Our Earliest known Amos

The Amos family in the county of Kent, United Kingdom has been traced back to Richard Amos, who was baptised in Chilham in 1655, and married Elizabeth Baldorf on
30 September 1679.

They had a number of children, only two of whom we know about as having a family; Richard born about 1685 and Nicolas born about 1689.

Richard

   - married Ann(e) Norham on the 13 Jun 1709 at Molash, and

Nicolas 

   - married Mary Parker on the 23 October 1721 at Westwell.

Other children -   John (1680-1680),   John (1681-1681), Elizabeth (1686- ),  and Thomas (1693- )

Richard and Anne, and those marrying into this branch of the family were:- 

  - Susanna Mace marrying John Amos in 1709,

  - Elizabeth Pett marrying John Amos in 1776,

  - Sarah Berry marrying Thomas Amos in 1807.

This is my [Graham Redman] branch of the Amos family

More about the family of Richard and Ann

Nicolas and Mary have descendants overseas in New Zealand, Australia and Canada

More about the family of Nicolas and Mary

My Amos family remained in and around the villages of Chilham, Molash, Hinxhill and later, Mersham where George was born in 1820. Sometime before the 1841, Thomas Amos & Sarah Berry, [George's mother and father] decided that they should make a move with their family, out of the county of Kent to a new life in Ramsden Crays, Essex.        

The high speed rail link [Eurostar],  from Paris and Brussels to London
now flashes through the village of Mersham at 185 mph.

Our ancestors would receive quite a shock if  they were to return now !