Rebecca's younger son had removed to Huton, with which relatively far distant parish another link had been forged when his sister Rebecca had married Giles Miller of that place in 1761.
   Within the church is an handsome heraldic ledger stone to Mr Thomas Scudder, second son of Mr Thomas Scudder of Stansted, and his wife Mary; both achieved four score years, she dying in 1757 in her eighty-fourth year and he in 1766 in his eighty-second year. The ledger stone is very similar to the stone in Fawkham church which commemorates members of the branch of the family that, during the latter part of the seventeenth century and for most of the eighteenth century lived at Fawkham in the fine yeoman’s house there still known as Scudders.
   There was no Scudder living in Ash towards the end 

of the century, but a Thomas Scudder or Skudder owned upwards of forty Ash acres, consisting partly of a small farm let to a Mrs Clark that lay to the west of the Ash road and abutted upon, and perhaps extended into, Stansted parish and partly of some fields on the south side of Pease Hill which also abutted on Stansted; the fields, which were let to Richard Walter, may have belonged to Rumney Farm.
   Another Scudder property in Ash comprised twenty-one acres of land that fronted the Meopham to Wrotham road south of Culverstone Green and became, in modern times, the site of Rose Farm Nurseries. In 1780 this belonged to ‘Mrs. Skudder’ and in 1792 to ‘Mr. Skudder’.
   Not all the Scudder menfolk were called Thomas,