People & Families

This page lists access to information about people and families in Pembury.
It is hoped this may be helpful for anyone tracking their ancestors from Pembury.
We have lots of content ready to be loaded to this section.  Please look back sometime.
Much of this data will be scattered about the web site on various pages and in various documents.
These links point to known locations of families or individuals. This is incomplete and is not an exact science.

We are dealing with past and present residents. Current residents may not seem relevant on a history web site,
but times moves on and eventually we all end up becoming history.

There are several sources for locating past & present residents –

(1)  the lists further down this page – all accessed via links.   These lists may be updated at any time as new data comes in.

(2) Articles and notes on specific people or families, having far more detail than the raw list above.
The list is in order of surname in first column, then by full name and date in the second column.

(3) Pembury Village News articles that have profiled contemporary residents.

The Introduction and Reference page to the Shops & Retail section has links to old trade directories.
These had ‘Commercial’ and ‘Residential’ sections – both containing names of Pembury residents and traders.

Entries in italics and with no link are still awaiting a link.

Residents List   compiled from entries in various directories (Residential and Commercial)

Residents List  as compiled by Jeni Beviere      This is a very comprehensive list, mostly compiled from multiple census data.

Residents Remembered   This link takes you to the ‘Snippets’ page where people have contributed via email their memories of residents.
It will mean investigating further links to drill down for more names of old school friends or neighbours.

Inmates of the Tonbridge Workhouse  – a comprehensive list from the 1881 Census of Pembury folk and others in the workhouse.

Inmates of the Tonbridge Workhouse  – a similar listing as above but in a different visual format.

Pembury people, past & present, from the ‘Pembury People’ series or other articles in the Pembury Village News.
Follow the links to the PVN articles.     Full PVN Archive is under the ‘Articles’ tab in the main menu.

Some profiles are buried away in the PVN and are not obvious from their titles. Please advise of missing entries.

This list is incomplete, maybe gets updated once a year, and needs a few more hours searching through the archive of PVNs.
Any volunteer search help would be appreciated.

If you have fresh information or need to contact a contributor to this page please contact me by email –

Tony Nicholls      pemburyhistory@gmail.com    or  history@pembury.org    and label the subject  Pembury Family Contacts.