ROBERT JACOB

OF ALKHAM AND SHEPPERDSWELL

Baptized 16th November 1709 - buried 28th December 1788

A son of Miles Jacob of Folkestone, he was born on 16th November 1709, buried at Alkham on 28th December 1788. He married Elizabeth Hunt on 29th March 1744 at Newington-next-Hythe. She was the daughter of Nicholas Hunt and Elizabeth Greenland. They had children:

1 Anne, born 26th January 1745, baptized on 6th February 1745 at Newington-next-Hythe and possibly died as an infant.
2 Robert, born 3rd October 1746, baptized 9th October 1746 at Newington-next-Hythe and died in 1794.
3 Elizabeth, baptized 6th January 1748 at Newington next Hythe. She married by license Lawrence Dilnott on 12th October 1777.
4 William, born 17th March 1753, baptized 3rd April 1753 at Newington-next-Hythe and was buried at Lyminge on 23rd March 1821

We learn from Robert's will, dated 24th April 1787, that he had been farming at West Court Farm, in Shepperdswell, Kent. The house is of some antiquity described in a survey of 1616 of the archiepiscopal estates: 'well repaired and therein are theis rooms, to wit, a hall, a parlor, a little parlor, a kitchen, a buttery, a lardrye, a washhouse, a milkhowse twoe sellers, nyne chambers over these romes, and a fair gallery with twoe turretts leaded over'.

Robert was followed at West Court by his son William.

Sources:

Brenda Nicholson
Parish Registers
Will of Robert Jacob