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Benjamin Adkins 1755-circa 1821 Mary Baker 1767-1814 Benjamin Adkins 1796-1845 Harriet Ratcliffe born circa 1800

Benjamin Adkins 1 architect 2 of Faversham, Kent 3 born 27 October 1831, Rouen, France 4 baptized 19 March 1836, Rouen, Reformed Church 5 died 1908, Brighton 6 Notes: The following notes were supplied by John Coulter, based on work by Dr Arthur Percival, of Faversham Heritage Centre. He spent most of his childhood in France, where his father designed and built boats for the Seine. He returned to Britain after his father's death at Rouen in 1845. In 1851 the census return records him living at 3 Castle Place, Cantebury, and gives his occupation as carpenter. While training as an architect, he met his future bride, Sarah Rutherford, a farmer's daughter, and married her in 1860 at the parish church of Belmont, on the outskirts of Durham, which he had helped to design. Back in Kent he sought a suitable town in which to set up a practice. He settled in Faversham, where, in 1868, he designed a house for himself and his family, the handsome Newton Lodge, in Newton Road, now marked with a Faversham plaque. Here he also worked, designing some of the finest Victorian buildings in the Faversham area. Qualifying ARIBA in 1869, he became the town's first architect. Among his many buildings are Davington School, Faversham, and the purpose-built offices of the Shepherd Neame brewing company at 16-17 Court Street, Faversham, complete with hop motif around the door. He also designed the splendid 13 Market Place, Faversham ( now the National Westminster Bank), Faversham Gospel Mission and an addition to nearby Graveney's village school. A freemason in Faversham's Lodge of Harmony, Adkins oversaw, in 1887, the sensitive conversion, for masonic purposes, of the old grammar school, built three centuries earlier in 1587-88. Towards the end of his life, he moved to Brighton, where he died in 1908.

married 18 September 1860 at Belmont Parish Church, Durham 7 Sarah Rutherford born circa 1836

Percy Rutherford b. c1868 Harriet Sophia b. c1870 Benjamin Ratcliffe b.1872

children of Benjamin and Sarah Adkins Percy Rutherford Adkins 8 born circa 1868 physician 9 born circa 1868, Faversham, Kent 10 Harriet Sophia Adkins born circa 1870 born circa May 1870, Faversham, Kent 11 Benjamin Ratcliffe Adkins born 1872 born 1872, Faversham, Kent 12

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12 Census 1881 Benjamin R. ADKINS, 8, M Faversham, Kent, England Rel: Son General Register Office index entries, (from the freebmd web site, http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ), Faversham 2a 747 Births Dec 1872 Adkins Benjamin Ratcliffe Faversham 2a 747

11 Census 1881 Faversham, RG 10/978, page 39 Harriet S. ADKINS, 11, F Faversham, Kent, England Rel: Daur Occ: Scholar General Register Office index entries, (from the freebmd web site, http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ), Faversham 2a 747 Births, June 1870 ADKINS Harriette Sophia Faversham 2a 729 Census 1871, (downloaded from Ancestry.co.uk), taken on the night of 2nd April 1871 Newton Villas, Newton Road, Henrietta S. Adkins, daur, 11m, Kent

10 Census 1881 Percy R. ADKINS, 13, M Faversham, Kent, England Rel: Son Occ: Scholar

9 Census 1901 Brighton, RG 13/921, 136 39 Rock Gardens, Percy Rutherford Adkins, son, single, aged 33, Physician ...

8 Census 1871, (downloaded from Ancestry.co.uk), taken on the night of 2nd April 1871 Faversham, RG 10/978, page 39 Newton Villas, Newton Road, Percy Rutherford Adkins, son, aged 3, born Kent, Faversham

7 Marriage LIcence - Adkins, Benjamin and Sarah Rutherford - 1860, Office of National Statistics, UK 1860. Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Belmont in the County of Durham no. 40, September 18 Benjamin Adkins, aged 29, bachelor, architect, of Faversham Kent, father: Benjamin Adkins, engineer Sarah Rutherford, aged 24, spinster, of [havensflat], Belmont, father Robert Rutherford, farmer married in the Parish Church ... by Licence, by me [Cossman] incumbent signed: Benjamin Adkins, Sarah Rutherford witnesses: Robert Rutherford, Mary Ann Rutherford

6 General Register Office index entries, (from the freebmd web site, http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ), Faversham 2a 747 Deaths March 1908 ADKINS Benjamin 74 Brighton 2b 153

5 Register - Goodneston by Wingham baptisms 1836 born Oct 27 1831, baptised 1836, March 19th, no. 321, Benjamin son of Benjamin and Harriet Adkins of Rouen, Normandy, France, Millwright, Ceremony performed by P.Paumier Pastor of the Reformed Church at Rouen, by Certificate to Mr [M. Hall]

4 Register - Goodneston by Wingham born Oct 27 1831, baptised 1836, March 19th, no. 321, Benjamin son of Benjamin and Harriet Adkins of Rouen, Normandy, France, Millwright, Ceremony performed by P.Paumier Pastor of the Reformed Church at Rouen, by Certificate to Mr [M. Hall] Census 1901 Index to the 1901 census online: Benjamin Adkins, age 65, born France British Subject, census place Brighton, Retired Architect Census 1861, taken on the night of 7th April 1861 6 Albion Terrace, Faversham Benjamin Adkins, architect &surveyor, aged 29, born France British Subject Sarah Adkins, wife, aged 25, born Durham Census 1871, (downloaded from Ancestry.co.uk), taken on the night of 2nd April 1871 Faversham, RG 10/978, page 39 Newton Villas, Newton Road, Benjamin Adkins, head, aged 39, Architect, born France: British Subject Census 1851 HO 107/1624 3 Castle Place, Canterbury. Adkins, Benjmain, aged 19, born Roen, France (British subject), with his mother Harriet Adkins and brother John Thomas, aged 14

3 Marriage LIcence - Adkins, Benjamin and Sarah Rutherford - 1860, Office of National Statistics, UK Benjamin Adkins, aged 29, bachelor, architect, of Faversham Kent, father: Benjamin Adkins, engineer

2 Marriage LIcence - Adkins, Benjamin and Sarah Rutherford - 1860, Office of National Statistics, UK Benjamin Adkins, aged 29, bachelor, architect, of Faversham Kent, father: Benjamin Adkins, engineer Census 1901 Index to the 1901 census online: Benjamin Adkins, age 65, born France British Subject, census place Brighton, Retired Architect

1 Marriage LIcence - Adkins, Benjamin and Sarah Rutherford - 1860, Office of National Statistics, UK 18 September 1860 Benjamin Adkins, aged 29, bachelor, architect, of Faversham Kent, father: Benjamin Adkins, engineer