptist churches in and around Tenterden but no sucess.

Check out http://www.ashford.gov.uk/cemeteries

Thank you all. I will try the local History Society to see if anyone can help.

The films can be ordered at your nearest LDS family history centre, although, if they have additional info I'd be surprised

hi
you may find this link of interest to you about exall,s in kent



http://www.freewebs.com/halgen/exfam.htm

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2306793