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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