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Title: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: Stovepipe on Tuesday 24 July 07 16:20 BST (UK)
Dear Sussex RootsChatters,

Do any of you recognise the place where George GARNER Junr. was from in the attached image?  It seems to begin "Hursty..." but then I get lost.  I can't find any modern Sussex place that seems to fit.

The image is from a will dated 1822 and made in Kent, so some allowance should perhaps be made for those foreigners not being up on their Sussex geography!

Thanks in advance,
Stovepipe
Title: Re: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: kerryb on Tuesday 24 July 07 16:25 BST (UK)
Hi Stovepipe

I can't make out the image as yet, need to study for a while but there are a few places in Sussex that start with Hurst

Hurstpierpoint and Hurstmonceux and Hurst Green come to mind.  Can't make out any though.

Kerry :-\
Title: Re: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: kerryb on Tuesday 24 July 07 16:27 BST (UK)
Hurst Green is only a few miles from Burwash though  ???  I've had a look at Ancestry and there is a George Garner born 1818 at Salehurst living in Etchingham which is a mile down the hill from Hurst Green so I think it could be Hurst Green. 

Kerry
Title: Re: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: Stovepipe on Tuesday 24 July 07 16:33 BST (UK)
Blimey, Kerry - that was a rapid response.  Many thanks.  I hadn't thought of Hurst Green, but now you mention it, it could be written as "Hurstgreen" although the 6th letter to me looks more like a "y" than a "g".  Perhaps the scribe in 1822 misread his copy.

Cheers,
Stovepipe
Title: Re: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: Chris in 1066Land on Tuesday 24 July 07 16:35 BST (UK)
Hi there

Got to  agree with Kerry; after looking at all the possibilities of Hurstpeirpoint, Hurstmonceux etc - have to settle for Hurstgreen written as all one word rather than Hurst Green

Chris in 1066
Title: Re: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: kerryb on Tuesday 24 July 07 16:36 BST (UK)
Call it boredom Stovepipe, tried reading Harry Potter but kept dropping off!!!! ::) ::) ::)

The more I look the more I think it is Hurstgreen as Chris says written as one word.

Kerry
Title: Re: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: Stovepipe on Tuesday 24 July 07 16:42 BST (UK)
Kerry and Chris, thanks to you both - I'm satisfied it's Hurstgreen.

Regards,
Stovepipe
Title: Re: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: Johndartspur on Sunday 04 February 24 01:45 GMT (UK)
Quote from: kerryb on Tuesday 24 July 07 16:27 BST (UK)
Hurst Green is only a few miles from Burwash though  ???  I've had a look at Ancestry and there is a George Garner born 1818 at Salehurst living in Etchingham which is a mile down the hill from Hurst Green so I think it could be Hurst Green. 

Kerry




Hi,

This seems very likely to either be an ancestor of my maternal grandfathers as his paper trail notes say his Paternal Line (he was a Garner) last of his generation and only child originated from Salehurst Sussex but.later moved to Kent my grandfather was a dairy farmer near Canterbury. Hope this helps
Title: Re: Please tell me where George GARNER was from.
Post by: Johndartspur on Sunday 04 February 24 01:53 GMT (UK)
My 4x ggfather George Garner his dad was from Etchingham