Which Sussex village would you like to live in ?

[Lord Bracknell]

What web site are you using Lord B. I'd love to see where my great grandparents were from!!

You can search for brief details (name, date and place) of all births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales between 1837 and about 1915 here:-

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

To get more details (ie a copy of the certificate), you then need to use the reference number to order the certificate from:-

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

[Certificates cost £7.50 each]


As for the census records, I'm a subscriber to www.ancestry.com which gives me access to all the census information between 1841 and 1901.

But there are a number of sites than give free access to some of the census records.

A transcription of the whole of the 1881 census of England and Wales can be found, free of charge, here:-

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

But you have to be a bit wary of the transcription - there is a huge number of errors. That's why I subscribe to ancestry.com - you get to see the original images of the census return forms. As an example of what I mean, my great great grandfather, Walter Bassford, appears in the transcribed version of the 1881 census as "William Malsford".

 

[tedebear]

Thanks - thats brilliant - I've emailed my Mum for some details and will have a go in due course...my Mum's father was an Arthur Chapman, and his parents were supposedly English so hopefully she'll have a few more details (location and names) and I can have a dig around

Thanks again!!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

You definitely need more information than just a name. A place will make the search easier.

For example ... there were 43 people called Arthur Chapman born in England and Wales in 1900. But only one of them was born in Hackney.

But you still have to be careful ... there were seven Arthur Chapmans (or do I mean Chapmen?) born in Hackney between 1900 and 1910.

 

[timseagull]

Tillington near Petworth. Great pub, and on the edge of Petworth park! Love it.

 

[Bob!]

Same here. My great-grandfather emigrated from Amberley to Brighton but several generations of my family lived there before that. I go back there ever year just to walk around it and look at the family name on the gravestones. If I had the money, I'd like to live there.

I also have generations of my Forefathers in the Graveyard at Amberley. Say hello to the Newells (My Mothers side) next time you're there!

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Tillington near Petworth. Great pub, and on the edge of Petworth park! Love it.

The horseguards is allegedly haunted by a headless horse man.



I would like to live just a few miles on in Lurgashall, maybe it is cos i did live there for 18years i still have a soft spot for it.

 

[crasher]

Not a bad village, but really spoiled by too much traffic on the B road, particularly during the South of England Show. And having the showground on the doorstep also spoils the village.

You're right about the traffic in a way - it's not ideal. But five minutes from my front door and I'm in the fields or woods. It's not perfect but it'll do me.

 

[Djmiles]

Stand Up Inn

 

[tedebear]

You definitely need more information than just a name. A place will make the search easier.

For example ... there were 43 people called Arthur Chapman born in England and Wales in 1900. But only one of them was born in Hackney.

But you still have to be careful ... there were seven Arthur Chapmans (or do I mean Chapmen?) born in Hackney between 1900 and 1910.

It'll be his parents I'll be looking for, he was born in Australia, as was my maternal grandmother....not sure about my Dads side, their are the shifty bunch

 

[wigman]

second vote for East Preston!! Do I know you Wigman?

i cant email you super fred as you wont allow it but im pretty well known in the village!

 

[fatbadger]

Not one of them, I'm afraid. The idea of living anywhere south of Lancaster makes my blood run cold. Too many people, too many cars, too many Tories.

 

[Poyningsgull]

Poynings of course.

 

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Falmer

 

[NMH]

Poynings of course.

Fulking army run Poynings - you got all the poofs! (Mikey's army, ello ello?)

 

[Gwylan]

I also have generations of my Forefathers in the Graveyard at Amberley. Say hello to the Newells (My Mothers side) next time you're there!

A good old Sussex name.

We're the Cooters; a name that seems to be common in Amberley/Pulbrough area: I'm pretty sure that my great-great grandfather ran the village store/bakers.

Interesting to hear about Gully's history too. It's good that there are so many people on NSC who are Sussex from way back.

 

[Poyningsgull]

Fulking army run Poynings - you got all the poofs! (Mikey's army, ello ello?)

Keep your back to the wall in the Royal oak and there's no problem!!

 

[plymouth nige]

I would also like to live in Falmer - I would like to own the pub, which I would only open on match days and only serve people in football shirts, I would also paint my house with blue and white stripes and play Sussex by the Sea over a large loud speaker system for twenty four hours a day!!!

I'm not bitter!
wcnige

 

[Lord Bracknell]

We're the Cooters; a name that seems to be common in Amberley/Pulbrough area: I'm pretty sure that my great-great grandfather ran the village store/bakers.

More census information ...

Walter S Cooter, aged 36, born in Amberley, was a Confectioner & Baker, living in Church Street, Amberley at the time of the 1901 census. He was married to Elizabeth and had five sons, Sidney, Percy, Harry, Frank and John, all born in Amberley. Sidney (age 16) and Percy (age 14) are described as Baker's Assistants.

The 1881 census shows Walter S Cooter, aged 17, already married to Elizabeth Holloway, the daughter of George Holloway, a butcher, who lived at 2 High Street, Amberley. Walter and Elizabeth were living with Elizabeth's parents next door to the house of James Cooter, a grocer and baker, who (I presume) was Walter's father. James Cooter was born in Pulborough. His wife, Fanny, was born in Thakeham. George Holloway was born in the New Forest and was married to Caroline, who was born in Candwill, Wiltshire.

This suggests that Gwylan SHOULD be a Swindon fan.



Walter Cooter and Elizabeth Holloway married early in 1881:-

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/sea...mOTNkZGU0ZGVlYzQ3&jsexec=1&mono=0&action=Find

 

[Gwylan]

Blimey Ed, that's some thorough research. Thanks for taking the trouble to do that

I think Walter might have been the brother of my great-grandfather. My grandfather was called James, so there's some indication that it's a family name.

I'm going to get my grandfather's birth certificate so I can find out my great-grandfather's name - he's definitely connected to the ones that you mentioned .

NSC is such a fount of knowledge - you can find out about ANYTHING.

Oh yeah. Sod Swindon. If one of my ancestors is from the New Forest, perhaps I should be a Southampton fan.

 

[pasty]

Gets my vote too. When I lived in Haywards Heath, the scout troop I was in used to put large floodlights in the pond around the time of the Lindfield fair, regularly being attacked by the swans - vicious bastards they are.