WALDER Family COWFOLD

[kerryb]

Nothing on the West Sussex database http://www.westsussexpast.org.uk/gateway/default.aspx

Well worth a look if you have West Sussex family though.

Kerry

[issywissy]

Hi Kerry,
thanks again for looking into this for me. You theory is exactly what I had thought. I have tried looking into who the 'Lord of the Manor' could be. Sebina was working as a Domestic servant in Keymer, Chichester in 1861 which is the closest to when Alice was born. I did have a theory that as she was born and brought up in Cowfold the dirty deed may have happened there. Her father was a farmer and the family used to live at Peacocks Hill. Its very likely that he rented land from the nearby landowners whose house happens to be called High Hurst and is just down the road! However from the research I have done apparently the dean and chapter leased this property and I cannot find who was there around this time. However it seems her family had moved to Walberton, Arundel by 1861 and there don't seem to be any landed Hursts there. I think it maybe a wild goose chase to be honest!

[kerryb]

Hi

Have you got the reference for Sabina on the 1861 census, I can't find that one at all.  Keymer is nearer to Brighton than Chichester.  However Walberton where her family were living is quite close to Chichester.

Kerry

[issywissy]

She is house servant,aged 21, to a Joseph Glazebrook, a Grocer & Draper? at 124 St Johns, Keymer in the Ecclesiastical District of Chichester. However i think she is transcribed as Sabina Walden
Reference is RG9/583 pg 22

[kerryb]

Got her!

Here is Keymer on Genuki,  http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/SSX/Keymer/index.php

She certainly got around!

Kerry