INDEX TO THE CRANBROOK JOURNAL
No's I to XXVII (1988-2016)

THE CRANBROOK JOURNAL

Abbot, Robert, vicar: XIX,2.
Adams, Thomas (d.1812), of Swifts Place: XIV,9; XV,7-8; XVI, 4.
Ades, Stephen, churchwarden: XVII, 10-11.
agricultural holdings: XXVII, 2.
Albert House, inn: XX,19.
Alexander family: I,3; II,8; II,13; VIII,4-5; XI,13; XVI, 5, 19-22; XVII,22, XVIII,26-29, 33.
Allen, Edward and Katherine: XXIV,4-6
Allen, Edwin, surveyor: XXV,15.
Allan, Rev John Lloyd (d. 1866), headmaster: VI,8-9; XI,6-7; XI,12; XXVII, 13-14.
Allen, Gabriel, landowner: XVIII,17.
Allens, grocers XXI,13.
Alley, Elizabeth (nee Roads): III,14-15.
allotments: XI, 17.
Andrews, John, clothier: II,6.
Andrews, John, versifier (1798): XIII,26-7.
Angley Park: XIV, 19; XVIII,17,23.
Annoway, Nicholas, weaver: VII,17-18.
apothecaries: V, 7-10; XXVII,8-9.
Aprice, Hugh, vicar of Cranbrook: XXIII, 1-2.
Archer, Edwin, sweep, and family: XXVII, 21.
Ashleigh (house): XVII, 26.
Arts and Crafts Movement: XIII,19-21; XIV,18.
Atwaters: XVIII,18.
Austen, John: XVI, 4.
Austen, Thomas, tanner and farmer, d.1658: XXVII, 2.
Austen, William (d. 1667), surgeon: V,9.
Ayherst, Francis, tenant farmer: XVIII,12.


Babies Castle, Hawkhurst: VI,24; XXVI, 7-9.
Badcock, John and Diana: I,10.
bailiwick of Cranbrook: XXIV, 2-3.
Baker, George (d. 1712), innkeeper: VIII,24.
Baker, Sir John: XV, 1-3; XXIV,15; XXV,21.
Baker, Sir Richard: I,23; II,33; III,18; VI,15.
Baker family (above): XVII,8; XX,5; XXII, 10-11; XXVI, 1-4.
Baker, William, accuser / witness of martyrs: III,23.
Baker's Cross: IV,5-8; VII,2-8; XVI,23; XXI,15-17.
Ballard, Isaac and Frances: I,12-13.
Ballard, William, clockmaker: XV,14-17; XVIII,10.
Ball Field: VII,17-19.
Banghams, shop: XXI,14.
Banks, Charles Waters: XIII,13-14.
banks in Cranbrook: III,16-17; VII,20-21; XVIII,4-9; XXIII, 11.
Baptists: II,24; XIV,10-13; XV,28-30; XVII, 12-14.
barbers: V,7.
Barham, James Pay, letter carrier: VIII,13.
Barham, John Pay, basket maker: VIII,13.
Barham, Sidney Pay, local historian: VIII,9-13.
Barnardo, Dr T.J. XXVI, 7.
Barnes, William, tenant farmer: XVIII,17.
Barrow, Rev Francis, vicar: XII,14.
- Bartholomew, early 20th c farmer: XV,24.
Basden, John (d. 1661), clothier: IV,6; V,10.
Basden, Thomas (1698-1778), apothecary: V,10; XXVII, 7-9.
basket making: VIII,10.
bastardy: XIII,3-7.
Bate, Nicholas (1568-1619), apothecary: V,7-8.
Bate, Richard, weaver, father of Nicholas: V,7.
Bates, Isaac, Goudhurst poor relief overseer: X,11-14.
Bates, John, Quaker cordwainer: XVII, 2.
Bates, Samuel, Quaker shoemaker: XVII, 2.
Battle, Abbey: II,16-17; XXIV,2-3.
Battle of Britain, 1940: XXII,14; XXIV, 21-22.
Bayfield, Mr and Mrs, workhouse master and matron: XVIII,20.
Baylie, Thomas, tenant at Swifts: XVII, 5.
Bayne, Paul, pastor: XIX,1.
Beach, Nicholas, baptist: IX,3.
Beale, Dorothy: XX,18.
Beckett, James, surgeon: V,1,3
Bedgebury furnace: X,5.
Bednar, George: XXII, 21-22; XXIII, XXIII, 23; XXVI, 14.
Beeching, John (two), barber-surgeons: V,7.
Beeman, Isaac, preacher: I,15-18; XV,14,28-9; XXIV,14.
Beeman, Mrs: III,26.
Beeman, Rev. Thomas: III,16; XI,7; XII,13-18; XXIII, 8.
Beeslee, John, gardener: XVII, 22.
Belgian refugees: XXV,2.
Belgrave House: VI,8.
Bell, Canon William: XIX,12; XXV,1-2.
bells: IX,24-25.
Benden, Alice and Edward: XXIV,4-7.
Bennet, John, Quaker clothier: XVII, 2.
Benzie, James, upholsterer: III,25; XII,16-17.
Bent, John XXVII, 13.
Beresford, Lord (1768-1854): XVIII,17.
Beresford Hope, A.J.B. (1820-87), politician and author: XI,10.
Bettenham: XVIII,17; XX,5.
Betts, Laurence and Jack: XXVI, 14-15.
Bevin boys: XIX,20-23.
Biddenden rectory: XXV,18.
Biddenden tithe map: VI,21-23.
Bigg, John (d. 1605), clothier: II,4.
Bigg, Smallhope (d.1638), clothier: II,4.
Birch, Rev. Henry: I,18.
Birch, -, Goudhurst miller: XXIII, 7.
Bird in Hand, inn: VII,7.
Birdseye, Jonathan, Congregational minister: IV,16.
Birgis, Albert, stonemason and builder, XXVI, 5.
Bishop, Argles, bank owner: VII,20-21; XVIII,7.
Bishop's Lane: X,2-6.
Blackman, John, tenant farmer: XII, 8; XVIII,15.
Blackman, Thomas, grocer: XVII, 28.
Blackwell family, papermakers: XVI, 9-12.
Blubery (Blewberry), John (d. 1517), Yeoman Armourer: I,21; XXIV,14.
Blundell, Stephen: XXI, 9-10.
Blunden, John, Quaker: XVII, 2.
Body, Abraham, clockmaker (d.1779): XVIII,10.
bonnets: IV,2-4.
Bonnick, William, miller:XVIII,18.
Boorman, George, builder: XII,16-17.
Boorman, John, slaughterman: IV,22.
Boorman, Richard, glover and sexton: IX,24.
Boorman, Thomas, bricklayer, and family: XXVII, 21.
Booth, Mary, Baptist: XV,28.
Botten, Richard, journeyman: IV,12.
The Bourne: VIII,9.
Bourne, Thomas, tanner: IV,7; VIII,9.
bowls: XVII, 20, 22-23.
Bowyer, Aaron (d.1680), barber-chirurgeon: V,7.
Boyd Alexander Bird Collection: XVI, 19-22.
Boys, James, Vicar of Cranbrook and Rector of Biddenden: III,25; VI,22; XI,3-5; XII, 4,10; XV,21-22; XVIII,17.
Boys, John, agricultural writer: XVIII,12.
Boys, Thomas, nonconformist clothier: IV,13.
Brabam, William, market licensee in 1511: III,3.
Bradbridge, Joan, martyr: XXIV,4.
Bradley, Charles, beershop keeper: XII,14-18.
Branden: XVIII, 18; XXIII, 14-18.
Brenchley, John, bank owner: VII,20-21.
Brewers Lane: XV,24.
Brewers Wood, 1945 Boeing crash: XXIII, 21-22.
brewing: VII,2-7; VIII,28.
Brickenden, Alexander, clothier: II,27-8.
Brickenden, Robert, of Freight Farm: IV,5.
Brick Kiln Farm: XVIII,15.
bricks, brickmaking: IV,7; XVI, 24; XVII 16.
Bridgeland, James, churchwarden in 1725: XVII, 8.
Bridge Cottages: XXV,9.
Bridgland, James, clothier (d.1667): XVII, 6.
briefs: XVII, 10.
Brooke, John, Hawkhurst sexton: XXIV,9.
Browne, George and John, ironfounders: X,5.
Browne, Richard, schoolmaster: XXI, 4-5.
Browne, Thomas, renounced beliefs in 1511: III,24.
Buck, Rev Charles, rectory lessee in 1683: III,27.
Buckhurst Farm: XVI, 3.
Bull Farm: X,4; XVIII,17; XXII, 14.
Bull Inn, Cranbrook: VII,2; VII,7; XVI, 24-5; XXI,14.
Bull Inn, Sissinghurst: XVIII,18.
Bullwood Farm: XVIII,17.
Bulmer, Martin, designer of Vestry Hall: IX,12-15; XII,15.
Burleigh, Lord, in 1573: XIII,8.
Buss, William (d.1832),corn factor: XIV, 11,16; XV,7; XVIII,5-9; XIX,9.
Butler, David, farmer: XII,14; XVIII,14-15.
Butler, Mark, farmer: XVIII,14.
Butler, Thomas, farmer: XVIII,12-14.


Cackett, Thomas, clockmaker: XVIII,10.
Callcott, Rosamund, diarist: II,8.
Camden Lodge: XVIII,22.
Campion, Col. W.H., land donor: II,12.
canal: see Weald of Kent Canal.
cardmakers: V,19.
Carey, W., seeking employment in 1861: XII,18.
Caroe, William, church architect: XI,13-14; XIX,12-14.
Caroline, Princess of Wales: XX, 11-12.
Carr, Douglas (1872-1950), Test cricketer: XXVII, 18-20.
Carr, Thomas, vicar: XI,6; XXVII, 13,18.
carts: XIII, 9.
Caton, William, Quaker preacher: XVII, 2.
cattle markets: IV,20-21.
Cazalet, Victor, MP, owned Great Swifts: XI,20-21; XVI, 6.
census of 1841: XII,8-12.
cess (tax): XVII, 10.
Chalkpole, Richard, vicar: VI,20.
Chamberlain, Neville, at Cranbrook: XVI, 6.
Chantley family: XVIII,18.
Chapman, Joseph, banker: XVIII,5.
Chapman, W.J., engraver and gunsmith: III,4.
Chapman, W.J., versifier: VIII,20.
Chapman, W.T., engraver and caricaturist: I,16.
charcoal burners: XVI, 23.
Chard, William, store manager: VI,9.
Charity Farm: see Little Swattenden
Chart, Ezekiel, nonconformist apothecary: IV,13.
Cheeseman, William, carrier: XV,19.
Cheesman, Colonel: XVI, 20.
Children family, of Friezley: XI,2.
Chimes of Cranbrook: XXIII, 16.
Chittenden: XVIII,17.
Chittenden, Mr, in 1840 fire: III,25.
Chittenden’s, grocers: XV,25; XVIII,31; XXI, 13.
Christian, Princess, 1906 visit: VIII,2.
christian names in 1841: XII,12.
Church, Richard, author: XX, 17-18; XXII, 13.
Church Court, Hawkhurst: XXIV,8-10.
churches in 11th century: XXI, 1-3.
cinema: I,7-10.
Clark, Dr Edmund (d. 1836): X,15-16.
Clarke, Dr: XXI, 8.
Clarke, Eric, solicitor: I,14; XIV,12.
Clark, Thomas, composer: XVI,13-15; XXI,9.
Cleaver, Caroline (1794-1862): XV,13, 20-22; XVIII,17; XX, 12-13.
Cleaver, Rev Henry (d. 1837): XV, 21; XVI, 18.
clockmakers: XVIII,10-11.
Cloute, Anne, (1793-1867), bonnet maker: IV,2; V,18.
Cloute, William, auctioneer: VII,3.
coal: I,20.
Cobb, Edward, railway promoter: XVII, 20-21.
Cobbett, William: XIV, 6.
Coffee Tavern, St David's Bridge: XIII,22-25.
Coggers, Benenden: XX, 14-15.
Coleman, William, owned Angley: III,4.
Collens, John, farmer: XVIII,18.
Colliers Green School: XIX,15-17; XXV,2.
Collins, – , chaplain: XXIV, 5-6.
Collins, James, clockmaker: XVIII,10.
Collins, John, owned Friezley: XI, 2.
Colvill, John, Quaker: XVII, 2-4.
Conghurst, George, of Hawkhurst: III,22.
Congregational Church: IV,13-16.
Connolly/Conolly, owned rectory lands in 1812: VII,19; XIV,9.
Cooke, Anne, of Biddenden: XIV,13.
Cooke family, of Swifts: XIV,9; XVI, 3-4; XVII, 8-9.
Cooke, Rev W. Vincent: IV,16.
Cooper, Bill, seat dedicated in 1986: II,13.
Cordle, Celia, author: XXII, 23.
Corke, -, in 1840 fire: III,25.
Cornhall Farm: XVI, 24.
Cornwallis, Lord (Horatio Mann): XV,7.
Cornwallis, Lord, memorial to: XVIII, 32.
Cornwallis family and estates: XV,21; XVI, 18-19; XVIII,12-14,15.
Cosscheman, William, (d. 1500), ‘clothman’: IV,5.
Couchman, Matthew and Matthew (both d. 1787), ironmongers: II,17.
Couchman, William (d. 1862), church organist: II,17; XV,14-17.
Couchman, -, father and son (linen weaver): V,16-17.
Couchmans shop: XXI, 13.
Coursehorn: II,5.
Court, Miss, laundress: III,12-13.
Courthope family: III,7; X,5; XI,2; XIV,1; XVI,3; XVII,5; XX,5.
Courtstile Cottages: XIV,19.
Cox, Joseph, cinema owner: I,8.
Cramp, Clement, builder (1816-93): XIII,22-25; XIV,12; XIX,15; XX,19;XXIV,17; XXV,15-16.
Crampton, Samuel, clothier (d.1669): XVII, 7.
Crampton, William, Sissinghurst emigrant : XXIII, 12.
Cran, Marion, writer and broadcaster: XX, 14-15; XXIII, 14.
Cranbrook Association (against smugglers): XXI, 6-8.
Cranbrook Bank: VII,20-21.
Cranbrook Colony of artists: II,7-11; XIII,20-21.
Cranbrook District Water Company: XIX,19.
Cranbrook Gas Company: XXII, 17-18, 25.
Cranbrook Highways Board: XXV,14-15.
Cranbrook Parish Council: XIX,15-16.
Cranbrook Rural Sanitary District: XIX,18.; XXV,15-16.
Cranbrook School: 1,21-23; VI, 17-19; XI,6-9; XXI, 4-5; XXIII, 8; XXIV,16-17; XXVI, 20-21.
Cranbrook Union: XXIII, 11.
Crane Inn: I,6; XV,24.
‘Crane Lake’: XVIII,31.
Crane Lane: XV,23.
Crane river: I,6; VIII,11; XIX,19-20.
Cranton, Richard, apprentice: IV,12.
Crest, The (house): XVII, 26-27.
cricket: XVI, 4-5, 26-27; XVIII,24; XXIII, 9-10; XXV,9-10.
Crittenden, Thomas, nonconformist apothecary: IV,13.
Crimean War: XVIII,21.
Croft family, of Benenden: XVI, 11.
Cromwell, Thomas, pastor: I,15.
croquet: XVII, 19, 22-23.
crosses: III,3-5.
Croucher, John (Bert), headmaster: XVI, 26; XXII, 19.
Crowden, Charles, headmaster: VI, 17-19; XXI, 4; XXIV,16; XXVI, 20; XXVII, 16.
Crown Court, Cranbrook: XV,23-24.
Cruttenden, Thomas, (d. 1704), apothecary: V,7-8.
Cubs: XIV,21.
Cuckow, Thomas, attorney (1734-91): V,9.
Cuckow, William, attorney: V,9; XIX,4.
Culpepper family: XXIII, 1; XXVI, 1-4.
Curl, Freddie, undertaker XX, 20.
Curl, Sidney: XI,22-23; XVII, 24-25.


Dadson, George (1791-1880): Surveyor of Highways: I,2; II,3;XVII, 21; XXV,14.
Dadson, James, of Baker's Cross brewery: VII,2-3.
Dance, Mollie: X,17-18.
Dane House: III,28.
Dann, Kathleen, maidservant: XII,21.
Dann, Maria: III,12-13.
Dann, Sam, gravedigger: XX, 20.
Dann, Thomas, farmer: XVIII,18.
Davies, Rev Daniel (d. 1850): III,25; XI,6; XII,10; XVIII,17; XXIII, 8; XXVII, 10-12, 13.
Daw, -, farmer: XVIII,32.
Day, James, farmer: XXIV,14.
Day, Joseph, barber-surgeon: V,7.
Day, Martin, printer: XIII,14.
de Sainte Croix, Bob XXIII, 22.
Dearn, Olive: XVI, 28.
Dearn, Thomas D.W.(1777-1853), architect, and Dearn family: II,19; III,4; XII,5-7; XIII,15-18, 24; XIV,10; XV,6,17-18,22; XVI, 18, 28-29; XVII, 11.
Dell, H., Presbyterian minister: IV,14.
Dence, Alexander, Writing School founder: I,21-23.
deer parks XXVI, 1-5.
Dennett, J.T., bookseller: III,16; III,26; V,5; XI,6; XII,6-14; XV,4.
dens: II,14-16.
Denton, Mrs, bonnet manufacturer: IV,2.
Dering, Sir Richard, JP: VI,15.
Deval (or Duval) family, Sandhurst charcoal burners: III,9-11.
Disney, Rev Joseph, vicar: IX,5; XIII,5-6; XVII, 9.
dissenters: IV,13; IX,3.
Ditch, Thomas, carpenter: VII,3.
Dive, Thomas, militiaman: XXI, 8.
Dobell family: II,23-26; IV,26; V,4-6; VI,11-12; VII,3; X,8-10; XIV, 10, 14-17; XVII, 27-28; XVIII,15; XXV,7-10; XXV,13; XXV,14.
Doddlesden: XVIII,15.
Dodson, James: XVIII,5.
Dog Kennel Farm: XVIII,12-14.
Dolman, Rev. Henry, Biddenden: XXV,19.
Domesday Monachorum: XXI, 1-3.
Doughty, Sir Charles and family: X, 17-18; XIV, 20-21; XXVI, 15-16.
Dowell family: XVII, 8.
drainage: IX,12-15; XIX,18-20.
Drayner, Joshua, apothecary (d.1696): XIX,3-4.
drove roads: II,14-16; X,2.
Dudley, John, Presbyterian minister: IV,14.
Duke, Zachary, Benenden papermaker: XVI, 8.
Dungey (or Demsey or Dinsey), brewer: VII,5.
Dungey, Andrew, baker and miller: XIV, 16; XIX,9.
Dunk, Stephen, corn factor: XIV,16.
Dunk, Sir Thomas (d. 1718), of Hawkhurst: II,29-32; IV,7.
Dunk, Thomas, Hawkhurst innkeeper: XXIV,9-11.
Dunn, - , surveyor after church collapse: XVII, 10.
Dunstan, Saint: XXI, 1-3.
Durrant, Thomas, landowner and farmer: XVIII,18.
Dutch, Thomas, farmer: XVIII,17.
dyeing: IV,5-6.


Eagle Printing Office: XIII,14; XV,19.
Eddy family: XI,13; XX, 1-3.
Eden, Anthony, visited Cranbrook: XVI, 6.
Edward I, king, licensed market 1298: III,3.
Edward IV, king: XXIII, 2.
Eggshell Farm: XVIII,17.
Eight Bells, Hawkhurst: XXII, 7-10.
electricity: I,8.
Elizabeth I, queen, visit to Cranbrook 1573: I,23; XIII,8; XXVI, 1.
Elmeston, John, schoolmaster: V, 9; XIX,1-2.
Emigration from Weald: XXIII, 10-14.
Ensigne family: XVII, 6.
Evernden, Charles (1899-1989): III,29; XI,23; XVII,24-25; XVIII,31; XXI,24.
Evernden, Kate (later Dobell): V,6-7.


fairs: III,18; VII,17-19.
Farningham: XVIII,17.
Farnol, Jeffery, novelist: VI,6.
Ffrench, Rev John, Congregationalist minister: IV, 16.
field names: XVII, 15-19.
Fieldhouse (or Feildhouse), John, architect: XVII,10; XXI,4; XXIV,16.
Filmer, Sir Edward, and family: XXI, 4-5.
Fincham, Mr and Mrs, workhouse master and matron: XVIII,20.
Finnemore, Fred, Literary Association treasurer: XI,11; XV,18.
Firminger, James: XX, 8.
fire engine: XII,16-17.
fire of 1840: III,25-26.
flax: V,18.
Fletcher, Richard, vicar: IX,3; XX,2.
Flishinghurst: XIV, 19; XVIII,17; XXV,2.
floods: VIII,12.
flying bombs: XXIII, 20.
Folly Farm: XVIII,17.
font (St Dunstan's church): IX,2-5; XXII, 2-3.
Forward, S., gas supplier: XII,16.
Fox, George, founder of Quakers: XVII, 2.
Francis, John, schoolmaster, and family: I,20; XII,10; XVI,13; XXI,9.
French, John, tenant farmer: XVIII,15.
Friezley: X,21; XI,2-3; XVIII,18; XXIV,13.
Fright Farm: XVIII,17.
Frittenden: VI,2-4; XXIII, 13; XXIV, 21-22; XXV,12; XXVII, 3-6.
Fryland, Nathaniel (d.1684), tanner: XXVII, 2.
Fryland, Roger (d.1637), tanner: XXVII, 1,2.
Fryman, Thomas and William, farmers: IV,7.
Fuggle, John, brickmaker: XIX, 9.
Fullager, Thomas (d. 1716), of Hawkhurst: I,12.
Fuller, Jonah, at Baker's Cross in 1684: IV,6-7.
Furley, Robert, historian of the Weald: XII,9.
Furnace Farm: X,5.
furnaces: X,5.


Galvin family, papermakers: XVI, 8-9.
Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (d. 1903): VIII,5-8; XII,16; XXIV,17.
Gathorne-Hardy, J.S., 2nd Earl (d. 1911): VIII,3.
Geary, Sir William, MP: XV,7-8.
Geer, James, tanner: XII,14.
General Baptists: see Baptists..
George Inn: I,23; IV,7-8; V,23; VII,2-4; VIII,2; XX,21.
Gilbert, Repentance, illegitimate: XIII,4.
Girdler, George, Quaker tanner: XVII, 2-3.
Givin, -, alleged Cranbrook smuggler: XXI, 6-7.
Glassenbury Hill Farm: III,19-21.
Glover, Jasper, keeper: IV,12; XXVI, 2.
Goddards Green Farm: XVII, 15-17.
Goford Farm: XVIII,15.
Godmersham, Manor of: XXI,8.
Goldsmith, Jack, slaughterman: IV,22.
Goldsmith, John, militiaman/boot and shoe maker: XXI, 8; XXVI,5.
Golford Road (1944 crash): XXIII, 18-19.
Good, Isaac, innkeeper:XXIV,12.
Goold, Alice: XXV,20; XXVI, 9-13.
Goudhurst, 1832 Rural Queries: X, 11-14.
Goudhurst Militia: XXI, 6-8.
Gray, Colonel, of Hockeredge: IV,21.
Great Beech House: XVI, 3; XXIV,13.
Great Swifts: see Swifts.
Grebil, Alice, Tenterden martyr: III, 23.
Greenall, Thomas, schoolmaster: XXIII, 8; XXVII, 11.
Greengrow, Mrs, early 20c clothes seller: XV,26.
Griffin, George, farmer: XVIII,17.
Gudmundsson, Mr, owned Swifts: XVI, 7.
Guldeford, Sir Edward: I,21; II,6; XI,4.
Guldeford, Sir John: I,11; V,23.
Guldeford, Sir Richard, (1455-1506), Master of the King's Ordnance: I,11; V,23-26; XXIII, 1-4.
Gulvin family, papermakers: XVI, 8-9.
gun traffic: XIV,4.
Gunn, Richard, baptist: IX,3.
Gurney, Rev, Congregationalist pastor: IV,16.
Gurney, Samuel: XXVI, 8.


Hadlow, Samuel, timber merchant: XXIV,11.Hague, John, farmer: XII,14; XVIII,17.
Hague, William, solicitor: XII,14; XVIII,9.
Hall, James, surgeon: XIX,10-11; XX,11.
Hall, John and Roger: XXIV,4-7; XXV,2.
Hammer Mill: III,18; VI,15; XVIII,15.
Hancock's properties: IV,5.
Harding, William, barber: XV,18.
Hardy, Frederick, artist, and family: II,7-8, XVII, 22; XVIII,26-29; XXVI, 5,8,22; XXVII, 21.
Harrison, Alban, vicar: XIX, 12,15-17.
Hartley: X,2; XIV,6.
Hartley Farm: X,4.
Hartley Reservoir: XIX,19.
Hartridge: XVIII,15; XIX,3.
Haselar family: IV,17-19; XII,14,17.
hat factory: XV,25.
hatchments: XIV,8-9.
Hatherley, -, workhouse master: XVIII,20.
Hawkhurst Savings Bank: IV,9-11.
Hawkhurst workhouse: XXIV,10.
Hazelden: XIV, 19; XVIII,15; XIX,3; XXVI, 16.
Head, Derek, scoutmaster: XX, 11.
Head, Sir Francis: XVIII,18-19.
hedgehogs: V,12.
Hendle, Bartholomew, mercer: II,22.
Hendley family: I,23.
Hennickers: XXVII, 2.
Henry VII, king: XXIII, 2-4.
Herschel, Sir John, (1792-1871), astronomer: XI,12; XII,16.
Hickmott family, Frittenden farmers: XV,11-13; XVI, 16-17; XVII, 12-14.
High Street: I,6; II,14-17.
High Tilt Farm: XVIII,12-14.
Hill, Frederick, Hawkhurst publican: XXVI,8.
Hill, The: XVII, 26-29.
Hill House: XVII, 26.
Hillside (house): XVII, 26; XXVI, 7,9.
Hinkley, Herbert, bandmaster: XX, 16.
Hinkley, Jim, cinema projectionist: I,8.
Hinkley, John, Hawkhurst ‘cordwynder’: XXIV,8.
Hinkley, Simon, small farmer: XVIII,17.
Hoadley, Samuel, schoolmaster: I, 23.
Hocker Edge: XI,2.
Hodges, Rev. Henry: XXV,10-13.
Hodges, T.H., XXIV,3.
Hodges, Thomas Law, MP: VIII,5; XI,10; XV,8; XVII, 20; XVIII,17,18; XXIII, 11 XXV,11.
Hodson, Henry: XIV,4.
Holden, John, weaver: VI,15-16.
Holden, manor of: XVIII,15.
Holden, Robert, Esq. XVII, 9.
Holmans, Bert, in WWI: XXV,3.
Holmes, E.J., post office: I,18.
Holmes, Ted, cricketer: XVI, 26.
Hope, Richard (d. 1725) and Thomas (1693-1742), surgeons: V,8-9.
Hopkins, George (d. 1857), Hawkhurst schoolmaster: IV,9.
hops, hop pickers: IX,15; IX,16-17; IX,18-20; IX,25; XXII, 23.
Hopson, Joseph, schoolmaster: VIII,12-13; XV,25.
horse show: V,22.
Horsley, Charles and Violet, cinema managers: I,10.
Horsley, Gerald Calcutt: XIV, 18.
Horsley, John Calcutt: II,7-10; XI,7; XIII,19-21; XVIII,26-29; XIX,18; XXIV, 16-17; XXVI,19; XVII, 15-16.
Horsley, J.T., artist: XX, 13.
Horsley, Sir Victor (1857-1916): XXVII, 15-17.
Horsley, Colonel W.C. II,13; XIV,12; XVII, 4.
Houghton, Alfred, Biddenden schoolmaster: XXVI,12.
Housegoe, Thomas, Quaker: XVII, 2,3.
Hovenden, Robert and John, clothiers: XI,2; XVII, 5-6.
Hovenden, William: II,33.
Hudson, A.W. II,32.
Huggins Hall: XVIII,17.
Hughes, Richard, surgeon: V,7.
Humphrey, James, millwright: IV,26; XIV,15; XXIII, 6-8.
hundreds: XXIV,2-3.
Huntington, William (1745-1813), preacher: IX,9; XV,28-29; XXIV, 14.
Hurricane fighter crashes, 1940: XXII, 15-16.
Hutchinson Roe, 20c ironmongers: XV,18.


Igglesden, Charles, writer: XV,3.
Iggulden, F. and James, rent collectors: IX,18.
Iggulden, Jane, bonnet maker: IV,2-3.
“Ilkley Moor”: XVI, 13-15.
illegitimacy: see bastardy.
Illspeed, Mr: XXIII, 9-10.
Inglis, Rev. Rupert (1863-1916): XXV,4-6.
Ingram, George: XVIII,18.
inoculations: II,25; V,10; X,8-10; XXIV,13.
inns: VII,2-7; VIII,24-28.
International Stores: VI,8-10.
iron industry: XX, 4-6, 23.
isolation hospital, Swattenden: XIX,19.


Jackson, Sir Thomas: XXIV,16-17.
Jeffreys, Canon; XXVI,7.
Jempson, W.J., Mayor of Tunbridge Wells: XVII, 25.
Jenner, Charles, builder, and family: VIII,9; VIII,12; XVII, 26-29.
Jenner, Matthew, miller: XXIII, 6.
Jenner, Samuel W., census enumerator: XII,8.
Jenner,Stephen, town crier in 1874: I,14.
Jennings, J, architect: XV,21.
Jennings, Ron: XVI, 20.
Jennings, Susanna (later Beeman): I,16.
Jobson, Dr J. III,25-26; XI,6; XVII, 23.
Jockey Lane theatre: XII,20.
John Mayne School, Biddenden: XI,3-5; XII,2-4.
Johnson, George and Samuel, tenant farmers: XVIII,17.
Johnson, John (1662-1725), vicar: IX,2-5; XIII,5; XVII, 8; XXII, 3.
Johnson, Samuel, Goudhurst churchwarden: X,11-14.
Joyce, Dr Thomas, Parish Council chairman: VIII,2-3; XXVII, 16.
Judge, -, baker, in 1840 fire: III,26.
Judge, Isaac, tenant farmer: XVIII,17.
Jurden, Edward: II,33.


Keightly, Rev, Congregationalist minister: IV,15.
Kemp, James and John, farmers: XVIII,17.
Kempe, Charles E., window maker: XI,14-16.
Kempe, Thomas, weaver: VI,16.
Kennard, Charles, carpenter: I,19-20; II,18-19.
Kent v All England, 1850: XXIII, 10.
Kilburne, Richard, topographer: III,4-5; XII,2.
Kent County Council: XXV,16.
King, Caroline: see Cleaver, Caroline.
King, Charles, banker: XVIII,8-9; XIX,8-9.
King, Hon. James, rear-admiral (1783-1848): XII, 11; XV,20-22; XVI,18; XVIII,17,18; XIX,10; XX, 11-13; XXV,17.
King, John: II,33.
King, Rev Thomas, vicar of Sissinghurst: XV,21-22.
King-Hall, William: XIX,10-11.
King's Head Inn: VIII,11; VIII,24-28.
King's Head Well: VIII,11; XV,25; XIX,18-19.
King's High Street: see High Street.
Knowlden, James, farmer and butcher: XVIII,18.
Knoxbridge: XIV,4-5.


Lake, Thomas, alehouse keeper: XXVI, £.
Lambert, James, farmer: XVIII,17.
Lambert, Jarvis, of Goudhurst Militia: XXI, 7.
Lance, -, workhouse master: XVIII,20.
Landsdell, George, census enumerator: XII,8.
Lanfranc, Archbishop: XXI, 1.
Lashenden, Frittenden: XVI, 16-17; XVII, 12-14.
lathes: XXIV,2-3.
Lawrence, T.E., of Arabia: XIV,20-21; XXVI,15.
Leaves, -, shoe repairer: XXI, 14.
Lebon, Cecily: XVII, 22.
Leeds, George, carpenter: XVII, 10-11.
Leeds, Richard, innkeeper: XXIV,13.
Leigh, Henry, militiaman: XXI, 8.
Lenahan, John, RAF Pilot Officer, XXVI,17-18.
letterboxes: XV,27-28.
Levett, Ham, farmer: XVIII,17.
Levett, John, Glassenbury farmer: III,19.
Levett, John, hammerman: XX, 6.
Levett, Thomas, farmer and bailiff: XVIII,17.
Levett, William, farmer: XII,14.
Levitt, Anne, smallpox nurse: XXIV,12-13.
lighthouse: X,22-23.
Literary Association: II,8; XI,10-12; XVIII,27; XXVII, 13.
Little, Charles, tenant farmer: XVIII,17.
Little, Thomas, Biddenden tanner: XXVII, 1.
Little Comborne Farm, Goudhurst: IX,16-17.
Little Fryth: XXIV,10.
Little Swattenden (Charity Farm): XVIII,17.
lock-up: I,2-3; II,2; VIII,23.
London and County Bank: III,17; XVIII,9.
Love, William, dissenter: IV,13.
Lowes, Thomas and Joan, renounced beliefs in 1511: III,24.
Lowfield Farm: XIX,3.
Ludlam, Rev, Congregationalist minister: IV,15.
Lynche, William and Simon: I,21-23.
Lyne, Richard: II,33.


Macartney, Melvin, architect: XIII,21; XIV,18-20.
Mace & Co’s Bank: XVIII,8
magistrates: VII,22-27; X,19; XII,16; XVIII, 23.
Maidstone & Kentish Journal: XVIII, 21-25.
Malpass, Frederic, blacksmith: I,7-8.
Mann family: see Cornwallis.
Marchant, John, Baptist minister: XV,29.
Marchant, William, at Baker's Cross in 1760: IV,7.
Margary, Ivan: XXIII, 22.
Marie, Queen of Yugoslavia: XVI, 6.
market: III,3; VII,19.
market cross: III,3-5; VIII,8.
market house: III,4-5; XII,16.
marl, marlpits: X,4; XVII, 16.
marriage custom: VI,23.
Marrell, Edward, butcher: XV,15-18.
Marshall, John, brewer: VI,15.
Marshall, Mark (stone carver) and Frederick: VI,5-6.
Martin, Elizeus (d. 1672), surgeon: V,8.
martyrs: XXIV,4-7.
Mary Sheafe School: XXII, 19-20.
May, William, head brewer: VII,6.
Maye, Peter, deer hunter: XXVI,1-2.
Mayne, John, of Biddenden: XI,3-5.
McNaughton, -, lessee of market: XII,16.
Mercer, John and William, of Hawkhurst: III,22.
Mercer, Matthew, Baptist pastor (d1950): XV,29.
Merriecroft, Sissinghurst: XXVI,16.
Miles, J.A., owned George Inn: XX, 21.
Miles, Philip: XX, 20-21.
Milkhouse (name): XV,22.
Milkhouse Place: XVIII, 17.
Miller, Giles, of Goudhurst: X,11-14.
Miller, Henry, grocer and tea dealer: XXVI,5.
Miller, John, farmer: XVIII,17.
Mill Pond farm: XIV,19.
Mockbeggar theatre: XII,20.
Moillet, Theodore: XXVI,7,9.
moles: III,15.
Moodie, Douglas, draper: XXIII, 7-8.
Moore, Edward, Frittenden landholder: XXVII, 4,6.
Morphet, Elizabeth and Jeremiah, inoculated in 1763: V,10.
Morris, W., Sissinghurst builder: XVI, 18.
Morriss, John: XVIII, 15.
Mossop, Isaac, vicar: XX, 9-10.
Mount Ephraim Farm: XXVI,17-18.
Mulcaster, Richard, absentee vicar: XX, 2.
Mulready, Augustus E., artist: II,8-10.
Munn, John (d.1685), tobacconist: VIII,27.
Munn, John, smuggler: IX, 5; XXII, 3-6.
Murrell, Frankk, in WW1: XXV,7.
Murton, Mrs (d.1956): XX, 19.
museum: III,27; XI,22-23; XVII, 24-25.
Mylner, Robert: II,6.


Nairn, Charles: XVIII, 17.
Nares, Rev Edward (d. 1841), of Biddenden: VI,22.
Nash, Bill, cinema pianist: I,8.
Nash, Frank, built Scout Hut: XX, 17.
Neale, J.P., artist: XXVII, 4-6.
Netter, John (d. 1480), farmer: I,5.
Netter, Repentance, illegitimate: XIII,4.
Netter's Hall: III,6; XVIII,17.
Neve, William J: XII,14
Neve, William Tanner, solicitor: XI,13,17-18.
Neve, William West, architect: XIII,21-25; XXIV,16.
New Chapel (later Cramp Club): II,24.
Newman, George, protonotary: VII,16-19.
Newnham, John, brewer, and family: VII,4.
Nicholas, Richard, landlord of King's Head: VI,15.
Nicolson, Harold: XXIII, 14,17; XXIV,17-21.
Noah’s Ark: XV,25-26.
nonconformists: see dissenters.
Noyes, Robert, Presbyterian minister: IV,14.
Nuisance Removal: XV,16.


Old Middleton Farm: XVIII, 15.
Ollive, Thomas (1753-1829), clockmaker: VI,10-12; VII,3; IX,6-11; XV,7; XVIII,10..
O'Neill, George B., painter: II,8-10; XVI, 5; XVIII, 26-29; XXVI,19.
Onions, Rev, Congregationalist minister: IV, 15.
Osborne, Alexander (d. 1712), innkeeper: VIII,24.
Ovenden, Thomas, farmer: XVIII, 17.
overseers of poor law: IV,27; X,13; X,19-21.
Owlett, Edith and Gilbert: XVII, 25.
Oyler, Mary (later Beeman): I,16.
Oyler family: XII,13-14; XIV,14-15; XVII,28; XVIII, 13, 25; XXV,14.


Paget, George: XVIII, 17.Pain, John, rectory tenant in 1797: III,28.
Paine, Tom (1737-1809), radical author, and wife Elizabeth: IX,6-11.
Paley estate: XXIV,14-15.
Palmer & White, outfitters: XVIII, 30.
Pankhurst family: II,20-21; XXIII, 5; XXIV,8-9.
papermaking: XVI, 8-12.
Papermill, Benenden: XVI, 8.
pannage: II,14.
Paris(h), John, Biddenden schoolmaster: XII,3.
Parks, Samuel, market gardener: XVII, 23.
Parsons, -, gravedigger: XVIII, 30.
Parsons, Henry, Hawkhurst benefactor: XXIV,8.
Parton, James, clothier: XXIII, 5.
Pawson,-, early 19c tinsmith: XV, 18.
Pearce, Peter, clothier: II,27-28.
Pearce, William and Zachariah (d.1785,1786): XIV,24.
Pemell, Robert (d. 1653), physician: V,9; XIX, 2.
Penny Bank: III,16-17.
Perkins, Rev F., Congregationalist minister: IV,14.
Peter, King of Yugoslavia: XVI, 6.
Peterson, Bertha, of Biddenden Recctory: XXV,19-20; XXVI, 9-13.
Peterson, Rev.William (1809-99): XXV, 16-20; XXVI, 9-13.
Pethurst, Jeremiah, auctioneer: VII,3; XIV,11,15; XVIII,7.
Pethurst, -, fish seller: XV, 24.
Philpott, J.A., solicitor: XVII, 22-23, 26.
Pigott, Baptist, Biddenden schoolmaster: XII,3.
Pierce, Rev. Charles, headmaster: XXV,2-3.
Pilbrow, Richard: XXI, 17.
Pile, Cecil, historian of Cranbrook: XVII, 24-25.
Pile, Henry T., farmer: XII,14.
Pile, Thomas, census enumerator: XII,8; XXVII, 14.
Pilgarlick, Pedro: XX, 7-10.
Piper, Sarah, Congregational school governess: IV,14.
Pitcher, Charles, Rolvenden farmer: XIV,13.
Pittock, John, headmaster: XXII, 19.
Planisphere: II,20-21.
plot of 1528: II,6.
Plummer family: XVI, 8.
pluralism: XXV,11.
Podmore, Richard, vicar: XXVII, 11.
police stations: I,2; VIII,23.
Pomfret, John, Biddenden schoolmaster: XII,3.
Ponds Farm, Hartley; XXVII, 2-3.
Poor Law, 1834: XXIII, 11.
poor relief, Cranbrook: X,19-21.
poor relief, Goudhurst: X,12-13.
Potkins, Alice, martyr: XXIV, 4-6.
Potter, Richard, broadweaver: XVII, 6.
Presbyterianism: IV,13-14.
Price, Hugh, vicar: see Aprice.
Priest’s House, Sissinghurst: XXII, 10-13.
Primary School, Cranbrook: III,29-30; V,30.
Prince of Wales, 1863 wedding: XXVII, 13.
Printer’s Yard: XV,17-19.
Providence Chapel, Cranbrook: I,6; I,15-18; V,4-6; XXIV,14.
Providence Chapel, Frittenden: XXV,12.
Provident Institution: XVIII, 24.
Provis, G.S., vicar: II,13.
Pullen, William, executed 1742: XV, 4.
Pympe, John and Anne: XXIII, 2-3.


Quakers: XVII, 2-4.


R 101, airship: IX,21-23.
railway: X,4; XVII, 20-21.
Rammell House: XVII, 26.
Ramsden, Stephen, broadweaver: XVII, 6.
Randolph, -, in 1840 fire: III,25.
Ranger, William, surgeon: II,25; XIV,11; XX, 8-11.
Rangers Row, Cranbrook: XV,23.
Ratcliff, E.B., butcher: IV,20-22; XVIII, 30.
Raven, Rev. Walter: XXV,19-20; XXVI,10-11.
Raynolds, Thomas, physician: V,7.
Read, Richard, dissenting farmer: IV,13.
Reader, John, watchmaker: VI,11.
Reader, Samuel, bookseller (d.1824): VII,3; XII,6; XIV,16; XX, 7, 10.
Reader, Samuel, peruke maker: XVII, 28.
rectorial property: II,16-17; III,3; III,27-28; VI,20; VII,16-19.
Red house Rectory, Frittenden: XXVII, 4-5.
Reed, Samuel (d.1610), tanner: XXVII, 1.
Reed,-, builder of Sissinghurst Church: XV,21-22.
Regal Cinema: XV,25.
Relf family: V,13-14; VI,5-7; XXIII, 5.
Relph, Robert, landowner: XIX, 3-4.
Rennie, John, engineer (1761-1821): XV,8-10.
Reygnold, Alice, renounced beliefs in 1511: III,24.
Reynolds, Richard, pest house tenant: XXIV,10.
Reynolds, Thomas, smuggler: XXI, 8.
Richards, William, Hawkhurst ironmonger: II,29-32.
Rimington, Andrew, Quaker clothier: XVII, 2-3.
Rivers, Bill, blacksmith: I,7.
Roades, R., vicar: XX,2.
roads: II,18; XIII,8-12.
Roberts family: XIV,8-9; XVIII,17; XXIII, 1; XXVI, 2-4. Roberts, Thomas, JP in 1606: IV,12; V,29; Sir Thomas (c.1730), XVII, 9, 11; Sir Thomas (c.1802): XV,7; Roberts, T.W. (c. 1856): XI,10; Roberts, Walter, in 1484: I,11; IV,5; Sir Walter, 2nd baronet, XXV,21; Sir Walter (18c): XXI, 4-5;
Rofe, James, solicitor: IV,7.
Rofe, John, bellringer: VI,14.
Rofe, Richard, farmer: XVIII, 15.
Rogers, John (d. 1876), oxen keeper: VIII,19-20.
Rolfe, Nicholas, Union House master: XII,8; XVIII,20.
Roman road: XXIII, 22; XXIV,1-2.
Roode, Richard (d. 1548), Goudhurst scythesmith: V,11.
Rose Cottage, Cranbrook: XXVI,5.
Roper, Thomas, telegraphist: III,2.
Royal Arms in St Dunstan's: XXVII, 7-9.
Ruck, Thomas, merchant: V,20.
Russell, James: XIV,14; XVII, 28.
Russell, John (d. 1713), innkeeper: VIII,24.
Russell, John, 18th c timber merchant: XV,4.
Russell, family, owners of Windmill: XIV,17; XXI, 9, 11-12.
Ryan, Ted: XXIII, 16.
Rydden, Thomas, apprentice: IV,12.


Sackville, Lord and Lady: XXIV,18-20.
Sackville-West, Vita: XX, 17-18; XXI, 16; XXII, 12; XXIV18-21.
St Albans, Robert, 3rd Duke of: XIV,8.
St David’s Bridge baptist chapel: XV,28-29.
St Dunstan's Church: IX,2-5; XI,13-16; XIV,8-9; XVII, 8-11; XIX, 12-14; XXVII, 7.
St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst: XXII, 7-10.
School House, Cranbrook: XXIII,6; XXIV,15.
School Lodge, Cranbrook: XXIV,15-16.
Scott, C.R., headmaster: XXVI,20.
Scott, John, of Osborne's Lodge: XIV, 9.
Scott, Thomas, clothier (d.1648): XVII, 6.
scouting in Cranbrook: XX, 16-17.
Scray, lathe of: XXIV,2.
Seeton, John, in WW1: XXV,7.
Select Vestry: X,21.
Senior, Charles, cinema owner: I, 9.
Seven Hundreds: XXIV,2-3.
Seven Years War (1756-63): XXII, 11.
sewage: IX,12-15.
Sharpe, William Barling (1809-91), brewer: I,20; III,25; VII,4-5; XII,14; XVI, 4.
Shaw, R. Norman, architect: XIII,19-22; XIV,18; XVIII,27; XXVII, 15.
Sheafe, Thomas: II,33.
Shepherd, William, workhouse master,: XVIII, 20.
Shepherd’s House: XXI, 9.
Shepherd’s House School: XXI, 9-10.
Shire, William, Inland Revenue officer: XXVI,6.
Siggs, -, shoemaker: III,25.
Sikorski, General: XVI, 6.
Silke, William, surgeon: V,9.
Simmons, W.T., printer and bookseller: XV,18.
Simpson, Nicholas: VI,16-19.
Sissinghurst burial ground: XV, 22.
Sissinghurst Castle: XXII, 10-13.
Sissinghurst Castle Farm: X,21; XXII,11; XXIII, 11.
Sissinghurst, Holy Trinity Chapel: XV,20.
Sissinghurst, Holy Trinity Church: XV,20-22; XXV,16-17.
Sissinghurst Park: XXVI,1-2.
Sissinghurst Providence Society: XVIII, 24.
Sissinghurst school: XVI, 18-19.
Skinner James (d. 1827), Independent minister: IV,14; XIV,14-15; XVII, 28; XIX, 9.
slaughterhouses: IV,21.
slavery: XVIII, 2-3.
Slee, Mrs S: XXVI,5,6.
smallpox: X, 8-10; XXIII, 5; XXIV,11-13.
Smart, Daniel, pastor: V,4.
Smith, Alexander, weaver: VI,15-16.
smuggling: XXI, 6-8.
snow in 1836: I,19-20.
soup kitchen: XIII,17.
Soup Society: II,8; X,7.
de Spaen, Lady Louisa (1786-1870): XII,11; XV,13,20-22; XVI,18; XVIII,17.
Speedwell Field: XV,26.
Spencer, Robert, rector of Frittenden: XXVII, 4.
Spring Cottage (lock-up): VIII,23.
Springate, Robert, licensee: XXII, 7-9.
Springett, -, bootmaker and taxidermist: XVI, 22.
Springett, Edmund and son Thomas, of Hawkhurst: IV,11.
Spurgeon, Rev John and son Charles: IV,15.
Stable, Judith and Jane, ladies' school: XII,10.
Stacy, Lady: XVI, 7.
stage coaches: II,19; XIV,5.
Standen family: XX, 4-6.
Stanley, Kay: XVII, 24.
Starvenden: XVIII, 15.
Stede, Edmund: XX, 5.
Stephenson, Edward, of Bedgebury: XIV,4.
Stevens, Charles, census enumerator: XII,8.
Stevenson, Elizabeth (m. Thomas Dearn): XVI, 28.
Stillion, Thomas, deer hunter: XXVI,3.
Stokes, T.S., draper: IV,1.
Strawberry Wood Culvert, Benenden: XXI, 18-22.
Streater, Daniel, brazier: XXIV,10.
Streeter, David: XVI, 20.
Stubbs, John, Quaker preacher: XVII, 2.
Sturt, William, of Goudhurst: XXI, 7.
Sunday schooling: IV,14-16.
surgeons: V,7-8.
Suter, Joseph, in Crimean War: XVIII, 25.
Sutherland, Alexander, engineer (d 1802): XV,6-8.
Swan Inn, Hawkhurst: XXIV,9.
Swatland family: XVIII, 17.
Swift, Stephen: XVI, 3.
Swifts cricket ground: XXV,9.
Swifts, house: XVI, 3-7; XVII, 5-7; XVIII,17.
Swing Riots: VII,9-11; X,14, 21; XVIII, 13; XXIII, 11.


Tandy, Jesse, Baptist pastor (d.1922): XV,29.
tanning, Tanyard: VIII, 9-13; XXVII, 1-3.
Tanyard: VIII,9-13.
Tanyard cinema: XV,25.
Tarbutt, William, basket maker: VIII,10; XI,11-12; XII,17; XIII,9,26; XV,4; XXII,1.
Tarkowski, Czeslaw, pilot: XXII, 16-17.
Taylor, Barnabas, census enumerator: XII,8.
Taylor, Bartholomew (1762-1832), weaver: IV,2; IV,4; V,16-18.
Taylor, Bartholomew (son of above), Bull Inn landlord: VI,6; X,21(?) VI,1.
Taylor, Elizabeth, film actress: XI,20-21; XVI, 6.
Taylor, J.I., White Lion landlord: VI,1.
Taylor, Thomas, census enumerator: XII,8.
Teck, Duchess of: XXVI,7.
Telford, Thomas, engineer: XIV,5-6.
Tempest family, of Shepherd’s House: III, 6; V,9,16; XV,28; XVII, 9, 22-23; XXI, 9.
tennis: XVII, 22-23.
Tew, James, Dr: XIX,18.
Thatcher, George (1676-1754), clockmaker: IV,13; XVIII,10.
Thatcher, George (‘Old Shrimp’): XV, 23, 26.
Thirkell, George, farmer: XVIII, 17.
Thirkle, John, farmer: XVIII, 15.
Thomas and Weight travelling theatre: XII, 19-20.
Thomas, Anthony and Molly: XXI, 15-17.
Thorpe, Silas, Quaker: XVII, 3.
Three Chimneys: XX, 5-6.
Thunderbolt, Theophilus: XX, 7,10.
Tinker Tom: I, 19.
Tipping, Thomas: XVII, 26.
Titford, family: I, 12-14; IV,17; V,10; XIV,10, 11,16: XVIII, 2-3; XX, 8-9; XXIII, 24.
tithe: XIII,17.
Tithe Commutation Act, 1836: XVIII, 15.
tobacco: VIII,27; XIX, 5-7.
Tobacco Field, Glassenbury: XIX, 6.
Tolhurst, John, churchwarden in 1725: XVII, 8.
Tomkin, George, brewer: XIII, 17.
Tomlin, E.L (1855-1929), of Angley: XI, 2; XI,18; XIII,21; XIV,18-20.
Tooth family: I,6; VII,4; XII,14; XIII,14; XV,15; XVI, 4-5; XVII, 21-22; XVIII,26,29; XXIII, 13.
Townsend, Gladys, cinema worker: I, 8.
Trail, Robert (or William), dissenting minister: IV, 13.
Trenley Farm: XVIII, 12-14.
Troughton, E.J., bank manager: III, 16; XII,14.
Tubslake: I,5.
Turner,C.F., parish council clerk: XII,16.
Turks Place, Hartley: XXVII, 9.
Turneen; XXVII, 2.
turnpikes: XIII,8-11; XIV,2-7; XV,30.
Tye, George, corn factor: XII, 14; XIV,16.
Tylden-Pattenson, Captain W.M., Biddenden JP: VII, 22-27; XXVI,11.
Tyro-Carmine: XX, 7-10.


Umfrey, John, tailor: II, 22.
Unicume family: XVIII, 15, 17; XIX, 8.
Union Mill: XIV, 14-17; XXI, 11-12.


Vestry Hall: II, 3; VII,26-27; XII,13-18.
Vine, Jeremiah, Quaker: XVII, 3.
viper bite: IV,17.
Volunteer Corps: XVIII, 23.
Vousden, Richard, farmer: XVIII, 17.


Waddington, Samuel, hop factor and banker: XVIII, 4.
Waddoup, Roy, scoutmaster: XX, 17.
Wade, Richard and Robert, surgeons: V, 7.
Waggon, -, restorer of St Dunstan’s Church: XVII, 10.
Waghorn, Samuel, Police Superintendent: XXVI,5.
Wallis, Philip (d. 1837), Hawkhurst schoolmaster: II, 30.
Walter family, tanners: XXVII, 2.
War Memorial: II, 12-13.
Ward, William: XV, 6.
Warre, Robert and William: II, 6.
Warren, John, churchwarden: XVII, 10-11.
Warren, Nicholas, Presbyterian minister: IV, 14.
water: XIX, 18-20.
Waterloo, battle of: XIII, 13-14.
Waterloo Road, Cranbrook: XXVI,5-6.
Waters, Samuel, printer, and family: XII, 6,17; XIII,13-14,16; XV,4,18,19; XVI, 18; XVII, 22.
Watts, Robert, Dr: V,16-17; XVIII,5; XIX,9; XX, 8.
Watyers, James, apprentice: IV, 12.
Weald of Kent Canal: XIII, 16; XV,6-10.
Webster, Thomas (1800-1886), artist, and family: II, 7-10; VI,18; VII,12-14; XI,7; XIII,19-21; XVII, 22; XVIII, 26-29; XXVII, 15-16.
Weizmann, Chaim, in Cranbrook: XVI, 6.
Wellard, John, weaver: VI, 16.
Weller, Alexander and John, clothiers: IV, 12.
Weller, Alexander, town crier: I, 14.
wells: XIX, 18-19.
West family of Hawkhurst (in 1620s): IV, 23-25.
West End Row, Cranbrook: XV, 23.
Weston, William, farmer and brickmaker: XVIII, 18.
Wheatley, Bill, greengrocer: XVIII, 31.
Whibley, John: XXVI, 10-13.
Whichcord, John, architect: XVIII, 18.
White, -, owner of Vestry Hall site: XII, 14.
White Lion inn: VIII, 24-28; XVIII, 23.
Whitewell, House and Lodge: XIV, 19-20.
Whood, Jasper, Hawkhurst schoolmaster: II, 30.
Wiborne, Richard (d.1609), of Staplehurst: III, 14-15.
Wickham, Dr Clara: VI, 24.
Wickham, Ernest, Goudhurst hop farmer: IX, 16-17.
wife, sale of: IV,4.
Wiggeons, James, Quaker farmer: XVII, 2.
Willard, Joseph and Theophilus: XIV, 10.
Willard, Thomas, Goudhurst papermaker: XVI, 8.
Willesley House: II, 8; XIII,20-21; XXVII, 15.
Williams, Eliza, mangling in 1871: I, 3.
Williams & Miles, coal merchants: XV, 24.
Willis, Charles, Junior, attorney (c. 1829): VI, 12; XV,6,10; XVII, 26.
Willis, Richard, solicitor (c. 1766): IV, 7.
wills: VII,28-32.
Wilmshurst family: III, 3,24; IV,7-8; V,5:XIV,16; XVIII,6-9; XXI,14; XXVI,5.
Wilsford, Thomas, owned Friezley: XI, 2.
Wilsley (Old Wilsley): II, 10; XVI, 4; XVIII, 26-29; XXVI,19.
Wilson, John E., solicitor: XII, 15; XV,22; XVI, 18.
Winch family: I, 3; V,28; VII, 6-7; XIX, 9.
windmill: XIV, 14-17.
Windmill Hill: XXVI,6.
wiredrawers: V,19-21.
Wood, Katherine Alice (d. 1944): VIII, 11; X, 7; XII, 21-22.Wood, Alfred: XXVI,8.
Wood, Rev H., Congregationalist minister: IV, 15.
Wood, Richard and Robert, barber-surgeons: V, 7.
Woodgate, William (d. 1757), surgeon: V, 9.
Woodville family: XXIII, 2-4.
Woollet, Bernard, smuggler (d.1747): XXI, 7.
Woollet, Dr: XX, 8-9.
workhouses: at Cranbrook IX,25; X,21; XVIII, 18-20, 24; at Frittenden VI,2-4; at Goudhurst X,12.
Wrigg, - , fuller: II, 6.
Writing School: VI, 25.
Wylforde, James, knight: III, 5.


Youell, James and William, brewers: VII, 3.
Youth and Age, Webster painting: XXIII, 23.




INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS


Adams, Ed: XXV,16.; XXVI,9.

Allen, Peter: I, 15; VI, 17; VII,20; XI,6; XVI, 3; XIX, 1; XXI,4; XXIII, 9; XXIV,15; XXVII, 13-14, 15-17.
Allen, Valerie: III, 12; IV, 20.
Allison, Tony: IX,2; X,19; XI,13; XII,8; XIII,3; XIV,8; XV,4; XVII, 8; XVIII, 15; XIX, 12; XX,1; XXI,1; XXII, 1; XXIII,1; XXV,1.
Apps, Geoff: X,7; XV,1; XVII, 24.
Backhouse, Michael: I,21; II,14; XIII,1.
Bagshaw, Peter: X,11.
Barham, Sidney: VIII, 9.
Batchelor, Gordon: XI,10.
Betts, Phil: VIII, 2; XV,11; XVI,16; XVII,12; XXIII, 11; XXV,10.; XXVII, 3-6.
Boyd, Cynthia: XX,14.
Brent, Brian: VIII, 29.
Brent, Valerie: II,6; III,18; VII, 33; XIV,10.
Brew, Brian: IX,21; X,15; XVI, 24.
Browning, Tom: XXI,6.
Camburn, Monica: XXII, 19.
Carman, Betty: VIII,23; XI, 22; XIII,22; XIV,18; XV,14; XVIII,10,12; XIX, 5.
Chester, Arthur: VI,13.
Clarke, Edward: V,13.
Clarke, Elizabeth: III,6; IV,9.
Cloute, Anne: IV,2;V,16.
Cobbett, William: VIII,14.
Cordle, Celia: IX,16.
Cornish, April: XV,20.
Cousins, Gerald: III,19; IV,17; V,7.
Dann, Rodney: XVIII,18; XIX,18.
Deuchar, Andrew: XXVII, 10-12.
Donovan, Paul: XII,5; XIII,15; XV,17; XVI,18; XVII,22; XVIII,26; XIX,8,10; XX,11,16; XXII, 21; XXIII, 23 ; XXIV,14 ; XXV,3; XXVI, 14,15,19; XXVII, 21.
Farley, Fred: II,2; V,22.
Ford, John: XXVII, 7-9.
Frampton, George: IX,18.
Fryer, Jack: IV,26.
Gosling, Chris: XVII, 20.
Hannam, James: XXIV,4.
Hattersley-Smith, Geoffrey: XIV,20; XVIII, 33.
Holmes, Graham: XXII,13; XXIII,18.
Kellett, Arnold: XVI,13.
Kelly, David: XXVII, 18-20,
Kennard, Charles: I,19; II,18.
Larkin, Ian: XVI,26.
Lavey, Andrew: XIX,15.
Lebon, Cecily: I,6; I,11; II,20; III,3; V,23; VI,20.
Lloyd, James: XXIV,2.
Longley, Brigid: V,27; VIII,19; IX,23; X,22; XI,17; XII,21; XIII,19; XVI, 23; XXI,13.
McChesney, Norman: XVII, 15.
Millard, Tor: XXV,4.
Mitcham, Helen: VII, 9.
Moon, John H: XIV,1.
Moss, Elizabeth M: XIII,13.
Newell, Nicholas: XX 7; XXIII,14.
Newton Taylor, Paul: VI,10.
Pittman, Susan: XXVI,1-4.
Reynolds, Bill: II,12.
Rhys, Kathleen: VII,12.
Rivers, Doreen: V,2; VI,8.
Roper, Tom: II,23; III,2; V,4; X,8.
Rourke, Nicholas: XI,2.
Rumsey, Christopher: IX,6.
Russell, Daphne: IV, 13.
Ryan, Edward: X,17; XI,20; XII,19; XV,23; XVIII,30; XIX,20; XX,19.
Sanders, Alan: XIII,8; XIV,2; XVII,2; XX,17; XXII, 10; XXIV,17; XXV,13; XXVI,5.
Saunders, Andrew: XVI,19; XVII,26.
Singleton, Tony: I,5; I,7; II,4; II,27; III,9; III,27; IV,5; IV,23; V,12; V,19; VI,2; VI,15; VII,2; VII,16,28; VIII,18,24; IX,12; XII,13; XIV,14; XV,6; XVI,8; XVII, 5; XVIII,2; XIX,3; XX,4; XXI,9; XXII,7; XXIII, 5,6; XXIV,8,10; XXV,7; XXVI,7; XXVII, 1-3.
Stokes, Prue: VI,21; VII,22; XI,3; XI,19; XII,2.
Thomas, Richard: XXI,15.
Thompson, Anita: III,14.
Titford, Tony: I,12; XVIII,2.
Vaughan Winter, Simon: XV,27.
Vear, Donald: II,7.
Wickham, David: X,2.
Wilson, Helen: XXI,11.
Woodcock, Eileen: V,2.