Location of Shoat Kent

[startt]

Robert Kemp of St.Nicholas,Thanet was granted land at Shoat in 1534. This was possibly from Henry V111 during the dissolution of monasteries.
It is the location of the name Shoat which is a puzzle as the spelling may have changed.

[The Mc]

Is this a possibility?

Shoats Barn
Shelvin Farm
Canterbury

This is now the premises of UK Euroconect, Canterbury.....


http://www.rootschat.com/links/0op3/

[startt]

This is a good possibility, as late as in the will of Ebenezer Chapman Kemp of Calcutta, India in 1838 he leaves land near Cambridge. Ebenezer is in the main body of the 1900 family tree but Robert Kemp appears as a side issue without connecting to the main tree.

[Nick29]

I find it hard to believe that the name of someone who owned a barn would out-survive the name of a village.  'Shoat' is an ancient name for a young pig - is it possible that the land was granted 'at shoat' - for the purpose of breeding pigs ?

[startt]

Thank you Nick I like the idea and I am searching the National Archives  to see if I can cross reference anything. I have so far not found found the will of Richard Kemp for 1549 as it says "will proved" on the tree. I just put on the whole information: Robert Kempe of St.Nicholas,Thanet. married Cicilie
Grant of land at Shoat 1534/35. Landowner at Birchington, Herne,Chislett,Reculver & Swancliffe by Whitstable. Will proved 1549. Issue at Chislet and Herne. The lands would appear to be all in the same area.

[scintilla]

In the book History and Antiquities of the Isle of Tenet (Thanet) in Kent, Rev. John Lewis, London, 1736 Shoat is described as being part of the parish of St. Nicholas. It is called in this book Shoart or Shourte or Shurt. I have attached the entry below (unfortunately it goes across two pages, the bottom of p32 and the top of p33). Your man Robert Kemp is mentioned

[startt]

Well thank you as that has definitely tracked down the grant of land and its location. I found another worthy the Rev.John Duncombe who in 1780 had written about the parishes of Reculver and Herne. I suppose loosely that a title of yeoman may be attributed to Robert Kempe.

[laineybug79]

There is a place called Shuart Lane and Shuart farm in St. Nicholas - my ancestors lived at Shuart Cottages and worked as shepherds here.

[laineybug79]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nortonius/Sandbox

Takes you to a link about Shuart as being an area near Reculver