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Alexander D:
I have quite a lot of GOLDER refs, will send them to you by e-mail.
There is an early Freeman of Dover you may not have (the early freemen's records are not indexed with the ones after about 1666):
Also a signature on a petition at the time of the civil unrest. Probably the same man ?
Jo. GOLDER, gent signed Petition to the House of Commons, from Dover, which was signed "by gentrie, ministers, freeholders and subsidymen of Kent" date about Sep-Nov.1641
(Proceedings in Kent 1640, book p.62, Dover Ref.Library)
John GOLDER "Dwelling in Dover" 15.Jan.1601
(Dover Freemen Roll - NB this part of the Freemen's Roll is not indexed)
- these early names do not say that was the date they were admitted freemen, or whether they were just 'listed as freemen' on that particular date, I think the latter refers.
Before the parish registers began (about 1557) the wills indexes go back quite a long way, at Canterbury archives.
