John Kitney

Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy

1746 - 1819 (~ 73 years)

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Name	John Kitney
Christening	30 Mar 1746	Bredhurst, Kent, England
Gender	Male
Burial	11 Oct 1819	Stockbury, Kent, England
Person ID	I5448	Petersen-de Lanskoy
Last Modified	21 Jun 2026

Father	John Kidney, c. 25 Mar 1721, Detling, Kent, England d. From 15 Apr 1792 to 10 Jun 1797, Detling, Kent, England (Age ~ 71 years)
Mother	Hannah Collison, b. Bef 1726, , Kent, England bur. 22 Dec 1793, Detling, Kent, England (Age ~ 67 years)
Marriage	10 Jun 1745	Chatham Saint Mary, Kent, England
Family ID	F2416	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Mary Buman, c. 26 Jul 1752, Stockbury, Kent, England

Marriage 1 Jan 1772 Hartlip, Kent, England

Children

	1. John Kitney, c. 2 May 1773, Stockbury, Kent, England bur. 15 Oct 1843, Stockbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years)
	2. Hannah Kitney, b. Abt 1774, , Kent, England bur. 5 Mar 1825, Stockbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 51 years)
	3. Jeremiah Kitney, c. 25 Mar 1781, Stockbury, Kent, England bur. 13 Feb 1844, Newington next Sittingbourne, Kent, England (Age ~ 62 years)
	4. Rachel Kitney, c. 23 Mar 1783, Stockbury, Kent, England
	5. Fanny Kitney, c. 5 Jun 1785, Stockbury, Kent, England
	6. Jane Kitney, c. 28 May 1786, Stockbury, Kent, England
	7. Sarah Kitney, c. 23 Mar 1788, Stockbury, Kent, England
	8. James Kitney, c. 9 Aug 1789, Stockbury, Kent, England bur. 3 Jan 1790, Stockbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 0 years)
	9. Ann Kitney, c. 17 Oct 1790, Stockbury, Kent, England bur. 23 Sep 1792, Stockbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 1 years)
	10. James Kitney, c. 2 Dec 1792, Stockbury, Kent, England bur. 1 Feb 1793, Stockbury, Kent, England (Age ~ 0 years)

Family ID F1161 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

Notes

RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The key to connecting Hannah Kitney to probable parents John Kitney and Mary Buman is from a DNA match in Ancestry.com. A test for Beth (Campbell) White of Canberra, Australia, shows a DNA match to me of the Hales line in the 2nd to 6th cousin relationship with a "high confidence" rating. Comparing our trees, the only surname that matches is Kitney. Her tree shows a fifth generation match to Charles Kitney of Detling, Kent, who married Ann Bennett 10 Apr 1825 in Detling. Beth relates through her mother Florence Sarah Binskin, Florence's father "Private", his mother Sarah Palmer Kitney (wife of William Binskin, m. 28 Nov 1852 at Malling, Kent), daughter of Charles and Ann. Beth's tree ends here, but Family Search extends the family further back.
In Family Search we learn that Charles Kitney was chr. 29 Jun 1806 in De[b]tling to parents James Kidney Elizabeth Down (married 19 Oct 1789 in Detling). James was chr. 16 Oct 1763 to John and Hannah Kidney, which parents had several other children born in the same parish.
Our Kitneys begin with Hannah Kitney who married Henry Hales 11 Apr 1797 in Newington [next Sittingbourn]. Henry was christened in Stockbury 13 Dec 1772 and was then 24 years old when he married. Hannah, if no younger than 19 at the time of marriage and no older than Henry, would have been born from 1772 to 1778. No record of Hannah's christening occurs in Stockbury or Newington. Hannah is buried 5 Mar 1825 in Stockbury and Henry died in Newington 5 Apr 1829. Newington [next Sittingbourn] is the next parish north of Stockbury parish.
In Stockbury, we see the presence of John Kitney and Mary Buman who married 1 Jan 1772 in Hartlip, the next parish to the west of Stockbury and Newington. John is buried 11 Oct 1819 in Stockbury with an age given that calculates to a birth in 1746. The marriage record indicates he is of "Detling," which parish is adjoins Stockbury and Harlip on the southwest. There is a John Kidney chr. in Bredhurst 30 Mar 1746 to John and Hannah Kidney, which could possibly this same John (Bredhurst is the next parish to the east of Detling). Mary Buman appears to be the Mary Buman chr. 26 Jul 1752 in Stockbury to parents Edward and Mary Buman.
The simplest solution to the DNA similarity would be that Hannah Kitney is the daughter of John Kitney and Mary Buman, a possibility that many Hales family has purported in the past without evidence. John is documented to be of Detling which aligns to Beth White's DNA and John and Hannah are both documented in the Stockbury parish. The recorded children of John Kitney and Mary Buman leaves a big gap in the years when Hannah is calculated to have been born.
I further checked Ancestry.com DNA trees for other Kitney matches. Once I removed all the matches coming through the common Hales line, I found one other "S.H" administered by Elizabeth Hughes that had the same match of Sarah Palmer Kitney and William Binskin.

2. The actual image of the will and probate are viewable at this site on Ancestry.com. The image has also been attached in Family Search as a source. An abstract of the information:
"John Kidney otherwise Kitney" of Debtling
Mentions four sons: James, Samuel (and wife [no name]), John, and Thomas.
No daughters or wife mentioned.
Co-executors: Sons James and Samuel.
Will dated 15 Apr 1792.
Probated 10 Jun 1797.
There is a burial for a John Kidney in the Detling parish records for 8 Oct 1769. There is only a name and a date with no additional information that would clarify if this was our John. On the other hand, this probate fits our John by naming all of the living sons of 1792. From parish records, we can see all the daughters (except Hannah) and the other sons are deceased by this date. Further research into the daughter Hannah will probably also confirm she was deceased by this date. Based on conformity, then the death date of John is not the one reported in 1769 and a better date would be between the will and probate dates.