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)
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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
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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.
