Families and Wills
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H The Hadlows of Ightham page h.6 The Sixteenth Century Hadlows page h.7 Henry Hadlow page h.7 The Thomas Hadlows page h.8 William Hadlow, weaver page h.10 William Hadlow, husbandman page h.12 Theophilus Hadlow, yeoman of Ightham page h.15 William Hadlow and his wife Joane page h.26 The other Hadlows of Ightham page h.36 The children of William Hadlow page h.36 Walter Hadlow’s Family page h.37 John Hadlow’s Wife and Children page h.38 Three Baptisms page h.39 Six Burials page h.40 h.1 The Hadlows of Seal page h.41 The Hadlows of Shipbourne page h.56 Will of Thomas Hall of Seal page h.59 Will of William Hall of Bexley page h.63 Will of Miles Hamond of Luddesdown (extract) page h.68 Richard Hammond see Hills of Kemsing and Seal, page h.157 Will of Austin Harman of Hadlow page h.69 The Harmans of Seal and Kemsing page h.72 The Family of John Harman page h.72 The Will of Thomas Harman page h.75 The Plague Strikes page h.78 The Family of Robert Harman page h.78 The Harmans of Kemsing page h.79 Will of William Harris of Tonbridge page h.80 Will of Margaret Harrison of Hoo (extract) page h.81 h.2 The Harts of Tonbridge page h.82 William Harte of Tonbridge page h.84 The Hasdens/Haseldens of Seal, Kemsing and Ightham page h.89 The Family of William and Sylvester of Kemsing page h.90 The Family of John Haselden of Seal page h.91 The Ightham Hasdens page h.92 Solomon Hasden, labourer page h.93 Reginald Hasden of Ightham page h.94 The Hasells of Seal page h.98 The Haslins of Wrotham page h.117 Will of Arthur Heath, sailor, of Tonbridge page h.127 Will of Thomas Henwood, yeoman, of Pembury (extract) page h.129 The Hills of Kemsing and Seal page h.130 The Family of William, the testator of 1557 page h.130 Other Hills of Kemsing page h.142 William and Thomas Hills of Heverham in Kemsing page h.144 Will of William Hills of Seal page h.153 The Hills of Seal: the Three Johns page h.154 The Other Hills of Seal page h.158 h.3 The Hills of Shoreham page h.162 William’s Sons, William, George and John page h.164 William’s Son Richard, Sevenoaks and the Weerys page h.165 Robert Hill, Son of William page h.166 Robert’s Legacies page h.168 Will of Robert Hills of Shoreham page h.169 Benjamin Hills page h.179 Will of Marie Hoade of Tonbridge page h.180 Will of George Holland page h.183 The Hollombys of Chiddingstone page h.189 The Holloways of Seal page h.207 Thomas Holloway and the church steeple page h.211 John Holloway's House page h.218 The Holmans of Seal page h.228 Will of Edward Holman page h.229 The Homewoods of Seal and Ightham page h.231 Andrew Homewood, tailor and churchwarden page h.231 Victim of a Burglary page h.234 Two Baptisms in Seal page h.236 Robert Homewood of Ightham page h.237 h.4 The Hoopers of Shipbourne, Tonbridge and Ightham page h.238 The Parson of Ightham page h.239 The Family of Nicholas Hooper page h.240 John Hooper of Tonbridge page h.242 John’s Provisions for his wife, Joan page h.249 Will of John Hooper of Tonbridge page h.252 Will of Richard Howe of Hadlow page h.263 Will of John Howell of Hever (extract) page h.267 Will of William Hutchinson of Wrotham page h.268 h.5 The Hadlows of Ightham The Hadlows of Ightham were a large "clan" which included ploughwrights and weavers and at least two borsholders but with many "loose ends". There was William Hadlow the weaver, William Hadlow, junior (with no obvious "William Hadlow, senior") and other children of William Hadlow who cannot be fitted into either of these families. There is also little continuity in that, although records of Hadlows stretch from the beginning of the records in the 1560s up to the 1630s, it is not possible to match up the generations. The births of 45 children are recorded but, of these, nothing more is known for at least 31. Four wills have survived: William Hadlow 14 Sep 1609 CKS: Pws/w/8/3 page h.13 Theophilus Hadlow 18 Mar 1626 CKS: Pws/w/8/27 page h.20 William Hadlow 25 Jun 1627 CKS: Pws/w/8/31 page h.29 Joan Hadlow 9 May 1631 CKS: Pws/w/8/71 page h.34 h.6 Theophilus was buried on 21st April 1626 and William, the testator of June 1627 on 15th September 1627. Joan, who was the widow of William died 1627, lived for another seven years after writing her will being buried on 27th October 1638. There were also Hadlows in Shipbourne and Seal but there seems no way of finding out how, if at all, the various Hadlows were connected. The Sixteenth Century Hadlows There were a number of Hadlow families in Ightham having children in the second half of the sixteenth century. Other individuals were: Secille Hadlow buried on 20th February 1565; nothing was given except the name - Cecil or Cecily? - a man or a woman? Henry Hadlow Henry Hadlow was described as an ale-taster in the Ightham Court Records for 1553-1574. His wife, Alice, was buried on 27th August 1560 and he himself on 15th January 1570. h.7 If the Henry Hadlow who died in 1570 was the Henry Hadlow referred to by William Pelsett during the Bing v. Hooper case (see Excerpts from Ightham Court Records) as being "a man of the age of 76 years", apparently at the beginning of Elizabeth's reign (CRI 1938, p.84), he was 86 when he died. The Thomas Hadlows Thomas Hadlow, ploughwright (i295), had a son, Thomas (i297), baptised on 21st December 1567. There were two families headed by a Thomas Hadlow: Num Name Born Married Spouse M C Died i298 HADLOW, Thomas <1560 1 3 -------------- ! i299 HADLOW, Theophilus 9 Apr 1581 0 0 ! i304 Hadlow, Jane 19 Jul 1584 0 0 ! i306 Hadlow, Dorothy 2 Feb 1587 21 Jun 1612(K) Robert HUGGINS1 1 1 married at 25 1 married in Kemsing; Robert (k649) and Dorothy had a son Thomas (k651) baptised in Kemsing on 3rd January 1613. h.8 Num Name Born Married Spouse M C Died i297 HADLOW, Thomas 21 Dec 1567 1 5 -------------- ! i1324 Hadlow, Elizabeth 21 Feb 1591 0 0 ! i326 HADLOW, Thomas 16 Oct 1592 0 0 ! i327 HADLOW, Nicholas 11 Feb 1593 0 0 ! i328 HADLOW, Reginold 1 Jun 1595 0 0 ! i329 HADLOW, Thomas 13 Jun 1596 0 0 The second family could be the children of the ploughwright’s son or those of i298. Theophilus, the eldest son of i298, cannot have been the testator whose will has survived since William, the eldest son of the testator was baptised in 1588. Perhaps i298 had a brother Theophilus who was the testator. Two Thomas Hadlows died in 1596, one was buried on 26th January and the other on 30th October; one is likely to have been the ploughwright but who was the other? A Thomas Hadlow, weaver, was mentioned in the Court Records for 1586-1618; this could have been either i297 or i298. h.9 William Hadlow, weaver Eleven children of William Hadlow were recorded in Ightham between 1562 and 1583, all except the first two being the children of “William Hadlow, weaver” Num Name Born Married Spouse M C Died i270 HADLOW, William <1542 1 11 --------------- ! i272 Hadlow, Jane 19 Jul 1562 0 0 7 Apr 1598 was this the Jane Hadlow who died 1598? ! i273 Hadlow, Elizabeth 8 Dec 1566 0 0 ! i274 HADLOW, William 15 Dec 1567 0 0 too young to be William Hadlow, junior in 1572 ! i276 Hadlow, Katherine2 5 Feb 1570 0 0 ! i277 Hadlow, Elizabeth 20 Apr 1572 0 0 ! i278 HADLOW, Walter 7 Nov 1574 0 0 10 Nov 1574 <1 wk ! i279 Hadlow, Margaret 28 Oct 1575 0 0 29 Oct 1575 <1 wk ! i280 HADLOW, Matthew 11 Nov 1576 0 0 ! i281 Hadlow, Anne 10 Feb 1579 0 0 ! i303 Hadlow, Agnes 0 0 15 Mar 1581 ! i302 HADLOW, Richard 12 May 1583 0 0 2 could be the Catherine Hadlow who married Richard Johnson (i711) in 1590 - see Johnson h.10 Another Elizabeth, daughter of William Hadlow, was baptised on 14th February 1567. Only one of these Elizabeths can have been the daughter of William the weaver. A William Hadlow, borsholder was mentioned in the Court Records for 1553-74 and this could have been i270. The William Hadlow mentioned between 1586 and 1618 was described in the list of names (CRI 1938, p.58) as borsholder, ploughwright and weaver. By 1597, the last recorded entry for a William Hadlow, i270 would have been about 60. The two detailed entries are: - On 5th April 1592 William Hadlow was to be fined 10s if the stranger he had received -"Johnson" - was not removed or sureties found for him. (CRI 1938, p.17). Was there any connection between this Johnson and the husband of Catherine Hadlow? - William Hadlow was one of the residents within the View of Frank-pledge in October 1597 who made default but was pardoned because he had not been sufficiently summoned to the Court.