The Ancient parish during the course of this register erects two chapels of ease at the Weald in 1821 and Riverhead in 1831. The Weald Chapel was dedicated to Saint George and saved inhabitants of Sevenoaks Weald the long climb up the hill to Saint Nicholas Parish Church. The chapel built with funding of the Lambarde family and Lord Amherst included a house for a perpetual curate and included 10 acres of land.
Many entries for the Weald Liberty in the Saint Nicholas burial register record burials certified by the curates of Saint Georges as burials at the Weald burial ground. These are denoted as Weald liberty of Sevenoaks W in the register and my transcript.
The second chapel at Riverhead is important as burials from the Sevenoaks Parish Workhouse at Saint John's Hill are recorded as Riverhead Liberty or Sevenoaks R in the burial register. The Sevenoaks parish Workhouse was in fact the district Workhouse for most parishes surrounding the town. The Riverhead Chapel also had a clergy house and perpetual Curate and funded by Lord Amherst and the Lambarde family and had land for burials.
Also during the early years of the burial register Thomas Sackville Curteis Vicar of Sevenoaks had granted permission for part of the Glebe land to provide much needed burial land for Saint Nicholas to be brought into use.
My transcript can be found via a link on the newly created Sevenoaks parish page at Kent Online Parish Clerks or here.
© Henry Mantell Downe and Farnborough Online Parish Clerk 2013-2020
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