Wateringbury dissenters in Old Road (1843)

Post date: Jun 17, 2012 3:6:26 PM

In Kent archives, document reference CKS-DRb/RM 53, is the following document addressed to the Arcdeacon of Rochester:

We whose names are hereunder written do hereby certify that a certain dwelling house in the occupation of [????King?] in the Old Road of Wateringbury in the county of Kent is intended to be used as a place of religious worship by Protestants dissenting from the Church of England........William Hughes, William Harvey

I. George Spell, Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Archdeacon of Rochester do hereby certify that a certificate of which the above is a true copy hath this day been duly registered and recorded in the said Court pursuant to the statute in that behalf . Dated this 19th day of September 1843.

The name of the occupier is unfortunately difficult to read . It may be King but although a King family is recorded as living at the 1851 census in Tonbridge Road no such family was living in 1851 in Old Road. No Harvey or Hughes are present in Wateringbury in the 1851 census but they may have been dissenting clergy from elsewhere.