Langley or Langney Green, Seaside, Eastbourne before 1916

[Keith Sherwood]

Thanks for that, Petmas,
I wrote to someone on Rootschat by PM about four years ago about this marriage and what subsequently happened to Hannah M Sherwood/Hobden.  Must try and find our correspondence..
And Liz, if you do turn that photo up we can PM one another with details of either e-mail address or postal address (send a personal message via the facility on here), once you have done one more message, bringing your total of posts to 3.
Do please keep in touch!
Keith

[Liz Darby]

Hi think I can this now will send photo if I get hold of it I will also take photos of where the cottage was bye for now   

Hi, Liz, and welcome to Rootschat!
And I do love it when what seems a dormant thread jangles into life again…
As you can see, I started this thread just one week short of ten years ago, and the last activity was just over four years ago…and so I would be absolutely delighted to see any pictures that you might be able to unearth that may give an indication of the location or even existence of Ivy Cottage.  It's always a bit of a puzzle to me that although my gt-grandparents SHERWOOD had so many children, with the first nine all boys and therefore carrying on the male line, that I have never come across any other SHERWOOD descendants other than through my grandfather John Charles SHERWOOD's family.
Although I have since been contacted on Rootschat by someone who told me that my Gt-Grandma Annie remarried sometime after the death of her husband George William in 1916…
Very best wishes,
Keith

[petmas]

Death registered for Hannah M Hobden, aged 82, Eastbourne 3/1946. There are a few Samuels of roughly the same age but the best fit looks like 3/1950 at Barnstable aged 86 as the others are about 10 years younger

[Keith Sherwood]

Yes, Petmas,
I'm pretty much sure that that is my gt-grandma's death registration.  Thanks so much for looking up that too! 
...and Liz, very kind of you to offer to look for that photo - would mean a great deal to me to be able to see a picture of Ivy Cottage at last.  I'll PM you also now, so that you can see how it works.
Keith

[Keith Sherwood]

…and I have now - as I really ought to have from the first moment that Liz came on this thread the other day - looked back and read the whole of this thread again.  And of course the lady called Ann living in Australia (Antonacb) had told me that her family are descended from the second of George William and Hannah's sons, George William himself; my own family come from the third son, John Charles. She also said that she remembered Ivy Cottage as being referred to as "Black Cottage".  Liz says that she thinks it was "made of flint".  Perhaps it the stones were knapped, then this would have given the cottage a dark appearance?  A picture is beginning to emerge from the uncertainty…!  I wonder too whether Ivy Cottage was the name given to it when it was built, or whether it became known as that because of ivy growing over it ultimately...
Keith