VALE FARM, STURRY, KENT COLLECTION

Contains: General correpsondence mainly dealing with property in which the donor's family had an interest 1813-1945; accounts of rents received from various properties 1828-1886; ledger containing executor's accounts 1836-1843, 1895-1921; farm account book of Vale Farm, Sturry, Kent 1925-1926; loose accounts, receipts, statements, invoices 1715-1939; notice of sale of Cockett Farm, Sturrey and Chislet, Kent 1825; sale catalogue of valuable live and dead farming stock at Pococks and Bolingbroke Farms, Sarre, Thanet, Kent 1921; bonds, quitclaims, assignments of debt and receipts 1647-1933; extracts from parish registers in the Isle of Thanet, Kent relating to baptisms, marriages and burials of the Packer family 1723-1835; title deeds and related papers concerning property in London, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Kent, 1506-1886; valuation of household goods and effects in a farm at Fleet in the Isle of Thanet, Kent 1755; wills and related papers: John CURLING, yeoman, of the Isle of Thanet, Kent 1672; Samuel FEAKE, clerk, of Coventry, [Warwick] 1672; Robert DE LUNA, merchant, of London 1680; George GOODBORN, mariner, of the Isle of Thanet, Kent 1680; Court record of a dispute relating to the will of Robert de LUNA of the parish of St Lawrence Poultney, London 1703; William CLARKE, painter stainer, of London 1703; James LANE, leatherseller, of London 1705; Anna Maria SMITH, 1725; John CHAMPION, maltster, of Wickham, Kent 1740-1741; Joseph PHILPOTT of New Romney, Kent 1750; Thomas ELDRIGE, painter, of New Windsor, Berks 1756; Thomas RIGDEN, yeoman of Sturry, Kent 1769; Matthew CHAMPION, yeoman, of Bridge, Kent 1776; Basil BROWN of Chapel Hill, Isle of Thanet, Kent 1783; James BROWN, master of Pembroke Hall, University of Cambridge 1784; Thomas Hatcher BING, farmer, of Supperton, Kent 1854; James HOGBEN of Sarre, Kent 1867; Margaret SLADDEN, spinster, of Canterbury, Kent 1878; Austen Walter GARDNER of Canterbury,1880; Lydia RIGHTON, widow, of Fleet, Kent 1882-18994; Ellen Wilks 1887

Farm size: 120 acres, increased ultimately to 250 acres; the farm was purchased in 1925

The donor's family have long been established in the Canterbury and Thanet area of Kent, either as farmers or as auctioneers

• CORRESPONDENCE
• BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
• CATALOGUES
• FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND RELATED PAPERS
• REGISTERS
• TITLE DEEDS AND RELATED PAPERS
• VALUATIONS
• WILLS AND RELATED PAPERS

Open for consultation

Presented on permanent deposit 29 July 1966 by T.A. Champion (Farm Records Accession Number 164)

Compiled by Caroline Gould, 26 February 2003

A detailed catalogue is available at the Museum of English Rural Life

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The deeds appear to have come into Thomas Champion's possession through executorship