Monumental Inscriptions, including wills (pre 1858) and other notes of Holy Trinity Church, Maidstone
Monumental Inscriptions, including wills (pre 1858) and other notes of Holy Trinity Church, Maidstone recorded by D. E. Williams 2016.
Holy Trinity from the west, the burial ground is left of church.
Foreground: the monument to Captain Nolan, who conveyed the wrong order to the light brigade
during the Crimean War and was killed in the famous charge. he was stationed in Maidstone
but has no familial connection with the town or parish, as far as I know.
Introduction
Holy Trinity was designed by Maidstone architect, John Whichcord and built 1826-28. the west front, with the tower and spire creates a rather powerful image as seen from the west. the other elevations are rather duller. the registers commenced in 1842.
The burial ground is the tree lined area, north of the church, with another very small area east of the church.
The last service at the church took place in July 1966. later a serious fire gutted the interior. three monuments survive at the west end in perfect condition but it seems likely that there were other monuments which did not survive the fire.
In 1999, the burial ground was cleared of monuments, except for the southern side, where monuments, (except the Clifford headstone), are in situ. the other monuments were placed around the north, west and east sides.
It should be noted that the monuments neatly fit the spaces available, suggesting that there may have been more monuments which are now lost? the burial ground is now a pleasant public space named Trinity Park.
In recent years, the de-consecrated building was repaired and converted into supported accommodation for young homeless people aged 16 – 25 years.
My thanks to Mr. Barry Rayment for kindly informing me of the existence of the Holy Trinity burial ground. I would also like to thank the member of staff who showed me the monuments to Major General Middleton's wife and Henry Pybus in a stairwell at the west end of the church.
D. E. Williams,
Borstal,
Rochester
INTERIOR
HORSFALL BILL SEE MIDDLETON
1. WEST END CLOSE TO MAIN ENTRANCE
LARGE WHITE MARBLE TABLET WITH OBELISK, WREATH AND PROFILE OF MIDDLETON WITH SCULPTURE OF KNEELING FEMALE FIGURE IN PRAYER
MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES MIDDLETON
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MAJOR GENERAL
CHARLES MIDDLETON
LATE OF
3rd LIGHT DRAGOONS
AND MANY YEARS
COMMANDANT
OF THE CAVALRY DEPOT
MAIDSTONE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCTOBER 22nd 1854
AGED 67 YEARS
MOST DEEPLY REGRETTED
BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM
HE SERVED IN THE WEST INDIES WITH THE
ROYALS IN 1805 AND 1806. ON THE STAFF OF
THE ARMY WHICH PROCEEDED FROM MADRAS
TO THE NORTHERN MAHRATTA COUNTRY BEYOND
THE NERBUDDA RIVER IN 1809 AND 1810.
WITH THE 22nd LIGHT DRAGOONS IN JAVA IN
1811, 1812 1813 AND WAS PRESENT AT THE
CAVALRY CHARGE WHICH SETTLED THE CONQUEST
OF THAT ISLAND ON THE 26th AUGUST 1811
AFTER THE FORTRESS AND LINES OF CORNELIS
HAD BEEN FORCED. WAS ALSO IN THE FIELD
WITH THE 22nd LT. DRAGOONS IN 1815 AND 1816
AND DURING THE WHOLE OF THE MAHRATTA
WAR OF 1817, 1818 AND 1819 AND WAS SERVERELY
WOUNDED AT THE TAKING OF SHALLAPORE
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY DATED 2nd MAY 1853
CHARLES MIDDLETON
WISHES TO BE BURIED IN THE SAME VAULT AS HIS WIFE AND THAT EARTH IS NOT TO BE THROWN OVER HIM. HIS FUNERAL TO BE SIMPLE. IF STILL IN MILITARY EMPLOYMENT HS DESIRES MILITARY HONOURS. HE ALSO DESIRES A MONUMENT INSIDE THE CHURCH. POINTING OUT, FOR HIS CHILDREN, WHERE HE LAYS, HE ALSO WAS HIS RANK AND STATIONS HE HAS SERVED IN RECORDED. £150 TO COME FROM HIS ESTATE TO PAY FOR THIS.
£500 TO HIS DAUGHTER ANNA MARIA WIFE OF CHARLES HORSFALL BILL AND £30 TO HER HUSBAND.£5 EACH TO THEIR THREE CHILDREN. £5 TO HIS DAUGHTER IN LAW, HARRIET MIDDLETON.
£6 A YEAR TO HIS SISTER, ? MIDDLETON GRANT, FOR LIFE.THE PIECE OF PLATE PRESENTED TO HIM BY THE INHABITANTS OF MAIDSTONE TO ELDEST SON WILLIAM ALEXANDER. FURNITURE, HORSES, ? , TRINKETS AND ? HE POSSESSES AT DEATH TO BE SOLD, PROCEEDS ADDED TO HIS ESTATE. REST OF HIS PROPERTY EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONG HIS THREE SONS , THE ELDEST WILLIAM ALEXANDER TO HAVE £500 THAN THE OTHERS. ONE YEAR'S PAY TO ALL SERVANTS WITH HIM FOR AT LEAST A YEAR AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.
ANY OF HIS SONS WHO ARE MARRIED AND TO BE MARRIED AFTER HIS DEATH WILL HAVE THEIR INHERITANCE REVERTED TO THEIR WIDOWS AFTER THEIR DEATHS. SON WILLIAM AND SON IN LAW CHARLES HORSFALL BILLS ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: JOHN MERCER ? ? BARRACKS, MAIDSTONE AND G? T HAZELL, GENTLEMAN, MILL STREET, MAIDSTONE.
AFFIDAVIT 3rd NOVEMBER 1854
WILLIAM ALEXANDER MIDDLETON, CAPTAIN , R.A., AT DEVONPORT GARRISON, IS SWORN.
HE FOUND THE WILL LOCKED IN A TIN BOX IN HIS FATHER'S BEDROOM. HE HAS SEARCHED HIS FATHER'S PAPERS CAREFULLY BUT FOUND NO LATER WILL.
PROVED 16th NOVEMBER 1854
2. AT WEST END IN STAIRWELL - WHITE MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS SHAPED TABLET ON BLACK GROUND
FANNY WIFE OF COLONEL CHARLES MIDDLETON
IN A VAULT NEAR THE NORTH WALL OF THIS CHURCH ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS
OF FANNY WIFE OF COLONEL CHARLES MIDDLETON
OF THE 3rd REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS & COMMANDER OF THE CAVALRY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 17th JUNE 1848 AT THE AGE OF 53 YEARS
TO AN ACCOMPLISHED AND TALENTED MIND WAS UNITED IN HER
QUALITY AND VIRTUE THAT COULD ADORN AND ENDEAR HER WORTH
AS A WIFE AND MOTHER
THIS SMALL TOKEN OF REGARD IS ERECTED TO HER MEMORY
BY AN AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND WHOSE CONSTANT AND CHEERING
COMPANION SHE WAS FOR UPWARDS OF 30 YEARS
IN THE SAME VAULT ARE ALSO DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF
FANNY EMMA ELDEST DAUGHTER OF
CHARLES HORSFALL BILL ESQ. LATE OF THE 13th HUSSARS
AND GRAND DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 12th JULY 1848 AT THE AGE OF 6 YEARS
ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CHURCHYARD, TOWARDS THE EAST END, IS A SMALL, SLIM "CHEST TOMB", WITH A COFFIN SHAPED LEDGER. THE TOMB IS SURROUNDED BY VERY DAMAGED RAILINGS. THERE IS NO SURVIVING INSCRIPTION BUT I WONDER IF THIS MARKS THE MIDDLETON VAULT? ALTHOUGH NOT "CLOSE" TO THE NORTH WALL OF THE CHURCH, IT IS CLOSER THAN OTHER TOMBS IN THIS SECTION.
3. IN SAME STAIRWELL AS LATTER LARGE WHITE MARBLE TABLET ON GREY BASE PUTTI ON EITHER SIDE HOLDING INSCRIBED DRAPERY
HENRY PYBUS
ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY OF
HENRY PYBUS ESQ.
WHO DIED AT MADRAS 20th MAY 1843
AGED 34 YEARS
THIRD SON OF THE LATE
THOMAS PYBUS ESQ.
TIMBER MERCHANT
MAIDSTONE
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 23rd JUNE 1841
HENRY PYBUS OF CALCUTTA, SHORTLY BOUND FOR CHINA.
DESIRES HIS PROPERTY TO BE SOLD, THAT IS IN HIS SHARE IN THE SIR EDWARD RYAN ANTARES, A SHIP? AND PACKETS AND SUCH MERCHANDIZE HE MAY HAVE A SHARE IN.
WHEN SOLD HIS DEBTS TO BE PAID AND THE REMAINDER, ABOUT £24,000, AS FOLLOWS, TO SISTER, ISABEL, £5,050, THE REMAINDER TO BE DIVIDED INTO 7 PARTS, TO HIS BROTHERS, JAMES, THOMAS, JOSEPH, CHARLES AND HENRY, ONE SHARE EACH AND TO SISTER ISABEL ONE SHARE. TO NEPHEWS JOSEPH AND HENRY ONE SHARE BETWEEN THEM.
HE APPOINTS WILLIAM PYBUS*, ARTIST OF CALCUTTA, DONALD CAMPBELL MACKAY, MERCHANT AND WILLIAM PATRICK GRANT, BARRISTER, BOTH OF CALCUTTA, EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: GEORGE LOVELL, C. CREATON AND W.R. LASKERSTEEN
AT THE SUPREME COURT AT FORT WILLIAM, BENGAL
AFFIDAVIT 6th JUNE 1843
DONALD CAMPBELL MACKAY OF CALCUTTA, ESQ., MEMBER OF THE FIRM OF JOHN MACKAY AND CO., MERCHANTS AND AGENTS, OF CALCUTTA AND EDWARD CREATON OF CALCUTTA, CLERK TO JOHN MACKAY AND CO.
DONALD MACKAY STATES THAT PYBUS WAS A BRITISH SUBJECT AND BELIEVES THAT THIS IS HIS LAST WILL. CREATON, ONE OF THE WITNESSES, STATES HE WAS PRESENT WHEN PYBUS SIGNED THE WILL AND THAT HE AND THE OTHER WITNESSES SIGNED IN THE PRESENCE OF PYBUS AND EACH OTHER.
SEALED IN THE COURT AT FORT WILLIAM 26th SEPTEMBER 1843
PROVED 17th MAY 1844. PYBUS WAS FORMERLY OF MADRAS, LATE OF CANTON, CHINA. GRANTED TO NATHANIEL JAMES WHITE HALL, ONE OF THE LAWFUL ATTORNIES OF WILLIAM PYBUS, DONALD MACKAY AND WILLIAM GRANT. POWER RESERVED TO MACKAY AND GRANT.
*WILLIAM PYBUS, ARTIST OF CALCUTTA. RECENTLY THERE WAS SOLD AT CHRISTIES, LONDON A PHOTOGRAPH OF SERVANTS TAKEN IN INDIA IN THE 1840'S, BY WILLIAM PYBUS, FOR OVER £9,000.
EXTERIOR
EAST OF CHANCEL (ALL IN SITU)
4. COPED STONE
SOUTH SIDE
IN MEMORY OF LOUISA
DAUGHTER OF CHARLES AND JANE ARKCOLL
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 11th 1845 AGED 2 YEARS 9 MONTHS
ALSO SARAH
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 12th 1857 AGED 11 YEARS 8 MONTHS
ALSO LOUISA
WHO DIED OCTOBER 4th 1860 AGED 2 YEARS AND SIX MONTHS
NORTH SIDE
IN MEMORY OF
CHARLES ARKCOLL
BORN JANY. 12Th 1815 DIED DEC. 27th 1879
AGED 64 YEARS
ALSO OF JANE WIFE OF THE ABOVE
BORN JUNE 20th 1819 DIED DEC. 28th 1906
AGED 87 YEARS
1841 CENSUS, CHARLES ARKCOLL, WHOLESALE GROCER, LONDON ROAD. THE ARKCOLL BUSINESS WAS SUBSTANTIAL AND LONG LIVED, UNTIL WELL INTO THE LATTER HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY. IT CAME TO AN END PROBABLY BY FAILING TO FORESEE THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF SUPERMARKETS.
5. "OVEN" TYPE OF RED BRICK VAULT INSCRIBED STONE AT WEST END
W.B. 1842
6. IDENTICAL STRUCTURE AS NO. 5
T. L. 1844
PROBABLY THOMAS LATTER
7. SHORT PEDESTAL
SOUTH SIDE
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THOMAS HERMAN JOHN
THIRD SON OF THE REVD.
THOMAS AND EMMA
DE JERSEY MOORE
WHO DIED SEPT 14th 1874
AGED 10 MONTHS
"Of Such is the
Kingdom of Heaven"
WEST SIDE
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF EMMA DE JERSEY
WIFE OF
REVD. T. MOORE
VICAR OF THIS PARISH
1873 – 1887
BORN JULY 24th 1844
ENTERED INTO REST
APRIL 9th 1892
"Them also which Sleep
in Jesus with Him"
NORTH SIDE
ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
SEPTIMUS WILFRED
LEONARD
THEIR 4th SON
DIED OCT 19th 1915
AGED 36 YEARS
"Jusu Mercy"
8. LEDGER
BENEATH THIS STONE
ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF
JOSEPH POBJOY SAWER
WHO DIED APRIL 11th 1863
AGED 62 YEARS
ALSO JOSEPH SAWER
ONLY SON OF THE ABOVE
BORN JUNE 20th 1828
DIED OCT 5th 1907
LEAVING A WIDOW AND ONE DAUGHTER
ALSO OF ELIZABETH
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
BORN APRIL 7th 1826
DIED FEB 12th 1910
ALSO OF MARY
ELIZABETH SAWER
[DAUGHTER ? OF THE] ABOVE
[BORN] DEC 22nd 186[ ]
DIED FEB 3rd 1[ ]
1839 PIGOT DIRECTORY, JOSEPH SAWER, SENIOR, CABINET MAKER, COUNTY ROAD,
1861 CENSUS, JOSEPH SAWER, SENIOR, UPHOLSTERER, COUNTY PLACE;
1871 CENSUS, JOSEPH SAWER, JUNIOR, UPHOLSTERER, EMPLOYING 2 MEN, COUNTY ROAD.
SOUTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD (ALL IN SITU, EXCEPT CLIFFORD)
9. HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
IN MEMORY OF
ANGELER WIFE OF
[ ] BENNETT
[WHO DIED [ ] FEBRUARY 1846]
[
10. LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
SARAH WIFE OF
ROBERT BRISSENDEN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JANUARY 28th 1849 AGED 77 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
ROBERT BRISSENDEN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JUNE THE 5th 1850
AGED 75 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 16th APRIL 1845
ROBERT BRISSENDEN OF UNION STREET, FORMER SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS AND COLLECTOR.
APPOINTS JOHN MARES AND ALEXANDER RANDALL, BOTH OF MAIDSTONE, ESQUIRES AND GRANDSON ROBERT PEARSON, TRUSTEES AND EXECUTORS.
FURNITURE, LINEN, PLATE, GLASS, CHINA, PICTURES, PRINTS, BOOKS AND GARDEN TOOLS TO WIFE SARAH, FOR LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, TO GRANDSON ROBERT PEARSON, ABSOLUTELY. ALSO TO ROBERT, HIS WATCH AND SEALS.
HIS FREEHOLD HOUSE IN UNION STREET, WHERE HE HAS LIVED FOR 20 YEARS, BOUGHT FROM THE ASSIGNS OF STEPHEN PAGE SEAGER, AND FIXTURES, TO WIFE FOR LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, TO GRANDSON, ROBERT PEATSON, FOR EVER.
TO JOHN MARES AND ALEXANDER RANDALL, £10 EACH, AS A SMALL COMPENSATION.
ALL OTHER REAL ESTATE, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD AND RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE TO HIS TRUSTEES, UPON TRUST, TO ALLOW HIS WIFE THE RENTS FOR LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, THEN TO GRANDCHILDREN, ROBERT, SARAH AMY, ANN MARIA, CAROLINE AND EMMA PEARSON AND FREDERICK BOX, AT 21 YEARS OR DAY OF MARRIAGE IF GIRLS...........
WITNESSES: JOHN MONCKTON, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND THOMAS STANDEN, GROCER OF MAIDSTONE.
11. HEADSTONE
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
OF
MARY THE BELOVED WIFE OF
WILLIAM BROOKE
OF WINCHESTER PLACE, MAIDSTONE
BUILDER
WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 28th 1878
AGED 68 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
WILLIAM BROOKE
WHO DIED OCTOBER 5th 1878
AGED 74 YEARS
12. LOW CHEST TOMB
LEDGER
[Some parts very eroded]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ] REMAINS
OF [ ] WHO HAVE [ ] PASSED
[ n ] DEATH INTO LIFE ARE
HELD IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE
[MELIN]EY DIED SEPT. 13th 18[4]0
MARY AUGUSTA
DIED DEC. [ ] 1840
SOPHIA MARY
DIED JUNE [ ] 1846
MARTHA LOUISA
DIED APRIL 9th 1867
WILLIAM CLARKE BUCHANAN
HIS ONLY SON DIED MARCH 19th 1875
"The Resurrection
[of Them] that Believeth
[ ] were Dead, yet
[ ]"
[SOPHI]A
WIFE OF THE ABOVE NAMED
FRIEND WILLIAM BUCHANAN
[ 189]0 IN HER 71st YEAR
"[ ] nor do need,
[ ] so Lean upon,
[ ] Enough in deed,
[ ] my [ ]"
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
FRIEND WILLIAM BUCHANAN
BORN AT WOOLWICH DEC 27th 1814
DIED AT [ ]HAMPTON APRIL 5th 189[2]
NORTH SIDE
WILLIAM CLARKE DIED DEC 8th 1874
AT ASHBURNAM, SHACKLEWELL, LONDON
AGED 82 YEARS INTERRED IN THIS VAULT
SOUTH SIDE
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARTHA WIFE OF WILLIAM CLARKE
OF AS[HFORD] ROAD IN THIS PARISH
DIED THE 29th DAY OF DECEMB]ER 184[6] [ ]
1840 PIGOT DIRECTORY, FRIEND WILLIAM BUCHANAN, CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST, ALSO MEDICATED BATHS, WEEK STREET.
WILLIAM CLARKE, SHACKLEWELL WAS A SMALL PART OF DALSTON, NAMED AFTER SHACKLEWELL LANE, ASHBURNHAM HOUSE, 98 SHACKLEWELL LANE, IS NOW A CHILDRENS' HOME.
13. LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
ANN WIFE OF
SAMUEL BYRANS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
FEBRUARY 12th 1851
AGED 32 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
SAMUEL BYRANS
WHO DIED FEB 3rd 1876
AGED 72 YEARS
1839 PIGOT DIRECTORY, SAMUEL BYRANS, LANDLORD OF "HAUNCH OF VENISON", HIGH STREET; 1871 CENSUS, HE IS AN ANNUITANT IN CHURCH STREET.
CLARKE SEE BUCHANAN
14. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ANN CLIFFORD WIDOW OF
ROBERT CLIFFORD, SMITH
OF THIS TOWN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB 8th 1841
AGE[D] [ ] [YE]ARS
ALSO OF WILLIAM CLIFFORD
SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED [ ] 18[ ]4
AGE[D] [ ] [Y]EARS
ALSO [C]HAR[LES] [CL]IFFORD
[SON OF THE ABOVE?] [WHO] DIED JU[ ] 19th 1866
AGE[D] [ ] [YEARS
15. CHEST TOMB
DALRYMPLE, KNIGHT
NORTH SIDE
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
SIR CHARLES DALRYMPLE, KNIGHT
COMMISSARY GENERAL IN HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE
WHO DIED 1st OF DECEMBER 1849 AGED 70 YEARS
ALSO
WILLIAM HENRY DALRYMPLE
SON OF THE ABOVE ASSISTANT COMMISSARY GENERAL
WHO DIED JULY 4th 1864 AGED 47 YEARS
SOUTH SIDE
TO THE MEMORY OF LOUISA DALRYMPLE HIS WIFE
DIED AT BRIGHTON ON THE 1st OF JULY 1878
AGED 87 YEARS
"Blessed are the Pure in Heart for they shall see God"
AND IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR SIXTH SON
JAMES FREDERICK DALRYMPLE
WHO DIED AT SINGAPORE ON THE 3rd OF JUNE 1867
[AGED] [ ] YEARS "Until the Day Break"
JAMES DALRYMPLE WAS AN ASSISTANT MILITARY STOREKEEPER, (THE TIMES, DEATH NOTICE)
16. LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
SARAH WIFE OF
WILLIAM GILLIAN
OF THIS TOWN
DIED SEPT 14th 1857
AGED 34 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
WILLIAM GILLIAN
DIED APRIL 29th 1893
AGED 82 YEARS
"To Live in Hearts we Leave
Behind is not to Die"
1861 CENSUS, AT AYLESFORD, RETIRED FARMER?
GREY SEE HOADLY
17. LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM HICKMOT
OF THIS TOWN
WHO DIED FEB 2nd 1854
AGED 58 YEARS
ALSO ELIZABETH SARAH
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED MAY 29th 1863
AGED 66 YEARS
ALSO WILLIAM SHARP
BUILDER, OF THIS TOWN
SON IN LAW OF THE ABOVE
WILLIAM HICKMOT
WHO DIED APRIL 24th 1860
AGED 43 YEARS
ALSO CHARLOTTE
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WILLIAM SHARP
WHO DIED APRIL 18th 1876
AGED 55 YEARS
ALSO HERBERT WAKEFIELD
GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE
WILLIAM AND CHARLOTTE SHARP
WHO DIED DEC 8th 1878
AGED 14 MONTHS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 13th FEBRUARY 1840
WILLIAM HICKMOT, OF KING STREET, BAKER.
APPOINTS WIFE, ELIZABETH SARAH AND FRIEND WILLIAM BEALE OF MAIDSTONE, LABOURER, EXECUTORS.
TO THEM, ALL HIS PERSONAL ESTATE. THEY TO COLLECT ALL DEBTS AND CONVERT THAT PART OF HIS PERSONAL ESTATE NOT CONSISTING OF MONEY, INTO CASH. THEY TO FIRST PAY HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS AND INVEST SURPLUS IN GOVERNMENT STOCKS. THE INTEREST TO HIS WIFE FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, UPON TRUST, TO PAY SON WILLIAM, £25 AND DAUGHTER, CHARLOTTE, £75. RESIDUE TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN HIS CHILDREN, THEN LIVING. TO HIS WIFE ALL FREEHOLD ESTATE FOR HER LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, 3 HOUSES AND SHED, LATTER IN HIS OCCUPATION, HOUSES OCCUPIED BY [ ] DRAY, [ ] KITCHEN AND [ ] CUCKOO, WITH PUMP AND WELL, IN UNION STREET AND CAREY STREET, PURCHASED FROM WILLIAM HOLLOWAY, TO SON WILLIAM, IF HIS SON LEAVES NO CHILDREN, THEN TO HIS OWN RIGHT HEIRS.
THREE HOUSES OCCUPIED BY PETER DAWSON, [ ] HOLLOWAY AND [ ] KING TO DAUGHTER, CHARLOTTE, FOR EVER.
THREE HOUSE IN UNUION STREET AND WYATT STREET, ALSO PURCHASED FROM WILLIAM HOLLOWAY, OCCUPIED BY HENRY CORK?, [ ] PECKHAM AND [ ] PARKER, TO SON WALTER, FOR EVER
THREE HOUSES ADJOINING THE LATTER HOUSES, OCCUPIED BY [ ] JURY?, [ ]
BARTLETT AND [ ] RUSSELL TO SON EDWIN FOR EVER.
WITNESSES: KNOWLES KING AND SAMUEL MILLS, HIS CLERK
CODICIL 26th NOVEMBER 1840
HE HAS A NEW SON, CHARLES. TRUSTEE TO PAY, AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE, TO SON CHARLES AT 21, £475. DURING HIS MINORITY INTEREST TO BE USED ON HIS MAINTENACE.
ALL ESTATE VESTED IN HIM AS TRUSTEE OR MORTGAGEE TO HIS WIFE AND BEALE, ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF THE TRUSTS, ETC.
WITNESSES: AS FOR WILL
PROVED 21st MARCH 1854
18. LEDGER TOP PART BURIED IN SOIL AND ROOTS
[IN MEMORY OF]
[MARY HOADLY WIFE OF]
[ALEXANDER HOADLY]
[WHO DIED 14th NOVEMBER 1841]
[AGED 37 YEARS]
DEEPLY REGRETTED AND MUCH
ESTEEMED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER
LEFT ISSUE AN ONLY CHILD
ELIZABETH CATHERINE TO LAMENT
THE PREMATURE LOSS OF AN
AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT
BORN FEBY. 26Th 1835
ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THE ABOVE NAMED ALEXANDER HOAD[LY]
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
AT ROSHERVILLE MARCH 12th 189[1]
IN HIS 85th YEAR
"At Eventide it shall be Light"
ALSO IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
ELIZABETH CATHERINE
THE BELOVED WIFE OF ALFRED GREY
AND ONLY CHILD OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED
6th JANUARY 1892 AGED 57 YEARS
"In Sure and Certain Hope"
ALSO ALFRED GREY HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE
WHO ENTERED INTO REST DECEMBER [ ] 1900 AGED 65
[ ]
ALEXANDER HOADLY WAS A COACHBUILDER , APPRENTICED TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM IN 1821.ALEXANDER WAS CARRIAGE MAKER TO THE ROYAL FAMILY, BASED IN KENSINGTON, FROM ABOUT 1846, EMPLOYING 10 MEN.
HIS WILL IS DATED 7th AUGUST 1890 AT 21 PIER ROAD, ROSHERVILLE, NORTHFLEET. (ROSHERVILLE WAS AN EARLY 19th CENTURY PLEASURE GARDEN AND RESORT, DEVELOPED BY DANIEL ROSHER IN OLD CHALK QUARRIES.)
HE APPOINTS NEPHEW, ALEXANDER HOADLY AND FRIEND ? HAYNES OF MAIDSTONE, IRONMONGER, EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES.
ALL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE TO BE SOLD AND DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS PAID. THE BALANCE TO BE INVESTED IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
INCOME FROM THE LATTER TO BE PAID TO DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH GREY FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, THE CAPITAL TO BE DIVIDED BETWEEN ALL HER CHLDREN AT 21 YEARS OF AGE.
WITNESSES: ARTHUR CARTER AND WILLIAM HERBERT ROYSTON, CLERKS TO MESSRS SHARLAND AND HATTEN, SOLICITORS, GRAVESEND.
PROVED 23rd APRIL 1891 GRANTED TO GEORGE PERCY GREY, MEDICAL STUDENT.
PERSONAL ESTATE VALUED AT £6,161
ELIZABETH GREY DIED AT SOUTHEND. HER EFFECTS VALUED AT £143 1s.
(SOURCE: HOADLY FAMILY WEBSITE.)
19. CHEST TOMB
HOLLOWAY TOMB
THIS PICTURE GIVES A GOOD IMPRESSION OF THE SIZE OF THE BURIAL GROUND
LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM HOLLOWAY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH 7th 1848
AGED 56 YEARS
ALSO ANN
RELICT OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED DECEMBER 30th? 1863?
AGED 73? YEARS
LEFT ISSUE
TWO SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER
VIZ WILLIAM, CHARLES & ESTHER
SIDE
IN MEMORY OF
SARAH THE BELOVED AND LAMENTED WIFE OF
WILLIAM HOLLOWAY OF BREWER STREET, BUILDER
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 25th DAY OF NOVEMBER 1872
AGED 57 YEARS
ALSO OF
THE ABOVE NAMED WILLIAM HOLLOWAY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 10th DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1890
AGED 74 YEARS
WILLIAM HOADLY, 1839 PIGOT DIRECTORY, BRICKLAYER.
20. LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
JAMES PEPPERCORN, J.P.
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
SEPT 2nd 1849 AGED 38 YEARS
ALSO JAMES PEPPERCORN SNR.
WHO FELL ASLEEP NOV 7th 185[5]
AGED 80 YEARS
ALSO
SARAH PEPPERCORN
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
JULY 2nd 1885 AGED 74 YEARS
"The Lord Gave and the Lord Taketh Away,
Blessed be the Name of the Lord"
1841 CENSUS, JAMES PEPPERCORN, JUNIOR, IRONMONGER, HIGH STREET.
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 17th AUGUST 1854
JAMES PEPPERCORN, THE ELDER, GENTLEMAN.
TO COUSIN JAMES PEPPERCORN OF ST. ALBAN'S, BUILDER AND FRIEND WILLIAM PHILLIPS OF HADLOW, FARMER AND JOHN TEBBUT , ? OF ST. ALBAN'S, FARMER, £20 EACH, THEY ARE HIS EXECUTORS.
TWO FREEHOLD HOUSES IN SOMERFIELD TERRACE, OCCUPIED BY WILLIAM LAURENCE, HIMSELF, WILLIAM JOHNSON AND JAMES WATTS, TO EXECUTORS, UPON TRUST, DURING THE LIFE OF HIS DAUGHTER, SARAH, TO PAY RENTS AND PROFITS TO HER. AFTER HER DEATH, THEN TO HER CHILDREN AT 21 YEARS, OR, AS SHE DIRECTS BY HER WILL.
TO DAUGHTER SARAH, £2,000 AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, CHINA AND GOODS.
TO SON CHARLES, £1,000 AND TO EACH GRANDSON, FRANK AND WALTER, SONS OF DECEASED SON, JOHN, £3,000 AT 21 YEARS. MONEY TO BE INVESTED UNTIL THEY ARE BOTH 21 AND £120 TO BE PAID ANNUALLY TO THEIR MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION. TO HELP THEIR ADVANCE IN LIFE, NOT EXCEEDING £100, EACH.
RESIDUE OF PROPERTY TO SON CHARLES, ABSOLUTELY.
WITNESSES: KNOWLES KING, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND SAMUEL MILLS, HIS CLERK.
PROVED 1st FEBRUARY 1856
21. LEDGER
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH ANN PHILPOT
WIFE OF WILLIAM PHILPOT
FORMERLY OF CANTERBURY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY 10th 1847 AGED 70 YEARS
"Her Qualities both as Wife and
Parent She Fulfilled in the most
Affectionate Manner & Died Deeply
Lamented [ ] Family & Friens"
ALSO VALENTINA PHILPOT
[ ] DAUGHTER OF
CHARLES AND EMILY PHILPOT
DIED OCTOBER 21st 1835
AGED 11 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS
ALSO ELIZABETH PHILPOT
ONLY SURVIVING DAUGHTER OF
CHARLES AND EMILY PHILPOT
DIED SEPTEMBER 29th 1859
AGED 14 YEARS "Deeply Lamented"
"Rest Sweetly ye Beloved Dead,
Who have Died in the Lord"
ALSO ARTHUR WALTER PHILPOT
SECOND SON OF THE ABOVE NAMED
CHARLES AND EMILY PHIPOT
DIED NOVEMBER 17th 1860
AGED 19? YEARS
"Greatly Beloved"
ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED
CHARLES PHILPOT
DIED MAY 13th 1875 AGED 65 YEARS
1871 CENSUS, CHARLES PHILPOT, DANCING MASTER, ASHFORD ROAD.
22. LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
ABRAHAM RANSOM
DIED SEPT. 19th 1856
AGED 72 YEARS
ALSO
HARRIOT WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED JULY 5th 1865
AGED 76 YEARS
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 30th APRIL 1856
ABRAHAM RANSOM, GENTLEMAN.
APPOINTS WIFE HARRIOT AND FRIEND THOMAS SMITH GIBBS OF CATHERINE STREET, POPLAR, EXECUTORS.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, FIRST PAID.
HIS HOUSES, FARMS AND LANDS AT EGERTON ADJOINING EACH OTHER CALLED GROOM FARM AT NEWLAND GREEN AND SHEEP TUNNS, NOW LET TO CHARLES OFFIN AND ALL OTHER LAND AT EGERTON OR ADJOINING PARISHES, TO HIS WIFE, FOR LIFE.
AFTER HER DEATH, THEN TO HIS NIECE HARRIOT GIBBS AND HER HUSBAND THOMAS SMITH GIBBS FOR THEIR LIVES, AFTER THE DEATH OF THE SURVIVOR, THEN SHARED EQUALLY BETWEEN THOMAS RANSOM GIBBS, ELIZABETH DOLDER WIFE OF JOSEPH DOLDER, JANE GIBBS AND ELEANOR GIBBS, CHILDREN OF HARRIOT AND THOMAS GIBBS, SUBJECT TO THE PAYMENT TO HIS NEPHEW ABRAHAM RANSOM, NOW OF SCOT WAYNE, PENNSYLVANIA, £200, THIS PAYMENT TO BE MADE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER THE DEATH OF THE SURVIVOR OF HARRIOT AND THOMAS GIBBS.
RESIDUE OF ALL MONEY, STOCK, FUNDS AND PERSONAL ESTATE TO WIFE, ABSOLUTELY.
WITNESSES: JOHN B. STEPHENS, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND JOHN BARNABY HIS CLERK,
PROVED 28th OCTOBER 1856 VALUE OF EFFECTS UNDER £200
23. LEDGER
TO THE LOVED MEMORY
OF
CHARLES SCUDAMORE
BORN MARCH 7th 1815
DIED JANUARY 30th 1856
ALSO OF
WILLIAM LESLIE
THE ONLY SON OF
CHARLES & HARRIETTE
DE SALIS SCUDAMORE
BORN JULY 20th 1846
DIED OCTOBER 22nd 1846
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 29th MAY 1841
CHARLES SCUDAMORE, OF MAIDSTONE, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
ALL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE TO HIS WIFE, HARRIETTE, ABSOLUTELY.
ALL REAL ESTATE VESTED IN HIM AS MORTGAGEE OR TRUSTEE, TO BROTHER, FREDERICK, UPON THE SAME TRUSTS, ETC. FREDERICK IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: WILLIAM WHITE, ROBERT WILLIAM HANSOM ?, CLERKS TO MESSRS WILDES AND SCUDAMORE, SOLICITORS, MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 7th MAY 1856
24. LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
MARY SEATH
WHO DIED AUG 31st 1854
AGED 72 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 16th OCTOBER 1848
MARY SEATH, WIDOW.
TO HER NIECE, SARAH ANN LUCKLE?, FORMERLY WHITE, DAUGHTER OF HER LATE SISTER, AND TO HER BROTHER, GEORGE LUSHMAN, 19 GUINEAS EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM AS A TRIFLING MEMORIAL OF HER REMEMBRANCE.
TO HER DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH SEATH, ALL HER PLAYE, LINEN, CLOTHES, CHINA, GLASS, BOOKS, WIGS AND ORNAMENTS.
TO MARY ELIZABETH LUSHMAN DAUGHTER OF HER BROTHER GEORGE LUSHMAN, HER WATCH.
ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND RESIDUE, SUBJECT TO PAYMENT OF HER DEBTS, PARTICULARLY, £50 SHE OWES TO HER DAUGHTER AND FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS AND LEGACIES, TO HER SON'S CHILDREN, ELIZABETH , GEORGE, WILLIAM LUSHMAN SEATH AND HENRY SEATH, EQUALLY SHARED. DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: HENRY LAKE, LINCOLNS INN AND ROBERT BICKLY, CLERK TO MESSRS LAKE AND ? LINCOLNS INN.
PROVED 23rd OCTOBER 1854
SHARP SEE HICKMOT
25. HEADSTONE
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN SMITH
FOR MANY YEARS CLERK OF THIS CHURCH.
WHO DIED JUNE 2nd 1857 AGED 64 YEARS
LEAVING A WIDOW AND 7 CHILDREN
VIZ SAMUEL, JOHN, WALTER, ELIZA,
WILLIAM, CHARLES & GEORGE
ALSO PHEBE WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED MARCH 20th 1872 AGED 74 YEARS
ALSO PHEBE DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED NOV 29th 1847 AGED 20 YEARS
ALSO GEORGE SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JUNE 2nd 1859 AGED 17 YEARS
ALSO CHARLES SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED AT SYDNEY , NEW SOUTH WALES
APRIL 16th 1863 AGED 24 YEARS
ALSO OF FIVE OTHER CHILDREN OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED IN THEIR INFANCY
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 14th MARCH 1857
JOHN SMITH, 63 KING STREET, FURNITURE DEALER.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID, EXCEPT MORTGAGES DEBTS ON HIS FREEHOLD HOUSE.
TO WIFE, PHEBE, ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, LINEN, PLATE, CHINA, WINE, LIQUOR, STOCK IN TRADE, FIXTURES, READY MONEY, INVESTMENTS, DEBTS, EXCEPT INSURANCE POLICIES, PERSONAL ESTATE AND EFFECTS, FOR EVER.
ALL MONEY PAID TO EXECUTORS FROM A LIFE POLICY, £250 IN THE NATIONAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY, THIS TO PAY OFF OR AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE A MORTGAGE ON HIS FREEHOLD HOUSE.
IF ANY SURPLUS, TO HIS WIFE. RENTS FROM ALL HIS PROPERTIES, SUBJECT TO REPAIRS AND MORTGAGE COSTS, TO HIS WIFE, FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, IF THAT OCCURS BEFORE SONS CHARLES AND GEORGE ARE 21, THEN INCOME TO THEIR MAINTENACE AND EDUCATION UNTIL BOTH 21.WHEN THEY ARE 21 THE FREEHOLD PROPERTIES TO BE SOLD, UNLESS CHILDREN DO NOT AGREE.
PROCEEDS TO HIS CHILDREN, SAMUEL, JOHN, WALTER, ELIZA, WIFE OF EDWARD AGATE, WILLIAM, CHARLES AND GEORGE, EQUALLY SHARED. CHARLES SMITH WELLS, THE NATURAL SON OF HIS SON JOHN AND SOPHIA, HIS WIFE, SHARE ALSO SHARE THE LEGACY AS IF HE WERE BORN IN WEDLOCK.
HIS WIFE, AND SONS SAMUEL AND JOHN ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: J.H. CHALLIS, MARLBUS PLACE, BRIGHTON AND J. G. BUCKMASTER, BREAD STREET HILL, LONDON.
CODICIL 18th MARCH 1857
CONCERNING THE DISPOSAL OF HIS FREEHOLD ESTATE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE, AND HIS YOUNGEST CHILD IS 21.IF ANY OF HIS CHILDREN WISH TO SELL THEIR SHARE OF THE REAL ESTATE, AND OTHER OF HIS CHILDREN WISH TO PURCHASE IT, THEY TO GIVE NOTICE TO EXECUTORS WITHIN 6 MONTHS OR ANY OTHER TIME THE MAJORITY OF HIS CHILDREN AGREE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE OR WHEN YOUNGEST CHILD IS 21. IF THEY CANNOT AGREE A PRICE, 2 SURVEYORS OR VALUERS WILL FIX A PRICE.
REST OF WILL CONFIRMED.
WITNESSES: J.H. CHALLIS, BRIGHTON AND JOHN ALLEN, LISKEARD, CORNWALL
PROVED 13th OCTOBER 1857
26. LEDGER
IN MEMORY OF
HENRY VILE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
DEC 10th 1856 AGED 73 YEARS
ALSO OF ANN
RELICT OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
FEB 8th 1870 AGED 76 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 15th JUNE 1849
HENRY VILE, OF BREWER STREET, FORMERLY A LICENSED VICTUALLER.
APOINTS NEPHEW, HARRY PELLETT OF PADDINGTON, COACHMAN AND CHARLES GRAY OF THE "LITTLE STAR" BREWER STREET, BEER SELLER, EXECUTORS.
HE WANTS A "GOOD COFFIN" BUT NOT COVERED WITH CLOTH, COFFIN TO BE MADE BY THOMAS EVENDEN OF MAIDSTONE, CARPENTER. HE IS TO BE BURIED IN HOLY TRINITY CHURCHYARD UNDER A FLAT STONE AND IRON RAILINGS AROUND IT.
TO CHARLES GRAY, £5; TO HIS WIFE ANN ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, CHINA, BOOKS, PICTURES, PRINTS, WINE, LIQUORS AND CONSUMABLES AND HIS INTEREST IN MR LARKING'S BURYING GROUND* IN BREWER STREET, ABSOLUTELY.
TO HENRY PELLETT, HIS SILVER WATCH, MADE BY ROBERTS OF ASHFORD, WITH SEAL AND KEY;TO HIS NIECE, RHODA PELLETT, SISTER OF HENRY, HIS OTHER SILVER WATCH MADE BY THOMAS PHILLIPS OF LUDLOW, AND SEAL AND KEY.
TO THE WIFE OF HENRY PELLETT, HIS PRINTED BOOK, "THE LIFE OF CHRIST".
HIS 2 FREEHOLD HOUSES IN LAURENCE STREET, MAIDSTONE, OCCUPIED BY [ ] NEWENDEN AND [ ] PAINE TO HENRY PELLETT AND CHARLES GRAY, UPON TRUST, THEY TO ALLOW HIS WIFE TO RECEIVE THE INCOME FROM THEM, FOR LIFE, SHE KEEPING THEM IN GOOD REPAIR AND INSURED AT THE KENT FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE FOR £200. AFTER HER DEATH, THE HOUSES TO BE SOLD AND THE NET PROCEEDS TO BE SHARED BETWEEN THE CHILDREN OF HIS LATE SISTER ANN WIFE OF JOHN PELLETT, FORMERLY OF KENNINGTON NEAR ASHFORD, CORDWAINER, DECEASED, AT 21 YEARS OF AGE.
HIS 2 FREEHOLD HOUSES IN MARSHAM STREET, MAIDSTONE, TO TRUSTEES, UPON TRUST, THEY TO ALLOW HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER MARTHA ANN VILE NOW LIVING WITH HIM, TO LIVE IN OR RECEIVE THE RENTS FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, THE HOUSES TO BE SOLD AND PAY PROCEEEDS TO HIS NEPHEWS AND NIECES THEN LIVING.
TO HIS SISTERS, MARY WIFE OF JOESPH BAULKS AND REBECCA WIFE OF THOMAS WEAVER, 5 SHILLINGS AWEEK FOR LIFE, THIS TO COME FROM THJE RENTS OF HIS HOUSE AT THE CORNER OF BREWER STREET AND WOOLLETT STREET, MAIDSTONE, NOW OCCUPIED BY CHARLES GRAY.
TO HIS WIFE THE RENTS FROM THE LAST MENTIONED HOUSE SUBJECT TO THE ABOVE PAYMENTS OF 5 SHILLINGS PER WEEK TO HIS SISTERS. THE SAME HOUSE TO HENRY PELLETT, ABSOLUTELY............................
WITNESSES: JOHN MONCKTON, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND EDWARD GILES, HIS CLERK.
PROVED 16th MARCH 1857 HENRY PELLETT HAS SINCE DIED
WAKEFIELD SEE HICKMOT
27. LEDGER
BENEATH
THIS STONE ARE DEPOSITED
THE REMAINS OF
SUSANNA WIFE OF
THOMAS WICKS
WHO DIED MAY 1st 1844
AGED 62 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
THOMAS WICKS
WHO DIED OCTOBER 10th ? 1854
AGED 6[ ] YEARS
ALSO JAMES ALFRED ? ?
THE SON OF
THOMAS WICKS
WHO DIED JAN 28th 1848
AGED 19? YEARS
EAST SIDE
28. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
HANNAH BURROWS
WHO DIED MAY 6th 1844
AGED 56 YEARS
"She has Gone, never more to Return,
The Swellings of Jordan she's Passed,
Then Prepare us O God for our Change,
That we may be with her at Last"
29. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
EMILY
WIFE OF GEORGE COOKER
(OF THIS TOWN, VICTUALLER)
WHO DIED NOV 7th 1844
AGED 37 YEARS
ALSO TO THE ABOVE NAMED
GEORGE COOKER
WHO DIED AUGUST [ ] 1850
AGED 36 YEARS
ALSO GEORGE ROB. COOKER
SON OF THE ABOVE GEORGE COOKER
AND MARY HIS SECOND WIFE
WHO DIED DEC 29th 1850 AGED TWO YEARS
AND THREE MONTHS
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 30th JULY 1850
GEORGE COOKER OF THE "TURK'S HEAD", LICENSED VICTUALLER.
ALL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE TO WIFE, MARY, FORMERLY MARY RICE, THE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES AND FRANCES RICE, FORMERLY OF SOUTHAMPTON, NOW DECEASED, TO WHOM HE WAS MARRED ON THE 2nd OF MARCH 1846 AT KENNINGTON, SURREY, PARISH CHURCH, ABSOLUTELY. HIS WIFE IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: JOHN MONCKTON, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND EDWARD GILES, HIS CLERK.
PROVED 24th SEPTEMBER 1850.
30. HEADSTONE
TO
THE MEMORY OF
FREDERIC CHARLES CULVER
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DEC 16th 1841 AGED 65 YEARS
NEAR THIS SPOT ARE ALSO DEPOSITED THE REMAINS
OF
DANIEL WILLIAM CULVER
BROTHER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB 25th 1842 AGED 68 YEARS
1841 CENSUS, FREDERIC CULVER, PRINTER OF LUCERNE STREET.
31. HEADSTONE
IN LOVING [MEMORY OF]
MARY ANN
[WIFE] OF WILLIAM [G]ANDY OF THIS TOWN
WHO DIED 27th JUNE 1848
AGED [ ]2 YEARS
AND OF THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN
EDMUND DIED 27th AUG 1838 AGED 20 MONTHS
JANE DIED 11 NOV 1845 AGED 5 [ ]
ELLEN DIED 2nd MARCH 1849 AGED [ ]
W[ALT]ER DIED 11th [ ]
[ ] 15th [ ]
[ ]
1839 PIGOT DIRECTORY, WILLIAM GANDY, CONFECTIONER, WEEK STREET.
32. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ANN WIFE OF
SAMUEL GODFREY
[ 1849]
[ ]
33. HEADSTONE HALF BURIED
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY ANN
BELOVED DAUGHTER OF
ALFRED & MARY
GRAY? [ ]
34. HEADSTONE, BROKEN
[ ]
CHARLES GRAY
WHO DIED 8th AUGUST 1866
AGED 56 YEARS
ALSO ? CHILDREN OF THE ABOVE
MAY ANN DIED 9th MAY 1856
AGED 22 YEARS
CHARLES DIED 17th DECEMBER ? [1860]
[ ]
MAIDSTONE TELEGRAPH, CHARLES GRAY, OF UNION STREET, BUILDER
35. HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
RACHEL MARTHA
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
CAPTAIN
JAMES GABRIEL GURDON R.A.
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH [ ] 1852 AGED 61
36. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO
THE MEMORY OF
JAMES HARRISON
OF THIS PARISH
[ WHO DIED OC]TOBER 22nd 1844
[ ] YEARS
37. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARGARETT
THE WIFE OF
WILLIAM HODSOLL
OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED
DECEMBER 10th 1849
AGED 71 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
WILLIAM HODSOLL
WHO DIED MARCH 20th 1855
AGED 6[ ] YEARS
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 16th MARCH 1855
WILLIAM HODSOLL, YEOMAN.
APPOINTS NEPHEWS HENRY POOLEY OF HOLLINGBOURNE AND HENRY JURY OF MAIDSTONE, INN HOLDER, EXECUTORS. HE GIVES THEM 19 GUINEAS EACH FOR THEIR TROUBLE. TO SERVANT ELIZABETH FREEBODY?, ALL THE FURNITURE IN HER BEDROOM. DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, FIRST PAID. REMAINDER TO EXECUTORS, UPON TRUST, TO SELL. THEY TO INVEST PROCEEDS INTO GOVERNMENT OR OTHER SECURITIES AND PAY INTEREST TO HIS BROTHER THOMAS FOR LIFE. AFTER THOMAS'S DEATH, ¼ OF THE CAPITAL TO THOMAS'S CHILDREN, EQUALLY SHRED; ANOTHER ¼ TO TO THE CHILDREN OF HIS DECEASED SISTER REBECCA POOLEY, INCLUDING HENRY POOLEY, EQUALLY SHARED. THE REMAINING HALF AS FOLLOWS, £50 TO ELIZABETH FREEBODY; £100 TO HARRIET GIBBONS OF MAIDSTONE, SPINSTER, £100 TO TO ANN THOMPSON WIFE OF [ ] THOMPSON OF OTHAM?, LABOURER AND £100 TO HER SISTER, MARY MARGARET REDDICK. RESIDUE TO BROTHERS IN LAW, RICHARD AND WILLIAM GIBBONS AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN LAW, EQUALLY SHARED.
WITNESSES: J.C. STEPHENS, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND AARON? CHAMBERS OF MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 23rd MAY 1855
38. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE
MEMORY OF
EDWIN AUGUSTUS JOHNSON
LATE OF THE
ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, PORTSMOUTH
WHO AFTER LONG SUFFERING DEPARTED
THIS LIFE
OCTOBER THE 22nd 1842
AGED 42
[ ] TOKEN OF AFFECTION [TO] DEPARTED WORTH,
[ ] HIS AFFLICTED WIDOW,
[ ] ERECTED
39. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH LARKING
WIFE OF
JOHN LARKING
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY 12th 1842
AGED 59 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
JOHN LARKING
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
DECEMBER THE 26th 1853
AGED 73 YEARS
"Now Wandering o'er the Stubble Plain,
The Gleaners Stoop to Find,
And Gather up the Ears of Grain,
The Reapers left Behind"
REAR
THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY
CHARLES LARKING
OF NORWICH A GRANDSON OF
JOHN AND SARAH LARKING
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 9th AUGUST 1852
JOHN LARKING, GENTLEMAN, (WAS A CARRIER WITH SON WILLIAM GEORGE, VARIOUS DIRECTORIES)
APPOINTS STEPHEN STONEHAM OF MAIDSTONE, RECEIVING OFFICER AND ? MERRONY OF MAIDSTONE, LICENSED VICTUALLER, EXECUTORS.
THEY TO PAY DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, CHINA, GLASS AND LIQUOR, SHARED EQUALLY BETWEEN HIS DAUGHTERS, SOPHIA LARKING AND FANNY WIFE OF JOHN FAIRBAIRN OF MAIDSTONE, SEEDSMAN, ABSOLUTELY.
HIS 2 HOUSE IN MARSHAM STREET, MAIDSTONE, NOS. 8 AND 9, ONE OCCUPIED BY MR M ?
THE OTHER BY HIMSELF, TO HIS DAUGHTERS FOR EVER. NOS, 6 AND 7 MARSHAM STREET, OCCUPIED BY [ ] HARRISON AND CAPTAIN ELY TO HIS SONS, JOHN AND WILLIAM GEORGE, FOR EVER. HE DESIRES HIS SONS TO PAY THEIR SISTER JANE, NOW RESIDING WITH MR GRANDALL OF BOXLEY ROAD, £200 AND TO PAY SISTER MARY WIFE OF JOSEPH LEECH? ?
? ? /...................................
THREE HOUSE IN WYATT STREET, MAIDSTONE OCCUPIED BY [ ] WELLS, [ ] WILSON AND [ ] MADDOCKS TO SON EDWARD, NOW LIVING AT SHOREHAM, SUSSEX, LINEN DRAPER, FOR EVER. EDWARD TO PAY HIS SISTER MARY LEECH, £200.
RESIDUE TO BE SHARED EQUALLY BY HIS CHILDREN.
WITNESSES: CHARLES MORGAN, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND WILLIAM MORGAN OF MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 3rd FEBRUARY 1854
CHARLES LARKING, THE GRANDSON, WHO ERECTED THE HEADSTONE, WAS BORN IN MAIDSTONE IN 1856. HE BEGAN TRAINING IN THE ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT OF A LONDON DRAPERERY COMPANY IN 1873. HE MOVED TO NORWICH IN 1886 AND BY 1888 HE HAD SET UP HIS OWN ACCOUNTANCY FIRM, WHICH FLOURISHES TO THIS DAY AS LARKING AND GOWEN.
IN 1900 HE BECAME A SECRETARY OF THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH HOSPITAL, ON THE FINANCE BOARD AND IN 1913 WAS VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOSPITAL BOARD. HE DIED IN 1924.
40. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE PARKER SON OF
GEORGE & HANNAH PARKER
OF THE PARISH OF HORNCHURCH
IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX
WHO WAS ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED
IN THE RIVER MEDWAY
AT MAIDSTONE JULY 29th 1844
AGED 25 YEARS
"Awful and Sad was my Untimely Death,
In Floods of Sorrow I Resign'd my Breath,
The Rushing Torrent was my Dying Bed,
No Frie[nd ] my Head"
MAIDSTONE JOURNAL 3rd AUGUST 1844
"CORNER'S INQUEST
ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, LAST AN INQUEST WAS HELD AT THE GIBRALTER INN, BEFORE J.M. CLABON, ESQ., DEPUTY CORONER, ON THE BODY OF GEORGE PARKER, AGED 22 (sic) WHO CAME TO HIS DEATH UNDER THE FOLLOWING MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCES:-
JOSHUA STANSBY STATED THAT HE WAS A BOOTMAKER, IN THE EMPLOY OF MR RANDALL, AT MAIDSTONE. THE DECEASED WAS OF THE SAME TRADE IN THE EMPLOY OF MESSRS BENTLIFF.
ON MONDAY AFTERNOON, LAST ABOUT HALF PAST 3 O'CLOCK, HE LEFT MAIDSTONE IN COMPANY WITH THE DECEASED IN A BOAT BELONGING TO SMITH AT THE BRIDGE. IT WAS A SMALL STOUT-BUILT SKIFF AND DECEASED ROWED DOWN TO GIBRALTER, AT WHICH PLACE THEY ARRIVED ABOUT 4 O'CLOCK, AND STAID THERE TILL TEN MINUTES TO 5, WHEN THEY LEFT TO RETURN TO MAIDSTONE. WITNESS TOOK THE OARS ON LEAVING GIBRALTER AND ROWED A LITTLE WAY DOWN THE RIVER, WHEN HE HAD ASKED DECEASED TO TAKE HIS PLACE. THE HEAD OF THE BOAT WAS AT THIS TIME GOING TOWARDS THE BANK AND WITNESS TOLD DECEASED TO STOP A MINUTE BEFORE HE MOVED, AND TURNED HIS HEAD LOOKING AT THE BOW OF THE BOAT AND PULLING IT OUT FROM THE BANK, WHEN HE FELT A SUDDEN SWAY AND CRIED OUT "HALLOA, WHAT ARE YOU UP TO NOW", AND ON LOOKING ROUND MISSED DECEASED FROM THE BOAT AND SAW HIS HAT FLOATING ON THE WATER.
HE IMMEDIATELY GOT UP AND PUT THE BOAT HOOK OUT BUT HE DID NOT RISE AGAIN. THE BOAT HOOK WOULD NOT TOUCH THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER AND HE IMMEDIATELY WENT TO MR PEARCE FOR THE DRAGS.
DURING THE TIME THEY WERE AT THE GIBRALTER THEY ONLY HAD TWO QUARTS OF ALE BETWEEN SIX OF THEM AND WERE NOT THE LEAST INTOXICATED. THEY HAD NO QUARREL WHATEVER.
THOMAS SMITH, BOATMAN, DEPOSED THAT ON MONDAY NIGHT LAST, ABOUT 8 O'CLOCK, ON LEARNING THAT A MAN WAS DROWNED AT GIBRALTER WHO HAD ONE OF HIS BOATS, HE IMMEDIATELY WENT DOWN AND FOUND THREE BOATS DRAGGING FOR HIM. HE GOT INTO A BOAT AND AFTER ABOUT A QUARTER OF ONE HOUR'S SEARCH SUCCEEDED IN FINDING THE BODY, WHICH WAS CLOSE TO THE SHORE IN ABOUT 2 FEET OF WATER. WITNESS THOUGHT THAT FROM THE POSITION IN WHICH HE FOUND THE BODY, HE HAD NOT MOVED SINCE HE FELL IN.
THE WATER AT THIS TIME WAS GOING DOWN VERY FAST, AND HE THOUGHT AT THE TIME THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABOUT 5 FEET OF WATER WHERE THE BODY WAS FOUND. THERE WAS NOTHING PARTICULAR IN THE APPEARANCE OF THE BODY.
(QUESTION) BY A JUROR: IT WAS A VERY STIFF-BUILT BOAT AND PERFECTLY SAFE--- IT WAS THE SAME PARTY HAD HAD IT BEFORE SEVERAL TIMES. IT WAS GOING WITH A GENTLEMAN THAT AFTERNOON TO SHEERNESS. STANSBY WAS PERFECTLY SOBER WHEN I SAW HIM THAT EVENING.
STANSBY RE-EXAMINED – THE LAST TIME I SAW DECEASED ALIVE HE WAS STANDING UP IN THE BOAT WAITING TO TAKE MY SEAT.
JAMES SPAIN, WATERMAN, ASSISTED IN SEARCHING FOR THE DECEASED AND HAD DONE SO FOR AN HOUR AND HALF PREVIOUS TO SMITH'S ARRIVAL.
MR PETER MONTAGUE POPE, SURGEON, RESIDING AT MALLING, EXAMINED THE BODY THAT DAY; HE FOUND NO MARKS OF VIOLENCE WHATEVER.
THE CORONER IN ADDRESSING THE JURY SAID THAT IT WAS NECESSARY FOR HIM TO STATE TO THEM BEFORE THEY RETURNED THEIR VERDICT, TO FIND THE VALUE OF THE BOAT, OR TO FIX A SUM SOMETHING NEAR THE VALUE AS A DEODAND, AND IT WOULD BE FORFEITED TO THE CROWN. HE WAS SORRY IT WAS SO FOR SMITH, AS HE COULD NOT SEE FROM THE EVIDENCE THAT THE BOAT WAS FAULTY IN ANY DEGREE,, BUT STILL IT WAS A POINT OF LAW AND IT WAS HIS DUTY TO SUGGEST THAT TO THEM. THE DEODAND, HOWEVER, UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES MIGHT PROBABLY BE REMITTED IF APPLIED FOR IN A PROPER QUARTER.
THE JURY RETIRED AND AFTER SOME CONSULTATION, RETURNED A VERDICT OF "ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED, WITH A DEODAND OF £3 ON THE BOAT".
THE DECEASED, WHO WAS A HIGHLY RESPECTABLE YOUNG MAN, WAS A NATIVE OF ESSEX AND HIS LOSS WE HAVE NO DOUBT WILL BE DEEPLY LAMENTED BY THE NUMEROUS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS IN THIS TOWN WHO HAD THE PLEASURE OF HIS ACQUAINTANCE. THE FATHER AND TWO BROTHERS OF THE UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN WERE PRESENT DURING THE INVESTIGATION AND SEEMED GREATLY AFFECTED".
1841 CENSUS, GEORGE LARKING, SHOEMAKER, BANK STREET.
41. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ANN WIFE OF [EDWARD?] PIETY
WHO DIED [O]CTOBER THE 4th 1841
ALSO THE ABOVE [EDW]ARD ? PIETY
DIED [ ] THE 12th 18[ ]
ALSO [ ]
[ ]
42. HEADSTONE
ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM PRINCE
OF EAST ACTON
IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
LATE OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY THE 8th? 1846
AGED 49 YEARS
ALSO ANN WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCTOBER THE [ ] 1852
AGED [ ] YEARS
1839 PIGOT DIRECTORY, WILLIAM PRINCE, TAILOR OF WINDMILL ROW; 1841 CENSUS, TAILOR OF BONE'S ALLEY.
43. BODYSTONE
ROBERT RUSSELL
DIED AUGT 3rd 1846
AGED 78
ALSO
MARGUERETTA
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
DIED JULY 24th
1853
AGED 82
[ ]
DAUGHTER
OF THE ABOVE
DIED JULY 25th
1874
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 13th MAY 1836
ROBERT RUSSELL
ALL HIS PROPERTY TO HIS WIFE, MARGUERETTA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THEIR CHILDREN AND HERSELF. WIFE IS EXECUTOR.
SIGNED: ROBERT RUSSELL OF ROCKY HILL, NO WITNESSES.
ITEM: THE WILL WAS WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL OF MRS? BOYCE IN DOVER AND IN CONTEMPLATION OF THE FUNERAL OF HIS BROTHER IN LAW, JOHN SIMES, TO TAKE PLACE ON THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY, THE 17th OF MAY 1836, AT HYTHE.
CODICIL
BY PROPERTY IN HIS WILL HE MEANS MONEY, LEASEHOLD HOUSE, GOODS AND CHATTELS AND FURNITURE, OR ANY OTHER PROPERTY.
NO WITNESSES.
AFFIDAVIT 4th FEBRUARY 1847
REVEREND ROBERT HARRIS, OF GREAT RUSSELL STREET, MIDDLESEX, IS SWORN.
HE WAS WELL ACQUAUNTED WITH RUSSELL, FOR MANY YEARS, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.
HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH HIS HANDWRITING AND SIGNATURE. HE HAS CAREFULLY EXAMINED THE WILL AND CODICIL, AND CONFIRMS THAT THEY ARE IN RUSSELL'S HAND.
PROVED 5th FEBRUARY 1847
44. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALEXANDER DICKSON
SECOND SON OF
MR ALEXANDER SCOTT
OF PEBBLES, SCOTLAND
WHO DIED IN THIS TOWN
ON THE 5th DAY OF FEBRUARY 1847
AGED 23 YEARS
THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY ?
IN THE 1841 PEEBLES CENSUS, ALEXANDER SCOTT, SENIOR, IS A CLOTHIER AND ALEXANDER, JUNIOR A TAILOR. IN THE 1851 CENSUS ALEXANDER, SENIOR IS A BAILIE, (EQUIVALENT TO AN ENGLISH ALDERMAN) AND TAILOR, ONE OF TWO PARTNERS, EMPLOYING 3 MEN. BY THE 1861 CENSUS, ALEXANDER SENIOR IS DEAD AND HIS WIDOW, MARGARET, (NEE DICKSON), IS A CLOTHIER EMPLOYING 4 MEN AND 1 BOY. I DO NOT KNOW WHY ALEXANDER, JUNIOR WAS IN MAIDSTONE IN 1847.
45. HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
LOUISA WIFE OF
WILLIAM SHINNER
DRAPER OF THIS TOWN
WHO DIED JULY 20th 1846
AGED 39 YEARS
EDWARD ROBERT THEIR SON
DIED MARCH THE 21st 1848
[AGED] [1]9 MONTHS
46. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM SHIRLEY
MANY YEARS IN THE SERVICE
OF THIS TOWN'S BREWERS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB 11th 1846
AGED 68 YEARS
AS A TOKEN OF AFFECTION FOR A KIND FATHER
THIS STONE IS ERECTED BY HIS ELDEST SON H. SHIRLEY
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 7th JANUARY 1845
WILLIAM SHIRLEY, YEOMAN.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID.
TO SON WILLIAM ALL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE, DEBTS, MONEY, MONEY IN PUBLIC FUNDS, MONEY FROM BURIAL SOCIETY HE BELONGS TO, IN TRUST, FOR THE BENEFIT OF WIFE, ANN. AFTER HER DEATH, HIS REAL ESTATE TO SON WILLIAM, ABSOLUTELY, BUT ON CONDITION THAT HE PAYS HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THEN LIVING, £20 EACH, CHARGEABLE ON HIS FREEHOLDS.
RESIDUE OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE, TO SON WILLIAM, ABSOLUTELY. SON WILLIAM IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: JOSEPH BUNYARD AND J. H. CRAWLE?, BOTH OF MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 30th APRIL 1846. SON WILLIAM IS A VICTUALLER OF MAIDSTONE. GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS, LESS THAN £100 VALUE.
47. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE SHRUBSOLE
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED NOV 27th 1857
AGED 65 YEARS
ALSO ELIZABETH DAUGHTER OF
THE ABOVE WHO DIED SEPT 5th 1850
AGED 26 YEARS
ALSO GEORGE HIS SON
WHO DIED JUNE 20th 1853
AGED 33 ? YEARS
[ALSO] [MARY] SHRUBSOLE
WHO DIED NOV [ ] 1861
[AGED] 64 YEARS
GEORGE SHRUBSOLE, SENIOR, 1839 PIGOT DIRECTORY, BLACKSMITH OF STONE STREET OR GROCER OF WEEK STREET?
48. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH
WIFE OF JOHN SMITH
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED OCTOBER 14th 1845
AGED 57 YEARS
ALSO ANNA
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
JOHN & SARAH SMITH
WHO DIED DECEMBER 30th 18[ ]
AGED 23 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED JOHN SMITH
WHO DIED OCTOBER 4th 18[ ]8
AGED 81? YEARS
ALSO OF MARY [ ] SEPT. [ ]
THE ABOVE [ ]
AGED [ ]
49. COPED STONE
NORTH SIDE
IN MEMORY OF
SIDNEY THOMAS SON OF SIDNEY & JANE SPENCER
WHO DIED JUNE 12th 1855 AGED 2 YEARS, 4 MONTHS
"Here in Celestial Strains l There Love in every Bosom Reigns
Raptured ? Myriads ? Sing l For Christ Himself is King"
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED SIDNEY SPENCER
WHO DIED JUNE 1st 1872 AGED 49 YEARS
"Just as I am without one Plea l And that Thee Bid's me Come to Thee
But that Thy Blood was Shed for me l O Lamb of God, Come"
SOUTH SIDE
HENRY HAVELOCK SPENCER
DIED NOVEMBER 30th 1858 AGED 9 MONTHS
"And Jesus saith out of the mouths of Babes & Sucklings thou [ ]"
EMILY SPENCER
DIED JULY 31st 1859 AGED 3 YEARS
"And Jesus said "Suffer the Little Children to come unto me,
And Forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God"
50. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JAMES TADMAN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
29th ? AUGUST 1849
AGED 41 YEARS
"His End was Peace"
ALSO
MARIA WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED 22nd NOVEMBER? 18 [ ]
AGED 71 ? YEARS
INTERRED IN MAIDSTONE CEMETERY
"And we also Bless Thy Holy Name for all [Thy]
Servants Departed this Life in Thy Path of [ ]"
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 21st AUGUST 1847
JAMES TADMAN
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID.
TO WIFE, MARIA, ALL FREEHOLD STATE AND PERSONAL ESTATE, MONEY FROM HIS LIFE INSURANCE WITH THE EQUITABLE LIFE OFFICE, ABSOLUTELY. SHE AND JAMES CLIFFORD, JUNIOR ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: T.W. SPRINGFIELD ? AND R. SPRINGFIELD ?
PROVED 19th JANUARY 1850. POWER RESERVED TO MARIA TADMAN
51. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
EDWARD WISE
LATE OF CANTERBURY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCTOBER 3rd ? 1846
AGED 30 YEARS
"Let no Proud Stone with Sculptered Virtues Rise,
To Mark the Spot therein a Sinner Lies,
Or if some Boast must Deck the Sinner's Grave,
Boast of his Love who Died, Lost Man to Save"
END OF EAST SIDE
NORTH SIDE
52. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN BALLS
LATE OF HILLSWORTH, SUFFOLK
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCTOBER 18th 1851
AGED 77 YEARS
53. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALEXANDER BLACK
24 YEARS VETERINARY SURGEON
IN THE 14th LIGHT DRAGOONS
AND 8 YEARS ON THE STAFF
AT THE CAVALRY DEPOT, MAIDSTONE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 6th OF AUGUST 1846
AGED 61 YEARS
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 9th DECEMBER 1839
ALEXANDER BLACK, ESQUIRE, OF THE CAVALRY BARRACKS.
ALL OF HIS ESTATE TO HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH EASTER, WHO IS HIS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: JOHN SWINDLEY, QUARTER MASTER, CAVALRY BARRACKS AND JOHN CAW, M.D., STAFF ASSISTANT SURGEON.
PROVED 11th NOVEMBER 1846
54. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
STEPHEN BLUET
OF THIS TOWN, COACH BUILDER
WHO DIED SEPT 23rd 1847
AGED 55 YEARS
ALSO OF MARY WIFE OF
THE ABOVE NAMED STEPHEN BLUET
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 14th 1870
AGED 78 YEARS
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 20th AUGUST 1847
STEPHEN BLUET, GENTLEMAN.
ALL OF HIS ESTATE TO HIS WIFE, MARY, FOR EVER. SHE IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: KNOWLES KING, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND GEORGE LODER OF MAIDSTONE
PROVED 16th JUNE 1848
55. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
FRANCES WIFE OF
EDWARD BONNER
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
SEPTEMBER THE 20th 1861
AGED 43 ? YEARS
LEAVING ISSUE 1 DAUGHTER VIZ. ELLEN
ALSO THE ABOVE
EDWARD BONNER
WHO DIED SEPT 29th 1862
AGED 47 YEARS
PRINCIPAL PROBATE REGISTRY, LICENSEE OF THE "UNION FLAG", UNION STREET; COURT KEEPER, 1861 – 62?
56. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN BRENNAN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
DECEMBER THE 20th 1850
AGED 67 YEARS
ALSO MARY ANN BRENNAN
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED 29th APRIL 1877
AGED 92 YEARS
LEFT ISSUE 4 SONS AND 2
DAUGHTERS BY MARY HIS WIFE
ALSO
JULIA EMMA
THEIR DAUGHTER
WHO DIED JANUARY 4th ? 1852
AGED 23 YEARS
LIKEWISE HENRY PRICE
THEIR GRANDSON
WHO DIED OCTOBER 31st 1851
AGED 10 MONTHS
ALSO PAUL BRENNAN
SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JULY ? 16Th 1856
AGED 35? YEARS
REAR
ALSO
ROBERT FITZ BRENNAN
WHO DIED DEC 20th 1860
AGED 43 YEARS
KATE BRENNAN
DIED OCT 25th 1863
AGED 10 MONTHS
57. HEADSTONE
TO
THE MEMORY OF
HENRY COCKRELL
WHO DIED FEB 13th 1848
AGED 72 YEARS
ALSO ELIZABETH HIS WIFE
WHO DIED APRIL 24th 1858
AGED 75 YEARS
"Afflictions Sore Long Time I Bore,
Physicians all proved Vain,
Till God did please to give me Ease,
And Free me from my Pain"
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 7th FEBRUARY 1848
HENRY COCKRELL, SERGEANT, WEST KENT MILITIA.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID.
TO WIFE, ELIZABETH, ALL MONIES AND GOODS AND PERSONAL ESTATE, ABSOLUTELY. SHE IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: ELEANOR BARNEY AND J.G. READER, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 21st SEPTEMBER 1848
58. HEADSTONE
[ ]
HENRY COGGER
[ ]
[ ] MARCH 1851
AGED 37 YEARS
LEAVING A WIDOW AND DAUGHTER
[ ]
59. HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
SARAH WIFE OF
WILLIAM DE[ARE] OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED JANUARY 22nd 1848
AGED [ ] YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
WILLIAM DEARE
WHO DIED FEBRUARY? 20Th 1857
AGED65 ? YEARS
WILLIAM GR[ANVI]LLE DEARE?
[SO]N OF [THE ABOVE]
[WHO] DIED [ ] 18[ ]
AGED [ ]
1851 CENSUS, WILLIAM DEARE, BUTCHER, WEEK STREET.
60. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH WIFE
OF EDWARD GANDY
WHO DIED DEC 22nd [1856]
AGED 56 YEARS
ALSO OF
EDWARD GANDY
WHO DIED DEC [ ] 18[77]?
AGED [82] YEARS
[ ]
1851 CENSUS, EDWARD GANDY, SCHOOLMASTER, WHEELER STREET.
61. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH THE WIFE OF
WILLIAM HAYWOOD
WHO DIED AUGUST 4th 1846
AGED 50 YEARS
ALSO WILLIAM THEIR SON
DIED DEC 12th 1849 AGED 16 YEARS
(Gap)
ALSO SARAH ELIZA DAUGHTER OF
JOHN AND SARAH HAYWOOD
BORN JANUARY 18th 1857
DIED JANUARY 15th 1858
1841 CENSUS, WILLIAM HAYWOOD, PUBLICAN, GABRIEL'S HILL.
62. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY WIFE OF WILLM. HUNT
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED JULY 20th 1843
AGED 48 YEARS
LEFT ISSUE 1 SON JOHN
ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED
WILLIAM HUNT
WHO DIED MARCH 2nd 1876
AGED 73 YEARS
ALSO OF CHILDREN OF JOHN HUNT
WILLIAM DIED SEPT. 6Th ? 1858
AGED 10 MONTHS
JOHN [ Footstone Obscures ]
[ ]
63. HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN HYLAND
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED JULY 27th 1849
AGED 53 YEARS
LEFT ISSUE FIVE SONS AND SIX
DAUGHTERS
ALSO OF RICHARD
YOUNGEST BORN SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED AUGUST 20th 18[ ]4
AGED 36? YEARS
ALSO OF FANNY
WIFE OF THE ABOVE NAMED
JOHN HYLAND
WHO DIED JANUARY 12th 187[ ]
[Footstone Obscures]
1839 PIGOT DIRECTORY, JOHN HYLAND, SENIOR, GROCER IN KING STREET.
JACKSON SEE SMITH
64. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
RICHARD JOHNSON
THIRD SON OF RICHARD JOHNSON
OF CHARING
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON
THE 29th DAY OF NOVEMBER 1851
AGED 31 YEARS
"Him that Cometh to Me I will
In no way Cast [ ]"
65. HEADSTONE AND BODYSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
RICHARD LAMPARD
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 21st 1845
AGED 80 YEARS
ALSO
SARAH WIFE OF THE ABOVE
RICHARD LAMPARD
WHO DIED MARCH 31st 1850
AGED 80 YEARS
LIKEWISE
STEPHEN LAMPARD
SON OF THE ABOVE
RICHARD LAMPARD
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 2nd 1846
AGED 53? YEARS
ALSO
MARY ANN RELICT OF THE ABOVE
STEPHEN LAMPARD
WHO DIED JANUARY 18th 1866
AGED 66 YEARS
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 19th AUGUST 1846
STEPHEN LAMPARD, POSTMAN.
SON JOHN, GREGORY PAGE OF MAIDSTONE, SCHOOLMASTER AND GEORGE ACRES OF MAIDSTONE ARE EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES. DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS TO BE FIRST PAID.
TO EXECUTORS ALL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE, UPON TRUST, TO SELL PERSONAL ESTATE, (EXCEPT SOME HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE) AND TO RECEIVE RENTS FROM REAL ESTATE.
THEY TO PAY AN ANNUITY OF £40 TO HIS WIFE, MARY ANN, FOR LIFE, AS LONG AS SHE REMAINS HIS WIDOW. IF SHE RE-MARRIES, THEN SHE WILL HAVE £20 PER YEAR FOR LIFE.
TO HIS SISTER, ANN SOLON, 7 SHILLINGS A WEEK FOR LIFE, AS LONG AS SHE REMAINS A WIDOW,
IF SHE RE-MARRIES THE LEGACY IS VOID.
EXECUTORS TO DEPOSIT IN THE MAIDSTONE SAVINGS BANK, YEARLY, THE REMAINING PART OF THE RENTS IN THEIR NAMES AND THE NAMES OF HIS SONS, STEPHEN, JOHN, THOMAS, WILLIAM, RICHARD AND GEORGE. UNTIL THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE AND SISTER, THE EXECUTORS, FROM TIME TO TIME, TO PAY INTEREST TOWARDS HIS SONS' MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION. WHEN HIS WIFE AND SISTER ARE DEAD, THE REAL ESTATE TO BE SOLD AND MONEY INVESTED IN GOVERNMENT FUNDS AND INTEREST USED FOR SONS' BENEFIT UNTIL THEY ARE ALL 21 WHEN THE CAPITAL IS TO BE SHARED EQUALLY BETWEEN THEM. EXECUTORS TO INSURE REAL ESTATE IN THE KENT FIRE OFFICE. HIS WIFE TO HAVE THE USE OF THE HOUSE IN WEEK STREET, RENT FREE, FOR ONE YEAR AFTER HIS DEATH, SHE ALSO HAS USE OF FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN AND CHINA DURING THIS PERIOD. AFTER ONE YEAR, SHE CAN HAVE SUCH ARTICLES NEEDED TO FURNISH A SMALL HOUSE OR COTTAGE.
HIS SISTER TO BE ALLOWED TO LIVE WITH IS WIFE FOR 6 MONTHS AFTER HIS DEATH, THEN SHE CAN HAVE SUFFICIENT FURNITURE AND BED TO FURNISH A ROOM.
TO NIECE MARY ANN LARKING, £10.
WITNESSES: THOMAS WOOD JONES ?, OF MAIDSTONE AND JOHN COGGER OF MAIDSTONE.
CODICIL 27th AUGUST 1846
IF HIS SON JOHN, REFUSES OR NEGLECTS TO ACCOUNT FOR MONEY THAT COMES INTO HIS HANDS, CONTRARY TO THE WILL, OR THERE IS A DISPUTE BETWEEN HIM AND THE OTHER TRUSTEES, THE OTHER TRUSTEES CAN DISCHARGE JOHN AS EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE AND APPOINT A REPLACEMENT AS THEY THINK FIT.
WITNESSES: AS FOR WILL.
PROVED 16th DECEMBER 1846
66. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ARTHUR LARKING
SON OF WILLM. GEORGE & MARY ANN LARKING
WHO DIED THE 8th JAN 1847
AGED 4 MONTHS AND 2 DAYS
ALSO THE ABOVE
WILLIAM GEORGE LARKING
WHO DIED AUGUST 12th 1860
IN THE 44th YEAR OF HIS AGE
LEFT SURVIVING A WIDOW AND
ELEVEN CHILDREN
ALSO THE ABOVE
MARY ANN LARKING
WHO DIED MAY 26th 1871
AGED 52 YEARS
"Her Children Arise up and call her Blessed"
ALSO WILLIAM
ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JANUARY 2nd 1885 AGED 43 YEARS
MARTHA THEIR DAUGHTER
WHO DIED AT DARTFORD DEPT 18th? 1886 AGED 33 YEARS
1851 CENSUS, WILLIAM, SENIOR, CARRIER OF ASHFORD ROAD, SOMETIME IN BUSINESS WITH FATHER, JOHN.
67. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH ANN DAUGHTER OF
WILLM. & SOPHIA MILLINGCHAMP
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED APRIL 9th 1839 AGED 5 YEARS
AND 8 MONTHS
"Adieu, Sweet Babe, Short was thy Stay,
Just Look Around, then Child,
Thy Angelic Face we all did See,
But soon we were Deprived of thee,
Sleep Lovely Babe and take thy Rest,
God takes them all Home he Loves Best"
ALSO THE ABOVE
WILLIAM MILLINGCHAMP
WHO DIED AUGUST 10th 1845 AGED 34 YEARS
LEAVING A WIDOW AND ONLY DAUGHTER, VIZ EMMA
TO DEPLORE THE LOSS OF AN AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND A KIND
PARENT AND SINCERE FRIEND
"While in this World I did Remain,
My Latter days were Grief and Pain,
But then the Lord did think it Best,
To take me to a place of Rest"
ALSO THE ABOVE SOPHIA THE LATE WIFE
OF HENRY DAVID APPLETON
WHO DIED (Obscured by Footstone) YEARS
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 30th JULY 1845
WILLIAM MILLINGCHAMP, VICTUALLER.
WIFE, SOPHIA IS EXECUTOR, SHE TO PAY DEBTS FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS.
HIS REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE TO HER, ABSOLUTELY. HE "EARNESTLY" RECOMMENDS HIS WIFE TO EDUCATE , MAINTAIN AND CARE FOR THEIR DAUGHTER, EMMA, TO THE BEST OF HER ABILITY AND MEANS.
WITNESSES: RICHARD HART, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND WILLIAM HILLS, HIS CLERK.
PROVED 4th OCTOBER 1845
PRICE SEE BRENNAN
68. HEADSTONE
A. J. S. 1847
69. HEADSTONE, VERY WORN.
[ ]
CHARLOTTE SMITH?
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
CHARLOTTE JACKSON WIFE OF
WILLIAM JACKSON OF THIS PARISH
[ ] OF THE ABOVE
[ ] 1862 AGED 47 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE WILLIAM JACKSON
[ ] AGED 60 YEARS
IT MAY WELL BE THAT SMITH IS THE SECOND NAME OF A DAUGHTER OF THE JACKSONS?
70. HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
JASPER TUTTY
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED MARCH 7th 1850
AGED 53 YEARS
71. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TOT HE MEMORY OF
JOHN VINCENT
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE SEPTEMBER 4th 18[51]
AGED 48? YEARS
LEAVING SURVIVING A WIDOW AND 1 DAUGHTER
VIZ. ELIZABETH TO LAMENT THE LOSS OF AN
AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND KIND PARENT
ALSO ? CHILDREN WHO DIED IN INFANCY
1851 CENSUS, JOHN VINCENT OF ST FAITH'S STREET, IRON MERCHANT
72. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN WALKER, ARCHITECT
OF THIS TOWN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCT 10th 1844
AGED 36 YEARS
HE LEFT SURVIVING A WIDOW
AND INFANT DAUGHTER
(Fragments of Verses)
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 9th OCTOBER 1844
JOHN WALKER, ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR.
APPOINTS BROTHER, FREDERICK OF WILLINGTON STREET, MAIDSTONE, EXECUTOR.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID.
IF HIS PERSONAL ESTATE IS NOT SUFFICIENT THEN ABOVE COSTS TO BE CHARGED ON HIS REAL ESTATE. HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND EFFECTS , PLATE, LINEN, CHINA, READY MONEY, DEBTS, INVESTMENTS AND RESIDUE OF ESTATE, TO FREDERICK WALKER, IN TRUST, HE TO RECEIVE ALL RENTS, INTEREST AND MONEY DUE FROM HIS PROFESSION AND TO SELL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, ETC., AND AFTER ABOVE COSTS ARE PAID, TO PAY RESIDUE TO HIS WIFE, GEORGIANA, ABSOLUTELY.
WITNESSES: FREDERICK WALKER OF WILLINGTON STREET, HENRY KNOWLES OF HIGH STREET AND J. KNOWLES, WROTHAM.
PROVED 24th OCTOBER 1844
JOHN WALKER WAS A MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS AND WORKED WITH JOHN WHICHCORD, ARCHITECT OF HOLY TRINITY.
73. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELLEN DAUGHTER OF
JAMES AND SARAH WALTER
OF THIS PARISH, HOYMAN
WHO DIED SEPT 14th 1850
AGED 9 YEARS
"And now I lie me down to Rest,
I Pray to God my Soul to Bless,
If I should Die before I W[ake],
I [Hope] the Lord my Soul [to Take]
74. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN WENBORN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 1st 1856?
AGED 55 YEARS
ALSO OF ELEANOR
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED 7th APRIL 1874
AGED 62 YEARS
75. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH THE WIFE OF
VALENTINE WILDISH
OF MAIDSTONE
DIED NOVEMBER 25th 1847
AGED 66 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
VALENTINE WILDISH
DIED MARCH 28th 1868
IN THE 86th YEAR OF HER AGE
ALSO ELIZABETH WILDISH
DIED DECEMBER 3rd 1858
AGED 86 YEARS
VALENTINE WILDISH WAS, FOR MANY YEARS, LANDLORD OF THE BELL INN, WEEK STREET, THIS INN HAD EXISTED SINCE AT LEAST 1538.
76. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGINA MARY
WOODWARD
WHO DIED DECEMBER 3rd 1851
AGED 8 YEARS
ALSO MARTHA ELIZABETH
WOODWARD
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 9th 185[7]?
(Obscured by Footstone)
END OF NORTHERN SIDE
WEST SIDE
77. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH WIFE OF
BENJAMIN ANDERSON
WHO [DIED] FEB 3rd 1849
[AGED] [ ] YEARS
ALSO [THE] [AB]OVE
BEN[JAMIN] ANDERSON
[WHO] [DIED] [ ] 23rd 1853
[ ]
[ ]SON
[ ]
78. SMALL HEADSTONE
TO
THE MEMORY OF
SARAH AUSTIN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED JUNE 8th 1858
AGED 14 YEARS
79. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH WIFE OF
GEORGE BENZIE
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED NOV 4th 1854
AGED 40 YEARS
(Gap)
LEFT SURVIVING TWO SONS
GEORGE BATES
AND HARRY FREDERICK
80. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JANE WIFE OF JAMES BETTS
OF THIS TOWN, GROCER
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 26th 1842
AGED 36 YEARS
LEFT ISSUE SURVIVING ONE SON AND ONE
DAUGHTER VIZ ELIZA JANE
AND ALFRED JAMES
81. HEADSTONE
ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY OF
RICHARD BETTS
SON OF RICHARD AND
CHARLOTTE BETTS
OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED OCT 24th
1852 AGED 6 WEEKS
ALSO JOHN THEIR SON
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 15th 1852
AGED 5 MONTHS
82. HEADSTONE, WORK
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARIA
THE SECOND AND BELOVED DAUGHTER
OF
JOSEPH & SARAH BONE
WHO DIED ON THE 6th OCTOBER 1[ ]
IN THE [ ] YEAR OF HER AGE
[ALSO OF THE ABOVE]
JOSEPH BONE
WHO DIED NOV [ ] [18]60
AGED 6[ ] YEARS
1841 CENSUS, JOSEPH BONE, JAILER MAIDSTONE PRISON, 1851 CENSUS, KEEPER OF THE COUNTY PRISON, MAIDSTONE.
83. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE WILLIAM
SON OF WILLIAM AND EMMA COBB
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 10th 1858
AGED 2 YEARS AND 2 MONTHS
84. HEADSTONE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
ROBERT DICKENSON DALE
OF THIS PARISH, FORMERLY OF MARGATE
WHO DIED APRIL 27th 1848
IN THE 40th YEAR OF HIS AGE
LEAVING A WIFE & 10 CHILDREN
ALSO HARRIET
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JUNE 2nd 1852
AGED 40 YEARS
ALSO ROBERT THEIR SON
WHO DIED DEC [ ]
AGED 30 YEARS
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 31st MARCH 1846
ROBERT DICKENSON DALE
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID.
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, LINEN, CLOTHES, BOOKS, PLATE, CHINA, PICTURES, HORSES?, CARRIAGE, READY MONEY AND INVESTMENTS, GOODS AND EFFECTS, TO WIFE HARRIET, ABSOLUTELY. SHE IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: CHARLES PEARSON AND JOHN STANGER
PROVED 15th DECEMBER 1849
85. SMALL HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY
WIFE OF GEORGE DANN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JUNE 17th 1853 AGED 63 YEARS
ALSO THE AB[OVE] [GEORGE] [D]ANN
WHO [ ]
[ ]
1851 CENSUS, MASTER CARPENTER, EMPLOYING 5 MEN.
86. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN DAY
OF ST. ANN'S SOHO, WESTMINSTER
THIRD SON OF
WILLIAM DAY, CORNFACTOR
OF THIS TOWN
WHO DIED NOV 10th 1852
AGED 40? YEARS
LEAVING A WIDOW & 3 DAUGHTERS
(Gap)
ALSO MATILDA GREENHILL
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED [Obscured by Footstone) 1858
[ ]
87. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO
THE MEMORY OF
ANN WIFE OF JAMES ELLIOTT
(SMITH) OF THIS TOWN
WHO DIED SEPT 12th 1854
AGED 42 YEARS
ALSO SARAH SECOND WIFE OF
THE ABOVE WHO DIED OCT 16th 1863
AGED 51 YEARS
"A Few more Tears shall Roll,
A Few more Seasons Come,
And we shall be with those that Rest,
Withinthe Silent Tomb"
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
JAME[S] [ELLI]OTT
WHO D[IED] [Obscured by Footstone] 1873
88. BROKEN HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
EMILY INFANT CHILD OF
THOMAS GOODWIN
OF THIS TOWN, SOLICITOR?
WHO DIED ON THE 27th DAY OF [ ]
1856 AGED 5 [ ]
89. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES HEATHORN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED MARCH 15th 1859
AGED 78 YEARS
ALSO JUDITH WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED SEPT 13th 1836
AGED 52 YEARS
LEAVING TWO SONS & 3 DAUGHTERS
ALSO SIDNEY BR[ ]
YOUNGEST SON [ ]
WHO DIED AT [ ]
[ ]
90. SMALL HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM HICKMOT
WHO DIED 21st SEPT 1872 ?
AGED 71 YEARS
ALSO ELIZA WIFE OF
THE ABOVE WM. HICKMOT
WHO DIED [ ]
AGED [ ] YEARS
ALSO WILLIAM
WHO DIED 1856 AGED 7 YEARS
ALSO ELLEN?
WHO DIED [ ]YEARS
91. HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY
OF
CATHERINE PILE
WIFE OF
EDMUND HIGGINS
OF THIS TOWN
WHO DIED MAY 7th 1853
AGED 39 YEARS
ALSO MARY WIFE OF
THOMAS SIMMONS
WHO DIED APRIL 4th 1857
[AGED] [ ] YEARS
1851 CENSUS, EDMUND HIGGINS, MASTER PAINTER
92. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MRS HARRIOT HINGE
OF GREENFORD, MIDDLESEX
WHO DIED MAY 6th 1857
AGED 66? YEARS
PREOGATIVECOURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 27th JUNE 1855
HARRIOT HINGE OF GREENFORD, MIDDLESEX, SPINSTER.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID.
TO SISTER SALLY HANDS OF BRENTFORD, WIDOW, IF SHE SURVIVES HER, THE INTEREST ON £300 IN THE NEW 3% BANK ANNUITIES, FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, THE EXECUTORS TO SELL THE STOCK AND DIVIDE IT AS FOLLOWS: TO NIECE, ELIZABETH HARRIOT GATES WIFE OF STEPHEN BELCHER GATES, £100 AND HER WATCH, STEPHEN BELCHER GATES OF ACTON, IS EXECUTOR.TO NEPHEW JOSEPH HINGE, £10; TO SARAH CRITCHLEY WIFE OF CHARLES CRITCHLEY, £10 TO NEPHEWS AND NIECES, JOHN HAMP, £50; THOMAS HAMP £20; EMILY HAMP, £20; ROSE HAMP, £20, AS A SMALL REMEMBRANCE. THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF HER DECEASED NEPHEW, HENRY HAMP.
WITNESSES: WILLIAM PRITCHARD AND W. BAILEY.
AFFIDAVIT 30th MAY 1857
WILLIAM PRITCHARD OF HIGH STREET, ACTON, IS SWORN. HARRIOT HINGE WAS FORMERLY OF GREENFORD BUT LATE OF MAIDSTONE.
HE AFFIRMS WILL WAS SIGNED IN HIS PRESENCE AND THAT OF WILLIAM BAILEY AND THAT THEY WITNESSED THE WILL IN THE PRESENCE OF HARRIOT HINGE AND EACH OTHER, HE ALSO AFFIRMS THAT INTERLINEATIONS IN THE WILL WERE ADDED AT THE SAME TIME.
PROVED 8th JUNE 1857
93. HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
JESSE HOPSON
DIED JAN 17th 1855
AGED 5 YEARS & 8 MONTHS
"He took the Cup of Life to Sip,
Too Bitter ? to Drain,
He put it Meekly from his Lips,
And ? ? ?"
ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF
ROS[A] HOPSON
[ 1857]
[ ]
94. HEADSTONE, UPPER BADLY ERODED
[ ]
[ ] MOO?[ ]
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[JU]NE 6th 1[ ]0
AGED ? YEARS
ALSO OF WILLIAM JEFFERY
FATHER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 28th 1857
AGED 44 YEARS
95. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELIZA WIFE OF
JAMES JESHOPE
WHO DIED APRIL 18th 1855
AGED 33 YEARS
ALSO ANN
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED SEPT 8th 1855
AGED 7 MONTHS
96. SMALL HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH RELICT OF
THOMAS KIPPING OF
EDENBRIDGE
WHO DIED APRIL 24th 1858
AG[ED] 52? YEARS
1841 CENSUS, THOMAS KIPPING, EDENBRIDGE, INDEPENDENT, 1851 CENSUS, AT EDENBRIDGE, HE AN ANNUITANT.
97. HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY
OF
THOMAS LANCASTER
LATE OF RYE, SUSSEX
WHO DIED APRIL 3rd 1860
AGED 88 YEARS
ALSO OF MARY HIS WIFE
WHO DIED APRIL 24th 1840
AGED [ ]9 YEARS
[HER] REMAINS ARE INTERRED
[IN RYE?] CHURCHYARD
1851 CENSUS, THOMAS LANCASTER?, OSTLER AT RYE IN GREEN LANE.
98. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH HUGGETT LARKING
DAUGHTER OF JOHN & JANE LARKING
WHO DIED THE 24th APRIL 1851
AGED 9 MONTHS
ALSO THOMAS SON OF THE ABOVE
DIED MARCH 15th 1854 AGED 10 DAYS
ALSO OF JANE
BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE
JOHN LARKING
WHO DIED DECEMBER 17th 1874
IN THE [ ] YEAR OF HIS AGE
1871 CENSUS, FARMER OF 34 ACRE SAT BEARSTEAD?, EMPLOYING 4 MEN AND 2 BOYS.
99. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
THOMAS SON OF
JAMES & SARAH LOGAN
LATE OF HOLLINGBOURNE
IN THIS COUNTY
WHO DIED SEPT 2nd 1854
AGED 42 YEARS
ALSO WILLIAM THEIR SON
WHO DIED OCT 28th 1854
AGED 40 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
SARAH LOGAN
WHO [DIED] [ ] 1861
A[GED] (Obscured by Footstone)
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 30th OCTOBER 1846
THOMAS LOGAN, OF MAIDSTONE, BAKER.
TO BROTHER WILLIAM OF MAIDSTONE, BAKER, ONE HALF SHARE OF HIS 7/8 PART OF THE HOUSE, WITH STABLE, YARD AND GARDEN IN MAIDSTONE HIGH STREET, ADJOINING THE "ROSE AND CROWN" INN ON THE EAST SIDE, FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY MRS MITCHELL, WIDOW OF JAMES MITCHELL, AFTERWARDS BY JOHN KELVIE*, SINCE BY FANNY KELVIE, LATE BY JOHN MITCHELL AND NOW BY HIMSELF AND BROTHER WILLIAM, ALSO ALL OTHER REAL ESTATE, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, GOODS, CHATTELS, MONEY, STOCK IN TRADE, DEBTS AND PERSONAL ESTATE, FOR EVER. BROTHER WILLIAM IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: DAVID TANNER SWEETLOVE, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE AND SAMUEL HOLLOWAY OF MAIDSTONE, BAKER.
PROVED 19th DECEMBER 1854, GRANTED TO JOHN SHARP THE YOUNGER AND JOSEPH SHARP, EXECUTORS OF WILLIAM LOGAN, DECEASED.
*SEE MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS OF ALL SAINTS, MAIDSTONE, ON THIS WEBSITE.
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 22nd OCTOBER 1854
WILLIAM LOGAN, BAKER.
APPOINTS COUSIN, JOHN SHARP THE YOUNGER OF MAIDSTONE, PAPERMAKER AND JOSEPH SHARP OF MAIDSTONE, PAPERMAKER, AS EXECUTORS.
TO SISTER, ANN LOGAN, NOW LIVING WITH HIM, HIS 7/8 PART OF A PROPERTY ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE "ROSE AND CROWN" INN IN MAIDSTONE HIGH STREET, LATELY OCCUPIED BY HIMSELF AND HIS LATE BROTHER, THOMAS, AND NOW OF HIMSELF; ALSO THE FIXTURES AND UTENSILS OF TRADE IN THE BUILDING.
HIS VESTED REVERSIONARY INTEREST EXPECTED ON THE DEATH OF CHARLOTTE CLARK, OF MAIDSTONE, WIDOW, WHICH HE IS ENTITLED TO BY VIRTUE OF THE WILLS OF HIS UNCLE JOHN LOGAN AND THAT OF HIS BROTHER, THOMAS, IN TWO UNDIVIDED 1/5 PARTS OD FOUR FREEHOLD HOUSES IN QUEEN ANNE ROAD, MAIDSTONE, LATELY OCCUPIED BY [ ] SPRINGETT, AMBROSE BAKER, JAMES HINES AND [ ] RUSSELL, AND NOW OR LATE BY AMBROSE BAKER, [ ] CLARK [ ] BRADSHAW AND [ ] SPRINGETT, TO HIS THREE BROTHERS, JAMES, JOHN AND ROBERT, IN EQUAL SHARES, FOR EVER. TO EACH OF HIS BROTHERS, £65.
REST AND RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE AND EFFECTS, SUBJECT TO THE ABOVE LEGACY, PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, TO HIS MOTHER, SARAH LOGAN, NOW LIVING WITH HIM AND HIS SISTERS, SARAH KENNEDY, WIDOW AND MARY HAMMOND AND NIECE, ELLEN THOMAS? WIFE OF GEORGE THOMAS?, OF THE "ROYAL OAK", MAIDSTONE, IN EQUAL SHARES.
WITNESSES: JOHN SHARP, SENIOR ? OF MAIDSTONE AND JOHN LAKER, JUNIOR, CLERK TO MR MORGAN, SOLICITOR, MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 19th DECEMBER 1854
100. HEADSTONE
[SACRED]
TO THE MEMORY OF
JAMES HOWE MARDON
WHO DIED MAY 15th 1850
AGED 64 YEARS
101. SMALL HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ISABELLA MARY MARTYN
THE ELDEST AND BELOVED
DAUGH[TER] [OF]
TH[OMAS] [MARTYN]
[ 1857]
[ ]
102. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY ANN PACKHAM
DIED JUNE 6th 1851 AGED 29 YEARS
ALSO OF
JOHN PACKHAM
SURGICAL TECHANICIAN (sic) OF THIS PARISH
DIED APRIL 26th 1855 AGED 72 YEARS
ALSO OF
SARAH WIFE OF THE ABOVE
JOHN PACKHAM
DIED JUNE 25th? 1861 AGED 73 YEARS
"Their End was Peace"
IN THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS JOURNAL 1826 – 27, JOHN PACKHAM'S NEW TRUSS WAS PRAISED BY SEVERAL SURGEONS.
103. HEADSTONE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
SUSAN PEARNE
LATE OF DOVER
DIED 8th [ ] 1856
AGED 87 or 88 YEARS
104. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
RICHARD REYNOLDS
LATE POSTILION OF THE
BELL HOTEL, MAIDSTONE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 14th DAY OF NOVEMBER 1854
AGED 67? YEARS
ALSO
RICHARD SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 14th DAY OF JAN 1854
AGED 41? YEARS
[ALSO] HANNAH[ ]
[ 1860]
[AGED 70? YEARS]
THERE IS SOMETHING ODD ABOUT THIS MONUMENT, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WILL, WHICH FOLLOWS.
IN THE 1851 CENSUS, RICHARD REYNOLDS AND HANNAH ARE LIVING IN A WORKING CLASS COURT, WITH, IN THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR, AN ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, AGED 64, A PAUPER, SHE MAY BE RICHARD REYNOLDS'S SISTER IN LAW? (SON RICHARD IS ALSO RECORDED AS A POSTILION).
THE STONE STATES CLEARLY THAT RICHARD, SENIOR, WAS A POSTILION OR "POST BOY", (AS IN THE CENSUS). YET HE DESCRIBES HIMSELF IN THE WILL, AS A GENTLEMAN.. IT WAS QUITE COMMON FOR RETIRED TRADESMEN TO DESCRIBE THEMSELVES THUS, BUT HE BEQUEATHS THE CONSIDERABLE SUM OF £2,600?
HOWEVER, THE NAMES FIT, THE DATES FIT AND THE ABSENCE OF SON RICHARD FROM THE WILL, HE DYING 8 MONTHS BEFORE THE WILL WAS MADE, FITS. BUT I AM STILL NOT CLEAR AS TO WHETHER THIS IS THE SAME FAMILY OR NOT?
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 9th SEPTEMBER 1854
RICHARD REYNOLDS, GENTLEMAN.
WIFE HANNAH, FRIEND WILLIAM DICKESON OF MAIDSTONE, GILDER AND SON WILLIAM ARE EXECUTORS.
TO HIS WIFE, ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, CHINA, BOOKS, PICTURES, CLOTHES, JEWELS, ORNAMENTS OF THE PERSON, LIQUOR AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD GOODS, ABSOLUTELY. HE ALSO GIVES HER £20.
TO WILLIAM DICKESON AND SON WILLIAM, £2,600 IN THE 3% BANK ANNUITIES IN THE BANK IF ENGLAND, UPON TRUST, THEY TO PAY THE DIVIDENDS TO HIS WIFE FOR HER LIFETIME.
WITH HER CONSENT, THEY CAN SELL PART OR PARTS OF THE STOCK AND REINVEST IN MORTGAGE OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS, IN THEIR NAMES.
RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE, AFTER HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL, PROBATE COSTS AND LEGACY ARE PAID,
HIS MONEY IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND, SUBJECT TO PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS TO HIS WIFE, AS FOLLOWS: 1/3 EACH TO SONS WILLIAM AND HENRY, THE REMAINING 1/3 TO SON WILLIAM AND WILLIAM DICKESON WHO WILL PAY (AFTER DEATH OF HIS WIFE?), DIVIDENDS TO HIS DAUGHTER MARY FOR LIFE; AFTER HER DEATH THEN TO HER CHILDREN. THE CAPITAL SHARED AMONG THEM EQUALLY WHEN THEY ARE ALL 21. IF MARY DIED WITH NO LIVING CHILDREN, THEN AS SHE DIRECTS BY HER WILL. IN DEFAULT, THEN TO HER HUSBAND, FOR LIFE. AFTER HIS DEATH OR IF THERE IS NO SURVIVING HUSBAND OR SHE DIES UNMARRIED OR INTESTATE, THEN BY "STATUTE".
IF SHE DOES HAVE CHILDREN, THE INTEREST TO THEM WILL BE FOR THEIR MAINTAINENCE AND EDUCATION UNTIL THEY ARE ALL 21.
HIS REAL ESTATE TO HIS THREE CHILDREN, EQUALLY SHARED, FOR EVER.
IF WILLIAM DICKESON AND SON WILLIAM DIE OR ONE DIES OR IS UNABLE TO ACT OR GOES BEYOND THE SEAS, THE OTHER CAN APPOINT A NEW TRUSTEE OR TRUSTEES..........................
WITNESSES: WILLIAM WHITE AND H. BALDWIN, CLERKS TO MESSRS WILDE AND SON, SOLICITORS, MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 27th APRIL 1855
105. HEADSTONE, HALF BURIED
TO
THE MEMORY OF
MRS SUSANNA RUSE
LATE OF MAIDSTONE
WHO [DIED] [ ] 1858
-----------------------------------------------
106. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM SEDGWICK
WHO DIED DEC 13th 1852
AGED 58 YEARS
FOR MANY YEARS SURGEON
OF THIS TOWN
HIGHLY RESPECTED
ALSO OF
LUCY ELIZABETH
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED JAN 11th 1879
AGED 80
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 14th MARCH 1851
WILLIAM SEDGWICK
TO WIFE LUCY ELIZABETH, FOR LIFE, 1/3 OF THE PROFITS AND GAINS OF HIS PROFESSION OF SURGEON, APOTHECARY AND ? CARRIED OUT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THEIR SON WILLIAM GILLETT SEDGWICK, SECURED BY AN AGREEMENT DATED 11th MARCH 1851 BETWEEN HIM AND HIS SON ON THE FIRST PART AND FREDERIC BARHAM OF MAIDSTONE, SURGEON, APOTHECARY AND ? , OF THE OTHER PART.
ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, GOODSM CHATTELS, MONEY, INVESTMENTS AND PERSONAL ESTATE TO HIS WIFE, ABSOLUTELY, SHE IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: FRANCIS HAMLEY, M.D., MAIDSTONE AND FREDERIC BARHAM, SURGEON, MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 5th SEPTEMBER 1853
107. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM SIBBALD
ESQ. M.D.
PHYSICIAN IN MAIDSTONE
FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS
ASSISTANT INSPECTOR TO
H.M. FORCES
WHEN HE SERVED IN
EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND AMERICA
BORN 22nd SEPTEMBER 1789
DIED 15th FEBRUARY 1853
HE WAS KIND TO THE POOR, A WARM AND
SINCERE FRIEND [ ] [A]TTACHED HUSBAND
AN AFFECTIONATE FATHER
108. HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
HARRIOT AND ELIZA
TWIN DAUGHTERS OF
JOHN & CHARLOTTE SILLS
OF THIS PARISH
HARRIOT DIED APRIL 12th 1855
AGED 13 MONTHS
ELIZA DIED APRIL 13th 1855
AGED 13 MONTHS
ALSO ROSE THEIR DAUGHTER
WHO DIED IN HER INFANCY
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
JOHN SILLS
WHO DIED DECEMBER 8th 1867
AGED 53? YEARS
(Fragment of Verses)
ALSO JOHN [Footstone Obscures] THE ABOVE
[ ]
109. SMALL HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
THOMAS SKEERE
WHO DIED JAN 12th 1863
AGED 86 YEARS
ALSO MARY HIS WIFE
WHO DIED AUG 20th 1850
AGED 78 YEARS
1851 CENSUS, PROPRIETOR OF HOUSE, QUENN ANNE ROAD.
110. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN DISNEY SMYTHE
OF THIS PARISH
LATE
CAPTAIN IN THE HONBLE. E.I.C.
4th BOMBAY RIFLE CORPS
DIED 4th SEPT 1853
AGED 48 YEARS
ALSO
HARRIETT RUSSELL SMYTHE
SISTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED 13th JANUARY 1858
AGED 56 YEARS
111. SMALL HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
DOROTHY SNOAD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY 25th 1856
AGED 55 YEARS
"My She Rest in Peace"
1851 CENSUS, SERVANT, FEMALE ASSISTANT AT ROCKY HILL HOUSE SCHOOL
112. HEADSTONE
TO THE MEMORY
OF
MARY STEVENS
THE WIFE OF
MR JOHN HENRY STEVENS
OF BARMING HEATH IN THIS PARISH
WHO DIED ON THE 20th OF MARCH 1853
AGED 40 YEARS
1851 CENSUS, JOHN STEVENS, CLERK AND STEWARD AT BARMING MENTAL HOSPITAL
113. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
HENRY SON OF
RICHARD AND ANN
SUMMERFIELD
WHO DIED AT SANDGATE
SEPTEMBER 9th 1854
AG[ED] [ ] YEARS
1851 CENSUS, RICHARD SUMMERFIELD, SURVEYOR.
114. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES SON OF
RICHARD & ELIZABETH WALTER
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED OCTOBER 5th 1852
AGED 23 YEARS
ALSO
ELIZABETH FRANCES DAUGHTER
OF JAMES & SARAH WALTER
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 27th 1862
AGED 2 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS
ALSO HARRIET
SECOND WIFE OF THE ABOVE
RICHARD WALTER
DIED NOV 24th 1867 AGED 78 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
RICHARD WALTER
DIED NOV 17th 1868 AGED 77 YEARS
115. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN BORMAN WATTEL
WHO DIED JULY 2nd 1857
IN THE 6[ ] YEAR OF HIS AGE
SECOND SON OF THE LATE
THOMAS WATTEL
OF BOWER HOUSE, TONBRIDGE ROAD
MAIDSTONE
ALSO
MARY SECOND WIFE
OF THE ABOVE
[WHO] DIED APRIL 1st 1859
[Footstone Obscures]
1839 PIGOT DIRECTORY, JOHN WATTEL, COACHBUILDER, KING STREET, HIS FATHER THOMAS WAS A FARMER, P.C.C. WILL, 1805.
116. HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
JOHN WATTS
DIED AUGUST 28th 1858
AGED 31? YEARS
ALSO
LUCRETIA WATTS
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED MARCH 18th [ ]
AGED 44? YEARS
1851 CENSUS, LINEN DRAPER, EMPLOYING 6 MEN.
117. HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN WEEKS
OF THE ROYAL NAVY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY 5th 1858 AGED 49 YEARS
"His End was Peace"
118. HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CATHERINE WIFE OF
WILLIAM WICKHAM
[ 1857]
[ ]
ALSO OF ANN ELIZABETH
DAUGHTER? OF THE ABOVE NAMED
WILLIAM [WICKHAM]
WHO DIED OCTOBER [ ] [1870]
[AGED 54? YEARS]
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED
WILLIAM WICKHAM
WHO DIED MAY 7th? 1873
AGED 80 YEARS
1851 CENSUS, WILLIAM WICKHAM, MALTSTER, LONDON ROAD.
119. HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
CHARLES WRIGHT
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 30th 1849
AGED 49 YEARS
ALSO OF CHARLOTTE HIS WIFE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 9th 1850
AGED 55 YEARS
LEAVING ISSUE TWO DAUGHTERS VIZ
CHARLOTTE & ELIZA
ALSO OF CHARLOTTE DAVIS
THEIR GRAND DAUGHTER
WHO DIED MAY 25th [1854] AGED 4 YEARS
PREOGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 3rd NOVEMBER 1847
CHARLES WRIGHT, PORK BUTCHER.
APPOINTS WIFE, CHARLOTTE, EXECUTOR,
ALL OF HIS ESTATE, REAL AND PERSONAL TO HIS WIFE, ABSOLUTELY.
WITNESSES: WILLIAM WHITE AND JOSHUA HARRISON, CLERK TO MESSRS WILDE AND SWEETLOVE, SOLICITORS, MAIDSTONE.
120. HEADSTONE
TO
THE MEMORY OF
RICHARD YATES
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH 23rd 1855
IN THE 77th YEAR OF HIS AGE
"Beloved in Life, In Death Lamented"
ALSO SARAH WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY 10th 1865 AGED 73 YEARS
"Be Ye therefore Ready, also for in
Such an Hour as ye Think Not, the
Son of Man Cometh"
PREOGATIVECOURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED [ ? ] JANUARY 1854
RICHARD YATES, OF EASTCHURCH, ISLE OF SHEPPEY, NOW OF MAIDSTONE, GENTLEMAN.
APPOINTS WIFE, SARAH, (DURING HER WIDOWHOOD) AND FRIEND WILLIAM BELSEY OF AYLESFORD, FARMER, EXECUTORS.
ALL PERSONAL ESTATE, TO EXECUTORS (AND TRUSTEES), HIS WIFE TO HAVE FOR LIFE HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, BOOKS, CHINA, PLATE, GLASSWARE AND EFFECTS. AFTER HER DEATH, THE ABOVE ITEMS TO HIS GREAT NIECE, SARAH BELSEY, WIFE OF WILLIAM BELSEY, ABSOLUTELY.
TRUSTEES TO SELL OTHER PERSONAL ESTATE NOT CONSISTING OF MONEY.............................
TRUSTEES TO PAY HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS. HIS MONEY TO BE INVESTED IN GOVERNMENT FUND OF MORTGAGE(ES), IN FREEHOLD OR COPYHOLD.FROM THE ANNUAL INCOME FROM LATTER TO HIS WIFE FOR LIFE, AS LONG AS SHE REMAINS HIS WIDOW AN £80 ANNUITY, IF SHE REMARRIES A £40 ANNUITY.
AFTER HER DEATH, TRUSTEE TO PAY £500 TO HIS NIECE, SARAH BELSEY, IF SHE IS NOT LIVING, THEN TO HER LEGAL HEIRS. SURPLUS, IN TRUST, TO BE USED FOR BENEFIT OF CHILDREN OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THAT IS, OF HIS LATE SISTER, MARY NEVILL WIDOW OF JOHN NEVILL LATE OF LONDON, ? ; CHILDREN OF LATE NEPHEW JOHN YATES, FORMERLY OF EASTCHURCH, LABOURER; THE FIVE CHILDREN OF LATE BROTHER THOMAS, FORMERLY OF EASTCHURCH, LABOURER, THEY ARE, THOMAS, JOHN, RICHARD, JULIA AND HARRIET; FIVE CHILDREN OF BROTHER, OWEN? FORMERLY OF EASTCHURCH, LABOURER, THEY ARE JAMES, WILLIAM, HENRY, STEPHEN AND SARAH, BUT NOT INCLUDING RICHARD; FOUR CHILDREN OF HIS SISTER, SARAH WHITE FORMERLY SARAH HART, THEY ARE SARAH SOLE WIFE OF GEORGE SOLE FORMERLY SARAH HART, DAUGHTER OF HIS SISTER SARAH WHITE BY HER FIRST HUSBAND THOMAS HART, ANN, WILLIAM, GEORGE AND HENRY WHITE, CHILDREN OF HIS SISTER'S SECOND HUSBAND. HIS NEPHEW, WILLIAM YATES FORMERLY OF SHEERNESS DOCKYARD, NOW OF GILLINGHAM, JOINER, A NATURAL SON OF HIS LATE SISTER, DEBORAH YATES; WILLIAM JOHNSON THE NATURAL SON OF LATE BROTHER THOMAS , SHARED EQUALLY.
TO NEPHEW RICHARD YATES, SON OF BROTHER OWEN ? NOW LIVING IN AMERICA, £50, WHICH HE OWES TO TESTATOR AND ALL INTEREST DUE FORGIVEN.
SIGNS WILL WITH HIS MARK.
WITNESSES: CHARLES SEAGER?, BUTCHER, MAIDSTONE AND WILLIAM? , MAIDSTONE.
PROVED 7th MAY 1855
END
Index of Names - from gravestones only
Names Index
ANDERSON 77
APPLETON 67
ARKCOLL 4
AUSTIN 78
BALLS 52
BATES 79
BENNETT 9
BENZIE 79
BETTS 80, 81
BLACK 53
BLUET 54
BONE 82
BONNER 55
BORMAN 115
BRENNAN 56
BRISSENDEN 10
BROOKE 11
BUCHANAN 12
BURROWS 28
BYRANS 13
CLARKE 12
COBB 83
COCKRELL 57
COGGER 58
COOKER 29
CULVER 30
DALE 84
DALRYMPLE 15
DANN 85
DAY 86
DE JERSEY 7
DEARE 59
DICKENSON 84
DICKSON 44
ELLIOTT 87
GANDY 31, 60
GILLIAN 16
GODFREY 32
GOODWIN 88
GRAY 33, 34
GREENHILL 86
GREY 18
GURDON 35
HARRISON 36
HAYWOOD 61
HEATHORN 89
HICKMOT 17, 90
HIGGINS 91
HINGE 92
HOADLY 18
HODSOLL 37
HOLLOWAY 19
HOPSON 93
HOWE 100
HUGGETT 98
HUNT 62
HYLAND 63
JACKSON 69
JESHOPE 95
JOHNSON 38, 64
KIPPING 96
LAMPARD 65
LANCASTER 97
LARKING 39, 66, 98
LATTER 6
LOGAN 99
MARDON 100
MARTYN 101
MIDDLETON 1, 2
MILLINGCHAMP 67
MOO? 94
MOORE 7
PACKHAM 102
PARKER 40
PEARNE 103
PEPPERCORN 20
PHILPOT 21
PIETY 41
PILE 91
POBJOY 8
PRICE 56
PRINCE 42
PYBUS 3
RANSOM 22
REYNOLDS 104
RUSE 105
RUSSELL 43SAWER 8
SCUDAMORE 23
SEATH 24
SEDGWICK 106
SHARP 17
SHINNER 45
SHIRLEY 46
SHRUBSOLE 47
SIBBALD 107
SILLS 108
SIMMONS 91
SKEERE 14019
SMITH 14, 25, 48 69
SMYTHE 110
SNOAD 111
SPENCER 49
STEVENS 112
SUMMERFIELD 113
TADMAN 50
TUTTY 70
VILE 26
VINCENT 71
WAKEFIELD 17
WALKER 72, m73, 114
WATTEL 115
WATTS 116
WEEKS 117
WENBORN 74
WICKHAM 118
WICKS 27
WILDISH 75
WISE 51
WOODWARD 76
WRIGHT 119
YATES 120