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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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 […]