| New wills added 20.7.07
- Thomas Burrow (1656),
Jane Wooden (1850)
New wills added 25.3.07
- John
Hodsoll (1434)
New wills added 6.1.07
- Edward
Best (1803), Mary
Best (1847), John
Knowles (1782), Joseph
Oliver (1731), Joseph
Oliver (1806), John
Stacy (1658), Richard
Treadwell (1806), Francis
Treadwell (1819)
Wills are an excellent source for
the history of how people used to live in Hartley. They
give an idea of the relative standing of the person, and
tell us of their families.
They survive for Hartley from about 1450 onwards. Depending on where the will was "proved" it will be filed at:
- Centre for Kentish Studies (KAO) - all wills proved at the court of the Archdeacon or Bishop of Rochester (pre 1858)
- Public Records Office (PRO) - all wills proved at the court of the Archbishop of Canterbury (pre 1858).
- Principal Probate Registry - all wills proved after 1858.
There are also a few "Inquisitions Post Mortem" (pre 1660). These are local enquiries held when a tenant of the crown died, to see if anything was owed to the monarch.
|
Name |
Place of Abode |
Occupation |
Date |
Robert
|
Averill
|
Ash
|
yeoman
|
1656 |
Robert, sen
|
Batt
|
Longfield
|
|
1734 |
William, sen
|
Bensted
|
|
farmer
|
1836 |
William, jun
|
Bensted
|
Hartley
Court
|
|
1868 |
Michael
|
Beresford
|
Westerham
|
esquire
|
1608 |
George
|
Beresford
|
Westerham
|
|
1613 |
Michael
|
Beresford
|
Ash next
Sandwich
|
|
1628 |
|
Edward
|
Best
|
Hartley
|
yeoman
|
1803
|
|
Mary
|
Best
|
Hartley
|
servant
|
1847
|
William
|
Best
|
|
yeoman
|
1728 |
|
Thomas
|
Burrow
|
Longfield
|
yeoman
|
1656
|
Thomas
|
Burrow
|
|
|
1689 |
James
|
Burrow
|
Kingsdown
|
gentleman
|
1729 |
Elizabeth
|
Burrow
|
Kingsdown
|
|
1730 |
George
|
Charrington
|
Beddington
|
yeoman
|
1795 |
Everard
|
Clement
|
Ash
|
clerk
|
1700 |
John
|
Cotyer
|
at Haye
|
|
1452 |
Thomas
|
Cotyer
|
(incomplete)
|
|
1473 |
Peter
|
Cotyer
|
Dartford
|
|
1527 |
Thomas
|
Cripps
|
|
|
1527 |
Thomas
|
Cripps
|
|
yeoman
|
1596 |
Robert
|
Dalton
|
|
yeoman
|
1527 |
John
|
Dawe
|
Fawkham
|
|
1499 |
John
|
Edwards
|
|
|
1664 |
Thomas
|
Edwards
|
East
Malling
|
yeoman
|
1673 |
Nicholas
|
Ellis
|
|
|
1614 |
George
|
Eves
|
|
clerk
|
1667 |
John (sen)
|
Feerby
|
St Pauls
Cray
|
|
1455 |
John
|
Fuller
|
|
|
1500 |
Robert
|
Gens
|
Southfleet
|
yeoman
|
1576 |
George
|
Gifford
|
Fawkham
|
gentleman
|
1704 |
Richard
|
Glover
|
|
victualler
|
1748 |
John
|
Glover
|
Eynsford |
|
1814 |
John
|
Glover
|
Shoreham |
farmer
|
1864 |
Thomas
|
Glover
|
Eynsford |
farmer
|
1886 |
William
|
Goldsmith
|
|
publican
|
1803 |
Christopher
|
Hayward
|
Eynsford
|
yeoman
|
1750 |
John
|
Hickmott
|
Cliffords
Inn, London
|
gentleman
|
1657 |
Charles
|
Hickmott
|
New
Windsor, Berks
|
gentleman
|
1673 |
Joan
|
Hickmott
|
Oxford
|
widow
|
1673 |
|
John
|
Hodsoll
|
Ash
|
|
1434
|
Lawrence
|
Holker
|
Gravesend
|
gentleman
|
1708 |
Lawrence
|
Holker
|
Milton
next G'end
|
doctor
|
1738 |
Lawrence
|
Holker
|
St
Thomas Apostle, London
|
|
1794 |
Sarah
|
Holland
|
Beckenham
|
widow
|
1779 |
Thomas
|
Johnson
|
|
yeoman
|
1695 |
John C W
|
Kershaw
|
|
zoologist
|
1950 |
William
|
Kipps
|
|
|
1609 |
Stephen
|
Kipps
|
|
yeoman
|
1638 |
William
|
Knight
|
Greenwich
|
labourer
|
1707 |
|
John
|
Knowles
|
Hartley
|
victualler
|
1782
|
James
|
Lance
|
Ash
|
yeoman
|
1527 |
William
|
Lance
|
Ash
|
|
1551 |
John
|
Lance
|
Ash
|
husbandman
|
1565 |
James
|
Lance
|
Ash
|
yeoman
|
1592 |
Thomas
|
Lance
|
Ash
|
|
1624 |
William
|
Lance
|
Ash
|
yeoman
|
1664 |
James
|
Lance
|
Ash
|
yeomen
|
1729 |
William
|
Lethieullier
|
Beckenham
|
surgeon
|
1736 |
Samuel
|
Lethieullier
|
Beckenham
|
|
1751 |
Sarah
|
Lethieullier
|
(see Holland)
|
|
1779 |
Harry
|
Mab
|
|
|
1497 |
John
|
Middleton
|
Longfield
|
yeoman
|
1660 |
William sen.
|
Middleton
|
Nursted
|
|
1570 |
William
|
Middleton
|
Nursted
|
yeoman
|
1602 |
Nicholas
|
Middleton
|
Longfield
|
|
1643 |
John
|
Middleton
|
Longfield
|
yeoman
|
1660 |
Henry
|
Middleton
|
|
|
1666 |
Francis
|
Middleton
|
|
taylor
|
1688 |
Nicholas
|
Middleton
|
Ash
|
yeoman
|
1704 |
John
|
Middleton
|
Ash
|
yeoman
|
1792 |
Richard
|
Miller
|
Ash
|
yeoman
|
1670 |
John
|
Northassh
|
|
|
1506 |
Joseph
|
Oliver
|
|
yeoman
|
1731 |
|
Joseph
|
Oliver
|
|
butcher
|
1806
|
John
|
Overey
|
|
|
1509 |
John
|
Overey
|
|
|
1555 |
William
|
Overy
|
Horton
Kirby
|
|
1482 |
John
|
Parysse
|
|
|
1451 |
Ralph
|
Petley
|
Riverhead
|
esquire
|
1704 |
Jane
|
Petley
|
Riverhead
|
spinster
|
1743 |
John
|
Petley
|
Rochester
|
gentleman
|
1747 |
Robert Carter
|
Petley
|
Riverhead
|
esquire
|
1788 |
Edward
|
Potter
|
Oxford
|
gentleman
|
1702 |
Thomas
|
Rodwell
|
Hartley
|
Builder |
1918 |
Richard
|
Rokesley
|
Dartford
|
|
1448 |
William
|
Smythe
|
Fawkham
|
|
1530 |
Alice
|
Smythe
|
Fawkham
|
widow
|
1531 |
|
John
|
Stacy
|
Hartley
|
gentleman
|
1658
|
Thomas
|
Swan
|
Southfleet
|
|
1570 |
Francis
|
Treadwell
|
|
blacksmith
|
1819 |
|
Richard
|
Treadwell
|
|
yeoman
|
1806
|
John
|
Troylard
|
|
|
1457 |
John
|
Underhill
|
Fawkham
|
yeoman
|
1718
|
Mary
|
Underhill
|
Fawkham
|
widow
|
1729 |
Thomas
|
Underhill
|
|
yeoman
|
1765 |
Elizabeth
|
Underhill
|
Northfleet
Green, formerly Hartley
|
widow
|
1775 |
John
|
Wade
|
Ash
|
|
1837 |
Thomas
|
Walter
|
Fawkham
|
yeoman
|
1555 |
Thomas
|
Walter
|
Lyons
Inn, London
|
gentleman
|
1600 |
Thomas
|
Walter
|
|
|
1608 |
Thomas
|
Walter
|
Fawkham
|
esquire
|
1623 |
Dorcas
|
Walter
|
Fawkham
|
|
1630 |
John
|
Walter
|
|
|
1675 |
Edward
|
Welch
|
|
husbandman
|
1718 |
Elizabeth
|
Whiffen
|
Ridley
|
widow
|
1667 |
George
|
Whiffen
|
Ash
|
yeoman
|
1687 |
Thomas
|
Whitehead
|
|
yeoman
|
1582 |
Thomas
|
Whitehead
|
|
yeoman
|
1626 |
Richard
|
Wilson
|
-
|
|
1576 |
Thomas
|
Young
|
|
gentleman
|
1688 |
|
Jane
|
Woodin
|
|
widow
|
|
