1852. Joshua Nalson.

His wife and he are buried here :

1867. Harriet Nalson, May 31, aged 71 years.

1885. Joshua Nalson, The Rectory, Halling, July 2, aged 81 years.

1885. Frederick Goldsmith-made dean of Perth, Western Australia, 1888. 1888. George Plumptre Howes, the present vicar.

There are very few things worthy of note in the short record which the Halling register contains. We, however, give the following.

Besides the clergy above mentioned we have :—

The Revd. Mr. Major Nourse, of the parish of Shorne in the county, a batchelor, and Isabella Hill of the same parish, spinster, were married by licence, March 2, 1747.

Mr. Nourse was for some years vicar of Higham, where he lies buried. Other entries are:

1729. Feby. 16. A daughter of Thomas Fuller buried.

1730. Jany. 25. Diana and Thomas, twins, were baptised.

1730. October ye 25. Mary, an infant, unknown, buryed from Peckman's.

1731. A stranger, unknown, died in Mr. Ray's barn, Feby. ye 7th.

1732. William Beecham and Thomas Bailey were both drowned and buried together, March ye 10th.

1750. Delona, daughter of a stranger unknown, Nov. 26, baptised.

1736. Matthew Lofte and Anne Cox, were married at St. Nicholas, Rochester, by John Price, vicar of Halling, June ye 14th.

1736. November ye 13th. Gregory Everest and Rachel Humphries, were married at St. Nicholas, Rochester.

1734. John Cheeseman, servant to Mr. Hatch, April 21, buried.

1737. A stranger, Stephen, who died at ye Compasses, and Thomas Fowler, were buryed August 24, by John Price.

1777. November 1. Garland Partridge (buried).

1780. August 2. A boy about 17 years old, unknown, drowned in the Medway. 1804 May 2. A stranger, drowned in the Medway, buried.

1806. October 3. A person unknown, drowned in the Medway, buried. 1809. April 21st. A man, unknown, drowned in the Medway, buried. 1820. April 15th. A man, unknown, drowned in the Medway, buried. 1888. Harris, Dec. 15, 2 years. G. P. Howes. This child was found dead in the woods, after having been lost sixteen days.

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CHAPTER XII.

FAMILY REGISTERS.

E have now gone. through the various clergy, and the curious entries to be found in the different registers. Our next task will be to go through the principal families to be found in this district; after which we shall give the names of other gentry to be found here, then those of yeomen and farmers so specially entered, and conclude this account of the registers with names in the district and the various occupations mentioned.

The first family to speak of in the neighbourhood, are the Lords of Abergavenny, whose seat was for so many years at Birling, in the register of which we find many of them mentioned as christened, married, and buried. In connection with them we must also mention their ancestral window in Nettlestead Church.

NEVILL.

1576. Frances Ladie Abergavenny, wyf to the Right Honourable Lord Abergavenny, was buried the xth day of Sep., with the garter king Harold's devise.

1586. The Right Honourable Sir Henry Nevill, Knight, Lord Abergavenny, was buried honourablie ye xxist of March in the yeare above written.

1588. Mr. Edward Nevill, was baptised the 4th day of June, in the chapell at Comfort.

This entry is most interesting as preserving the old name of the seat of the Nevills, which is recorded by Harris, but has now been quite forgotten in name; though some of the old house and walls at Birling Place are undoubtedly of this period.

*

1602. Margaret Nevill daughter of Edward Nevill, Lord of Abergavenny, was buried the xth day of October.

1610. Edward, the second son of the Right Honourable Edward Nevill, Lord Abergavenny, was buried the first day of November.

1616. Lady Rachell, wife to the right Honourable Edward Nevill, Lord Abergavenny, was buried the viiith day of October.

1617. Lady Elizabeth, first wyffe to the Right Honourable Sir Harry Nevill,

*Comfort is mentioned again in this entry: "Ferdinande Ashbee, gentleman that died at Comfforte House, was buried the xiiii. day of July 1681."

but not wyffe to Sir William Sedley, Knight and Baronet, was buried ye fifteenth day of August.

1617. The Right Honourable Edward Nevill, Lord Abergavenny, was buried the third of November, ut supra.

1628. The Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Nevill, sonne and heir apparent to the Right Honourable Sir Henry Nevill, Knight and Lord of Abergavenny, was buried the 7th day of May.

1641. The Right Honourable Henry Lord Abergavenny, was buried the 24th of December.

1649. Jany. 7. Sir Christopher Nevill, buried.

1649. July 10. The Lady Katharine Nevill, widdow, was buried.

1662. The Right Honourable John Lord Abergavenny, was buried ye 23rd of December.

1666. The Right Honourable George Lord Abergavenny, 14th day of June, was buried.

1727. The Right Honourable George Nevill, Lord of Abergavenny, was born June, 24th. His Majesty King George the Second, His Grace Lionel Duke of Dorset, and her Grace, the Duchess of Newcastle, being sponsors (at St. Margaret's, Westminster).

Nothing is said, we must notice here, as to the christening, though undoubtedly the noble sponsors, and the church, are intended to convey this to the mind.

1828. March, 28. Henry Nevill, buried.

1828. March, 28.

1855. Jany. 14.

Augusta Nevill, buried.

Ludovick Edward, son of Hon. Edward Vesey and Isabel Mary Francis Bligh, baptised.

1856. July 27. Llewellyn Nevill Vaughan, son of Hon. Thomas Edward Mostyn, M.P., and Henrietta Augusta Lloyd Mostyn, baptised. 1857. May 15. Henry Richard Howell, son of Thomas Edward Mostyn, Esq., M. P., and Henrietta Augusta Lloyd Mostyn, baptised.

1861. May 16. Honble. Thomas Edward Mostyn Lloyd Mostyn buried. 1863. Jany. 17. Constance Emily, daughter of Hon. Ralph Pelham, and Louisa Marianne Nevill, baptised.

1868. August 25.

William Nevill, Earl of Abergavenny, buried. 1872. May 21. Cicely, daughter of Hon. Ralph Pelham and Louisa Marianne Nevill, baptised.

1872. May 27. Caroline Nevill, Dowager Countess of Abergavenny, buried. 1873. July 22. Emily Georgiana, daughter of Hon. Ralph Pelham and

Louisa Marianne Nevill, baptised.

The monument from Nettlestead is as below:

"Here sleepeth in the Lord with certain hope of resurrection, the body of borne Lady Mary, Barroness Despencer and Burwash, who departed this transitory life into an eternall, upon the 28th day of June anno dom. 1626, and the 72 year of her age. She was sole daughter and heir of Henry Barron of Abergavenny, all which three barronies were derived to him from Elizabeth, sole daughter, and heyre of William Beauchamp, barron of Abergavenny and Earl of Worcester, his great grandmother; and from Isabella Despencer her mother. This noble lady was wife only to one husband, Sir Thomas Fane, Knight of Badsell in Kent, who left her a widdowe, at the age of 35 years, and he left this life the 28th day of February, Anno Dom. 1589, in the 52 year of his age. He was buried first at the Church of Tudely, in Kent, and now, in obedience to the command of her last will, her executors and executrix, her humble daughter-in-law, Mary Countess dowager of Westmoreland, who errected to her memory this monument in the year 1639, hath translated his body to accompany hers until the general day of resurrection.'

1700. The Right Honourable William Lord Dartmouth, and the Honble. Anne Finch, were married July 11th.

Mary Finch, daughter of the Rt. Honble. the Lord of Guernsey, was buried the 21st day of August, 1783.

The Right Honble. Heneage, Earl of Aylesford, was buried August 8th, 1719. 1731. Mary, daughter of the Honble. John and Eliza Finch, was baptised Jany. 25th.

1734. Elizabeth, daughter of the Honble. John Finch, Esq., and Mary his wife, was baptised July 30.

1736. Savile, son of the Honble. John Finch, and Mary his wife, was baptised Sept. 22.

1736. John, son of Honble. J. Finch, buried May 27th.

1739. Elizabeth, daughter of Honble. John Finch, buried April 25th. 1819. The Honble. Charles Finch, 66 years, buried December 24th. 1827. The Honble. Seymour Finch, July 13, aged 18 months, buried. 1848. Hon. Lady Mary Elizabeth Finch, Oct. 27, aged 82, buried. 1861. Rt. Honble. John Finch, Nov. 30, aged 68, buried.

Besides the above, we have two other entries of the name; one at Aylesford :

1658. Mrs. Ann Finch died at Cobtree, in the parish of Allington, was buried here at Aylesford, the seven and twentieth day of July;

and the other at East Malling:

1605. Buried was Edward Fynch, gentleman, the 23rd of January.

In the east window of the north chapel of Aylesford church, we find a window in memory of "The Earls of Aylesford and their wives." Above are figures which have inscriptions, "In my Father's house are many mansions," "I am the Resurrection and the Life"; below are in the three lights, first, C. F., W. C. F., M. F., H. F.,

J. F., K. F., C. F., D. F., C. P.; then C. A., M. A., C. A., L. A., A. S. A.; and H. F., M. F., J. C., L. C. W., S. F., J. H. F., S. F., C. G. M. F., G. A. F., with the dates 1719, 1757, 1777, 1812, 1859, 1871, the dates when the earls succeeded. The window is dedicated:

"To The glory of God, and in memory of dear ones gone to rest."

On the north side of the church is a window, which has an inscription, with figures: "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" "Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you." The window is dedicated:

"In memory of Georgiana Agnes, daughter of William Lord Bagot, the wife of the Honble. Charles W. Finch, B. May 22, 1852: D. April 12, 1874.

The other members of noble families found in these registers

are:

1881. Oct. 6. Married Captain Charles Robert Pratt, son of 3rd Marquis of Camden, and Florence Maria Stevenson,

at Aylesford. And at West Malling:

1741. Feby. 18.

The Honble. Charles Stewart, Esq., Vice-Admiral of ye White, buried in linen, and 50 shillings paid.

1779. Feby. 25. Charles Stewart, Esq.

The first

In addition to these we find two families of baronets. of these was created in Charles II.'s day, though springing from a still older honourable family. This is the family of

TWISDEN (BRADBOURNE, EAST MALLING).

1653. Baptised, September 3, Isabella, the daughter of Thomas Twisden, Esq. 1655. Buried, Oct. the 30th, Isabella, the daughter of Thomas Twisden, Serjeant at Law.

1669. Thomas Twisden, the eldest son of Roger Twisden, and Margaret his wife, was borne in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, the 10th of November, 1668, being Tuesday about 8 o'clock in the morning, and baptised the next day after, in the same parish; but it is desired to have his birth and baptism to be registered in this parish of East Malling the 13th of April.

A copy of St. Giles register is on a slip of paper, with the marriage of Roger Twisden and Margaret Marsham, not later than Feby. 1668.

1670. Baptised, June 11th, Roger, the son of Roger Twisden, Esq. 1672. Baptised, October 1st, John, the son of Roger Twisden, Esq. 1675. Buried, April 9th, Francis Twisden son to Sir Thomas Twisden, Baronet. 1677. Jane Twisden, daughter of Roger Twisden, Esq., and Margaret his wife, born in London, in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Field, Oct. 31st, and baptised November 6 by Dr. Stillingfleet.

1679. December 23. Buried, Heneage Twisden, Esq., third son of Sir Thomas Twisden, Knight and Baronet.

1680. November 28. Buried, William Twisden, Esq., son of Sir Thomas Twisden, Knight and Baronet.

1681. Baptised, the first day of June, was Elizabeth, the daughter of Roger Twisden, Esqre, and Margaret his wife.