Family History Documents.
This Family seems to have come from the area in Hampshire, England, known as the Wallops. There are three villages which lie alongside a brook called, naturally enough, Wallop Brook. The three villages are called Upper Wallop (sometimes referred to in ancient times as Over Wallop), Middle Wallop, and Lower Wallop. They are near Andover, and not far from Southhampton.
Middle Wallop was a famous Battle of Britain Fighter Base during WWII, and may be seen in some of the photos and maps in the Photo section.
Near Middle and Upper Wallop, just to the east, is an area known as Kentsborough, and may, in fact, account for the origin of the Kent family name, but that is conjecture. Kentsborough is thought to have evolved as a name from "Canute's Barrow", an ancient hill-fort not far away. Again, conjecture, but interesting, and a little fun.
In 1634, ancestors of the Fluker Kents left the Wallops and found their way to Newbury, and an area that came to be known as Kent Island just west of Old Newbury, where they remaind for many years. After a stop in Chester, NH, for one generation, old Amos Kent, the 7th generation Kent in America, along with his brother Frederick, left Chester for the frontier, seeking opportunity. The frontier at that time was the Mississippi River.
Amos operated a business in Baton Rouge, then moved to Greensburg to a job in the Land Office, possibly arranged by his familial connection to the wife of the President of the United States. From there, the story moves to what would become Kentwood, when Amos purchased the old Tate Headright, where he built a sawmill and brick plant. Family legend has it that when the railroad engineers laying out the route for the New Orleans-Jackson railroad soon to be built, they encountered Kent's Mill woodlot directly in their path. As the story goes, Amos negotiated a deal whereby he would move the woodlot if the engineers would lay out a town. And thus began the town of Kentwood.
Amos Kent's grandson, Richard Amacker Kent, upon his father's death, moved seven miles south to a place then called Hyde, and purchased 7000 acres, built a house and set about building his own empire, naming the place Fluker for his father, James Fluker Kent, a Confederate Lieutenant who had been captured at Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga
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