George CARTER

1713 - 1782  (69 years)

• Name	George CARTER
  Born	1713	Smarden, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Feb 1782	Kennington, Kent, England
  Person ID	I7257	Young Kent Ancestors
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2013

  
  

  Father	George CARTER,   d. 2 Jun 1728, Of Smarden, Kent, England
  Mother	Anne aka Mary Anne MARSHALL,   b. of High Halden, Kent, England ,   bur. 1 Aug 1723, Smarden, Kent, England
  Married	1709
  Family ID	F2430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah TIGHE,   d. 30 Jun 1763, Stone-Oxney, Kent, England
  Children	1. William CARTER,   b. 1748,   d. 1748  (Age 0 years)   2. George CARTER,   b. 1755,   d. 1818, of Kennington Hall, Kent, England  (Age 63 years)   3. Sarah CARTER,   d. 1805, Kennington, Kent, England   4. Martha CARTER,   d. 1788   5. Ann CARTER,   d. post-1829, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F2434	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  THE PARISH of Kennington is situated in a healthy country, being for the most part a gravelly, though not an unfertile soil, not much more than a mile from Ashford, close to the west side of the high road from Canterbury, which is joined by that from Faversham, which runs along the opposite side of the parish, and joins the former a little beyond Burton. It is watered by two small streams which rise northward of it, the one at Sandyhurst, the other near Eastwell park; the former running by Bybrooke, where it is called Bacon's water, and the other at the opposite part of the parish, by Clipmill and Frogbrook, near Wilsborough lees, into the river Stour, which flows along the eastern side of the parish. The village is situated on rising ground, at a small distance from the Canterbury road, with the church at the further end of it, close to the edge of the lees, or heath, called Kennington lees. The places of note in this parish, are situated near the last-mentioned road; besides which, there is near Kennington-house, a small neat box, built by the late Geo. Carter, esq. of this parish, and given by him to his daughter Mary, who married the Rev. John Clotworthy Skeffington. She died s. p. and her two sisters, Mary and Anne Carter, now possess it; and at the further part of the parish, beyond Clipmill, on the same road, is a large built by Mr. Carter above-mentioned, for his own residence, on an estate which he bought for this purpose of the family of Brett, who had resided here for some generations. He was the second son of George Carter, of Smarden, son of James, of Wilsborough, a younger son of George Carter, gent. of Crundal, whose family has already been mentioned before under that place. He died here in 1782, and his only son the Rev. George Carter is the present possessor of this seat, and resides in it. Citation 'Parishes: Kennington', Hasted, Edward. "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7" (1798), pp. 545-557. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63441&strquery=carter. Date accessed: 17 January 2008. Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his estates were consiscated to the crown. After which, this manor was held by the family of Hoese, afterwards called Hussey, one of whom, Henry de Hoese, died possessed of it in the 18th year of king Edward I. and his son Henry did homage for it in the 30th year of that reign, to John Peckham, archbishop of Canterbury, of whom he then held it, together with lands in Sturmouth, and in his descendants it continued down to Henry Hussey, who in the reign of king Henry VIII. sold it to Sackville; after which it came into the possession of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, who in the 7th year of king Edward VI. exchanged it with the king for other premises, and it remained in the crown till the 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary, when it was granted to Thomas and John White, and others, to hold in capite by knight's service, (fn. 7) who joined in the sale of it to Millen, in which name it remained in the reign of king Charles II. and from one of them it was afterwards alienated to Young, of Charing, who by deed settled it on Elizabeth Poole, daughter of Mr. Poole, of Charing, who marrying Dr. John Ludwell, M.D. late of Oriel college, Oxford, entitled him to it for his life, and surviving him she became again possessed of it in her own right, and at her death in 1765, by her last will, devised it to her kinsman George Carter, esq. of Kennington, whose son, the Rev. George Carter, now of Kenningston, is the present possessor of this manor. From: 'Parishes: Westwell', "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7" (1798), pp. 412-429. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63430&strquery=carter. Date accessed: 17 January 2008.