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Richard Amos and
Anne Norham
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Richard and Anne
We
know that Richard and Ann had at least four
children - Richard, Thomas, Adam and John.
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Richard married Sarah Finn in 1709, Selling.
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Thomas married Sarah Clare in 1740,
Godersham.
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Adam married Susannah Coachman in 1739,
Godersham.
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John married Susannah Mace in 1748, Molash
[or Moldash as it was called earlier].
My ancestors came from this branch of the
Amos family. See below, Mace and Pett
connections.
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Mace and Pett connections
Thomas Mace married Susanah in 1689 at Ospringe
and had twelve children, the second of whom was
James born in 1691.
He married a
Susanna, and they had another Susananh in 1725
who subsequently married John Amos in 1748.
They had 6
children, the eldest was named after his father.
This John married
Elizabeth Pett from Hinxhill in 1776. they had
Richard, Thomas, Elizabeth, john, William,
Daniel and Deborah.
Thomas
married Sarah Berry from Boughton-under-Blean in 1807. |
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Above: The Parish
Church of Hinxhill and
view to the north |
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Berry connections
All of the Berry family seem to have come from Boughton-under-Blean and its surrounding
villages. Our earliest known member of this
family, Thomas, was Baptised in Selling, just a couple of
miles from Boughton.
Passing down now through four generations to
Thomas's 2 x Great grandson, another Thomas, was
baptised in 1746 and married Elizabeth Coverlid
in 1775 in Boughton-under-Blean. Thomas and
Elizabeth had Sarah in 1781 who married Thomas
Amos from Hinxhill.
Left: The Parish Church of Boughton-under-Blean |
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My Amos family,
Thomas and Sarah appear to have had the travel bug. Having
married in Hinxhill a few miles north of Ashford, they had moved
to Halling [north of Maidstone] by 1808, where they stayed for
about 10 years. Their ninth child, George was born in Mersham in
1820, a few miles east of Ashford.
Sometime around
1835, Thomas and Sarah,
decided that they should make a
move again with their family, out of the county of Kent to a new life
in Ramsden Crays, Essex.
The move to Essex
The high speed rail link [Eurostar], from Paris and Brussels to
London
now flashes through the village of Mersham.
Our ancestors would receive quite a
shock if they were to return now !
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