Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 17 Jun 1827
Event Place: Cudham, Kent, England
Name: Michael Burkin
Mother's Name: Susan Burkin
Mother's Gender: Female
Research note: Review of the parish register entry indicates that Michael was the base born son of Susan Burkin, servant, living at Cudham.
Geographical Note and Social context: "Cudham is an extensive parish and widely-scattered village, in Ruxley Hundred, lathe of Sutton-at-Hone, and Union and County court district of Bromley, west Kent, situated west of the high road from London to Seven Oaks. The area is 5,869 acres. Here is a wood 2 miles long. The soil clayey, with great quantity of flint, but very fertile; and the population, in 1851, was 897. The church of St Peter and St Paul is an old building of flint and brick, with a steeple rising from the centre. There is a chapel for the Wesleyans, and National schools, erected in 1851, which are supported by voluntary contributions."[1]
Michael Burkin of Cudham
Burial 9 May1830, age 3 years
Register of Burials in the Parish of Cudham Kent[2]
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Categories: Kent, Child Mortality | Cudham, Kent