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Re: Burwash - Coker Egerton diaries
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 01 March 09 17:18 GMT (UK) »
Hi sue

An intriguing tale.  I just got my copy of Sussex Folk out and there is a wonderful photo of Bodle Holmes. 

I'd love to know what you find about him.

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Re: Burwash - Coker Egerton diaries
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 01 March 09 18:49 GMT (UK) »
Hi Kerry

I do have a photo of Richard 'Bodle' Holmes I don't know if it is the same one he looks like a character
he wearing a sussex smock and big hat.
Drinking all that beer didn't do him any harm living to 107? - I did read somewhere that it was sometimes better than the water.
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Re: Burwash - Coker Egerton diaries
« Reply #29 on: Sunday 01 March 09 18:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi Sue

Yep that's him, I heard that the beer was safer than the water to drink, certainly reading about history it seems to be what people used to drink, but it was quite watered down and not like beer as we know it today.

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Re: Burwash - Coker Egerton diaries
« Reply #30 on: Sunday 01 March 09 22:10 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: sue9 on Sunday 01 March 09 16:59 GMT (UK)

Bodle had 10 sisters and 4 brothers but I have no record of a Henry - I do have a William but have not found anything on him


Sue, I wondered a bit about Henry's identity.  He could be William (who would have been in his nineties in 1883), but William is very elusive.  It's hard to be sure, but my guess is that he's Thomas, aged 82 in 1881 - so well short of ninety in 1883, but at least he's alive and well and in Heathfield at the time.  And according to the 1881 census he's a road labourer.

Oh, and Bodle is his lodger in the census.

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Re: Burwash - Coker Egerton diaries
« Reply #31 on: Monday 02 March 09 09:31 GMT (UK) »
Hi Stovepipe

Last night I was checking the census - Ive come to the same conclusion I think Henry was Thomas.
There is a William Holmes who married Emma Haffenden they had 2 children
a William and Richard. William died in 1838 - I going to order his death cert it may give us some more
info.
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Sue

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« Reply #32 on: Friday 21 June 13 05:57 BST (UK) »
Greetings from Australia
Bodle is also the brother of my 3xgrandfather, John.
I would love to find out more about him and possible connections to Sue's family.
The photo I have is supposed to be from the book 'Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways'.
According to my records John had a daughter Elizabeth born 1819.
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« Reply #33 on: Friday 21 June 13 08:48 BST (UK) »
A few years ago my library managed to get hold of the book for me.Worth a try.
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Re: Burwash - Coker Egerton diaries
« Reply #34 on: Friday 21 June 13 19:15 BST (UK) »
Yep the picture you refer to is in Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways with Bodle Holmes noted as a 'centenarian native of Heathfield 1885'.
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Re: Burwash - Coker Egerton diaries
« Reply #35 on: Friday 21 June 13 20:54 BST (UK) »
Hi Oakholm,

Welcome to the Sussex boards
I'm a descendant of John Holmes 1788 and Sophia Russell, my line is with their son John born 1814 in Heathfield, who married Ann Clifton. I do have a picture of (Bodle) Richard Holmes, wearing a Sussex smock he is the brother of John 1788 their parents were Richard Holmes and Grace Parsons.
John and Sophia children
William 1812 who died 1814 aged 2.
John 1814
Elizabeth 1818
Jane Ann 1822
Hannah 1823
Sarah Ann 1826
Richard 1828
Henry William 1830
So are we cousins  :)!!!
Best regards
Sue
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