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Slafham, Sussex?
« on: Saturday 22 May 10 13:46 BST (UK) »
Can anyone give me a hand with finding the location of "Slafham, Sussex"? 

It appears as the place of birth for Peter Louder, born c 1827, living in Wrotham, Kent in the 1861.  I don't have him in any other censuses (he dies in 1862) to check this pob.

I googled and it mentions Slafham as part of Rotherfield, and then there's Slaugham, too, although they're not very close.

Help gratefully received, thanks!  :)
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Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
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Re: Slafham, Sussex?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 22 May 10 14:26 BST (UK) »
Could it be naff writting and say Grafham? Its in West Sussex near Petworth?

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Re: Slafham, Sussex?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 22 May 10 15:19 BST (UK) »
I think it will be Slaugham (pronounced Sluffam)
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DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Slafham, Sussex?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 22 May 10 15:36 BST (UK) »
I can't see any other reference to Peter, but IGI has an Ambrose Louder b.25 Mar 1821 in Slaugham. Might be a brother perhaps?
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Re: Slafham, Sussex?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 22 May 10 15:56 BST (UK) »
I think whoever indexed it as part of Rothfield needs to go beack to the drawing board.  Slaugham is part of the Cuckfield district in Sussex.
If you go to the Genes Reunited website you will find Maureen Carol & Sue Dunn who both have your Peter in their family tree.  They both however, spell Slaugham incorrectly.  One has is as Slapham (in Essex?)  the other as Slafham.  Looks as though both of them have also fallen foul of an incorrect transcription of the place name.

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Re: Slafham, Sussex?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 22 May 10 16:18 BST (UK) »
Also try the 1841 Slaugham census and if your Peter is related to the Ambrose mentioned by Mike earlier, his parents could be James & Elizabeth.
My thoughts are drawn to James Louder who married Elizabeth Kemings in Balcombe (1816) a parish that adjoins Slaugham.
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Re: Slafham, Sussex?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 22 May 10 16:57 BST (UK) »
Slaugham registers should be on the IGI for that sort of time but I have found that many people moved from church to church in this area so had some children baptised in Cuckfield and some in Slaugham or Balcombe and even Clayton. 
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Re: Slafham, Sussex?
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 22 May 10 17:35 BST (UK) »
Thanks to all for your help.

Roy, you are quite right, I am one of the GR people and I was operating under the transcription (which actually does repeat what the image says).  This is a relation by marriage and I wasn't too interested in his antecedents, until it occurred to me that finding him in the 1851 might help me trace his wife in that census.  She'd only be 14, but they are a travelling family and often seem to have met up

I'm part of a Scavenger hunt trying to pin some people down......you have to think laterally, don't you  ;)

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Pay, Kent. 
Barham, Kent. 
Cork(e), Kent. 
Cooley, Kent.
Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich.
Cotterill, Derbys.
Van Steenhoven/Steenhoven/Hoven, Nord Brabant/Belgium/East London.
Kesneer Belgium/East London
Burton, East London.
Barlow, East London
Wayling, East London
Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
Thorpe, Brightlingsea, Essex

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Re: Slafham, Sussex?
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 22 May 10 20:23 BST (UK) »
Sarah Cooley married Peter Lowder in Malling (Maidstone area) March quarter of 1859. Ref 2a 441
They had 2 children, Elizabeth Jane b 1859 baptised Plaxtol
& Mary Ann b 1861 baptised Plaxtol.  Peter died 1862 (probably Plaxtol).
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