Francis Daniell diary; King's School; barracks in Canterbury; George Adams

I’m going to add a few more miscellaneous things here that relate to the families being discussed.

There are some great maps of Canterbury on the internet. Unfortunately, the 1754 W & H Doidge map on the web is such low resolution that it can’t be read. The 1768 and 1822 maps are much clearer. This is the 1768 link: http://weblingua.hostinguk.com/invictaweb/canterburybuildings/maps/1768/map.htm
On the 1768 map of Canterbury, I see Green Court near the Cathedral and the King’s School.
On 11 June 1833, this is what Francis Daniell (1773-1858) had to say about the Green Court:
“Got into a steam boat at St. Katherine Stairs and after encountering a most awful gale of wind off the Hove arrived safe at Hern Bay about six o'clock and proceeded on foot to Canterbury. Oh! With what painful associations did I not pass through the Green Court, the play place of my happy boyish days, when at the King's School. The next day, the 12th, I took a long walk round the city and visited a few remaining old friends still left there; but alas what a sad alteration in them and all I saw--so, finding my little stock of cash was getting very short, instead of proceeding to Horton Priory, as I intended, I returned to London again by water.”

For years I’ve wondered about my ancestor Francis Daniell (1749-1793) dying in the barracks in St. George parish, Canterbury on the 7th of June 1793. In addition to being an attorney, he was also in the army. I don’t think he was in the East Kent Militia because he is also recorded as a ‘soldier’ when baptizing his children at New Windsor, Berkshire in the 1770s. I don’t know if he was in the cavalry, infantry or artillery. I append a quote below which suggests that soldiers were billeted in inns and public houses around Canterbury until proper barracks began to be built in 1794. Francis Daniell Sr. would have been 44 years old when he died at the barracks, and he most certainly must have been called up along with thousands of others after France declared war on Great Britain on 1 February 1793. For such a large scale-build up of forces, the inns and pubs were no longer sufficient to house the men. The land for the new cavalry barracks was obtained from Sir Edward Hales, bart., who was a distant cousin of the Mantells.

On the Historic Canterbury – Cavalry Barracks website we read: “When the measure of erecting national barracks, for accommodating the military, in preference to quartering them upon the publicans, had been sanctioned by parliament, various permanent buildings of this description were begun in different parts of the kingdom, exclusive of numerous temporary constructions for the same purpose, during the present war. Canterbury being usually the headquarters for a regiment of horse in times of peace, the innkeepers and publicans of that city soon felt the great increase of the army very severely, and, therefore, were among the first to petition for a removal of the heavy burden of quartering. Accordingly, at the beginning of the year 1794, sixteen acres of fine pasture land, part of the estate of Sir Edward Hales, bart. were purchased by the Board of Ordinance, for the purpose of building barracks sufficient to receive a regiment of cavalry upon the ordinary establishment.” http://www.machadoink.com/Military_Cavalry%20Barracks.htm

Since soldiers quartered in inns and public houses, and George Adams (died 1802) was an innkeeper of St. Bredman parish in Canterbury, perhaps Francis Daniell (1749-1793) had come to know George’s daughter Ann while being quartered at his inn in Canterbury. They married in 1772 by license, and since Ann was a few months underage, George Adams signed the allegation giving permission for his daughter to marry Francis Daniell at St. Olave Hart Street parish in London. This allegation was with the Vicar General of the Archbishop of Canterbury.