Hackington

Hackington is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Canterbury.  The church is named St. Stephen with original registers commencing 1567 and Archdeacon's Transcripts commencing 1560.

Hackington, or St. Stephens, is a parish in Blean district, Kent;  on the river Stour, the Canterbury and Whitstable railway, and the Canterbury and Ramsgate railway, contiguous to St Dunstans, on the north side of Canterbury.  Part of it is included in Canterbury city.  Post-town, Canterbury.  Acres, 1,984.  Real property in 1860, £1,668.  Population in 1861, 616.  Houses, 122.  Population of the part within Canterbury, 94.  Houses, 16.

The property is divided among a few.  The manor belonged, in the 17th century, to Sir Roger Manwood;and passed to the Colepepers and the Haleses.  Hale’s Place, near the church yard, superseded a mansion of the Manwoods;  was built in 1768, by Sir Edward Hales;  and is an edifice in the Ionic style.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £412 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Archdeacon of Canterbury.

The church is cruciform;  retains portions built by Archbishop Baldwin;  shows characters from early English to perpendicular;  has a west tower, with massive early English buttresses;  was recently restored  and contains, in the south transept, a fine Tudor monument of sir Roger Manwood.

There are a national school, Manwood’s hospital with £49, and other charities with £15.

Source:  John Marius Wilson, comp.  The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

Hackington Bibliography

-- various. 'Archaeologia Cantiana'. Publisher: Kent, England: Kent Archaeological Society, various dates.  [Note:  The following volumes can be found on archive.org:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (1876), 11, 12, 13 (1880), 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35, vol. 1907 supplement.]

• General references to Hackington: vol. 2, pp. 161; vol. 11, p. 206, 208; vol. 16, p. 151; vol. 20, pp 25; vol. 21, p. 177; vol. 23, p. 74; vol. 25, pp. 101, 107;
• Brambiltighe in vol. 2, p. 161
• manor, vol. 40, p. 94
• suspected persons," vol. 40, p. 124
• tenant's homages and services vol. 6, p. 234
• Hales Place and its predecessors, vol. 45, pp. 201-204
• Lovelaces at vol. 10, p. 201
• fines relating to, vol. 6, p. 233; vol. 11, pp. 319, 329, 347; vol. 12, pp. 290. 296; vol. 14, pp. 254, 267, 271; vol. 15, p. 299
• St. Stephen's Church Mr. Foss's paper on vol. 1, p. 73
• Sir R. Manwood's monument vol. 1, p. 74; vol. 5, p. 29
• Sir Christopher Hales, buried at, vol. 5, p. 27
• Rood screen at vol. 4, pp. 370, 373; vol. 44, pp. 263-268
• Church vol. 25, p. 107; vol. 27, p. 53; vol. 30, p. 242; vol. 45, p. 201
• Archbishop Baldwin, vol. 44, pp. 253-263
• Church fittings, vol. 44, pp. 262-263
• font, vol. 44, p. 262
• Manwood monument, vol. 44, p. 263
• rood-loft, vol. 44, pp. 267-268
• tower, vol. 44, pp. 253, 254-256
• Bishop's visitation, vol. 29, p. 277
• Adam, vol. 32, p. 176

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward II, Vol. 1. 1307-1313'Each volume has own index. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org.

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Inquisitions and assessments relating to feudal aids : with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, A. D. 1284-1431', Vol. 3. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org.

Great Britain, Exchequer. 'The book of fees commonly called testa de nevill, pt. 3'. The Book of fees contains information about the holdings of feudal tenants. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org.

Hall, Hubert, 1857-1944. 'The Red book of the Exchequer - Liber rubeus de Scaccario, Vol. 3'. The Red book of the Exchequer was a register intended to preserve important documents comprising charters, statutes of the realm, public acts (Placita), private deeds and ordinances, correspondence. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org.

Glencross, Reginald Morshead. 'Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Vol. 1. 1559-1571'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org.

Hasted, Edward. 'The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent; Containing the antient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical; collected from public records, and other authorities: illustrated with maps, views, antiquities, etc. The second edition, improved, corrected, and continued to the present time'. 12 volumes. Publisher: Canterbury: Printed by W. Bristow, 1797-1801. URL: British History Online

Hussey, Arthur. 'Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, mentioned in Domesday book, and those of more recent date'. Publisher: London J.R. Smith,(1852).

Letters, Dr. Samantha. 'Kent', Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 (2005).  URL: British History Online.

Page, William, 1861-1934, ed.. 'The Victoria history of the county of Kent'. Publisher: London: Constable (1908).  URL: British History Online

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 39', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 2: Edward I. Published:(1906), pp. 315-323.  URL: British History Online.

Sharp, J. E. E. S., ed.. 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 45', Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 1: Henry III. Published:(1904), pp. 296-302.  URL: British History Online.

Location of Records

The following list of records is not intended to be exhaustive.  There are many records that are awaiting discovery in archive offices throughout Kent and England.  This list is intended only to set out those records that are available via at least two relatively easy-to-access avenues.  If you have used or discover a record that would be of benefit to other researchers, that is not on this list, please send me an email with the details of the archive - name, address and archival call number.

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