[1] Unknown author, St. Paul's Church: Parish of St. Martin and St. Paul, Canterbury. Four page booklet on sale in the church September 1998. [2] Mrs. Russell Mack Skelton, comp., "Copies of Wills of the Chilton Family TheMayflower Quarterly, 27 (November 1961) : 5-6. [3] Joseph Meadows Cowper, ed., The Register Book of Christenings Marriages and Burials in the parishe of St. Paule without the walles of the citie of Canterburie. 1562-1800 (Canterbury: Cross andJackman, 1893) , 205. [4] No record of James baptism has been found. The best source for his age is the 1619 Leiden Statement of facts discovered by Dr. Jeremy Dupertius Bangs, Director of the American Pilgrim Museum Leiden, The Netherlands. This document describes James as "approximately 63 years of age". Leiden Municipal Archives, oud-notarieel archief inv.nr. 180 fol. 239, 239v., 240. [5] William Urry, Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury (London: Faber & Faber, 1988) ,13. The area is commemorated today as Martyrs Field Road.
The Mayflower Chiltons - Origins in the county of Kent
by Mike Paulick
In the 15th century there were "four altars: the high altar of St. Paul, one dedicated to Our Lady in the South chancel, and two others to St. John the Evangelist and All Saints. The church was renovated and enlarged in 1847.
The original 12th century church was confined to the North aisle on the left when facing the altar . . .. From the outside of the church you can clearly see the extent of the early [12th century] St. Paul's by observing the distinct line where the flint work changes in character. The first tower was probably added around 1200, and about the same time a South aisle was created by breaking through the south wall.[1]
The Chilton family is first recorded in the parish in the 1549 will of Richard, who bequeathed the majority of his "goodes to his son Lyonell Chilton, James Chilton's father.[2] The parish register dates from 1562 and the first Chilton entry is:
1566 Aug. 8 Alice, d. of Lyonel Chilton
The burial of Lionell Chilton (Chylconn) is recorded in St. Paul's parish register on January 25, 1582/3.[3] His will mentions daughters Alice, Anne, Margaret, wife Isabell [Furner], and sons John and James.
James Chilton was probably born in St. Paul's Parish, Canterbury about 1556.[4] During that year more than forty Protestant martyrs were burned at the stake in Wincheap, Canterbury for their beliefs during the last years of "Bloody Queen Mary's reign.[5] James was baptized a Catholic, raised in the Church of England, and died a Pilgrim separatist.
