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Wills of 17th Century Gentlemen, Chatham 1647-1698
in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (Pre 1858) -
Index of names
I am grateful to Ted Connell for hosting this work and for compiling the index
D.E. Williams, Borstal, Kent August 2021

Surname Christian name

Age

Place

Occupation

Date Will
proved

No.

HOLT William          Chatham Shipwright 1647

01

MARCALL Richard          Chatham 1647 02
WANLER John          Chatham 1648 03
TROUGHTON Milkes          Chatham 1651 04
YARDLEY Edward          Chatham 1656 05
ISAACSON Richard          Chatham Painter 1659 06
NORMAN Jacob          Chatham 1668 07
YOUNG Benjamin          Chatham Commodore  1670 08
WILSON Thomas          Chatham 1676 09
HOMEWOOD Edward          Chatham Clerk of Survey 1688 10
CRISPE Rowland          Chatham 1692 11
COOKE William          Chatham Purser 1693 12
SMITH Samuel          Chatham 1694 13
WRIGHT Henry          Chatham 1694 14
FLETCHER John          Chatham 1694 15
BERRY Anthony          Chatham 1694 16
SLITER Robert          Chatham Ropemaker 1695 17
GREGORY William          Chatham Purser 1696 18
LEE Robert          Chatham Shipwright 1698 19

 Index of Names - Places - Miscellaneous (occupations, ships etc)

Names
Alford 10
Allen 4, 5
Almond 13
Ames 10
Aplyn 1, 4
Atkins 10
Avery 10

Bayfine 10
Bayley 10
Baynard 19
Beckford 9
Bell 10
Berry 16
Billingsley 17
Bodham 10
Bonham 4
Bonis 13
Bowles 5
Boyse 4
Bright 5
Brooke 12
Brown 10
Bryan 8
Burnish 11
Burroughs 10
Burton 10
Button 10
Butts 9

Cakett 10
Carkett 10
Castle 10
Chatterton 10
Cheaf 10
Cheney 10
Christian 10
Chuston 2
Clarke 16
Clay 10
Cole 10
Condall 6
Cooke 10, 12
Corklin 10
Crispe 11
Curtis 9, 10
Daniel 10
Davis 10, 12
Denderseld 10
Dixon 10
Dormer 10

Edge 19

Fermes 10
Finch 10
Fitzhugh 10
Flawson 1
Fletcher 5, 12, 15, 16
Fowler 2
Frankwell 12
Fridd 4
Furbarne 16
Fuszer 10

Gibson 10
Gilbourne 8
Glover 10
Goodall 4
Goodman 4
Gore 10
Goslinge 4
Gregory 10 18
Gromwell 14

Harding 10
Hatton 10
Haugh 10
Hawes 13, 15
Hawkings 4
Hawkins 3
Hawlett 7
Hawth 10
Hayes13
Haynes 14
Hayter 10

 

Hayward 3, 4, 5
Head 4, 6
Heath 4
Hevater 10
Hewer 10
Higgins 10
Holland 10
Holt 1, 5
Homewood 10
Hook 10
Hooke 10
Hudson 10

Isaacson 6
Isles 10
Jeye 10
Jeyes 10
Joett 7
Join???les 5
Keeble 2
Kitchin 2
Knott 1

Landnill 2
Lately 10
Laurence 10
Lee 10
Lee 10
Lee 19
Leggato 5
Legoe 15
Liewsly 10
Loran 15

Maddocks 10
Maddox 10
Manley 10
Marcall 2
Martine 18
Mathews 5, 7
Mayles 3
Medhurst 10
Miles 3
Modersly 10
Morden 10
Moyse 18
Mullens 5

Newall 10
Newall 5
Norman 7

Ouram 19

Palmer 10
Parker 10
Paulrett 5
Pedder 10
Peeke 4
Peirce 4
Peirre 10
Peirson 10
Pelham 10
Penre 10
Pepys 10
Pett 10, 11, 13, 17
Petty 13
Phancy 10
Poole 2
Popple 3
Pulman 3

Raccliffe 10
Ratford 10
Redriffe 10
Rich 10
Rosewell 3, 4, 5, 10, 
   13, 17
Ryves 14

S???onge 5
Sarjent 8
Saunders 10
Sellers 10
Shadborn 10
Sheafe 7,. 9, 18
Sheldon 10
Sherwin 10
Shuter 4
Sidley 4
Skelton 4
Slaughter 12
Sliter 17
Smith 9, 10, 13,. 16
Somer 3
Stanley 5
Steggen 3
Stephens 10
Stewentw 10
Strange 15

Taylor 7, 19
Thomas 3
Thomson 10
Tilghman 10
Tippetts 10
Tong 10
Trarms 4
Troughton 3, 4
Tunbridge 5
Turkes 3
Turner 5
Tustian 14

Vintle 5

Walker 3, 6
Waller 3
Walsall 13, 15
Wanler 3
Wells 4
Whitfield 10
Wiggens 10
Wilkins 10
Wilson 7, 9
Wright 14
Wyval 10

Yardley 8
Yardly 5
Yeo 10
Young 8
Places
Allhallows, Barking 9

Battersea 10

Capstone, Taylor field
   wood foxberrey 5
Chalk 4
Chalke pit hill 5
Chatham 1
   Pett's house 6
   Chatham Streete 5
Chislett 1
Cliffe Mortyners (Mortimers)
   Manor 19
Cockwell 5
Cockwell Farm 5
   B ? ks Downe 5
   Beldam gills 5
   Dauckes ? hill 5
   Greene rest 5
   Hooke 5
   Longlandes Snoddest Croft 5
   Seaven Acres 5
   Tothsande? 5
   Whitehill 5
Codenham? (Cottenham?)
   Cambridgeshire 7
Conny? wood 5
Crayford 10
 
Deptford 10

East Indies 5
Essex Shaxland? (or
   Shapland ?) Shaxland Hall
   Shaxland and Pricklewell
   (Prittlewell?) 6

Frindsbury 10
Gillingham 5, 12

Hambro 10
High Halstow 3
Higham 3, 4
Higham Gore Green Farm 4
Higham Mortyners 
   (Mortimers) Manor 19
Higham Streete 4
Hogge Lane 5

Island of Sheppey 5

Kingston 10

London 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 13
   Cannon St near Dawgate 9
   Clifford's Inn 3
   Holborn Three Tunns 16
   Limehouse bridge 3
   Morefields 10
   Strand 10
   Three Crownes St John's,
      Walbrooke 9
   Tower Hill 10
   Tower Street 9

Maidstone 4
Malling 10
Minster, Island of Sheppey 5
   Little Todwell 5
   Waye Croft 5

Offham 12

Poole 10
Portsmouth 8, 10
Poundsfield, Milton,
   Gravesend 3

Lower Halstow 13
   Callum and Callum Hills 13

Quex, Birchington 11

Rochester 4, 10
Ryarsh 12

Sheerness 10
Sholden 16
Shoreham 10
St John Walbrooke 9
St Margarets Rochester 3, 5
   Blacklande, Heyfielde 5
St Olive Street 10
Stepney Middlese14
Sussex 10
Sydenham 10
Swaffham, Bulbeck 7
Sydenham 10

Upchurch 13

Warnham? Sussex 10
Woolwich 10
Miscellaneous
Ansther? Manor 4
Apothecary 10

blacksmith 4
blind maid 4
Brethren of St Bartholomew's
   Hospital 13
butcher 5

Chirugeon Overseers 13
Churchwardens 3, 4, 9
Cignet or swann 5
Citizen of London 6

Fisherman 5

hop garden 5

Maidservant 10
malthouse 5
Manor of Higham 4
Master and of the Boates
   Apparell and Furniture 10
Minister 3, 4
Military and Dockyard
Captain 5, 10
Colonel 11

Chatham Dock Yard 9
Carpentry tools 10
Clerk of the Survey at
   Chatham Royal Dockyard 10
Comissioners of their
   Majesties Navy Royal 18
Compassmaker 10
Dutch painters 10
Master Ropemaker 17
Master Shipwright 19
Painter and Decorator 6
Purser 4, 10, 12, 18
ropemaker 5
Royal Dockyard at Chatham 17
Royal Navy 6
Sailmaker 10
Ship Advice 8
ship designers and builders 11
Ship St. Andrew 18
shipwright 1, 4
Store Keeper 9
Surveyor of Victualling 9
Ships
   Blackmoore Pinck 10
   Blackmore 1
   Blessing 1
   Captaine 12
   Happy Entrance 4
   Messenger Pinke
      (Pinnance?) 10
Ship models
   Crowne hull 10
   Katherine Yacht 10
   Naseby 10
   rigged Hoy 10
   Royall Charles 10
Parson 10
Pepys 10
Pepy's Diary 9
Port of London 9
prisoners 10

Schoolmaster 13
servant 3, 10

the Fraternity 10
Tobacconist 13

Worshipful Company of
   Painters and Stainers 6

Wills of 17th Century Chatham Shipwrights    Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights

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