12a.   As regards the name of Oliver’s Farm, Wallenberg, 38, tentatively refers to an Edmund Olyuer, citizen and ‘stokfisshemonger’ of London, who was deforciant in an Ash fine of 1370. There seems, however, to be no other evidence to support so early a provenance for the Farm name.

13.  In 1707 Rabson, then the sitting tenant and described as ‘husbandman’, was granted a lease for fourteen years of his eleven and a half Fawkham acres: Selby MSS, T1/46.

14.  Stagg, 2, confirms that Solomon Wallis built the Terrace.

15.  Fishers House presumably took its name from the Fisher family, who are first encountered in the time of the Commonwealth and who remained in Ash for a hundred years or more, The Fishers and the Bakers were related by marriage; in 1722 Thomas Fletcher and Elizabeth Baker were married, this being the only Fisher wedding recorded at Ash. Mary Baker, who was the widow of Richard Baker, husbandman, died early in 1792 at the age of eighty-nine, having ‘had no use of her limbs for 30 years’. At the time of the survey of that year, Fishers House and its eight acres were in the ownership and occupation of her son, Richard Baker, who died of a decline three years later. The family name was kept green in Ash by the Richard Baker charity, providing an annual one pound charged on Fishers House Farm.

16.  All Saints’, Hartley Magazine, No. 10 (September,1925).

17.  C. Greenwood, Epitome of County History - Kent (1838), 81,

18. Giles Farm had been amongst various properties offered for sale by auction at Gravesend on 1 October 1817 by direction of ‘the Devisees in Trust of Nathaniel Gyles Esq.,deceased’; see Gravesend and Dartford Reporter, issue of 4 July 1975.

19.  Francis Grayling, County Churches Kent (1913), I, 64.

20.  See Stagg, 3-4. It Is said (inter alia) there that Mrs Fletcher left her considerable property around Hodsoll Street to the Revd David Lamplugh of Yalding Vicarage, that he commenced to part with the properties in 1893 and that Mr Foa acquired the Holywell Park Estate in 1902.
   It seems very unlikely that the Vicar of Yalding would have been given the entire beneficial interest in the estate, but there was evidently a close relationship  between the Fletchers and the Lamplughs. The Revd David Lamplugh married Amos and Frances Fletcher’s fourth daughter, Mary Jane, and his brother, the Revd
Alfred Lamplugh, married their youngest daughter, Augusta, 

20a.   As to Benjamin Harrison and the Rogers family, see Sir Edward R. Harrison, Harrison of Ightham (1928), esp. at 48-50, 61-62, 110, 113.

21. Joseph Thorpe appeared on the 1845 Ash Voters list as owner, but not occupier, of Upper Pettings. Objection was made to the retention of his name on the list for the following year, presumably because the property was his no more. He, or another of the same name, appeared on the 1848 list as the owner of a cottage at Hodsoll Street, being described as of 'Cook’s Farm’.