|
Pages: 1 2 [3]
|
 |
|
Author
|
Topic: MI's in St Mary - Horsham (Read 2794 times)
|
Chris in 1066Land
Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 6092
"Forever Searching, Forever Learning"
|
Hi Wendy
There are several of the 1170 memorials stones in St Mary's Churchyard, Horsham that bear the Mitchell / Michell surname.
The inscription record that I have was done in the 1950's , commissioned by the then Horsham Urban Council - but it is very basic in the information they wrote down.
No 183, MITCHELL Lucy, Wife of John and daughter of Hugh & Elizabeth Orlton
No 447, MITCHELL Edward, son of Samuel and Phoebe - 1822
No 448, MITCHELL Samuel, son of the above - 1833
No 449, MITCHELL Harriet, wife of Isac - 4th August 1850, and daughter Ann - 1847
No 460, MICHELL Sarah - 1777, Thomas - 1798 = a footstone
No 734, MICHELL Dr (or Drew) Michell - 1800 (rest illegible)
No 735, MITCHELL Sara Harriet, daughter of George and Harriet 1802 (rest illegible)
No 919, MITCHELL John, son of Edward and Catherine - 1813 (or 1815) aged 66
No 1146, MITCHELL Matthew, 2nd November 1880 aged 65 years
Hope the above will be of some use to you
Chris in 1066
NB - When the church decided to build a 2 million pound extension (Vestry) in 2003, I was commissioned to survey, transcribe and record all the the tombstones that they would be moving to accomplish same.
One of the stones was No 460 as listed above, and hopefully I have attached picture of same - please notice how much my transcription differes from the 1950's work
In
Memory of Sarah
Wife of Thomas Michell
Who died July the 10th 1777
Aged 53 years
Also Thomas Michell
Who died 8th October
1798
Aged 72 Years
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chris in 1066Land
Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 6092
"Forever Searching, Forever Learning"
|
Hi Indaloman
Thanks for that extra info - it all helps build up a database of facts
No wonder that Lintott was the most common name on the memorials - they had the money to erect them.
Thanks again
Chris in 1066
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Wendy Soall
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 6
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
Hi Chris
Thank you for the info and the photo. I think that Samuel is mine but a sideways move. My MItchells/Michells were blacksmiths and it is great great grand dad who is my 'brick wall' as I don't know who his parents were. He was Francis Edward 1808 - 1888 (sometimes recorded as Edward) Is there anywhere I can look at your inscriptions without bothering you? Are they on a CD that can be bought for instance?
Thank you again for your help and your time
Wendy
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Chris in 1066Land
Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 6092
"Forever Searching, Forever Learning"
|
Hi Wendy
Sorry that the info I gave you was not really what you were looking foor.
Again, sorry, but the MI's are only on my computer so not really searchable from afar.
Horsham records I believe have been well covered by the Sussex Family History Group, but I also believe the originals are in the West Sussex Record Office at nearby Chichester
Chris
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Chris in 1066Land
Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 6092
"Forever Searching, Forever Learning"
|
Hi again Wendy
Just been looking through some old Trade and Street Directories at
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/
and noticed these
1858 – Melvilles Directory
Michell Henry, Brewer and Malster, West Street Brewery (this one appears regularly up to and beyond 1900)
1859 – Post Office Directory
Mitchell Edward Francis, Beer Retailer & Blacksmith, Crawley Road
1866 – Post Office Directory
Mitchell Edward Francis, Blacksmith, Crawley Road
1878 – Post Office Directory
Mitchell James, Blacksmith, Crawley Road
I think that the above points to that Edward Francis is part of the extended family of Henry the Brewer, maybe even his son as they were both originally in the same trade of Beer Mking; and is James the son of Edward Francis. - Food for thought
Chris in 1066
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Wendy Soall
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 6
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
Yes, yes, yes Bingo. Thanks for thst information, James is the son of Francis. I'm now off to look at the link you so kindly gave me
Happy new year
Wendy in Tenerife.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Indaloman
RootsChat Veteran
Posts: 807
|
Wendy, if the brewery was in West Street, it is very likely that it is the site bought by the King family, later King and Barnes, which sadly closed a few years ago, it ale was great. The last of the Kings opened up another brewery in the old Horsham Railway Station Goods Yard a couple of years ago and cannot make enough to keep up demand. Like you I am a Spanish Exile and its my first port of call when visiting the UK
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Knight (Nottingham & Hants) Hancock, (Kent) , Hancox (Warwickshire), Linneys (Hants) Brothers (Langford, Beds,East London), Bridgers (East London)
Other restorers please feel free to use my work if wished
|
|
|
Wendy Soall
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 6
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
Yes I remember King & Barnes and the Green Dragon in the Bishopric, a bit of a dive but it was early in my youth that and the White Swan in West Street
I rented a flat in Albion Terrace behind Woolworths and very convenient for getting home. I then bought a house on Lambs Farm Estate Roffey
Wendy
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Vixen60
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 42
|
Hi
Looking at your wonderful website, I notice that you have the name Burfoot. I think a family moved there from the Kent Surrey Sussex border in the mid 1700s so would be very interested in anything you have.
Regards
Barbara
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Chris in 1066Land
Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 6092
"Forever Searching, Forever Learning"
|
Wendy, Glad to have been of help to you
All the best in your future research and Happy New Year to you and yours
Chris in 1066
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chris in 1066Land
Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 6092
"Forever Searching, Forever Learning"
|
Hi Penny
Sorry to say but the answer is Negative - do apologise for that
Chris in 1066
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Chris in 1066Land
Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 6092
"Forever Searching, Forever Learning"
|
Hi Pennt
Spotted this entry in the Great Universal Directory of 1799
Place: CUCKFIELD
Surname: Dancy
Forename: Josiah
Occupation: Farmer
Dont know wether it is connected at all
Chris in 1066
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
OneBigFamily
RootsChat Member
Posts: 117
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
|
Hi again Chris,
Thanks for checking the MI's.
With this Josiah Dancy this is what I have found to date;
(I found him with my 2nd gt grandfather in 1841 although I think the Josiah was a son of a Josiah Dancy and Mary Booker)
British Directory, Gentry & Traders 1793 - 1798 Cuckfield; Josiah Dancy, Farmer
1837 East Sussex, 1837. List of the registered electors
Josiah Dancy, Buckswood, Beeding, Leashold house and land at Turners Hill. His name was written in italics. "The Names of those who did not poll are printed in italics; these include many persons who are dead, as well as those who have lost their qualification by a change of residence, and various other causes." From National Archives there are references to property (woodlands and farm) called Buckswood in Ifield.
1841 With John Dancy the carpenter of Worth born 1791
1841 Turners Hill, Worth Sussex
Name Estimated Birth Year Birthplace
John Dancey born by my calcs abt 1791 Sussex, Carpenter (my 2nd gt-grandfather baptised 13 Sep 1789 as son of Michael Dancy and Sarah Holcomb/Hookam)
Lue Dancey born by my calcs abt 1821 Sussex, Painter (male)
Elen Dancey born by my calcs abt 1826 Sussex, 15 (female)
/
Richard Dancey abt 1826 Sussex, England, 15
Sarah Dancey abt 1761 Sussex, England, 80 (Mother of John Dancy's above)
* Josiah Dancey abt 1766 Sussex, England, 75 (Who is he? Why is he here living as a separate unit with Sarah?)
Registration district: East Grinstead, Sub-registration district: Worth
From Access to Archives (Biggs Farm was near Cuckfield)
Archive of the Stapley, Wood and Davidson families of Hickstead Place
Catalogue Ref. HIC, Creator(s):
Stapley family of Hickstead Place, Twineham, Sussex
Wood family of Hickstead Place, Twineham, Sussex
Davidson family of Hickstead Place, Twineham,Sussex
ESTATE ARCHIVES
ACCOUNTS
STAPLEY FAMILY
FILE - Account book - ref. HIC/471 - date: 1725-90
item: Copies of receipts from Mr. Josiah Dancey for rents of Biggs Farm and lands in Cuckfield. (Signed by H.T [uppen]). - ref. HIC/471/46-59 - date: 1775-1790
-------------------------------------------------------------
From: 'Parishes: Cuckfield', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7: The rape of Lewes (1940), pp. 147-163. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56940. Date accessed: 03 August 2008.:
North of Slough Place is Bigg's Farm, a complete house of the first half of the 15th century, which had a great hall, a north solar wing, and a south buttery wing. About 1600 the first floor was inserted in the hall and, then or later, the second floor and the great central chimney-stack in the southern of the two bays of the hall were added. The walls of the lower story are of brick, replacing old timber-framing; the upper story is mostly tile-hung, but the north end shows old framing, including one of the curved braces typical of the period: the windows are latticed; one in the west front has a 16th-century moulded frame and ancient quarries. The roof, steep-pitched and with hipped ends, is covered with mossy Horsham slabs for two-thirds of its height: the top part is tiled. The (former) great hall retains its original 15th-century moulded wall-beam across the north end, where there is a doorway, with a pointed head, into the solar wing. The ceiling of the ground floor has 17th-century chamfered beams and joists. On the south side is a great fire-place with a huge flue above it and a very large hearth-stone. Close to the north wall there is a patch of pavement made up of floor-tiles shaped to form a pattern of octagons about squares, an unusual feature in Sussex, and perhaps original. The remainder of the floor is of very large irregular slabs. The southern room, the former buttery wing, has the original wide flat ceiling-joists and another wide fire-place. The first floor shows the framing, with curved braces, &c., in the upper part of the north wall of the hall, and in the middle, dividing the hall into two 11½-ft. bays, is the original roof-truss: this has a heavy cambered and chamfered tie-beam showing in the bedroom: mortices indicate former curved braces below it. Above the tie-beam is an octagonal king-post with a moulded capital above which are four-way braces.
In the great fire-place is an iron fire-back with the royal arms and initials C. R. and a pair of ancient fire-dogs which were discovered buried on the site.
Near by are Cleaver's Farm, Misbrooks Farm, and Little Misbrooks, all with 17th-century chimney-stacks.
Josiah died 1844.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Dancy Dancey Crowter Binney Outred Cowdry Bowmer Kensett Alderton Akers Killick
|
|
|
|
Pages: 1 2 [3]
|
|
|
|
|
460michell.jpg