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A "stray" Gorringe in the Kent area?
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 21:29 BST (UK) »
:) HI, Can anyone help me please. I am researching the family surname of Gorringe mainly from the East Sussex area of Ringmer and Glynde. But for many a year now, I have come up against the brick wall, of my ancestor disappearing! and I am now think he could have gone across the border to Kent!! (Clutching at straws).
I believe, but can not verify a marriage of a William Gorringe in Glynde in 1804/5 to a Sarah Thatcher. Now, we know from William's father's will, written in 1829, and read in 1835, that William born in 1767, was deceased, and that he had three children, two boys and a girl. The only child we know of is William born in 1792 to William and Hannah Gorringe in Ringmer. Hannah Gorringe died just after childbirth, and that is why we believe William (1767) remarried!? No proof though.
There is no William Gorringe as dying in the Sussex area that meets our criteria, so we can only assume, rightly or wrongly, that he may have been in the Kent area. Can anyone help please.
To recap, William Gorringe was born in Ringmer in1767, and died before 1829, with a "wife" called Sarah, and an additional one boy and girl, apart from his first born son, William Gorringe born in 1792.
Desperate for any help please. Many thanks, Carol
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Re: A "stray" Gorringe in the Kent area?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 08 August 11 15:54 BST (UK) »
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Re: A "stray" Gorringe in the Kent area?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 08 August 11 16:25 BST (UK) »
There is a William Gorringe age 60 in the Workhouse at Tenterden 1841 (but bn in county as all shown are so doesnt mean a lot)
Source 1841 census RG number:HO107 Piece:476 Book/Folio:3/38 Page:5 

Good Luck Rog  :D ;D


   
WAGHORN/E
KENWARD
HARRIS
DIXON
MARSHALL
MERCER
CARE
FAGG
RUSSELL
WOODRUFF      

 All these  Families were Born and Bred in Kent

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Re: A "stray" Gorringe in the Kent area?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 08 August 11 19:38 BST (UK) »
Families living on the Kent/Sussex border can be a right pain >:( My lot must have worn a path with all the crossing back & forth!

Just a few GORRINGEs in East Peckham (not near the border) one child in Ivychurch with the middle name Gorringe (surname HARMER), one in Tenterden & three baptisms in Cranbrook, so these could be strays connected to your family.
Details if you want them.


Betty
KENT:
Stutely - Wittersham & Stone
Padgham - Wittersham
Wanstall - Northbourne
Taylor - Ringwould & Ash
Skinner - Deal
Bushell - Walmer
Spain - Walmer
Also
Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand.
Cohen - Birmingham

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Re: A "stray" Gorringe in the Kent area?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 09 August 11 08:27 BST (UK) »
 :D

Hi Betty,
Thank you for coming back to me withthe info you have found. I would love to have whatever details you have on the Gorringe's, and I am particularly interested in the one with a Gorringe middle name, with the Harmer surname. The Harmer name also is connected to our Gorringe's, but that is another story.

Do you have any access to death records? Am looking for a William Gorringe, born 1767, as dying anywhere inthe Sussex / Kent area before 1829. There is one record, but that applies to another Gorringe family, who just happen to have a William Gorringe born around the same time as mine!!

Thanks any. Look forward to hearing from you soon.

Carol

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Re: A "stray" Gorringe in the Kent area?
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 09 August 11 19:52 BST (UK) »
Hi Carol

Ivychurch
Baptism
1876 6th Aug  William Gorringe  son of George & Ann HARMER
Notes: Ashford (Engineer)
This is the only child for this couple.

Tenterden
Baptism
1813 7th Nov  Mary, parents John & Mary GORRINGE
Notes: Tenterden (Labourer)

Cranbrook
Baptisms
1790 13th June  Tho GORRINGE, parents Tho & Frances
1811 20th Jan  Tho GORRINGE  parents Tho & Elizabeth
1812 3rd May  Harriett GORRINGE  parents Tho & Elizabeth

East Peckham
Marriage
1761 27th Oct
Hezekiah GORRINGE to Frances STRETFIELD
Witnesses: Martha Durtnall & John Durtnall

The other Gorringe references were to Hez. GORRINGE being a witness to several marriages.

East Peckham
Burials
1789 17th July,  ? GORRINDGE, Mrs
1794 28th Jan  Hezekiah GORRINDGE
1803 27th June  ? GORRINGE, Mrs



Betty






KENT:
Stutely - Wittersham & Stone
Padgham - Wittersham
Wanstall - Northbourne
Taylor - Ringwould & Ash
Skinner - Deal
Bushell - Walmer
Spain - Walmer
Also
Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand.
Cohen - Birmingham

"Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov."