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Name |
Henry THOMSON |
Born |
Kenfield, Petham, Kent, England |
Gender |
Male |
Person ID |
I1528 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
Last Modified |
23 Feb 2022 |
Father |
Thomas THOMSON, b. 1563, Sandwich, Kent, England , d. 11 Oct 1626, Kenfield, Petham, Kent, England (Age 63 years) |
Mother |
Elizabeth LEVESON, b. Halling, Kent, England |
Family ID |
F518 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Mary SADLER |
Children |
| 1. John THOMSON, b. Abt 1630, Kenfield, Petham, Kent, England , d. 17 Jan 1712/1713 (82 years), Petham, Kent, England  |
| 2. Thomas THOMSON, b. Abt 1634, Petham, Kent, England , d. 15 Oct 1683, Kent, England (Age ~ 49 years) |
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Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
Family ID |
F514 |
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Notes |
- THE MANOR OF PETHAM was given in the year 1036, to Christ-church, in Canterbury, by Haldene, a Saxon prince, in the presence of king Cnute, and at the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in 1080, was part of the possessions of that see; accordingly it is thus entered in it, under the general title of the archbishop's lands:
In Piteham hundred, the archbishop himself holds Piteham. It was taxed for seven sulings. The arable land is as much as twenty carucates. In demesne there are three carucates, and thirty-two villeins, with twenty one borderers having nineteen carucates. There are two churches. There are two servants, and thirteen acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of twenty bogs. In the whole value in the time of king Edward the Confessor this manor was worth seventeen pounds and six shillings and three pence, and afterwards as much, and now it is worth twenty pounds. Of this manor Godefrid and Nigell hold of the archbishop one suling and an half and a yoke, and there they have four carucates, and four villeins, with eight borderers having three carucates. In the whole they were worth nine pounds, of these the monks have eight shillings per annum.
After which this manor continued parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury till some time after the reformation, when it passed by act of parliament into the hands of the crown, where it staid till it was granted in the 5th year of king Charles I. to William White and others, (fn. 2) and they soon afterwards sold it to Henry Thomson, esq. who resided at THE MANOR OF KENFIELD, in his mansion then called Upper Kenfield, in this parish, being descended of a family originally of Sandwich, who bore for their arms, Gules, two bars, argent, a chief, ermine; and in his descendants they both continued down to Thomas Thomson, esq. of Kenfield, who died in 1762, leaving four sons and three daughters; of the former, Thomas the eldest, married Sarah, daughter of Mr. Samuel Belcher, and was of Ulcomb, and afterwards of Maidstone; Thomas, the second son, will be mentioned hereafter, who married Anne, widow of the Rev. Edward Wilson, of Romney, by whom he has no issue; John, the third son, was of Chartham deanry, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Thurston, of Sittingborne; and Edward, the fourth, is of Romney Marsh. Of the daughters, Charlotte, the second, married Mr. William Belcher, of Ulcombe. By his will he gave these manors, with the mansion of Kenfield, to his second son, the Rev. Henry Thomson, now of Kenfield, the present possessor of them; (fn. 3) but he entailed them, on failure of male issue by his three younger sons, on the branch of this family of Somersham, in Huntingdonshire. A court leet and court baron is held for it.
Charities.
EDWARD STRONG gave by will, in 1623, the sum of 1l. 10s. per annum, payable out of a small farm in this parish, to be distributed among the poor annually. Which sum is vested in trustees.
THOMAS THOMSON, ESQ. of Petham, by his will in 1626, gave 5l. 10s. for the relief of the poor of it. This money is now vested in the Rev. Henry Thomson, of Kenfield, the interest of of which, amounting to 5s. 6d. in money, is given to the poor yearly.
From: 'Parishes: Petham', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9 (1800), pp. 310-319. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63569&strquery=thomson. Date accessed: 17 January 2008.
From: 'Parishes: Petham', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9 (1800), pp. 310-319. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63569&strquery=thomson. Date accessed: 17 January 2008.
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