Dr William Hardman's Researches
of Nonington and other Parishes
The Obituary of Frederick William Hardman,
LL.D. F.S.A. can be found in Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 55, 1942, p.79. Dr.
Hardman was an able scholar and Chairman of the Records branch. He published
small booklets on Kentish Place Names and contributed to Archaeologia Cantiana
on a variety of subjects often working closely with W.P. D. Stebbing and
Gordon Ward.
He accumulated research material on Ringwould and Nonington
Parishes, but did not publish on these topics. PMP Box 26 contains some of his
material relating to Nonington and more Nonington material can be found in PMP
27 and PMP 28. This current box contains abstracts of wills and notes on
prominent families in Nonington, especially the Boys and Oxinden, assembled by
Arthur Hussey of Wingham in the years around 1933. The abstracts of wills of
Nonington residents are from the Consistory Court Canterbury and cover the
years 1779-1749. Furthermore there is a collation of material relating to land
holding and use in Nonington from Saxon times onwards. Much of this material
is derived from Domesday and the VCH, but the later material includes a large
section of transcripts relating to property transactions in Nonington between
1487 – 1594.
There is also a section of Particulars of old deeds in possession
of Mrs Hammond of St. Albans Court copied by Dr. Gordon Ward and transcripts
Court Rolls and Rentals 1753-1856. There is information on the Manor of Soles
in Nonington and transcripts of a Calendar of old deeds belonging to E. P.
Boys Richardson dating from 1402 – 1553.
The papers include a pamphlet entitled: Notes on the Church of
St. Mary the Virgin Nonington, Kent published by the Vicar R.B. in 1938.
The pamphlet is accompanied by a letter where the vicar expresses his thanks
for the use of Dr. Hardman’s notes and Arthur Hussey’s transcripts of
wills. Furthermore there is a volume of notes on the history of St. Mary’s
Nonington in a homemade index card format followed by a brief draft history of
Nonington.
Contents of Box
PMP 27-01
1548 - 1649
Contents of
Box PMP 27-02 1689 - 1712
Contents of Box PMP
27-03 1715 - 1740
Contents of Box PMP
27-04 1742 - 1749
Contents of Box PMP 27-05
1750 - 1846
Directories -
Description of
Village, Postal information, Schools, Listing of Gentry, Traders etc
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