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From: "margaret wilkinson" <>
Subject: Huddocks, Westerham, Kent
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 22:38:20 +0100


Pursuing some enquiries as to where/what Huddocks may have been.

1851 census
John Steer, Head, Mar, M, 36, Ag Lab, Surrey, Crowhurst
Phillis Steer, Wife, Mar, F, 24, Kent, Edenbridge
Mary Ann Steer, Daur, F, 7, Scholar, Kent, Westerham
George Steer, Son, M, 5, Scholar, Kent, Westerham
Kate Steer, Daur, F, 3, Scholar, Kent, Westerham
Address Huddocks, Westerham,
HO 107/1613 Folio 522 p6

1854 Birth of Philip Steer
Birth in Sevenoaks, Kent
31 March 1854, Huddocks, Westerham
Phillip, Boy
Father John Steer, Agricultural Labourer
Mother Philadelphia Steer, formerly Humphrey
Informant John Steer, Father, Huddocks, Westerham, his mark
Registered 19 April 1854
Registrar J Waring

John Steer found Huddocks for me on Old Maps last year, located East of
Crockham Hill, between The Close and Chandler's Barn.

old-maps.co.uk
County: KENT Date :1873 Grid Ref: 545448,150500
I have written to Westerham Parish Council, to see where it is today,
because by 1861 census it appeared to have disappeared.

They passed the message on to Maureen Oakley, a keen local historian.
She went walking the highways and byeways of Crockham Hill for me and has
found it, renamed as Acremead Cottage!
She is fairly sure of it, because Acremead is halfway between Close Farm and
Chandlers (the barn has gone, a house rebuilt on the land). It has a
covered in well in the grounds (a well clearly shown close to Huddocks on
the map), the only known well in the area.

A Google search for Acremead Cottage, Crockham Hill comes up with
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa/00046/aaa-00046.html

Smith and Brewer:
An Inventory of their Drawings,(1896-(1900-1919)-1939)

Project name: Acremead. Outbuildings in stable yard.
Date on drawings: 1912
Primary archt/firm: Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Claude Brewer

Why and when the name change took place she has not been able to find out.
Apparently a lot of new built houses now, in an area still mostly fields and
woods.
So, Have not found out anything new about my Steer ancestors as such, but
have identified where John and Phillis Steer were in 1851, and where Philip
Steer, my great grandfather was born.
She also sent some Westerham Steer Parish Register transcriptions. She
has interpreted John Steer's father's name as George DAVISON, marriage
certificate and IGI say George DAWSON.
I still can't find out anything about him, but it is an alternative name to
look for!!
I have a copy of the original registry entry, I obviously could not read
this clearly myself, as I have queried that it could read DAWSIN. It is not
a very clear copy, some parts of it illegible.

Parish Register entry
Marriage solemnised by Banns in Parish Church of Westerham, County of Kent
Entry 25
May (? 7th) 1842,
John Steer, Full Age, Bachelor, Servant, Resident in Westerham
Father George Dawson(? Dawsin), Labourer
Phillis Humphery, Full Age, Spinster, Resident in Westerham
Father Michael Humphrey, Labourer
John Steer, his mark
Phillis Humphrey, her mark
In the presence of James Humphry, his mark, William (illegible? Witton)
Witness W Ray
Curate (illegible)

Marriage certificate
Marriage solemnised by Banns in Parish Church of Westerham, County of Kent
7 May 1842,
John Steer, Full Age, Bachelor, Servant, Resident in Westerham
Father George Dawson, Labourer
Phillis Humphrey, Full Age, Spinster, Resident in Westerham
Father Michael Humphrey, Labourer
John Steer, his mark
Phillis Humphrey, her mark
Witness (?) Wm Ray
In the presence of
James Humphry, his mark,
and (?) Wills (?) Seller
Curate C J Urquhart

Margaret


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