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Thanet, Stonar



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Statistical Summary

Acres:  670
OS co-ordinates:  TR335591
Latitude:  51:17.0091N
Longitude:  1:20.8732E

Parish Church:  None
Registers commence:  Not applicable
Other Denominations:
  None
Markets:
  Monday - St. Nicholas at Wade
  Wednesday - Ramsgate
  Thursday - Sarre
  Friday - Minster
  Saturday - Monkton, Margate &
  Ramsgate

Fairs:
  Palm Monday - Minster
  30 May - Acol
  13 July - Minster
  22 July - Monkton
  10 Aug - St. Lawrence
  8 Sep - St. Nicholas at Wade
  14 Oct - Sarre

Newspapers:  weekly at Ramsgate
Electoral Place:  Ramsgate
Courts:
  Petty Sessions and County Courts -
  Margate and Ramsgate

Jails:  at St. Clement's, Sandwich
Hospitals:
  Royal National at Westgate
Amenities:  None

Registration District:  Thanet
Poor Law Union:  Thanet 1835-1930
Workhouse:  Minster, Thanet Diocese:  Canterbury
Archdeaconry:  Canterbury
Deanery:  Westbere
Probate:
   pre-1859 - Archdeaconry Court of        Canterbury
   post-1858 - Principal Probate Registry
Lathe:  St. Augustine
Hundred:  Ringslow
Houses:  8.1
Parishes within 6 mile radius:
  Acol, Ash (Sandwich), Birchington Chislet, Elmstone, Margate, Minster in Thanet, Monkton, Preston (Ash and Wingham), Stonar, Reculver, Sandwich (Sts Clement, Mary and Peter), Sarre, St. Nicholas at Wade, Stourmouth, Thanet St Lawrence, Thanet St. Peter
Hasted map of Stonar as it existed in 1778
Hasted's Map of 1778. Click map for larger image.


Domesday Reference:
   None

Principal landholder:
   None

Thanet, St. Peter

Stonar is a quondam town and a parish in Thanet district, Kent.  The town stood on the river Stour, 1 mile north-north-east of Sandwich;  is supposed to have been the Lapis Titnli of the Romans;  was the place of Louis the Dauphin's debarkation in 1216, and of Edward III.'s embarkation in 1359;  was destroyed by the French in 1385;  figured as a member of Sandwich in 1773;  and is now represented by only a farm house.  Post town, Sandwich.  Real property, £1,546.  The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, not reported.  Patron, the Crown, by lapse.  There is no church.1

Stonar was written anciently Eastanore and Eastanores, meaning perhaps the Eastern Ore, in contradistinction to the other place of the same name near Faversham, still called Ore, both which belonged formerly to the Monastery of St. Augustine at Canterbury.  After the water had retired from Ebbsfleet, Stonar became the common place of debarkation in the Isle of Thanet;  and during the three centuries immediately succeeding the Conquest, it was a considerable place.  Dr. Harris quotes a manuscript of Dr. Plot, dated about 1693, which says, that "the ruins of Stonar, till within the memory of man, took up many acres of ground, but were lately removed to render the ground fit for tillage." its prosperity however, we may presume, was checked by the growth of the opposite haven of Sandwich, and by the alteration in the course of the Wantsume.  In the 39th year of the reign of Edward III. a sad disaster befel the town in "a terrible inundation of the sea," which overwhelmed a great part of it:  and in the year 1385, it was entirely destroyed by the French, who, after having pillaged it, burnt it to the ground.

Camden and Dr. Plot are of opinion that the Portus Rutupensis was at Stonar, which at that time stood in the same situation with respect to the city of Rutupiae, that Leith does now to Edinburgh.

Besides the piratial attack of the French mentioned above, this port was on two preceding occasions the landing place of an invading enemy;  in the year 1009, of Turkill, the Dane;  and in the last year of King John's reign, of Lewis, the Dauphin, who brought with him a numerous army.

South Stonar House, in the ancient Parish of Stonar, the residence of J. Wood, Esq., is situated at the southern point of the Isle of Thanet, distant from Sandwich not quite half a mile north.4

The civil parish of the same name at the 1921 census was coextensive with the ecclesiastical parish.3

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 Stonar: Town and manors, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 4 (1798), pp. 260-307.

3William Page, 1861-1934, ed.  The Victoria County History of Kent, vol. 3, p. 360.(London, England: The St. Catherine Press, Stamford Street, Waterloo, S.E., 1932).

4C. Greenwood, comp.  Epitome of County History, vol. 1, County of Kent. (London, England: privately printed, 1838).


Thanet, St. Peter's 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 Thanet, St. Peter: vol. , pp.
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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.

Census | Church of England | Non-Conformist | Parish chest | Workhouse and Poor Law | Land | Assizes and Sessions | School

 

Census

Date The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue,
Kew, Richmond,
Surrey,
TW9 4DU
also available at:
Kent History & Library Centre, James Whatman Way, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1LQ, Phone:+44 300 041 3131, Email: historyandlibrarycentre@kent.gov.uk
LDS Family History Centre
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and indexed online at:
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6 June 1841 Currently under revision  
30 Mar 1851 Currently under revision  
30 Mar 1851 census name index & images Currently under revision  
7 Apr 1861 Currently under revision  
2 Apr 1871 Currently under revision  
3 Apr 1881 Currently under revision  
5 Apr 1891 Currently under revision  
31 Mar 1901 Currently under revision  
2 Apr 1911 Currently under revision  
2 Apr 1911 RG 78/139 - Census Enumerator's Summary Books online only at commerical subscription sites none
 

Church Records, Church of England

Record Type Dates Archives
(Addresses)
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Parish Register   Currently under revision  
Bishop's transcripts   Currently under revision  
CMB transcripts   Currently under revision  
Parish Registers, transcribed by Thomas Colyer-Fergusson   Currently under revision  
 

Church Records, Non-Conformist

Record Type Dates Archives
(Addresses)
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Particular Baptist Chapel, Nonconformist Return   Currently under revision  
Methodist Church Registers   Currently under revision  
 

Parish chest records

Record Type Dates Archives
(Addresses)
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Parish Council Minutes   Currently under revision  
Removal orders   Currently under revision  
Settlement Examinations, Minute book   Currently under revision  
Overseers' Accounts   Currently under revision  
Return of Churchwardens, constables and defaulters     
Tithe Apportionment Files      
Poor Rate books   Currently under revision  
 

Workhouse and Poor Law Records

Record Type Dates Archives
(Addresses)
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Admission & Discharge books   This section currently under revision  
Guardians' Minutes      
Ledgers      
Births   Currently under revision  
Deaths   Currently under revision  
Religious creed registers   Currently under revision  
Apprentice Register      
Registers of lunatics      
Letters books      
Vaccination registers 1899-1930 Currently under revision  
 

Land Records

Record Type Dates Archives
(Addresses)
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Land tax assessments 1780-1831 Currently under revision  
Rates and Duties - Houses, Windows, Lights   Currently under revision  
Manorial Court rolls   Currently under revision  
War Damage Files 1939-1962 Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, Kent, no.: Finding Aid at CKS-DRb/RW 123 None
 

Assizes and Sessions Records
(poor laws, jail terms, oaths, and other municipal and public records)

Record Type Dates Archives
(Addresses)
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Hearth tax   Currently under revision  
Victuallers Recognizances   Currently under revision  
Churchwarden's Presentments   Currently under revision  
Parish rate books   Currently under revision  
 

School Records

Record Type Dates Archives
(Addresses)
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    Currently under revision  
       

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Church Registers


Census


Parish Chest
Records

  • Settlement Certificates
  • Removal Orders
  • Bastardy Examinations
  • Parish-assisted Immigrants
  • Churchwarden's Accounts
  • Overseer's Accounts
  • Surveyor's Accounts
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  • Pew Rents
  • Donors' Rolls
  • Vestry Minutes
  • Bishops' Visitations
  • Parish Magazines
  • Parish Histories

Directories


Total Population3

1801   -   33
1811   -   51
1821   -   44
1831   -   52
1841   -   52
1851   -   44
1861   -   42
1871   -   35
1881   -   35
1891   -   25
1901   -   59
1911   -   66
1921   -   10


Thanet, St. Peter Distance to

London 64.1 mi.
Canterbury 12.1 mi.
Ashford 23.6 mi.
Bromley 58.0 mi.
Chatham 35.5 mi.
Cranbrook 38.1 mi.
Dartford 50.9 mi.
Deptford 61.1 mi.
Dover 12.5 mi.
Faversham 19.9 mi.
Folkestone 17.2 mi.
Gravesend 43.0 mi.
Greenwich 59.2 mi.
Hythe 19.8 mi.
Maidstone 35.6 mi.
Margate 5.7 mi.
Milton Regis 26.8 mi.
Queenborough 27.0 mi.
Stonar 3.6 mi.
Rochester 38.1 mi.
Sandwich 1.9 mi.
Sheerness 27.5 mi.
Tenterden 32.9 mi.
Tunbridge Wells 48.5 mi.
Woolwich 57.0 mi.


Directories


Municipal & Public Records

  • Mayors
  • Town Clerks
  • Recorders
  • Chamberlains
  • M.P.s
  • Jurats, Aldermen and Common Councilmen
  • Electoral Register
  • Freeholders
  • Freemen Index
  • Freeman's Roll
  • Masters Index
  • Pubs, Taverns, Inns, Alehouses
  • Victuallers

Wills & Estate Records

  • AD index 1448-1857
  • CC index 1448-1857
  • PCC 1338-1858
  • PPR 1858-1925
  • Depositions

Court Records

  • Gaol Returns
  • Quarter Sessions
  • Transportations
  • Summons for Pavement Repairs
  • Tithe Apportionment c1830s
  • Protestation Rolls c1641-1643
  • Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy 1662
  • Oaths of Allegiance c1720s

Military Records


Land Records
& Maps

  • Parish Map
  • Victoria County History
  • Deeds, Mortgages, etc.
  • Rated Property Returns
  • Returns of owners of land, 1873
  • Manor Court Baron
  • Manor Tenancy Rolls
  • Manors, Castles & Holdings of Significance

Tax Lists

  • Poll Tax
  • Hearth Tax
  • Window Tax
  • Hair Powder Tax
  • Land Tax Assessments 1780-1831
  • Land Tax Assessments 1799-1805

Other Records

  • Apprenticeships
  • Immigration
  • School Records
  • Notable Events
  • Nefarious Activities

Village Resources