BOULDEN/BOULDING

The Family History of Michael STRAND of Leicester, UK. email:  mikeleics@hotmail.com 

Thomas BOULDING - born c.1690 Mersham, Kent. Died 1757. Married 6 Oct 1722, Mary FINCH (c.1695 - 1757) possibly at Crundale, Kent.

Issue:

• Thomas BOULDING/BOLDEN (1723 Crundale - 1787) Married 1758, Ann COWLAND. (Ann remarried in 1791, Thos. SWIFT)
• Henry BOULDING/BOLDEN (1724 Crundale - ????) Married 1756, Jane HARRISON
• Robert BOULDING/BOLDEN (1725 Crundale - 1815) Married (1) 1747, Eliz. KNEWSTUBB or 1750, Sara FOREMAN. (2) 1773, Martha DOORE.
• Mary BOULDING/BOLDEN (1727 Crundale - ????)
• Finch BOULDING/BOLDEN (1729 Crundale - ????) Married (1) 1768, Mary ARNOLD. (2) 1778, Sarah HODGE.
• William BOULDING/BOLDEN (1731 Crundale - ????) Married 1757, Mary SAUNDERS.
• Richard BOULDING/BOLDEN (1733 Crundale - ????)
• George BOULDING/BOLDEN (1736 Crundale - ????)
• Charles BOULDING/BOLDEN (see below)
• Elizabeth BOULDING/BOLDEN (1741 Crundale - infancy ?)

Charles BOULDING/BOLDEN - born 1738 Crundale, Kent. Died 1806 Lympne, Kent, buried Smeeth. Married 1769, Sarah WEBB (c.1740 - 1816 Willesborough) at Smeeth or Crundale, Kent. They obtained a Settlement Certificate to move to Aldington, Kent in 1784.

Issue:

• Charles BOULDING/BOLDEN (1770 Smeeth, Kent - 1843 Aldington). Married 1793, Elizabeth YOUNG (1775 - 1849)
• Mary Anne Sarah BOLDEN (1772 poss. Bonnington, Kent - ????). Married 1802, John DYMOND (1770 - ????)
• Richard BOULDING/BOLDEN (1774 Smeeth, - 1775)
• Sarah BOLDEN (? 1775 Bonnington - ????)
• Thomas BOULDING/BOLDEN (1779 Bonnington - 1799)
• George BOULDING/BOLDEN (see below)

George BOULDING/BOLDEN born 1780 poss. Bonnington, Kent. Died 1848 Bonnington. Married 27 Nov 1804, Mary KESBY (1786 - 1863 St. Mary's, Kent) at St. Rumwold Parish Church, Bonnington.

Their M.I. at Bonnington reads;

"Sacred to the memory of George BOULDING who died May 7th 1848 aged 68 years. ~ Also Mary his wife who died March 4th 186(?3) aged 77 years. ~ They had issue Ten Children viz., George, Mary, Ann, Charles, Susanna, William, John, Richard, Sarah and James. ~ Ann died April 3rd 1813 aged 5 years. Sarah died March 29th 18(4)5 aged (2?)2 years. ~ Verse unreadable

Issue:

• George BOULDEN (poss. 1804 Bonnington, Kent - 1884). Married 1830, Jane.
• Mary BOULDING (1806 Bonnington - ????)
• Ann BOULDING (1807 poss. Bonnington - 3 Apr 1813 Bonnington)
• Charles BOULDING (1810 poss. Bonnington - ????)
• Susannah BOULDING (1813 Bonnington - ????) a Nurse. Married 1833, HENNEKER.
• William BOULDING (1815 pos. Bonnington - ????)
• John BOULDING (1817 poss. Bonnington - ????)
• Richard BOULDING (see below)
• Sarah BOULDING (? 1823 Bonnington - 29 Mar 18(4?)5) Bonnington)
• James BOULDING (1826 poss. Bonnington - ????)

Richard BOULDING/BOULDEN born April 1819 Bonnington, Kent. Died 12 Dec 1845, buried St. Rumwold Parish Churchyard, Bonnington. In 1845 he was a Labourer; between 1851-1870, a Shepherd living at Orgarswick Farm, near Dymchurch, Kent. Married 31 May 1845, Mercy EDWARDS (1822 Orgarswick - 7 May 1893 Bilsington, Kent).

Issue:

• Louisa BOULDING (1847 Bonnington) A Domestic Servant in 1861 aged 14.
• Charles BOULDING (1848 Orgarswick - ????) A Shepherd. Married 1872, Louisa (1849 Dymchurch - ????)
• Kate BOULDING/BOULDEN (see below)
• Mercy R. BOULDING (1852 Orgarswick - ????) Dom. Nurse.
• Elizabeth BOULDING (1854 Orgarswick - ????)
• Sarah BOULDING (1856 Orgarswick - ????)
• Hester E. BOULDING (1857 Orgarswick - ????)
• Emily BOULDING (1858 Orgarswick - ????)
• Thomas William BOULDING (1859 Orgarswick - ????) a Carpenter. Married 1880, Mary Ann (1858 Chilham, Kent - ????)

Kate BOULDING was my great great grandmother, born in the tiny hamlet of Orgarswick, near Dymchurch Kent on 9 Aug 1850. She married Charles STRAND on 4th April 1874 at Dymchurch Parish Church, Kent. Kate was 23 and Charles 24 years of age. They had four children. She was just 35 when she died on 13 June 1885.

Further details can be found under Charles STRAND . 

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Updated 14 December 1997