Family name also spelled AKURST.
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At the time of the 1851 England Census Charles Akurst, age 43, born in Bredgar Kent, farm bailiff, and wife Harriet, age 38, born in Boxley Kent, were living in Gore Farm, Upchurch Kent. Present were children Ann (15) of Boxley, Caroline (13) of Borden, George (12) of Borden, and born in Upchurch: Charles (9), Dinah (8), Henry (6), and James (1).
At the time of the 1861 England Census Charles Akhurst, age 53, born in Bredgar Kent, farm bailiff, and wife Harriet, age 48, born in Boxley Kent, bailiff's wife, were living in Farm House, Tong Kent. With them were sons (born in Upchurch): Charles (19), agricultural labourer, and James (11), scholar.
At the time of the 1871 England Census Charles Akhurst, age 63, born in Bredgar Kent, farm bailiff, and wife Harriet, age 58, born in Boxley Kent, were living in Great Newberry Farm, Tong Kent.
At the time of the 1881 England Census Charles Akhurst, age 73, born in Bredgar Kent, widower, farmer's bailiff, was living in Newbury Farm, Tonge Kent. With him was granddaughter Frances Knight (20) of Camberwell?, unmarried, general domestic servant.
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Charles Akhurst of Sittingbourne died aged 80 years (burial record).
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AKHURST.—Dec. 7, at Fulston, Sittingbourne, Charles Akhurst, for many years bailiff at Newbury Farm, Rodmersham, aged 80 years.
East Kent Gazette, 15 December 1888, p. 5
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The Will of Charles Akhurst formerly of Newbury Farm Tong in the County of Kent, farm bailiff, but late of Fulston near Sittingbourne in the said County, who died 7 December 1888 at Fulston, was proved 19 January 1889 at the Principal Registry by Benjamin Burley of Park-road Sittingbourne, retired grocer, and Albert Jesse Thomas of Rodmersham in the said County, farmer, the executors. Personal estate £780 16s. 7d. 3
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