Stourmouth

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Stourmouth, a parish, with a village, in Eastry District, Kent;  on the river Stour at the influx of the Lesser Stour, 1-1/2 miles east-by-south of Grove Ferry railway station, and 5 miles northwest of Sandwich.  It has a post office under Sandwich.  Acres, 878.  Real property in 1860, £2,607.  Population in 1861, 294.  Houses, 62.

The manor belongs to the Rev. J. Hilton.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £400.  Patron, the Bishop of Worcester.  The church is ancient.  Charities, £18.¹

There are two villages, called East and West Stourmouth. In the latter, which is the principal one, is Dene farm, the property of Mr. W. Baldock, brewer, of Canterbury, and Husseys farm, called so no doubt from the antient possessors of it, belonging to Mr. Carr Culmer, gent. and further on, the parsonage and court-lodge, opposite the church. Of it self it is not unpleasant, and the houses are mostly of the better sort, and well conditioned; which probably induced Leland to call it a faire village.  At East Stourmouth is Stone Hall, which belongs to Lee Warley, gent. of Canterbury.²

Charities

STEPHEN JOADE, of this parish, by his will anno 29 Elizabeth, gave to the poor of it 40s. per annum, payable out of a house and land in it, now in the occupation of Mrs. Elizabeth Gillow, widow.²

¹John Marius Wilson, comp.  The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

²Edward Hasted, ed. and comp.  The town and parish of Stourmouth: Town and manors, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 260-307.

Bibliography

-- various. 'Archaeologia Cantiana'. Publisher: Kent, England: Kent Archaeological Society, various dates.

• v10, 159;
• v12, 206, 338;
• v13, 324;
• v18, 32;
• v15, 282;
• v20, 4, 36, 167;
• v21, 131;
• v26, 128;
• v49, 254;
• v53, 68 f.;
• v54, 39;
• v56, 26;
• v61, 132;
• Anglo-Saxon Church v81, 242;
• Bronze Age bronze implements, v88, 217;
• ch., v47, 41;
• Church, by the Rev. A. H. Collins, v42, 141-146;
• clergy C17, v99, 192n
• excavations at v102, 233, 242, 243, 245
• fines of lands in v11, 338, 348;
• hearth, neolithic excavations v93, 96-101
• hoard, bronze age, v97, 198
• in early times, v44, 184 ;
• Knight's fee, half a, given to Alan de Valeines by Hamo Fitz William v77, 138;
• land held by Vitalis in 1086, v77, 135
• land of Aelmar the Red given to All Saints Church by William FitzHamo v77, 137
• manor v109, 34
• Northwood manor land v107, 34, 44
• Rochester priory v91, 50, 52
• Roper's bequest to the church (1523) v2, 153;
• salt pans, v107, 44
• Stourmouth, Thomas de v12, 206;
• survey v98, 228, f229, 229
• Westmarsh and Grove Ferry, v61, 132;
• William, chaplain of, v44, 32, 174;

Houses of Benedictine monks: The cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester, A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1926), pp. 121-126.

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1668-9 (1894) - December 1669

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: volume 14, October 1374 (1913)

Colleges: Wingham, A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1926), pp. 233-235.

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: volume 13, August 1373 (1911)

Court of common pleas: The National Archives, CP40/800 - Hilary term 1461 (2010)

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1598-1601, Volume 277 - Undated 1600 (1869)

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward III, Vol. 4. 1337-1339'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org/

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward IV, A.D. 1461-1467'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org/

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Henry VI, Vol. 5. 1447-1454'. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org/

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Philip and Mary, Vol. 2. 1554-1555. Publisher: Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch; http://www.familysearch.org/

Great Britain, Public Record Office. 'Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Philip and Mary', Vol. 3. 1555-1557. 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/

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.

Holt, Anne D.. 'History of Parliament ... 1439-1509 Wedgwood, Josiah Clement, Baron, 1872-1943. Publisher: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Genealogical Society of Utah d.b.a Historical Books on FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org)

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).  British History Online.

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

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.  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.  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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