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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.
Hawkhurst pub history index
HAWKHURST, a small town and parish three miles N.W. from Eclingham station, and
five S.W. from Cranbrook, is in the hundred of East Barnfield and Cranbrook
union, lathe of Scray, West Kent, and partly in Sussex. The church, dedicated to
St. Lawrence, is an ancient edifice. The living is a perpetual curacy in the
gift of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford; the Rev. H. A. Jeffreys is
the incumbent. The population in 1861 was 2,704. Scales Crouch is half a mile
west; Delmonden, one
mile N.W.; High street and Highgate, half a mile north; Lightfoot Green, one
mile and a half north; Trenley, two miles north; Tubslake, three miles north;
Gill's Green, two miles north; Beal's Green, one mile and a half north; Hocksley,
one mile north; Four Wents, three miles north; Atwater, three miles north;
Tilden, two miles and a half N.W.; Gun Green, one mile N.W.; 3?our Throws, one
mile east.
POST-OFFICE. - Richard Harvey, Receiver. Letters are received through
Staplehurst
GENTRY.
| Adams, Richard D., Esq. Ayerst, Francis, Esq. Ayerst, Thomas, Esq. Baker, Mrs. Jane Beckwith, William, Esq., Magistrate Beecham, William Pain, Esq. Bell, John L., Esq. Bryant, John, Esq. Clarke, Mrs. Cloutt, Mrs. Durrant, Mrs. Lettice Fisher, Mrs. Elizabeth French, George, Esq. Gower, A., Esq. Green, Richard, Esq. Gregson, the Misses Harmer, William, Esq. Hartnell, Mrs. Herschell, Sir John, Bart., Collingwood House |
Hood, Mrs. Ann Jeffreys, Rev. Henry Anthony Jennings, Joseph, Esq. Lloyd, Edward, Esq. Maynard, Henry, Esq. McCabe, Peter Francis, M.D. Morris, Mr. Matthew Perigoe, Mrs. Piper, Jesse, Esq. Rolfe, John, Esq. Rolfe, Mrs. Robertson, James, Esq. Springett, John, Esq. Springett, Thomas B., Esq. Stevenson, George Robert, Esq. Upperton, John, Esq. Wetherell, Rev. Richard Young, Mrs. Elizabeth Young, Francis Ayerst, Esq. |
| Adams, George T., grocer and draper Adams, John, butcher Avard, John, farmer Ayerst, Thomas, farmer and miller Ayerst, George, farmer Ballard, Caleb, shoemaker Bannister, William, boot and shoe maker Barham, John, tea dealer Barham, George, watch maker Barnett, Edward, nurseryman Bassett, John, shopkeeper Bishop, James, farmer Beecham, William Pain, solicitor Callow, John S., farmer Chapman, Joseph, tailor Chapman, Miss, dressmaker Cheeseman, Edmund, grocer Cheeseman, Jesse, saddler Cheeseman, John, beer retailer Collier, William, miller Comfort, Ebenezer, wheelwright Cooper, Charles, beer retailer Coppinger, Henry, tailor Couchman, Thomas, china and glass dealer Couchman, Mrs Sarah, day school Croft, Alfred, George and Dragon Cruttenden, Timothy, basket maker Davis, Edward, builder Delves, David, draper Doubell, James, chemist, stationer and news agent Doubell, William, tax collector Durrant, Samuel, registrar of births and deaths Durrant, Francis, farmer Durrant, John; farmer Durrant, John Mercer, farmer Durr'ant, Thomas Mercer, farmer Grisbrook, Thomas, butcher Guess, George, blacksmith Guest, Mrs. Sarah, straw hat maker Hall, Obed, grocer and draper Hall, William, baker Hammond, Edmund, farmer Harris, Thomas, watchmaker Harvey, Maty, stationer and bookseller Harvey, Mrs. Jane, milliner, &c. Harvey, Mrs. Mary Jane, tailor Harvey, Richard, builder, ironmonger, and postmaster Hayward, _, plumber, &c. |
Huggins, Peter, shopkeeper Huggins, William, beer retailer Hutchins, Henry Peter, Queen's Head Jewhurst, William, grocer Kilburne, Goodwin, academy Kine, Samuel Law, George, beer retailer Leonard, John, Royal Oak Lepper, William, shopkeeper Lovett, John, farmer Mansfield, Thomas, hairdresser Marchant, Geddion, baker Maskell, James, baker Maskell, William, bricklayer Message, John, carpenter Mills, George, farmer Ottaway, Mrs. Mary, saddler Padgham, John, butcher Pankhurst, William, shopkeeper Parker, Thomas, tea dealer Piper, Henry, bricklayer Piper, William, stonemason Port, Mrs. Ann, day school Reeves, Francis, farmer Reeves, James, boot and shoe maker Roberts, James, boot and shoe maker Roberts, Samuel, boot and shoe maker Russell, George; miller Robertson, James, surgeon Sands, Richard, blacksmith Sellinge, Samuel, blacksmith Sellman, William, farmer Southern, William, farmer Springett, Thomas B. solicitor Stapley, William, beer retailer' Stedman, George, plumber, &c. Taplin, George, gardener and seedsman Tobitt, Edmund, farmer, &c. Tobitt, Thomas, farmer Thwaite, Charles, Eight Bells Upperton, John, solicitor Waghorn, John, blacksmith Walker, Join, horse dealer Warren, William, millwright Watts, Thomas, farmer Wicken, James, brewer and beer retailer Wightwick, Humphery, farmer Williams, Samuel, hairdresser Willsher, George, farmer Winsor, Edward, butcher Woolvein, John, grocer and draper Young, Francis Ayerst, surgeon |