The information of these pages has been prepared from the original handwritten book of The visitation of The Heralds to Kent in 1668 by Edward Bysshe, the summary of the Visitation of Kent taken in the years 1619-1621 edited by Robert Hovenden, information obtained from local history societies, listings of monumental inscriptions and copies of wills.

At Nursted Church, Kent on the East Wall there is a large mural on the south side of the window to John Adye of Dodington, including a coat of arms.

According to The Lynsted Society ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF LONDON ROAD, and at the south-east boundary of this parish, adjoining to Norton, is a small hamlet of houses, called LEWSON-STREET, in which there is a capital messuage called Lewson house, which was formerly the estate and residence of a branch of the family of Adye, and several coats of arms of them and their marriages, in painted glass, were remaining in the windows of it till within these few years. Nicholas Adye, esq. resided there in the reign of king James I. on whose death it became the property of his three daughters, by Jane his wife, daughter of Thomas Sare, esq. of Provender, Sarah, wife of John Kennet, and Anne and Martha Adye, who in 1638, alienated this estate, by a joint conveyance, to Mr. James Tong, from which name it passed by sale, in 1676m to Sir James Bunce, bart. of Kemsing, whose eldest surviving son Sir James Bunce, of Kemsing, alienate it in 1714, to Mr. Joseph Hasted, gent. of Chatham, whose grandson, Edward Hasted, esq. of Canterbury, sold it in 1787, to Henry Prat, esq. of Harbeldown. He died in 1794, leaving one daughter Mary, ( who afterwards married John Scott, esq. of Newry, in the kingdom of Ireland) and his widow surviving; he by will devised it to his widow for life, and afterwards to his said daughter, and they have lately sold the same to Mr. Walker, of Sittingbourn, who is the present possessor of it. It is not clear which Nicholas Adye was the owner of this house.

A large number of monumental inscriptions have been added from the D'Elouux Manuscripts which also state that the Adye arms can be seen in the churches at Goodnestone next Sandwich and Doddington.

Colonel Adye was a fictional character created for the novel The Invisible Man by H G Wells. He was chief of police in the town of Port Burdock and he was shot with his own revolver by the Invisible Man.

General Sir John Miller Adye (died 28th August 1900) and Mary Cordelia Stopford (died 14th February 1912) had the following children:- John Adye (born 1857), Winifreda Jane Adye (born 1860), Mary Caroline Adye (born 1861), Ethel Montagu Adye (born 1865), Mortimer Stopford Adye (born 1867) and Evelyn Violet Adye (born 1869). Are they part of this Adye family tree?

The Hon Sir Adye Douglas (1815-1906) was born on 31st May 1815 at Thorpe-next-Norwich, the son of Captain Henry Osborne Douglas and his wife Eleanor Douglas (born Eleanor Crabtree). He migrated to Van Diemens Land and became Premier of Tasmania. What is the connection to the Adye family?

Addition material has been supplied by Family History Research Limited