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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Kent => Topic started by: arabrab on Saturday 07 July 18 21:34 BST (UK)
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There is a baptism entry transcribed on the Freereg site for Wittersham, St John the Baptist, for an ancestor of my partner bap. 3rd April 1796. There is a very helpful note made by the vicar at the time. Can anyone help with the exact position of Rush Green ?
"The parents of the above were travellers. He was born upon Rush Green. They were married as appeared by a certificate at Otham by William Horne the rector 1794. The father said he belonged to Erith."
I have found two transcripts of the marriage at Otham to a May Len or alternatively Mary Lew and I understand the Erith registers were burnt . So it looks like I have come to a dead end .
So any help about Rush Green and whether it was a traditional travellers site would be most welcome.
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https://maps.nls.uk/view/102343672
There's a Rushgreen Wood extreme left of map.
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Thank you for the map. Does anyone know in what sense "upon" is being used here ? Is it used as meaning "on" or possibly "near" ? I don't know anything about Kent vernacular. There doesn't seem to be an actual Rush Green nearby on which he could have been born! ?
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London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
The London Gypsy and Traveller Unit (LGTU) has produced this report for the............Primary schools are nearby with Rush Green being the nearest.
http://www.londongypsiesandtravellers.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/GypsyandTravellerReportBarking.pdf
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Yes thank you for this information. I had previously got quite enthusiastic about this area but decided in the end that it was just a coincidence of name. My partner's ancestor travelled around the Kent Sussex border, using the information derived from the various birth places of his children, so I have gone back to searching the Wittersham area. Later on the surviving children did move to the Maidstone area but this was around 1850. Thanks again for your help.