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Title: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: jimf on Thursday 13 October 05 18:19 BST (UK)

Hello
            Am looking for William Tilden Crossingham (Born  2nd Feb 1844,Heathfield ) Have got him until 1871. Think he left his wife and family after that and possibly went to America.  Can anyone help please?

Jim

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: Jane Masri on Thursday 13 October 05 19:04 BST (UK)

Hi Jim,
On the Ellis Island website  http://www.ellisisland.org/  There is a William Crossingham and his wife, Margaret who arrived in the USA on 13/8/1895.  He was 48 & she was 38.  Could they be yours?

Jane

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: jimf on Thursday 13 October 05 19:27 BST (UK)

Hello Jane
                  Thanks for quick reply. Pretty sure that William is not mine,but will look into it .

Thanks
              Jim

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: DianaCanada on Friday 14 October 05 01:18 BST (UK)

Hi - I am related to the wife William left behind!  I don't have the details at hand, but I have been in contact with a Crossingham researcher and IF I remember correctly, he ended up in Chicago. 
Hope I can find the info. you need. 
Diana.

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: jimf on Friday 14 October 05 05:37 BST (UK)

Hi Diana
               Thanks for replying .Have been looking for William for ages. I gathered he had perhaps ended up in Chicago ,but cant find any info of when and where and why he left his wife.
Would be very pleased if you could could find any info.

As you are related to his wife ( Mary Barden ) do you have a death date for her?

Thanks again.
                         Jim

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: GCG on Thursday 31 March 11 14:03 BST (UK)

Hi there,

William Tilden Crossingham went to America, Chicago and was in the Hotel business. His brother Thomas went to live in Caterham, Surrey and had a coal business, and a further brother, Charles, became at blacksmith at Rottingdean in Sussex.

 I descend from William Crossingham of Tower Street Heathfield Sussex, through his daughter Jane Crossingham. He had a small shop and Beerhouse, called the Gibraltar Arms, in Tower Street.

Regards,

Graham Crossingham Gower.

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: DianaCanada on Thursday 31 March 11 15:40 BST (UK)

Graham, was your ancestor Jane from another marriage?  I have three children listed for Mary Barden and William Tilden Crossingham - Mary Jane (died young), Leonard, and Alice.  I have not been able to trace Leonard, but Alice married Frederick Hipgrave.  She was born in 1867, Leonard in 1865. 
Diana.

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: omega 1 on Friday 01 April 11 10:01 BST (UK)

Hi
I found a William Tilden Crossingham,Baptised at Dallington St Giles,
3 rd March 1844,son of William & Harriet.
Dad at the time was a Shoemaker.

From the SFHG

Kind Regards


omega

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: GCG on Friday 01 April 11 19:11 BST (UK)

Diana,

Unfortunately, I  have no information that would help you. What I do have is  background information and family history of William Tilden Crossingham and his wife Harriet Maria Croft.

My great aunt Ada Gower, whose mother was Jane Crossingham, was told much of the family history when young and she passed the information on to me. Also, there is a will of William Tilden Crossingham of Tower Street.

All the best

Graham.

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: jimf on Saturday 02 April 11 09:34 BST (UK)

Hi GCG

Could you tell me please where i can get a copy of William Tildens Will .

Kind regards

Jim

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: GCG on Sunday 03 April 11 18:32 BST (UK)

Hi there,

You can see a summary of the will on Ancestry -  under National Probate Register. He left £156.19s.7d. Each of his children received one sixth.

Regards

Graham.

Title: Re: William Tilden Crossingham
Post by: jimf on Monday 04 April 11 06:26 BST (UK)

Hi Graham

Thanks very much for for that.

kind Regards

Jim