Individual Notes
Note for: Enos Thompson, 18 AUG 1717 - 23 JUN 1806
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Event: I68
Type: REFI
Will: Date: 20 MAY 1752
Place: Smithfield, Dutchess , New York
Note: On 20 May 1752, Enos Thompson "of Smithfield in the great nine partners in Dutchis County in ye province of New York" deeded land to Hannah Thompson of New Haven (New Haven Deeds, vol. 17, p. 57). Children were recorded at New Haven.
The date is not known, but the family moved to Nine Partners, New York.
A grandson, according to the Tuttle Genealogy (p.704) was Enos Thompson Throop, governor of New York
Death Note: Alternate death place was given as Pittstown, Rensselaer Co. , New York
Individual Notes
Note for: Judah <2> Thompson, 5 OCT 1713 -
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Event: I69
Type: REFI
Second child named Judah (after earlier brother that died in infancy)Second Judah named after brother who died in infancy.
Birth Note: Second child named Judah. Frequently it was tradition to name another child after one who died in infancy.
Individual Notes
Note for: Henry Thompson, 1569 - 20 OCT 1648
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Event: I119
Type: REFI
Burial: Date: 20 OCT 1648
Place: Royton Chapel, Lenham, Kent County, England
Individual Note: The inscription on their tomb in the Parish Church of St. Mary's in Lenham, Kent, England reads:
Here underlye the bodies of Henry Thompson and Dorothie, his wife, of Royton Chapel, in this Parish. He was son and co-heir of Thomas Thompson (of Sandwich, Merchant) and she the eldest daughter of Robert Honywood of Pett, in Charing, Esq.
They had issue 5 sonnes and 3 daughters
1 Robert 5 Elizabeth
2 Mary 6 Peter
3 Judith 7 Anthony
4 John 8 Charles
Living piously together sixty three yeares and being old and ful of dayes cheerfully resigned their soules to the hands of the Almighty Creator
Hee being aged 78 yeares 1648
Shee aged 77 1649
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY LENHAM
A SHORT GUIDE
HOW OLD IS THE CHURCH
The Church was originally Saxon and Norman, but was extensively damaged by fire in 1297. The fire, which was of malicious origin, also destroyed the Tithe Barns. As far as is known, the culprits were never discovered but nonetheless they were excommunicated by sentence of Archbishop Winchelsea as published by him in person at Lenham in February 1298.
The oldest part of the present building is to be found in the Chapel of St Edmund adjoining the chancel. There is part of the original Norman east wall with an upper window, beneath which an early 14th Century decorated window has been inserted. The pillar between the Chapel and Chancel is also a survivor from the earlier building.
Most of the Chancel and all of the Nave were rebuilt after the fire in the Early English style of the 14th Century. The North Aisle was added in that same century and the Tower was completed towards the end of the century. The Sacristy (the present Vestry) to the East of the Chapel of St Edmund dates from the 15th Century.
THE CHAPEL OF St EDMUND
The Altar is of Bethersden Marble and is believed to be the Tomb of Thomas Horne, d.1471. The arms, forming two of the carved panels, are repeated on the headstones of the pillars supporting the arch which separates the Chapel from the North Aisle and are almost obscured by the organ.
To the left of the Altar, on the North Wall, is the I Memorial to the first Viscount Chilston of Chilston Park whose descendant, the fourth Viscount, is .1 patron of the living.
In the North Wall of the Chapel is a door to the turret stair case, which gave access to a medieval rood screen that spanned the full width of the Church at the entrance to the Chapel and Chancel.
The two manual organ of 1910, with its pneumatic action, is a good example of the work of Messrs. Norman & Beard from that period.
THE CHANCEL
The medieval Altar slab was not destroyed when the reformers of the first Elizabethan reign removed stone Altars from churches and replaced them with wooden communion tables. The slab was carefully let into the floor beneath the Communion Table and there remained until rediscovered in the early years of the present century. It was restored to its rightful place and remains a comparative rarity in Kentish Churches. The Cross and Candlesticks, placed there at the same time, are of the late 18th Century and probably of Italian or Spanish workmanship. Of the same period is the fine brass chandelier.
On the splay of the South Window beside the Altar is a 14th Century wall painting of a robed Bishop, with a masonary background elaborated with roses. In the floor on the North side of the Altar is the tombstone of Robert Thompson, grandson of Mary Honywood. She died in 1620 at the age of 92 leaving 16 children, 114 grandchildren, 228 great grandchildren and 9 great great grandchildren - a total of 367.
Let into the North Wall of the Sanctuary, at a curious angle, is the figure of a priest in Mass vestments in a stone coffin, which is oddly divided by a plain stone fillet. This figure is believed to represent Thomas de Apuldefelde, who lived in the reign of Edward III (1327-1377).
One survival from the fire of 1297 is the stone seat, or sedile, on the South Wall of the Sanctuary. The seat and arm rests appear to be of the 13th Century, but the canopy is a 14th Century addition subsequent to the fire.
Notice the fine old chest, of unknown date, with its ten locks, in which are stored the Parish Registers dating from 1558.
The 15th Century Choir Stalls with their hinged misericord seats for the use of pre-Reformation monks, may not be original to the Church.
THE NAVE
The Pulpit, a work of art dating from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, is considered by some authorities to be the finest in Kent. The sounding board above is dated 1622 but it is probably an addition to the older work of the Standard and Pulpit, which are dated 50 years earlier.
Of possibly the same period, is the Lectern with its swinging head and linenfold carved panelling. The possibility that the Lectern was a pre-Reformation "singing" desk has engaged the speculation of a number of antiquarians. In this case its origin would date from the early 16th Century.
On the South Wall of the Nave, facing the entrance, is the remains of a mural showing St Michael weighing souls. In one scale is a small figure with evil spirits vainly trying to pull him down, whilst the balance is turned by the Virgin's rosary in the other scale. This painting dates from the mid 14th Century.
The octagonal font on its curvilinear carved pedestal dates from the 15th century.
Hanging on a pillar near the font is a photograph of one of the Church's most treasured processions, a beautiful silver gift Communion Chalice of 1562. This Chalice was presented to the Church in 1688 by Dean Castilion of Rochester and is still used week by week.
The Royal Arms of Queen Anne, dated 1705, were restored and replaced in the Nave in 1969.
The massive doors which separate the Nave from the Tower, were installed when the West Gallery was dismantled in the middle of the last century. At the same time, the panelling of the older pews was incorporated into the present pews in the front part of the Nave. Additional pews were made from timber and panelling , recovered from the gallery, and installed in the rear part of the Nave. The Vicar at the time, Rev Charles Parkin, is credited personally with the carving of the doors in the tower arch and other work in the Church.
THE TOWER
Constructed towards the end of the 14th Century, the Tower contains a ring of eight bells, which were rehung in 1959. The oldest bell was cast by Robert Mot in 1592.
The sixth bell was made by Joseph Hatch, perhaps the most famous of the Kentish bell-founders, in 1619. The tenor, which weighs 21 cwt (1066 kg) was cast by James Bartlett of Whitechapel.
SURROUNDINGS
All that now remains of the Monastic establishment attached to the Church is one wall of a house in Church Square, with an attached gate jamb surmounted by the springing stone of an arch. The Lych Gate, leading to Church Square, is a modern replica of its 15th Century predecessor. Two of the great Tithe Barns, which replaced those that were destroyed in the great fire of 1297, survived until, unhappily, one was burnt down in September 1962. The larger and finer of the two remains unharmed.