Elizabeth Dolamore (1836-1904) and William Bushby (1835-1880). My 2nd great-grand aunt and uncle. Elizabeth Dolamore was born to my 3rd great-grandparents David Dolamore and Mary Ann Walker. She was baptised on 30 October 1836 at St Lawrence’s in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, and grew up in the Watford area. She married William Bushby on 15 May […]
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Mark Rice (1787-1863) and his children who emigrated to Utah
Mark Rice (1787-1863) and Eleanor Whaley (1791-1862). My 4My 4th great-grand uncle and aunt. Mark Rice may have lived an uneventful life but several of his children emigrated to the USA as members of the Mormon Church. Mark was baptised at St Mary’s Church in Balcombe, Sussex, on 27 July 1787 and married Eleanor Whaley […]
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Philip Comber (c1606-1680) – merchant tailor of London
Philip Comber (c1606-1680), Elizabeth (????-1654) and Dorothy Hounsell (????-1714). My 9th great-grand uncle and aunts. Philip Comber was probably born in West Hoathly, Sussex, but baptism records for the parish survive only from 1606 so his birth year remains a guesstimate. His parents were Thomas Rivers Comber and Ann Burstow and he received £10 from […]
Sarah Comber and my other Comber ancestors
Sarah Comber (1682-1758).My 7th great-grandmother. The Combers were a long-established Sussex family, some prospered as landowners and sheep farmers, and family pedigrees were presented at the Heralds’ Visitations of Sussex in 1634. The surname probably derived from the occupation of combing wool, although a ‘combe’ refers also to a valley. Curiously, some members of the […]
Sarah Rice and my other Rice ancestors
Sarah Rice (1791-1871). My 4th great-grandmother. Sarah was the first of the Rice family to join my family tree. She was baptised on 3 July 1791 at St Mary’s Church in Balcombe, Sussex, to parents George Rice and Mary Harman (see below). She married William Budgen at St Nicholas’s Church in Worth, Sussex, on 2 […]
Thomas Finch (1686-1755) and a family of Sussex yeomen
Thomas Finch (1686-1755), Elizabeth Greenfield (1695-1715) and Mary Hobbs. My 7th great-grand uncle and aunts. Thomas got off to a rough start in life but married into a prosperous Sussex family. He was born in the village of Slinfold to carpenter John Finch and his wife Sarah Richardson but he was clearly very ill as […]
Mary Bilcliffe and my other Bilcliffe ancestors
Mary Bilcliffe (1735-1783). My 5th great-grandmother. The Bilcliffe surname is a rare one in the UK and appears in several forms in the records (like many other surnames of the time), for example as Billcliff, Billcliffe, Bentley and even Bentlet. The first to marry into my Surrey-based Finch family was Mary Bilcliffe – see where […]
Sarah Ann Green (1829-1902) – a troubled marriage
Sarah Ann Green (1829-1902) and Jonathan Jary (1831-1890). My 3rd great-grand aunt and uncle. Sarah was baptised on 5 June 1829 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, and grew up with her siblings and parents William Green and Willoughby Staff in the town. The 1851 census recorded her living with relative and mariner’s wife Elizabeth Saunders […]
Susan Budgen (1795-1870), a Sussex publican
Susan Budgen (1795-1870) and George Tulley (1787-1837). My 4th great-grand aunt and uncle. Susan Budgen was baptised on 19 April 1795 in St Nicholas’s Church in Worth to parents William Budgen and Betty Streeter and grew up in the village. She married George Tulley on 16 October 1820 at St Andrew’s, Nuthurst, Sussex, about 11 miles from her […]
Sarah Finch (1714-1766) and a clandestine marriage
Sarah Finch (1714-1766) and John Moore (????-1788). My 6th great-grand aunt and uncle. Sarah Finch was baptised on 20 August 1714 at St Peter’s Church, Slinfold, Sussex, the daughter of carpenter William Finch and Elizabeth Puttock. It’s likely – by process of elimination – that it was our Sarah who married John Moore on 21 […]
George Budgen (1826-1893), Brighton publican
George Budgen (1826-1893), Ann Maria Baker (1826-1873) and Margaret Cole (1835-1903). My 3rd great-grand uncle and aunts. Baptised on 28 January 1827 in Worth, Sussex, George was the son of agricultural labourer William Budgen and Sarah Rice. In 1841 George was living with his parents at Standing Hall Farm in the village and working as a farm […]
William Budgen (1820-1864) – killed on the railway
William Budgen (1820-1864) and Amy Frith (1826-1921). My 3rd great-grand uncle and aunt. Baptised in Worth, Sussex, on 6 February 1820, William was the son of William Budgen and Sarah Rice and would meet a gruesome end. He grew up in Sussex but married Amy Frith on 6 April 1844 at St Peter & St Paul […]