Sunday, December 31, 2006

Hannah WEST buried!

Hannah SCOTT (baptised 10th May 1789 at Horsted Keynes) was the wife of Samuel WEST (1764 - 1825) of Lindfield. Searching the burial registers and 1841 and 1851 census of Lindfield and surrounding parishes produced no evidence of Hannah WEST.
But, thanks to the Sussex Marriage Index CD a Hannah WEST married a William HEAVER at Hartfield in 1830. Witnesses were Edward and Philadelphia SCOTT. The 1851 census of East Grinstead has Hannah HEAVER a nurse in the High street born Horsted Keynes and William HEAVER in Forest Row with Esther WEST age 7 months, grand daughter.
FreeBMD has death entries for Hannah in 1869 and William in 1862.
So that is that then!
(Esther was the illegitimate daughter of Eliza WEST, Hannah and Samuel's daughter)

Saturday, December 9, 2006

Thomas Knight buried

Thomas KNIGHT was born about 1742, a farmer at Horncroft End, Bury; Left a will (1809) but was not buried at Bury (nor his wife Mary) - so where?
A request to the MI index run by the Sussex Family History Group gives a Thomas KNIGHT buried at Fittleworth 13th April 1809 aged 68; And a few more KNIGHTs. I could have got James's marriage to Charlotte LUER wrong!
(So why didn't I check Fittleworth? - bamboozled by a marriage in East Dean (E.Sx) of a Thomas KNIGHT of Billingshurst and Ann STRUDWICK that's why)

Thursday, December 7, 2006

More children uncovered

The children of Ann FITT (1775 - 1835) and her cousin William FITT (1778 - 1828) are now on the website. The youngest Ann (c.1815 - ) married Sharp St. John BUTT, cordwainer of Winchester.
Any other instances of the forename Sharp?