The Iddenden Family from Wye, Kent

This page lists those members of the Iddenden family whose origins we are researching. Entries in italics are inferred or uncertain, or have been supplied by other researchers and not personally verified by us. The list does not include children known to have died in infancy. Please contact Chris Warren if you feel that the family listed here is connected with your own research.

Our known Iddenden ancestors lived in Wye, near Ashford in Kent, from 1750 to 1850. Our line descends fromWilliam Iddenden, the illegitimate son of Mary Iddenden. We have traced most of William's children and their families in Canterbury and in the Ashford area of Kent. Later generations have been found in London and in other parts of Kent. The most common spelling is Iddenden, but there were many variations, including Idenden, Ittenden, Iddenten and Edenden. One branch consistently spelled their name Eddenden, as shown below.

Mary Iddenden's parents were Edward and Mary Iddenden, but we know very little for certain about them or any earlier generations. We know that an Edward Idenden married Mary Cork in Canterbury in 1751, and that children of Edward and Mary Idenden were born in Luddenham and Oare, but we are not sure that they are the same Edward and Mary found in Wye. So if you can tell us anything about these people, please get in touch.

We have also listed at the foot of the page members of other Iddenden families who were living in Wye at around the same time. We have not so far been able to establish whether or how these other families are related to our own ancestors.

Some of the names below are linked to a more detailed record in the on-line family tree (people marked with an asterisk do not have a full record). When you click on a link, the linked record will be displayed in a separate window. There you can see the family relationships as we understand them, together with notes on what we have found in parish registers, census returns and other records.

1. Children of William Iddenden and Ann Jones

2. Children of John Iddenden and Elizabeth Hodges (see table 1 above)

3. Children of George Iddenden and Elizabeth Swann (see table 1 above)

4. Children of Henry Iddenden and Sarah Haywood (see table 1 above)

5. Children of Edward Iddenden and Eliza Hill (see table 1 above)

6. Children of James Edwin Iddenden and Mary Ann Allman (see table 3 above)

7. Children of James Iddenden and Colina McLeod (see table 2 above)

8. Child of Henry Iddenden and Elizabeth Ann Goldsack (see table 3 above)

9a. Children of Edward Iddenden and Maria Louisa Tilbe (see table 2 above)

9b. Children of Edward Iddenden and Ann Blaxland

10. Children of Henry Iddenden and Elizabeth Easton (see table 4 above)

11. Children of John William Iddenden and Phoebe A Silverwood (see table 2 above)

12a. Children of Thomas Lawrence Iddenden and Hannah Keeble (see table 4 above)

12b. Children of Thomas Lawrence Iddenden and Mary W Bedwell (see table 4 above)

13. Children of Edward Eddenden and Sarah Ann Brindle (see table 3 above)

14. Children of William Iddenden and Mary A S Bundock (see table 4 above)

15. Children of John Alfred Iddenden and Alice C Stanley (see table 4 above)

16. Children of Alfred Iddenden and Annie Bothwright (see table 3 above)

17. Child of Henry Iddenden and Ellen Eliza Lavender (see table 8 above)

18. Children of James W J Iddenden and Mary A J Reid (see table 7 above)

19. Children of Edward Iddenden and Esther Ann Silk (see table 9a above)

20. Children of Percy M Iddenden and Bertha M Edwards (see table 10 above)

21. Children of James Thomas Iddenden and Frances Vass (see table 9a above)

22. Child of Henry G A Iddenden and Emily R Donovan (see table 10 above)

23. Children of Joseph Iddenden and Florence K L Challis (see table 10 above)

24. Children of Thomas W G Eddenden and Floretta Cumner (see table 13 above)

25. Children of George A Iddenden and Alice Eliza Perry (see table 7 above)

26. Children of William Iddenden and Ellen Florence Bassenden (see table 10 above)

27. Children of William James Iddenden and Caroline E Bass (see table 14 above)

28. Children of John Iddenden and Anna Maria Carter (see table 10 above)

29. Child of Alfred Edward Iddenden and Marian Harmer (see table 10 above)

30. Children of Percy Iddenden and Mary Bass (see table 14 above)

31. Children of Harry H Iddenden and Ann(ie) Biglane (see table 7 above)

Listed below are members of other Iddenden families who were living in Wye at the same time as our own ancestors. We have not so far been able to establish whether or how they are related to our own family. The first of these families descends from John Iddenden, one of several children of Joseph Iddenden and Jane Hunt baptised in Shadoxhurst, south-west of Ashford. He appears to have lived in Wye from about 1762 until his death in 1803.

32. Children of John Iddenden and Sarah Coleman

33. Children of William Iddenden and Mary Skelton

The other family found in Wye descends from George Iddenden, who was probably born about 1806, but no baptism has been found and his age and birthplace are recorded inconsistently in census records. His name was sometimes recorded as George Epps Iddenden, so we think that he may have been illegitimate, but this has not helped us to shed any light on his origins. George and his family lived in Wye for about 15 years, then moved to Boughton-under-Blean, near Faversham.

34. Children of George Iddenden and Charlotte Kennett