Many thanks Bearkat.
James named a son Moses b 1830, so this could be a clue, his parents may well be Moses & Betty.
Rev Comyn mentions a Moses Kitcher & a Joseph & Anne.
Quote: -
Close at hand lives Moses KITCHER, a widower, who has with him John aJid Will KITCHER, both in their Tteens, Joseph Gates aged 21 and Sarah Warne in her mid-thirties. Mr. Comyn calls them lodgers but it seems likely that Sarah keeps house for them.
Moses Kitcher's children, excepting son Janes who has absconded, are not far afield.
Also:-
Meeting at the 'bottom of Mill Lane we visit the miller,
Joseph KITCHER, 67 years old, and his wife Anne. Their children are grown up. Five are away, the two eldest sons in London and three daughters married and out of the parish.
Even so, the house is full with five others at home, the youngest James, aged 19.
Mr. Comyn reminds us there has been a mill at Flexford for centuries, long before 1150 when Hugh de Witteville gave the mill, his men, and all his land in Sway to Quarr Abbey.
Joseph tells us that his family had rented the mill for well over a century, his great grandfather, Aaron Kitcher who died in 1716, had been miller as was Joseph's father before him.
End.
It would have been nice if this James was the ancestor but I think it more likely to be Moses & Betty's son.
Will use your info to find a copy of Comyn’s New Forest, sounds as if it may have some cross reference, perhaps the death of Betty, to nail this one.
Regards.
