Yes I've seen that tree as well, Mayhew or somebody I think. It's a shame because it is beautifully drawn, but wrong. Oh well, a lot of it is correct though and I think that our family does connect to that line eventually - I think that they have John Godley m. Sarah Steele in 1724 and James Godley is the son who marries Susanna Beard. Our line goes another way, John's brother was James, he married Hannah Haylor in 1726, their son was James who married Mary Winter in 1753, and William Godley who married Elizabeth Carter was their son.
James had seven sisters I think - it was a big family! (your) Elizabeth 1825 m. Philip Corney, Sarah 1828 m. John Lidbetter, Mary Anne 1834 died age 1, Jane 1836 m. Alfred Dennard, Harriet 1838 m. Thomas Marchant, Esther 1844 m. Thomas Heasman (& moved to Winnipeg) & Mary 1848 married George Davidson.
I'd love to see any photos. I hardly have any old photos and keep looking through old collections here hoping to find some Godleys standing outside a pub or something. No luck yet though. I'm interested in the history of the Friars Oak as well. The current pub website has a sad little piece on it's history saying that it was probably built when the railway was constucted. That's rubbish because it was a coaching Inn when George & Elizabeth took it over in 1835 and had been since at least 1800, the railway wasn't opened until 1841. Friars Oak is a very ancient piece of Sussex, the road past the pub is Roman and it crosses the prehistoric south downs way only a couple of hundred yards on so there's a good chance that the site is extremely old. I've heard that the current building is new but I haven't really looked into that yet.
I'm going to have a go at sending you an attachment and see how it works. They are transcriptions of some of the grave memorials.
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Can't seem to attach a word document so I've stuck it on a Notepad and it's lost all of the formatting!