Family of Sander CHESMER and Catherine NORRIS

Husband:	Sander CHESMER (1705?-1774)
Wife:	Catherine NORRIS ( -bef1764)
Children:	Catherine CHESMER (bef1731-bef1804)
	Ann CHESMER (bef1733- )
	Elizabeth CHESMER (bef1735- )
	William CHESMER (bef1738-bef1747)
	Mary CHESMER (bef1740- )
	Alexander CHESMER (bef1744-bef1782)
Marriage	9 Apr 1730	Rolvenden, Kent 1

Husband: Sander CHESMER

	Sander CHESMER, 2005, age 300

Name:	Sander CHESMER 2
Sex:	Male
Father:	William CHEESMAN OR CHESMAR (1675-1720)
Mother:	Elizabeth DRURY (1676-1718)
Birth	1705 (cal) 3
Occupation		Miller 4
Will	bef 1765 (age 59-60) 5
Death	22 Apr 1774 (age 69)	Staplehurst, Kent 3
Burial	27 Apr 1774	Staplehurst, Kent 3

Additional Information

Occupation	Sander Chesmer used both the watermill at Lovehurst when there was water enough, and the windmill which once stood at the top of Bell Lane opposite the Church.
Will	Sander Chesmer's will, undated, was made pre-1765, and can be found at CKS PRC 17/99.158. He left his daughters Catherine Still and Mary Chesmer £50 each, to make them equal to their sisters Ann and Elizabeth. He left his son Alexander Chesmer the leases of the mills, plus £100 in cash, and John Still the lease of the farm he now lives in, and he made both his son Alexander Chesmer and John Still executors of his will. He was buried on 27 April 1774, and probate was given on 30 June 1774.
Burial	Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent

Wife: Catherine NORRIS

	Catherine NORRIS, 2005, Sander and Catherine Chesmer MI 1 2005

Name:	Catherine NORRIS 3
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Death	bef 27 Apr 1764	Staplehurst, Kent 6
Burial	27 Apr 1764	Staplehurst, Kent 3

Additional Information

Death	Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent
Burial	Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent

Child 1: Catherine CHESMER

	Spouse: John STILL, 2005, age 271, Lovehurst Mill 2 2005

Name:	Catherine CHESMER 7
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	John STILL (1734?-bef1804)
Birth	bef 28 May 1731	Rolvenden, Kent 1
Christening	12 Aug 1733 (age 2)	Rolvenden, Kent 1
Death	bef 10 Sep 1804 (age 73)	Staplehurst, Kent 8
Burial	10 Sep 1804 (age 73)	Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent 9

Child 2: Ann CHESMER

Name:	Ann CHESMER 2
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Francis SOMERFORD (1736- )
Birth	bef 12 Aug 1733	Rolvenden, Kent 1
Christening	12 Aug 1733 (age 0)	Rolvenden, Kent 1

Child 3: Elizabeth CHESMER

Name:	Elizabeth CHESMER 2
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	John POPE ( - )
Birth	bef 10 Dec 1735	Staplehurst, Kent 10
Christening	10 Dec 1735 (age 0)	Staplehurst, Kent 10

Additional Information

Christening

Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent

Child 4: William CHESMER

Name:	William CHESMER 3
Sex:	Male
Birth	bef 7 Apr 1738	Staplehurst, Kent 10
Christening	7 Apr 1738 (age 0)	Staplehurst, Kent 10
Death	bef 7 Nov 1747 (age 9)	Staplehurst, Kent 3
Burial	7 Nov 1747	Staplehurst, Kent 3

Additional Information

Christening	Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent
Burial	Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent

Child 5: Mary CHESMER

Name:	Mary CHESMER 2
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	John TAYLER ( - )
Birth	bef 14 Nov 1740	Staplehurst, Kent 10
Christening	14 Nov 1740 (age 0)	Staplehurst, Kent 11

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Christening

Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent

Child 6: Alexander CHESMER

	Alexander CHESMER, 2005, age 261, Lovehurst Mill 1 2005

Name:	Alexander CHESMER 2
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Mary JURY (1748- )
Birth	bef 12 Mar 1743/44	Staplehurst, Kent 12
Baptism	12 Mar 1743/44 (age 0)	Staplehurst, Kent 12
Death	bef 16 Feb 1782 (age 37)
Burial	16 Feb 1782

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Baptism

Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent

Note on Husband: Sander CHESMER (1)

26B. Headstone, inscribed on East: traces of lettering: sound, in situ. Double stone.

In memory of SANDER CHESMER / miller who departed / this life April 22 / 1774 aged 69 years. / In memory of / CATHARINE wife of / SANDER CHESMER / departed this Life / …1764 Aged .5 Years. / ….Ann / …. Alexander.

 

PR: Sander Chesmer buried 27 April 1774: Catherine wife of Saunder Chesmer buried 27 April 1764.

Note on Husband: Sander CHESMER (2)

There is a burial for an Ann Chesmar, Widow, aged 73 on 18th Jan 1779 at Staplehurst. Could she have been a sister-in-law to Sander Chesmar? She would have been born about 1706.³

Note on Husband: Sander CHESMER (3)

Sander Chesmer used both the watermill at Lovehurst when there was water enough, and the windmill which once stood at the top of Bell Lane opposite the Church. Sander Chesmer's will, undated, was made pre-1765, and can be found at CKS PRC 17/99.158. He left his daughters Catherine Still and Mary Chesmer £50 each, to make them equal to their sisters Ann and Elizabeth. He left his son Alexander Chesmer the leases of the mills, plus £100 in cash, and John Still the lease of the farm he now lives in, and he made both his son Alexander Chesmer and John Still executors of his will. He was buried on 27 April 1774, and probate was given on 30 June 1774. I think the Chesmers came from Benenden. Catharine was 3 years older than John: I would think he had been apprenticed to her father. When their first child Ann was born in 1756, he was 22 and she 25.

 

Both died in 1804 in their seventies. Sons were:- John (1757) Thomas (1761) Alexander (1765: died at 20) and George (1767). John took the mills (which must have returned to the Stills from Alexander Chesmer) and Thomas took Bletchingley Farm. Nothing heard of George after his birth. Daughter Ann, born 1756, died either at 26 or 83. Daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Hunt of Benenden, a widowed farmer, in 1781.¹³

Note on Husband: Sander CHESMER (4)

No pictures [exist] of the windmill at the end of Bell Lane. It is on 1801 Mudge map of Kent, vestigially., and on the Andrews Dury & Herbert map of 1769, sandwiched between the letters of STAPLEHURST, and shown as a post mill. New windmill erected 1805 by Reeves family + Wm Ingram, to North of the Church. Pictures of it in dilapidated state, also in flames as it was burnt on Coronation night 1911 by disaffected youths. Nothing changes.¹³

Sources

1	"Rolvenden Parish Registers (Bishop's Transcripts)".

2

Anita Thompson, "Staplehurst Local History Society" (email to Graham Hoadly). Cit. Date: 19 October 2004. Assessment: Questionable. Text From Source: From: Anita Thompson via Allan Rimmer <awcebd@mistral.co.uk> To: Graham Hoadly<graham@hoadlyg.freeserve.co.uk> On 14 October 2004 Re: The Still family in Staplehurst. Thank you for Thomas Still's will dated 4/7/1835 and proved 30/12/1837. I haven't seen it before, and it makes many things plain, mostly what a good farmer and businessman he must have been to pull through the 1830s still having any assets at all. The family were Nonconformist, in parts, (they must have been for Thomas Still sen. to have appointed William Jull as an executor in 1837: he was a Deacon in the Nonconformist Chapel as well as a grocer). I think John Still, son-in-law of Sander Chesmer, miller, came to Staplehurst first . Sander Chesmer used both the watermill at Lovehurst when there was water enough, and the windmill which once stood at the top of Bell Lane opposite the Church. Sander Chesmer's will, undated, was made pre-1765, and can be found at CKS PRC 17/99.158. He left his daughters Catherine Still and Mary Chesmer £50 each, to make them equal to their sisters Ann and Elizabeth. He left his son Alexander Chesmer the leases of the mills, plus £100 in cash, and John Still the lease of the farm he now lives in, and he made both his son Alexander Chesmer and John Still executors of his will. He was buried on 27 April 1774, and probate was given on 30 June 1774. I think the Chesmers came from Benenden. Catharine was 3 years older than John: I would think he had been apprenticed to her father. When their first child Ann was born in 1756, he was 22 and she 25. Both died in 1804 in their seventies. Sons were:- John (1757) Thomas (1761) Alexander (1765: died at 20) and George (1767). John took the mills (which must have returned to the Stills from Alexander Chesmer) and Thomas took Bletchingley Farm. Nothing heard of George after his birth. Daughter Ann, born 1756, died either at 26 or 83. Daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Hunt of Benenden, a widowed farmer, in 1781. Bletchingley Farm, plus Eastlands (now Chapman's Farm) and Priestlands (now swallowed up into Bletchingley) was bought from the Love family by Sir Horatio Mann of Linton Park.1n 1776 in the deed CKS U78 T220 the Tenants of Eastlands were given as William Marchant > James Love > Alex. Chasmer. By 1778 the Staplehurst Parish Rate Book has "Alex. Chesmer & Co now Still", so I think that Bletchingley must be where John Still sen. had lived. From 1791-1827 a John Still held the Mill Farm, Lovehurst Manor. Was he the son of JS? He gave up the lease because of "heavy arrears of rent." The mill was so dilapidated that the incoming tenant had to rent another mill for a year while it was repaired. Thomas Still sen.(he was senior from 1810) held Bletchingley in 1827 at a rateable value of £72, which may not include the figure for Snapgate aka Putlands Corner. These were both notionally 80-acre farms: in the 1820 Tithe Book Thos Still sen held 90 acres. Thomas also married young, to Mary Osborne of Ashford by licence dated 7/9/1782, the marriage to be at Ashford. Sons were Thomas (1784 ) John (1786) Stephen (1791, died as infant) George (1795) and his only daughter Sophia Maria (1798). She, as you know, is your ancestress. In 1788 "Master Still greatly hurt by a fall from his colt" - note in the Nonconformist Chapel Register, again making their Nonconformity likely. I have no idea which Master Still that was. CKS N/C 347 A2. TS sen's probate was passed on 30/12/1837. According to the Staplehurst Parish Register he was buried on 20 November 1837. His widow Mary died on 9/7/1839, so Thomas Still's possessions were auctioned on 8/10/1839. These included mahogany four-post and tent bedsteads, capital feather beds and bedding, mattresses, mahogany and painted drawers, mahogany and other chairs, mahogany dining, Pembroke and other tables, mahogany bureau, pier and dressing glasses, carpets, hand stands (?), barometer, thirty-hour clock, kitchen utensils etc. Soon after 1839 the trustees sold off Lindridge Farm, which I think is where old Mrs Still was living. The picture is complicated because John died in 1837 too, before his father. He had rented Exhurst till 1824, also Sweetings, Fleet Farm and Clapper 2. Taylors land is now part of Sweetings Farm. I'm not sure which of the others is meant by Gullens Farm, mentioned in Thomas' will. It may be the other part of Sweetings Farm. Clapper 2 and Robinson's land was also sold by George in 1838. Poor Thomas Still jun., the eldest son, was the proprietor of the (new) windmill in Staplehurst in 1823, when country millers were being savagely and fatally undercut by mills on the coast which could grind cheap imported grain and sell it for less than the unprocessed inland wheat. No wonder father was bailing him out! He had 8 children, too. I've traced his son Henry, born in 1814. In 1851 he was a policeman at the Royal Docks in Sheppey. In the 1861 census there was still a Still in Staplehurst, George & his wife Mary Ann at Bletchingley Farm and Snapgate (Putlands Corner), because he was farming 150 acres. The house at Snapgate had been divided into 2 labourers' cottages. Mary Ann "of Staplehurst" died in 1864 aged 55: George "of Maidstone" died in1869 aged 73, so he had moved on by then. He was buried next to his father, with twin gravestones embellished with the Eye of God looking out over the main road. The farms were bought by the local magnate, Henry Hoare of Iden Manor. I think that Thomas senior was the Still mentioned by Robert Barling. 1. He was a farmer not a miller. 2. He lived down atrocious roads, in the right direction. 3. He was Nonconformist: he shouldn't have sworn. Q.E.D? Best wishes. Anita Thompson

Graham Hoadly.

3	Staplehurst Burial registers. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: 1753 17 Jan Widow CHESMAN Widow CHESMAN. 1747 7 Nov William CHESMAR Son of Saunder CHESMAR. 1764 27 Apr Cahterine CHESMAR Wife of Saunder CHESMAR. 1774 27 Apr Sander CHESMAR 1779 18 Jan Anne CHESMAR 73 Widow age 73.
	Centre for Kentish Studies / Kent County Archives Service, Sessions House County Hall Maidstone Kent ME14 1XQ. Tel: 01622 694 363.

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Anita Thompson, "Staplehurst Local History Society" (email to Graham Hoadly). Sander Chesmer used both the watermill at Lovehurst when there was water enough, and the windmill which once stood at the top of Bell Lane opposite the Church. Cit. Date: 19 October 2004. Assessment: Questionable. Text From Source: From: Anita Thompson via Allan Rimmer <awcebd@mistral.co.uk> To: Graham Hoadly<graham@hoadlyg.freeserve.co.uk> On 14 October 2004 Re: The Still family in Staplehurst. Thank you for Thomas Still's will dated 4/7/1835 and proved 30/12/1837. I haven't seen it before, and it makes many things plain, mostly what a good farmer and businessman he must have been to pull through the 1830s still having any assets at all. The family were Nonconformist, in parts, (they must have been for Thomas Still sen. to have appointed William Jull as an executor in 1837: he was a Deacon in the Nonconformist Chapel as well as a grocer). I think John Still, son-in-law of Sander Chesmer, miller, came to Staplehurst first . Sander Chesmer used both the watermill at Lovehurst when there was water enough, and the windmill which once stood at the top of Bell Lane opposite the Church. Sander Chesmer's will, undated, was made pre-1765, and can be found at CKS PRC 17/99.158. He left his daughters Catherine Still and Mary Chesmer £50 each, to make them equal to their sisters Ann and Elizabeth. He left his son Alexander Chesmer the leases of the mills, plus £100 in cash, and John Still the lease of the farm he now lives in, and he made both his son Alexander Chesmer and John Still executors of his will. He was buried on 27 April 1774, and probate was given on 30 June 1774. I think the Chesmers came from Benenden. Catharine was 3 years older than John: I would think he had been apprenticed to her father. When their first child Ann was born in 1756, he was 22 and she 25. Both died in 1804 in their seventies. Sons were:- John (1757) Thomas (1761) Alexander (1765: died at 20) and George (1767). John took the mills (which must have returned to the Stills from Alexander Chesmer) and Thomas took Bletchingley Farm. Nothing heard of George after his birth. Daughter Ann, born 1756, died either at 26 or 83. Daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Hunt of Benenden, a widowed farmer, in 1781. Bletchingley Farm, plus Eastlands (now Chapman's Farm) and Priestlands (now swallowed up into Bletchingley) was bought from the Love family by Sir Horatio Mann of Linton Park.1n 1776 in the deed CKS U78 T220 the Tenants of Eastlands were given as William Marchant > James Love > Alex. Chasmer. By 1778 the Staplehurst Parish Rate Book has "Alex. Chesmer & Co now Still", so I think that Bletchingley must be where John Still sen. had lived. From 1791-1827 a John Still held the Mill Farm, Lovehurst Manor. Was he the son of JS? He gave up the lease because of "heavy arrears of rent." The mill was so dilapidated that the incoming tenant had to rent another mill for a year while it was repaired. Thomas Still sen.(he was senior from 1810) held Bletchingley in 1827 at a rateable value of £72, which may not include the figure for Snapgate aka Putlands Corner. These were both notionally 80-acre farms: in the 1820 Tithe Book Thos Still sen held 90 acres. Thomas also married young, to Mary Osborne of Ashford by licence dated 7/9/1782, the marriage to be at Ashford. Sons were Thomas (1784 ) John (1786) Stephen (1791, died as infant) George (1795) and his only daughter Sophia Maria (1798). She, as you know, is your ancestress. In 1788 "Master Still greatly hurt by a fall from his colt" - note in the Nonconformist Chapel Register, again making their Nonconformity likely. I have no idea which Master Still that was. CKS N/C 347 A2. TS sen's probate was passed on 30/12/1837. According to the Staplehurst Parish Register he was buried on 20 November 1837. His widow Mary died on 9/7/1839, so Thomas Still's possessions were auctioned on 8/10/1839. These included mahogany four-post and tent bedsteads, capital feather beds and bedding, mattresses, mahogany and painted drawers, mahogany and other chairs, mahogany dining, Pembroke and other tables, mahogany bureau, pier and dressing glasses, carpets, hand stands (?), barometer, thirty-hour clock, kitchen utensils etc. Soon after 1839 the trustees sold off Lindridge Farm, which I think is where old Mrs Still was living. The picture is complicated because John died in 1837 too, before his father. He had rented Exhurst till 1824, also Sweetings, Fleet Farm and Clapper 2. Taylors land is now part of Sweetings Farm. I'm not sure which of the others is meant by Gullens Farm, mentioned in Thomas' will. It may be the other part of Sweetings Farm. Clapper 2 and Robinson's land was also sold by George in 1838. Poor Thomas Still jun., the eldest son, was the proprietor of the (new) windmill in Staplehurst in 1823, when country millers were being savagely and fatally undercut by mills on the coast which could grind cheap imported grain and sell it for less than the unprocessed inland wheat. No wonder father was bailing him out! He had 8 children, too. I've traced his son Henry, born in 1814. In 1851 he was a policeman at the Royal Docks in Sheppey. In the 1861 census there was still a Still in Staplehurst, George & his wife Mary Ann at Bletchingley Farm and Snapgate (Putlands Corner), because he was farming 150 acres. The house at Snapgate had been divided into 2 labourers' cottages. Mary Ann "of Staplehurst" died in 1864 aged 55: George "of Maidstone" died in1869 aged 73, so he had moved on by then. He was buried next to his father, with twin gravestones embellished with the Eye of God looking out over the main road. The farms were bought by the local magnate, Henry Hoare of Iden Manor. I think that Thomas senior was the Still mentioned by Robert Barling. 1. He was a farmer not a miller. 2. He lived down atrocious roads, in the right direction. 3. He was Nonconformist: he shouldn't have sworn. Q.E.D? Best wishes. Anita Thompson

Graham Hoadly.

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Ibid. Sander Chesmer's will, undated, was made pre-1765, and can be found at CKS PRC 17/99.158. He left his daughters Catherine Still and Mary Chesmer £50 each, to make them equal to their sisters Ann and Elizabeth. He left his son Alexander Chesmer the leases of the mills, plus £100 in cash, and John Still the lease of the farm he now lives in, and he made both his son Alexander Chesmer and John Still executors of his will. He was buried on 27 April 1774, and probate was given on 30 June 1774. Cit. Date: 19 October 2004. Assessment: Questionable. Text From Source: From: Anita Thompson via Allan Rimmer <awcebd@mistral.co.uk> To: Graham Hoadly<graham@hoadlyg.freeserve.co.uk> On 14 October 2004 Re: The Still family in Staplehurst. Thank you for Thomas Still's will dated 4/7/1835 and proved 30/12/1837. I haven't seen it before, and it makes many things plain, mostly what a good farmer and businessman he must have been to pull through the 1830s still having any assets at all. The family were Nonconformist, in parts, (they must have been for Thomas Still sen. to have appointed William Jull as an executor in 1837: he was a Deacon in the Nonconformist Chapel as well as a grocer). I think John Still, son-in-law of Sander Chesmer, miller, came to Staplehurst first . Sander Chesmer used both the watermill at Lovehurst when there was water enough, and the windmill which once stood at the top of Bell Lane opposite the Church. Sander Chesmer's will, undated, was made pre-1765, and can be found at CKS PRC 17/99.158. He left his daughters Catherine Still and Mary Chesmer £50 each, to make them equal to their sisters Ann and Elizabeth. He left his son Alexander Chesmer the leases of the mills, plus £100 in cash, and John Still the lease of the farm he now lives in, and he made both his son Alexander Chesmer and John Still executors of his will. He was buried on 27 April 1774, and probate was given on 30 June 1774. I think the Chesmers came from Benenden. Catharine was 3 years older than John: I would think he had been apprenticed to her father. When their first child Ann was born in 1756, he was 22 and she 25. Both died in 1804 in their seventies. Sons were:- John (1757) Thomas (1761) Alexander (1765: died at 20) and George (1767). John took the mills (which must have returned to the Stills from Alexander Chesmer) and Thomas took Bletchingley Farm. Nothing heard of George after his birth. Daughter Ann, born 1756, died either at 26 or 83. Daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Hunt of Benenden, a widowed farmer, in 1781. Bletchingley Farm, plus Eastlands (now Chapman's Farm) and Priestlands (now swallowed up into Bletchingley) was bought from the Love family by Sir Horatio Mann of Linton Park.1n 1776 in the deed CKS U78 T220 the Tenants of Eastlands were given as William Marchant > James Love > Alex. Chasmer. By 1778 the Staplehurst Parish Rate Book has "Alex. Chesmer & Co now Still", so I think that Bletchingley must be where John Still sen. had lived. From 1791-1827 a John Still held the Mill Farm, Lovehurst Manor. Was he the son of JS? He gave up the lease because of "heavy arrears of rent." The mill was so dilapidated that the incoming tenant had to rent another mill for a year while it was repaired. Thomas Still sen.(he was senior from 1810) held Bletchingley in 1827 at a rateable value of £72, which may not include the figure for Snapgate aka Putlands Corner. These were both notionally 80-acre farms: in the 1820 Tithe Book Thos Still sen held 90 acres. Thomas also married young, to Mary Osborne of Ashford by licence dated 7/9/1782, the marriage to be at Ashford. Sons were Thomas (1784 ) John (1786) Stephen (1791, died as infant) George (1795) and his only daughter Sophia Maria (1798). She, as you know, is your ancestress. In 1788 "Master Still greatly hurt by a fall from his colt" - note in the Nonconformist Chapel Register, again making their Nonconformity likely. I have no idea which Master Still that was. CKS N/C 347 A2. TS sen's probate was passed on 30/12/1837. According to the Staplehurst Parish Register he was buried on 20 November 1837. His widow Mary died on 9/7/1839, so Thomas Still's possessions were auctioned on 8/10/1839. These included mahogany four-post and tent bedsteads, capital feather beds and bedding, mattresses, mahogany and painted drawers, mahogany and other chairs, mahogany dining, Pembroke and other tables, mahogany bureau, pier and dressing glasses, carpets, hand stands (?), barometer, thirty-hour clock, kitchen utensils etc. Soon after 1839 the trustees sold off Lindridge Farm, which I think is where old Mrs Still was living. The picture is complicated because John died in 1837 too, before his father. He had rented Exhurst till 1824, also Sweetings, Fleet Farm and Clapper 2. Taylors land is now part of Sweetings Farm. I'm not sure which of the others is meant by Gullens Farm, mentioned in Thomas' will. It may be the other part of Sweetings Farm. Clapper 2 and Robinson's land was also sold by George in 1838. Poor Thomas Still jun., the eldest son, was the proprietor of the (new) windmill in Staplehurst in 1823, when country millers were being savagely and fatally undercut by mills on the coast which could grind cheap imported grain and sell it for less than the unprocessed inland wheat. No wonder father was bailing him out! He had 8 children, too. I've traced his son Henry, born in 1814. In 1851 he was a policeman at the Royal Docks in Sheppey. In the 1861 census there was still a Still in Staplehurst, George & his wife Mary Ann at Bletchingley Farm and Snapgate (Putlands Corner), because he was farming 150 acres. The house at Snapgate had been divided into 2 labourers' cottages. Mary Ann "of Staplehurst" died in 1864 aged 55: George "of Maidstone" died in1869 aged 73, so he had moved on by then. He was buried next to his father, with twin gravestones embellished with the Eye of God looking out over the main road. The farms were bought by the local magnate, Henry Hoare of Iden Manor. I think that Thomas senior was the Still mentioned by Robert Barling. 1. He was a farmer not a miller. 2. He lived down atrocious roads, in the right direction. 3. He was Nonconformist: he shouldn't have sworn. Q.E.D? Best wishes. Anita Thompson

6	Staplehurst Burial registers. 1764 27 Apr Cahterine CHESMAR Wife of Saunder CHESMAR. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: 1753 17 Jan Widow CHESMAN Widow CHESMAN. 1747 7 Nov William CHESMAR Son of Saunder CHESMAR. 1764 27 Apr Cahterine CHESMAR Wife of Saunder CHESMAR. 1774 27 Apr Sander CHESMAR 1779 18 Jan Anne CHESMAR 73 Widow age 73.
	Centre for Kentish Studies / Kent County Archives Service, Sessions House County Hall Maidstone Kent ME14 1XQ. Tel: 01622 694 363.

7	Staplehurst Baptismal Registers (Microfilm).
	Centre for Kentish Studies / Kent County Archives Service, Sessions House County Hall Maidstone Kent ME14 1XQ. Tel: 01622 694 363.

8	Staplehurst Burial registers.
	Centre for Kentish Studies / Kent County Archives Service, Sessions House County Hall Maidstone Kent ME14 1XQ. Tel: 01622 694 363.

9	Ibid. Staplehurst Burials: 1793-1812. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: 1804 Sep 10th - Catherine Still age 73 of this parish by H. Grove, Rector

10	Staplehurst Baptismal Registers (Microfilm). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: CHASMAR Elisabeth D Saunder Catharine 10 Dec 1735 CHASMAR William S Saunder Catharine 7 Apr 1738 CHASMAR Mary D Saunder Catharine 14 Nov 1740
	Centre for Kentish Studies / Kent County Archives Service, Sessions House County Hall Maidstone Kent ME14 1XQ. Tel: 01622 694 363.

11	Ibid. Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: 14 nov 1740CHASMAR Elisabeth D Saunder Catharine 10 Dec 1735 CHASMAR William S Saunder Catharine 7 Apr 1738 CHASMAR Mary D Saunder Catharine 14 Nov 1740

12	Ibid. CHESMAR Alexander S Saunder Catharine 12 Mar 1743/44. Text From Source: CHESMAR Alexander S Saunder Catharine 12 Mar 1743/44

13	Anita Thompson, "Researches of Anita Thompson".