Sunday, December 14, 2008

Priory Farm (Selborne) sale

Priory farm, occupied by Benjamin FITT (1800 - 1869), was put up for sale in 1866. Advertisements appeared in the August and September editions of 'The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle' for 'a very Valuable Leasehold Estate'.

Could it be that Magdalen College, Oxford were disposing of their assets?

From his death certificate, Benjamin FITT died at Selborne, all other certificates state 'Priory Farm, Selborne'. So it could be that Benjamin and Dinah were already set up as butchers in Selborne at the time of Benjamin's death in 1869.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Hannah WEST (formerly SCOTT) buried

Hannah SCOTT was born in Horsted Keynes, Sussex and married Samuel WEST in Lindfield in 1808. Samuel died in 1825. I have spent a long time looking to bury Hannah, or finding her in the 1841 census (though I did find her parents). She, of course remarried - to a William HEAVER in 1830 and they lived in Forest Row, Sussex. She was bried there in 1869, William in 1862.