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Kent, a maritime county in southeast England, bounded on the north by Essex, on the southwest by Sussex, and on the west by Surrey, is comprised of 414 parishes. For the purposes of civil government the whole county is divided into five great districts, called lathes, each with numerous hundreds. In addition to Combs &c. parishes (below) are also:
Index to Combs &c. Wills of West Kent

Earliest Combs &c. of Kent
In those instances below where the parish is not linked to a report, see wills or Early Combs. If not there, the inclusion of the parish name may indicate IGI records that have not yet been abstracted.
Index to Combs &c. Records of Kent
Parishes

Aylesford: Hundreds of Brenchley and Horsemonden, Chatham and Gillingham, Eyhorne, Hoo, Larkfield, Littlefield, Maidstone, Shamwell, Toltingtrough, Twyford, Washlingstone, and Wrotham, the lowey of Tonbridge and, locally, the city of Rochester.
Hundred: Chatham and Gillingham
Chatham
Hundred: Eyhorne
Headcorn (corrected URL 2/2001)

Hollingbourne
Hundred: Hoo
Hoo St. Mary
Hundred: Larkfield
Snodland and Paddlesworth
Hundred: Maidstone
Allington

Boxley

East Farleigh

Hundred: (borough) Rochester

Hundred: Shamwell

Stroud (partly, but also within the jurisdiction of the borough of Rochester)

Frindsbury

St. Augustine: Hundreds of Bewsborough, Bleangate, Bridge and Petham, Cornilo, Downhamford, Eastry, Kinghamford, Preston, Ringslow, or the Isle of Thanet, Westgate, Whitstable, and Wingham, and locally, the city of Canterbury.
Hundred: Bleangate
Herne
Hundred: Bridge and Pethar
Canterbury
Hundred: Kinghamford
Kingston
Scray: Hundreds of East Barnfield, Barclay, Blackbourne, Boughton under Blean, Calehill, Chart and Longbridge, Cranbrooke, Faversham, Felborough, Marden, Milton, Rolvenden, Selbrittenden, Tenterden, Teynham, and Wye, and the liberty of the Isle of Sheppy.
Hundred: Blackbourne
Appledore
Hundred: Faversham
Faversham
Norton
Hundred: Felborough
Chilham
Hundred: Milton
Bredgar

Newington
Hundred: Wye
Wye
Shepway: Hundreds of Aloesbridge, Folkestone, Ham, Hayne, Hythe, Langport, Loningborough, Martin-Pountney, Newchurch, Oxney, Stouting, Street, and Worth, the franchise and barony of Bircholt, the cinque-port of Romney, and the liberty of Romney-Marsh.
Hundred: Franchise & Barony of Bircholt
Hastingleigh

Brabourne
Hundred: Folkstone
Alkham
Hundred: Oxney
Wittersham
Hundred: Stouting
Elmsted (See Bromley)
Sutton at Hone: Hundreds of Axton, Dartford, and Wilmington; Blackheath; Bromley and Beckingham; Codsheath; Lessness; Ruxley; and Westerham.
Hundred: Axton, Dartford and Wilmington
Dartford

Swanscombe

Wilmington
Hundred: Blackheath
Lewisham

Greenwich
Hundred: Bromley and Beckingham
Bromley
Hundred: Lessness
East Wickham
Hundred: Ruxley
Bexley (also partly in the hundred of Lessness)
Hundred: Westerham
Westerham

Testator Index to Kent Wills
(Index of West Kent Wills to 1650 by Jean Rox) 


Surname Name         Parish          Date    |C Ref.1    Ref.2   |  Notes
Combe  John          Swanscombe      1443d   |R 1.13             | m;
Combes William       Snodland        1452    |P Rous     17      | m;  (Coumbys)
 (codicil same folio; St. George, Estchep, London; Fynchelon, St.Martin, Norfolk)
Combe  Symonde       Wilmington      1476d   |R 3.165            | m;
Combe  Richard/Roger Lewisham        1484d   |R 6.16             | m; 
 ("Richard" in will, "Rogger" in heading)
Combe  William       Hoo?, St. Marys 1509d   |R          1       | m; 11 July 1509
Combe  Richard       Halstow         1509d   |R          1       | m; 6 Aug 1509
Combe  Thomas        Edenbridge      1517d   |R          1       | m; 17 Aug 1517
Combe  William       Edenbridge      1534d   |R 9.137            | m;
Combe  George        Edenbridge      1552p   |R 11.204           | glover; 1546d
Combe  William       Lewisham        1567p   |R 13.323   9       | m; (al. Bloome)
Combe  Francis       Edenbridge      1571p   |R 14.56    10      | tanner
Combes Thomas        Plumstead       1614p   |R 20.595   23      | victualler
Coombs John          Edenbridge      1625/6p |R 21.176   27      | gent.
Coomes Edmund        Plumstead       1625p   |R 21.139           | m;
Cowmes William       Gravesend       1628/9p |R 21.340   27      | brazier (Combes)
Coombs Susan         Shipbourne      1629p   |R 21.379   28      | widow
Coomes Thomas        Chatham         1634p   |R 22.92    29      | sail maker
Coomes Joan          Lewisham        1637p   |R          29      | widow
Coombs Thomas        Gravesend       1643p   |R 22.574   31      | m;

Comber Giles         West Malling    1586p   |R 17.100           | m;
Comber James         Yalding         1600p   |R 19I.112  19      | husbandman
Comber John          Sutton-at-Hone  1603p   |R 19I.334  19      | yeoman
Comber George        Brenchley       1608p   |R          21      | yeoman
Comber Susan         Sutton-at-Hone  1609/10p|R 20.85    20      | virgin
Comber James         East Farleigh   1629/30 |S w/3/172  23 Feb  | yeoman
Comber Robert        East Farleigh   1629/30 |S w/3/168  5 Jan   | cutler
Comber William       Chiddingstone   1639    |S w/3/200  22 Oct  | m;
Coomer Henry         Milton          1644p   |R 22.613   3       | waterman

Lovett Ralph/Rayff   Greenwich       1549p   |R 11.92     3      | 
(servant "unto the kinge's majestie")

Abbreviations: b. = buried; d.b.n. = of goods unadministered by; d.m. = during minority of; m; = man; N.E. = no executor nominated in will; P.A.B. = Public Act Book; P.r. = power reserved for administering a like grant; t.a.i. = Tanquam ab intestato (as of an intestate); w = woman; w.p.b. = will proved by.

Additional Combs &c. wills include:

1651 William COMBE of Hollingbourne.
1686 George COOMBES, gent., Westerham

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