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When researching my West Kent farming family I found the General View of Agriculture County Surveys very helpful.

This is a link to The Kent survey that I used.

https://archive.org/details/b22037585/page/n7/mode/2up

Barbara

I have Bertie Stephen Joy born 1906 who married and had 2 sons.  I won't name the boys here as they may still be alive.

Harry James was one of Bertie's older brothers who died in WW1.

Let me know if I can help.

Barbara

Hi

I am still around and researching the Joy family although not for a while.

Is there anything you are looking for in particular?

I will refresh my memory on what I have.

Barbara

I have checked the wills of Elizabeth Larkin widow of George, John Larkin and Thomas Larkin her sons and those of Thomas Larkin and George Larkin her grandsons.  Unfortunately there is no mention of William or his children.

It might be worth looking at Frances Ballard's parentage in case that throws up some useful wills.

Final thought - have you found a burial for Joseph's wife Sarah?

Barbara

Hi again Rob.

Some more information for you.

George Larkin and Elizabeth Sayres married in Brenchley on 3 November 1685.

They had 5 children there:

Elizabeth 24 October 1686
Mary 20 January 1688/89 buried 22 January 1688/89
Mary 6 January 1689/90
Martha 3 January 1692/3
Sarah 24 August 1695

They baptised 5 more children in Goudhurst:

John 17 Oct 1697  - my direct ancestor.
George 21 October 1699
Thomas 25 December 1701 note: father George reported to be a farmer
William 2 April 1704 buried 8 June 1705
William 16 June 1706

George was Overseer of the Poor in Goudhurst in 1720.

The family moved to Cranbrook around 1720-1723. George Larkin appeared for the first time in the Cranbrook Overseers Accounts books on 30 August 1723 paying rates on property assessed at £38 in the area of Cranbrook called Glassenbury and regularly from that date.

George Larkin senior was buried 22 October 1729 in Cranbrook.  He did not leave a will but his estate was administered by his wife. Her forename not stated in the administration.

Elizabeth was buried 29 April 1742.  She did leave a will which was proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury on 6 October 1742.

As to George Larkin’s origins I have not come to a firm conclusion.  Certainly the Marden George is a possibility.

Elizabeth Sayres is easier to trace and she descends from John Ferrall vicar of Brenchley who was buried there in 1593.

If you are a descendant of William Larkin b 1706 then we are distantly related.  George Larkin and Elizabeth Sayres our common ancestors were my 7 x great grandparents!

I still need to check the wills I have but my recollection is that none mention William Larkin husband of Frances Ballard.

Barbara