Mixed register : Baptisms 1568-1812; marriages, 1569-1749, 1755; burials 1568-1812 [scattered throughout volume with apparent lack of system; pages numerated, and table of contents at front enables readers to trace the various series of entries; notes of burial in woollen occur 1712-1777; other entries as follows: at front list of poor and of food donated, 1821; p.82, financial notes, including county rates, c.1600-1692; p.89 Latin verse praising James I and referring to Guy Fawkes, c.1605; pp. 90, 91 part copy will of John Walter, with bequest to poor, c.1610: p.92 coat of arms in broken church window; p.93, briefs 1673 and n.d.; p.94, chantry; 95 list of patrons and incumbents, 1318-1807; p.97 burials in woollen, 1777, not in table of contents

Baptisms

Marriages

Marriages

Marriages

Marriages

Marriages

Marriages

Transcript of P147/01/01 by Sir Thomas Colyer Fergusson; transcript, with short editorial note and nominal index [transcribed 1904]

Page of parish register, recording baptisms in Fawkham, 1870 - 1872, probably intended as an official return to the Diocesan Office

Orders of service for festival of nine lessons and carols held in Fawkham Church

Register of services

Register of services

Register of services

Register of services

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P147

Records of St. Mary the Virgin's Parish Church, Valley Road, Fawkham 1568-

Fawkham Church now forms part of the United Benefice and Parish of Fawkham and Hartley.To view a full list of the records of St. Mary's, please click here

These were received as follows:

August 1981 P147/1/1-10; P147/2/1; P147/4/1; P147/6/1; P147/8/1-12; P147/25/1-4; P147/27/1-5; P147/28/1-24; P147/27/6-15;
February 1987 P147/1/11-16; P147/2/2; P147/8/13-15; P147/28/25-32.

Useful links

Official web site of the United Benefice and Parish of Fawkham and Hartley click here 

St. Mary's Church Burial Register database 1814-2002 (containing 1050 entries, access free of charge) click here

Fawkham church page in the North West Kent Family History Society home page, including photograph, please click here

Monumental inscriptions courtesy of Kent Archaeological Society click here

Watercolour of Fawkham Church also courtesy of Kent Archaeological Society click here

Fawkham Tithe Award schedule 1841 also courtesy of Kent Archaeological Society click here

Map showing neighbouring parishes click here

Map of surrounding area courtesy of Multimap click here

Ordnance Survey map click here

Bibliography

Fawkham: the story of a Kentish village by W. Frank Proudfoot, 1951, local studies collections reference FAWK942DART

Useful information

Please note CDRoms of the following parish registers are available direct from our partners North West Kent Family History Society or online by credit/debit card at GENfair OR Parish Chest

Introductory section, Borough Archivist, Medway Council 27 September 2000.File updated 27 July 2007

Faculties and cognate documents [including docs. for new reredos 1889, new lectern 1929, new organ 1930, to re-arrange headstones 1951, new heating system 1959, work on nave 1959, and on sanctuary 1961]

Papers of Revd. A.C. Ford: deacon (1940), priest (1941), induction and institution to Fawkham rectory (1949), collation to honorary canonry (1979), appointment as canon emeritus (1982), with related correspondence

Assessments 1847 - 1869, accounts 1847 - 1942

Minutes 1833-1861, followed by lists of persons “receiving coats and gowns” 1886 - 1908

Minutes

Minutes

P.C.C. annual accounts

P.C.C. accounts, vouchers etc.

P.C.C. accounts, vouchers etc.

P.C.C. accounts, vouchers etc.

P.C.C. accounts, vouchers etc.

P.C.C. accounts, vouchers etc. [principally church maintenance]

Church Assembly, parish electoral roll

P.C.C. Agreement for Quinquennial Repairs, 1975, with notes for guidance on such repairs, n.d.

Minute of P.C.C. and annual parochial church meetings

Minutes of annual parochial church meetings

Minutes of P.C.C.

Minutes of P.C.C. [1980-1983] and annual parochial church meetings [1979-1983]

Church accounts: receipts and payments, and separate accounts for fabric fund, general account, book account etc.

John Walter charities for the poor, and for a sermon in Fawkham, Ash and Hartley [correspondence, principally of charity commission with the Rector, also of the churchwardens, with typescript copy of his will, original 1623, copy of his monumental inscription, pattern of cloth for the charity coat, 1858[?] and impression of Walter seal, 1959

Conveyance of land (1/4 a.) called Cats Brain as site of school for poorer classes, with plan on deed [Henry Booth Hohler of Fawkham Manor to the Minister and Churchwardens; doc. found in P147/25/04]

Fawkham elementary school; reports on school from Board of Education, Education Department and Kent Education Committee

Fawkham Church of England primary school; minutes of managers’ meetings, correspondence, principally with County Council and official forms, also from Rochester Diocesan Officer, and photograph of staff and children, with news cutting on retirement of staff same day, 1971

Map of the parish, field names marked thereon [map marked “1831”, but almost certainly recte 1837]

Agreement for commutation of tithes for £265 a year, between Rector and landowners

Altered apportionment (462a.) [with map annexed showing house called Pennis]

Map of land (338a.) with Fawkham Green and “White House” marked thereon [altered apportionment missing]

Altered apportionment on land (11 a.) west of Court Lodge and Scudders farm buildings [with map annexed]

Tithe award

Altered apportionment [re. part of Fawkham Court]

Extraordinary Tithe Redemption Certificate [Court Lodge and house called Pennis]

Memorandum regarding Tithe on land remaining in the occupation of Mr. T.B. Hohler

Altered apportionment

Altered apportionment

Tithe redemption certificate

Altered apportionment [with plan attached]

Altered apportionment

Altered apportionment

Hymnal by Isaac Watts 1719, [cover marked “Elizabeth King, 1815”, and with typescript note describing finding the book in stable of Green Farm, 1956]

Framed picture of church c.1850, and pasted on back short antiquarian note on graves and wall paintings, 1953

Romantic framed engraving of young mother with two children

Parish Magazine

Photostat copy telegrams of congratulations on coronation of George V and acknowledgement to inhabitants of Fawkham 1911, with note of gift thereof 1978

Miscellaneous papers, antiquarian and some administrative [including modern translation of charter of free warren, 1253, cutting from London Gazette relating to advowson 1930, brochure of Fawkham Manor clinic c.1950, report on church fabric 1951, agreement to supply electricity to P.C.C. 1970, antiquarian journals with articles on Fawkham, plan of medieval building excavated near church, applications for common land registration and assessment for dilapidations

Photographs of cartoons of war time life in Fawkham 1918, with note by Rector, 1973

Photographs of the church, one c.1920, others probably post 1940, most n.d., one wedding photograph

Newspapers with antiquarian articles on Fawkham, several referring to the Hohler family

Antiquarian papers: newspaper cuttings with manuscript financial accounts for Peace dinner, 1918, manuscript account of ninetieth birthday party of John Cronk, 1963

Photograph of horse-operated harvest machine [endorsed “Ash Road, Hartley”]

Photographs of the church, interior and exterior, with a few village scenes and including some photographic slides

Sale particulars with map and photographs; Fawkham Manor Estate (996 a.) including Mansion, Parkfield Lodge, Scudders Farm, Cross House Cottages, Little Wickhams, White House, Westyoke Farm and cottages, Six Acre Cottages, Village Hall, Pennis House and farm, Churchdowns Farm, Hill Barn Farm and Hillside Cottages

Printed book: Fawkham, the story of a Kentish Village, by W. Frank Proudfoot

Eleven chalk nodules, with note by Rector of their being formed by storm water, 1958, and washed into church

Sale particulars of Speedgate estate, including Cedar House and Dairy farm [with photographs, map and estate agent’s letters]

Antiquarian papers, including typescript copy will of Richard Emonson, Rector, proved 1541, photostat copy of Visitation 1732 with inventory of church goods 1733, typescript of entry for Fawkham in Thorpe’s Custumale Roffense 1788, Copy of Hasted’s account of Fawkham 1797, newspaper and manuscript accounts of floods affecting the church, with photographs, 1958, architectural notes on the church c.1960, correspondence of W. Frank Proudfoot 1966, notes of gifts and bequests to the church from 1444

Newspaper cuttings with photographs; churchwarden aged 90, 1958, car driven into church pond 1977, children celebrating Royal Wedding 1981

Typescript Portrait of a Village, Fawkham in the Early Victorian Era, by W.F. Proudfoot [in stiff folder]

Sale particular, Fawkham Manor Estate

Antiquarian papers; including photostat sequestration of benefice 1711 and release therefrom 1712 photostat institution of Edmund Barrell, with faculty to hold in plurality with Sutton at Hone 1712, copy will of Henry Scudder of Collingbourne Davis, Wiltshire, proved 1652, notes on the Scudder family of North West Kent, also India, 1972, 1970, typescript papers on the Scudder family, some from American* Association, 1976, 1977 printed History and Guide to the church, 1967, printed account of the manor and chantry of Scotgrove, by W. Frank Proudfoot, 1978 [in folder marked the church of St. Mary Fawkham....researched by W. Frank Proudfoot ]

[* cf. America]

Original bindle
Date: 1967 - 1976
Quantity: about 50 documents

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