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Kent, originally Cantia, is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary. The ceremonial
county boundaries of
Kent include the shire
county of Kent and the unitary
borough of Medway. Kent has a nominal border with France halfway through the Channel Tunnel. Maidstone is its county town and historically Rochester and Canterbury have been accorded city
status, though only the
latter still holds it. Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, 32 miles (51 km) south-east of
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ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES |
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Major
archives offices and libraries that have local studies collections relevant
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HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES |
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There
are several Family History Societies covering Kent, some have very localised
interests but the bulk of the county is divided between the Kent FHS and the
Nort West Kent FHS. For contact
details please check their web sites as
lhttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/probate.htm listed on the GENUKI Societies page.
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COUNTY AND PARISH RECORDS |
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Canterbury marriage licences 1568-1618
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The following are names of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or died
in this location. To find out more about each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. |
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Apuldore; Badlesmere; Bayhall;
Baynard; Bedgebury; Chamberlain; Clare;
Colepeper; Couchman; Culpepper; FitzAlan;
Gainsford; Hardreshull; Pannell;
Plantagenet; Provence; Rokesley;
Roper; Strathbogie; Streven |
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different ways of using Google and the Internet to find ancestry information about this or
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Badlesmere; Brenchley; Canterbury; Goudhurst; Pembury; Swalecliff; |
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Badlesmere
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LOCATION: 51° 14′ 0″ N,
0° 52′ 0″ E |
Country: United
Kingdom; State: England; County: Kent; District: Swale; Place: Badlesmere Parish |
Badlesmere Church |
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DESCRIPTION: Badlesmere is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about five miles south of Faversham. According to the 2001 census it had a
population of 111. Badlesmere Castle
- The
mediaeval castle at Badlesmere was demolished long ago. It was once home to
the great family of Badlesmere whose head, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, was one of the most powerful men in
England during the reign of King Edward II. |
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ANCESTORS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: Maud
(de) Badlesmere, wife of John (de) Vere, was born here in 1308. She was the daughter of
Bartholomew, 1st Lord Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare of Thomond. |
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Badlesmere,
Kent - Wikipedia |
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Brenchley
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LOCATION: 51° 8′ 54.96″ N, ° 23′ 38.76″ E |
Country: United
Kingdom; State: England; County: Kent; District: Tunbridge
Wells; Place: Brenchley Parish |
Brenchley
Badsell Manor
Mascalls Court |
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DESCRIPTION:
Brenchley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Tunbridge
Wells, Kent, England. The name is historically derived from
Branca's Leigh. The parish is located eight miles east of Tunbridge Wells, and three miles south of Paddock Wood, and includes the neighbouring village
of Matfield. Badsell Manor
belonged to direct ancestors of the modern day Culpeppers, and the modern
home still has a moat around it (see photo).
It is thought to be the second oldest site of an old Culpeper home
where a home still exists on the site today.
The Sir
Thomas Culpeper will
of 1428 cites the following: "Touching the manor of Badeselle it is to remain
to Walter my son and his heirs male, with remainder to the heirs male of myself and
Joyce my wife." Mascalls Court is believed to be
the oldest of all the Culpeper home sites for which a home still exists on
the site today. Of course, the current
home may bear little resemblance to the dwelling that would have stood there
in the 14th century. Sir
Thomas Colepeper de Brenchesle (Brenchley) used Mascalls
Manor (in Brenchley) during the reign of Edward II (1307-1327) and that one
of Sir Thomas's sons, Walter died in possession of it in 1327. |
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ANCESTORS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: John
Colepeper – Birth 1274; John Colepeper I - Birth
1200; John
Colepeper II - Birth 1308;
Nicholas
Colepeper - Birth 1276; Thomas
Colepeper II - Birth 1230, Marriage 1273; Thomas Colepeper
III - Birth
1278; Walter Colepeper - Birth
1280. |
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Brenchley
Kent - an English Village;
Brenchley - Wikipedia; |
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Pembury
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LOCATION: 51° 8′ 44.16″ N, 0° 19′ 20.64″ E |
Country: United
Kingdom; State: England; County: Kent; District: Tunbridge
Wells; Place: Pembury Parish |
Bayhall Manor
St. Peter’s Church, Pembury
Kent College, Pembury |
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DESCRIPTION:
Pembury is a large village in Kent, in the south east of England, with a population of around 6,000. It
lies just to the north of Tunbridge
Wells. A settlement in Pembury almost certainly predates the Norman
conquest, as the
village church of St Peter is of Norman origin. It is thought to have been built
in the early 12th or late 11th century, though the earliest it can be dated
with certainty is to 1337, when John Culpeper of Bayhall carried out building
work to the church Bayhall Manor
- Around 1304 Sir Thomas Colepeper married Margery Bayhall, a daughter of the Bayhall family, and
either by this match, or by purchase, acquired the Bayhall estates. As such, the earliest inhabitants of
Bayhall Manor were the Culpeper
(Colepeper) family who built the original house before
1337. In later years,
Bayhall Manor has been the residence of many well known families such
as the Duke of Buckingham and the Amherst family. The manor of Bayhall lay in the valley on
the south side of the village of Pembury.
Ruins of the house were still to be seen until about 1960. At this time one of the national newspapers
told a rather exaggerated story of its being haunted. People coming to see it made themselves such
a nuisance and rendered it so unsafe, that the owner got permission to clear
it away. The ghost was supposed to be
that of Anne West, the last person to reside in the mansion. A picture of the mansion at Bayhall may be
seen in the Tunbridge Wells Museum. |
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ANCESTORS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: Eleanor Colepeper - Birth 1389; Elizabeth (de) Hardreshull - Marriage:
Abt. 1354; John Colepeper II – Marriage Abt. 1354,
Death Aft. 1376; John Culpepper III - Birth
1428; Joyce Baynard - Birth 1368, Marriage Aft. 1398; Margaret
Colepeper - Birth 1312;
Margery Bayhall - Birth
1286; Richard
Colepeper - Birth 1310;
Thomas
Colepeper IV - Marriage Aft. 1398; Walter
Colepeper - Birth 1398;
Walter Colepeper - Birth
1305 |
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Pembury Village News Website; Pembury
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Goudhurst
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LOCATION: 51° 6′ 40.32″ N,
0° 27′ 48.96″ E |
Country: United
Kingdom; State: England; County: Kent; District: Tunbridge
Wells; Place: Goudhurst Parish |
High Street, Goudhurst
Bedgebury Manor |
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DESCRIPTION: Goudhurst is a village in Kent on the Weald, about 12 miles (19 km) south
of Maidstone. It stands on a crossroads, where there
is a large village pond. Bedgebury Manor is one of the oldest estates in Kent dating from 815 AD, lying between Hawkhurst to
the east, Flimwell
to the south, Kilndown to
the west and Goudhurst to
the north. William
the Conqueror gave the manor to the de Bedgebury
family who owned it until 1450 ,
when the Culpeper family acquired the
land. Queen Elizabeth I knighted
Alexander Culpepper in 1573 when she stayed at the estate. |
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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: Agnes Gainsford – Marriage; Agnes Roper - Death 02 Dec 1457; Alexander Culpepper – Birth 1454, Marriage 1478, Death Jun 1541; Ann Culpepper – Birth 1478; Isabel Culpepper - Birth 1456; John de Bedgebury - Birth 1390; John Culpepper III – Marriage, Death 20 Dec 1480; Joyce Culpepper - Birth 1460; Walter Culpepper II - Birth 1458 |
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Goudhurst
Kent - an English Village; Goudhurst - Wikipedia |
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Canterbury
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LOCATION: 51° 17′ 1.17″ N, 1° 4′ 14.93″ E |
Country: United
Kingdom; State: England; County: Kent; District: City
of Canterbury; Place: St. Dunstan
Parish |
Roper Gate at St. Dunstan’s Church
St. Dunstan’s Church. Canterbury |
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DESCRIPTION: Canterbury lies at the heart of the City
of Canterbury, a local
government district of Kent, in South
East England. It lies
on the River
Stour. St.
Dunstan's Place, situated near St. Dunstan’s church, on the north side of the London
road. It is noted for having been the ancient and most early residence in
this county of the family of Roper, whose burial
place was afterwards in the church of St. Dunstan's. William Roper, or Rosper, resided here in
King Henry III.'s reign. John Roper,
his descendant, was resident both here and at Swaycliffe. St. Dunstan's Church is dedicated to St. Dunstan in Canterbury, Kent, slightly out of the center of the city. The Church is historically significant as a result of the following two events. On Henry II's penitential pilgrimage here in 1174, he changed into his sackcloth and ashes in which he then walked to Thomas Becket's tomb. Upon the execution of Sir Thomas More, by King Henry VIII, his body was buried at the Tower of London, in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. His head was placed over London Bridge for a month and was rescued by his daughter, Margaret Roper, before it could be thrown in the River Thames. The skull is believed to rest in the Roper Vault of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury. |
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ANCESTORS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: Agnes Roper - Birth 1402, Marriage 1425; Catherine
Roper (nee?) - Birth 1380, Marriage 1401; Edmund
Roper - Birth
1375, Marriage 1401, Death 11 Dec 1433; Ralph
Adam Roper Birth 1341, Death 1401. |
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Canterbury in Kent: A virtual walk
around the city; Canterbury - Wikipedia; St.
Dunstan's, Canterbury - Wikipedia; Canterbury Buildings; |
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Swalecliffe
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LOCATION: 51° 21′ 40.1″ N,
1° 3′ 55.58″ E |
Country: United
Kingdom; State: England; County: Kent; District: City
of Canterbury; Place: Swalecliffe Parish |
Swalecliff
Parish 1880 |
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DESCRIPTION: Swalecliffe is a village between Whitstable and Herne Bay and is opposite its neighboring village Chestfield. The village has less than 400
residents, and is located in the South East of England |
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ANCESTORS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:
Adam
Roper Birth: Marriage:1308; Edwin
Roper Birth:1247; Elnith
Apuldore Birth:1313 Marriage:1330; Elnith
Apuldore Birth:1179;
Thomas Roper Birth:1309
Marriage:1330 |
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Swalecliffe - Wikipedia; Swalecliffe Joint Info. Services
Consortium; |
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list below will assist in your research regarding the matching of your
ancestor’s birth, marriage, death dates and the place(s) within this locality
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· United Kingdom and Ireland - rootsweb.com · GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy · UK Genealogy (Portal for UK Family
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and records of this county and other places such as towns
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because we believe they tend to provide the reader with additional
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Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury, Kent,
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have any photographs or other images relating to this ancestral location, we would
greatly appreciate hearing from you. Use the following LINK to ascertain whether
we have any images that pertain to this location. ANCESTRAL
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