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Feature on Udimore and its Manor House

Court Lodge

Udimore and Its Manor House Court Lodge

The village of Udimore is located approximately 8 miles north-east of Hastings and straddles

the ridge to the west of town of Rye. It is bounded by the rivers Tillingham to the north and

the Brede to the south. There is no factual evidence for the presence of Romans in the parish

but it is thought that a Roman track way ran along the ridge from Rye toward iron works in

Weald, in the Heathfield and Uckfield areas. A great proportion of the parish in the river

valleys was ‘inned’ before the 14th century and there are a number of sunken routes that lead

down to the ‘old shoreline’ of the valleys ideal for smuggling activities.

The village’s boundaries have altered over the years; following the Boundary Act of 1876

detached parts of other parishes existed inside the village such as the hamlet of Cockmarling

containing at the time six houses was absorbed into Udimore. In 1934 (under the East Sussex

Review Order) ‘Little Udimore’ (cited at the west end of the parish of Brede) was absorbed in

the parishes of Brede and Sedlescombe, whistled portions of Brede and Rye Foreign were

incorporated into Udimore. In 1958 the parish boundary between Udimore and Brede were

moved further west, to include the area up to Cold Harbour.

The village’s inhabitants live either in scattered farmsteads on tracks or lanes running off the

ridge or in small collections of houses along the ‘main’ road (B2089) which winds its way

through the village from the crossroads with the (A28) at Broad Oak, Brede eastwards

towards Rye.

The Village of Udimore from the air

Notable settlements include the brick and tile hung farmhouse at Billingham in the Tillingham

valley, which dates back to the 16th Century and Pound House which is opposite the lane

leading to the parish church is of 15th Century origin. Further to the east of the village

overlooks the Brede valley is Knellstone, the main block of farmhouse dates back to the 15th

Century. In the 17th Century it was the home of the Freebody family. Parish records show that

the family paid taxes in the village since 1327. In the 19th Century in addition to the main

landed proprietors at farm such as Billingham and Knellstone there were a number of small

tenanted farms some less than 20 acres with the name such as: Houster, Jordans, Stocks,

Lonehams, Schoolhouse, Roadend, Nicholls, Marshalls, Whitemans and Fagg. The 1838 tithe

map list twenty-five farms in the village, these today have been absorbed into larger farms.

15

th Century Knellstone, Udimore (ca. 1920)

Other noticeable estate houses in the village include ‘The Hammonds’ a late 17th century

house and ‘Parsonage (Place)’.

The parish church of St. Mary is built of local stone and rubble with limestone dressing and

with tiled roofs. Parts of the nave date from ca. 1180, the chancel and tower were built about

1230.

St. Mary parish church of Udimore

Fifty years ago the village could boast of two pubic houses, two shops (including a

Post Office) a primary school, a garage, a Methodist Chapel. There were a cricket,

football and other social clubs within the village. Villagers were served by an hourly

bus service to Rye and Hastings (with a half-hour service during the summer).

Unfortunately the village lost its primary school in 1971, today only the two public

houses the ‘Plough’ at Cockmarling and the ‘Kings Head’ remain in business.

Udimore Post Office and Store with its Windmill on the left (ca. 1920)

(the post-mill was dismantles in the 1922)

Notable past residences of the village include comedian, writer and actor Spike Milligan who

lived at Dumb Women’s Lane for a number of years until his death in 2002 and the child

author Monica Edwards who witnessed the capsizing of the Mary Stanford lifeboat in 1928.

Spencer Whiteman a member of the smuggling Hawkhurst Gang who was convicted for

murder at the Battle of Sidley Green and who sentence of death was commuted transported

for life to Australia in 1831 was born at Stocks, Udimore on the 11th December 1800.

Before the Norman Conquest the manor of Udimore was held by Algar of the Earl Goodwin

and assessed at 6 hides. [A hide was a variable measurement of land but was approximately the

area (ca. 120 acres) that one oxen team could plough in one year - thus 6 hides = 720 acres].

In the 1086 Udimore was listed in the doomsday book as being part of the hundred of

Babinrerode (later called Gostow).

Following the invasion the conquered Saxon landowners were replaced by the Norman

knights, the Count of Eu in Normandy was given the Rape of Hastings and Reinbert a

Norman Earl was put in charge as the Sheriff of Hastings, he was the founder of the

Echingham family.

The King Edward I was a frequent visitor and probably stayed at Udimore for short periods

on several occasions when overseeing the foundation of the new town of Winchelsea. In 1295

Sir William de Echingham obtained a grant of free warren for his Manor of Udimore, perhaps

as some return for hospitality extended to King Edward I at the Manor house which stood on

or near the site of building latterly known as Court Lodge.

The Echingham family still held the Manor fifty years later, in August 1350 Edward III and

Queen Philippa stayed there and witnessing the Battle of Winchelsea on the 29th August 1350

when the navy of the Cinque Ports defeated the Spanish. After the battle it is documented that

“the King, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Lancaster and the Earl Richmond took horse and

galloped of too Wm. de Echingham’s manor house and passed the night in revellery with the

Queen and her ladies”, who according to the chronicler Froissart had followed events from

the hills overlooking the sea. This was a different building to that the manor house known as

‘Court Lodge’, which dates to the mid-15th Century.

By the 14th Century the manor had only 8 oxen to pull ploughs, horses and pigs, the principle

crop was oats. Most of the tenants were of free condition so the man income for the manor

came from rent. In the 1360s Sir William Echingham tried to improve agricultural

productivity, however high wages (labour shortages due to the Black Death (1348-9) and

inundation by the sea hampered productivity on land in the valleys.

The last male of the Echingham family, Sir Thomas de Echingham died on 20th January 1482

and was buried at Etchingham, his daughter married Sir John Elrington. Sir John Elrington

play a considerable part in court life, holding the Office of Clerk of Hanaper in Chancery,

Justice of Sewers, successively Clerk of the Household and Treasurer of the Household to

Edward IV and his ill-fated son Edward V. It was while he was the Treasurer of the

Household he obtained from Edward IV a licence to crenellate his manors of Dixthern (Dixter

at Northiam) and Udeymere (Udimore) as well as a grant of free warren and permission to

form a Park was granted on the 15th August 1479.

The dry moat was intended to encompass St. Mary‘s Church and the manor house of Court

Lodge. Today only two areas exist, an area north of the Church has an average depth of 1.0 -

0 m with a partly dry pond within it banks, The other part is the area east and south of the site

of the old Court Lodge manor building and behind the farm’s oast house (now converted in to

a residually house) it can be described as being under close scrub with an average depth of

1.0 m. The former line has been overlaid by buildings and farmland of the dry moat. Whether

the moat was completed, or with the passage of time has been filled in open to question.

The Manor of Udimore passed to Sir John Elrington’s son Edward who held the post of Chief

Butler in the household of Edward V. In 1536, two years before his death, he disposed of the

Manor of Udimore to Sir Andrew Windsor Kt., Lord Windsor served in France with Henry

VIII at the Battle of the Spurs and died in 1543. It remained in the Windsor household until it

passed to Thomas Bromfeild (variously spelt: Bromfield, Bromfield, Bromfeld) around 1600.

In 1723-4 Court Lodge passed out of the Bromfeild family and was sold to the Hon. Spencer

Compton (1673-1743), (latterly the 1st Earl of Wilmington). Spencer Compton was the third

son on of the 3rd

Earl of Northampton and played a prominent role in the political life during

the reign of George II. He was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1715 to

1727 but considered not to be a man of great ability. To remove him from the House of

Commons he was ‘awarded’ a peerage as Baron Wilmington in 1728. He was considered

Britain’s second Prime Minister after Robert Walpole from 1742 to his death at the aged of 70

in 1743. Compton did not marry his estates passed by will to his brother’s George Compton

family’s line. George’s youngest son was the Hon. Charles Compton, whose eldest son; also,

Charles (1737-1763) was the 7th Earl of Northampton. Charles only child was Lady Elizabeth

Compton who married on the 26th February 1782 Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish

(created the Earl of Burlington in 1831) and the ancestor of the ducal house of Devonshire.

The Manor of Udimore remained in the Cavendish family until 1843 when it was sold in 1843

by Elizabeth and George grandson William Earl of Burlington to Thomas Cooper Langford,

of Parsonage Farm, Udimore. Thomas Cooper Longford died unmarried two years latter in

1845. On his death the ownership of the manor passed his brother John Langford and from

him to Thomas Fredrick Langford.

From the end of the 17th century when the manor house was converted into labourer’s

tenements the building’s condition steadily depreciate. The manor building consisted of the

main galley running from east to west. At the eastern end of the ‘galley’ there was a wing

running from north to south. A second wing ran south from a centre point of the gallery

forming a courtyard with the eastern wing.

Map of Site of Court Lodge south of St. Mary’s Church, Udimore

In 1881 Thomas Frederick Langford sold the Lordship of the Manor of Udimore and

associated estate of approximately 1,600 acres in the parishes of: Udimore, Brede, Icklesham,

Guestling, Playden, East Guildford in Sussex, and in the parishes of Brookland and Brenzett

in Kent. The sale was undertaken by Merrrs Jas C Vilder, son & Clements were held by

auction at the Castle Hotel, Hastings on the 8th October 1881. The Lordship of the Manor of

Udimore was sold to Henry Edward Paine and Edward Brettell of Chertsey. Mr Brettell died

in 1902 and Mr Paine on the 20th January 1918. The title as ‘Ladies of the Manor’ passed to

Mrs Emma Elizabeth Freeman, of Chertsey and Mrs Clara Freeman, of Canterbury Mr Pain’s

executrices who were ladies of the Manor in 1920. The title was sold to Mr F. H. Chapman in

1921 and in turn to Mr John E. Ray in 1924.

Court Lodge Farm (together with Cold Harbour Farm) totalling around 448 acres, and which

included the Manor House, described as a Capital House of two tenements that could be

readily converted in the substantial Farm House of twelve rooms was listed as Lot 3 in the

sale. It was brought by Mr Robert Kenward of the ‘Hammonds’, Udimore.

Court Lodge in the late 1800s

During the 1800s the building was used as tenements for agricultural workers. A farm of the

size of Court Lodge was likely to have employed 20 to 30 workers. The 1841 and 1851

censuses list six families of agricultural workers inhabiting the Court Lodge and were home to

thirty-nine men, women and children. In the 1861 census it is home to nine families and in

1871 to ten families, both listed to have forty-one inhabitants. As a result of the deterioration

of the building by 1881 the number of households had reduced to seven with a total thirty-one

inhabitants and by 1891 and 1901 there number of households was reduced further to four

with the number of around twenty occupants.

Families living of Court Lodge in the second half of the 19th Century together with the

occupations of the head of the household are summarised in the following Table.

(Details listed in the 1841 to 1911 censuses are given in the Tables below).

Summary of Occupants living at Court Lodge in the 19th

Century

Census

Date Families

No of

Households

No of

inhabitants Occupations

1841

Cruttenden, Masters,

Eldridge, Morris, Butchers

and Skinner

6 39

Bailiff, Looker and

Agricultural Labourers

1851 Cruttenden, Masters (x 2),

Eldridge, Page and Skinner 6 39

Bailiff, Gamekeeper

and Agricultural

Labourers

1861

Cruttenden, Masters (x 2),

Barden, Freeman, Boyce,

Sabbage and Couglan

9 41

Carters, Shepherd,

Wheelers and


1871

Masters, Ennis, Mathews,

Freeman, Carey, Kemp,

Cooper, Eldridge and

Ledger

10 41

Carter, Shepherd,

Wheelwright and


1881

Butler, Terry, Beeching,

Masters, Potter, Miller and

Cooper

7

(1 uninhabited) 34

Shepherd and


1891 Cooper, Carter and

Beeching (x 2)

4

(3 uninhabited) 21

Shepherd, Gamekeeper

and Agricultural

Labourers

1901 Masters, Skinner Marchant,

and Miller

4

(3 uninhabited) 20

Waggoner and


1911 Masters and Offen 2 10 Carter and Stockman

One of those families was that of James ‘Jim’ Cooper who was born ca. 1817 at Beckley.

James was a ‘shepherd’ on Court Lodge Farm in the 1870 to 1890s.

James Cooper a Shepherd who lived at Court Lodge on the late 19

th Century

In the 1901 census James (84) and his wife Naomi (78) were living at Hundred House in the

parish of Brede. Naomi Cooper died on the 10th March 1903 age 81 yrs. James Cooper died

age 90 yrs. on the 31st July 1906; both were buried in St. Mary’s churchyard, Udimore. Their

son James Cooper who was born in 1854 at Iden, he also worked on Court Lodge Farm and is

listed in 1901 and 1911 censuses as the farm’s ‘bailiff’ living at Church Gate, Udimore. He

died age 59 yrs. on the 12th November 1912 it is believed that he suffered a heat attack whilst

working in the “Brede Marsh”. He is buried at St. Mary, Udimore together with his wife who

died the following year on the 18th March 1913.

By 1911 Court Lodge was occupied by only two families. The families listed as living in

Court Lodge Cottages probably occupying one side (eastern wing) of the courtyard and

running perpendicular to the main galley that by then was used as storage for animals and

crops. One of the families was that of Lovell James H Offen who was a ‘stockman’ on the

farm.

Stockman Lovell Offen a resident of Court Lodge in 1911

Lovell’s was born in 1875 at Peasmarsh and moved to Tenterden in the early 1890s. He

married Kate’ Mary A K Burton at Tenterden’s Wesleyan Chapel on Boxing Day 1896. In the

1901 census Lovell was a ‘yardman’ for farmer Mr Rideley at Heronden Farm, St. Michaels,

Tenterden. Between 1903 and 1907 Lovell and his family moved to Udimore to work at Court

Lodge. Sadly his wife ‘Kate’ (nee Burton) died on the 19th November 1907 at the age 31 yrs.

Following her death widower Lovell’s younger sister ‘Nel’ acted as ‘housekeeper’ to the

family and helped bring up Lovell’s four children. Lovell Offen lived at Udimore until his

death in 1954.

In 1912 the owner was willing to sell the manor house building but not the site, initially there

was a proposal to dismantle Court Lodge Manor house and re-erect the building in Alexandra

Park in Hastings to be used as a folk museum. However, funds could not be raised and the

proposal fall through. The main galley of the building was purchase by the artist Mr. Lawson

Wood and it was dismantled piece by piece and re-erected at Groombridge, Kent.

.

Re-erected Court Lodge Gallery at Groombridge (ca. 1930)

Instead of paying cash for the timbers of the manor building, the buyer paid to have built two

new worker cottages on the site were the western end of main galley was originally from the

rubble includes that from the demolished middle wing.

The OS Maps below show the site Court Lodge before and after the dismantlement of main

gallery.

1897 OS Map

1928 OS Maps

The eastern wing of the building was not pulled down but ‘shuttered’ and converted into a

stand-alone dwelling(s) that still stands today.

Court Lodge Cottages in the early 20

th Century after demolition of the Manor House

Gallery

The site of Court Lodge today on which two agricultural cottages now stand

(the eastern wing can be seen behind)

1841 Census for Court Lodge

Surname Forename Sex Age Occupation Born in

Sx

Cruttenden Benjamin M 50 Bailiff Y

Cruttenden Harriet F 44 Y

Cruttenden Joseph M 23 Looker Y

Cruttenden Harriet F 20 Y

Cruttenden Frederick M 13 Y

Cruttenden Elizabeth F 10 Y

Cruttenden Mary F 8 Y

Cruttenden Edwin M 6 Y

Page James M 31 Ag Lab Y

Masters William M 30 Ag Lab Y

Masters Maria F 30 Y

Whiteman Elizabeth F 15 Ind Y

Skinner John M 5 Y

Masters Elias M 20 Ag Lab Y

Eldridge William M 27 Ag Lab Y

Eldridge Charlotte F 30 Y

Eldridge William M 7 Y

Eldridge Richard M 6 Y

Eldridge John M 4 Y

Eldridge Lydia F 3 Y

Eldridge Thomas M 1 Y

Morris John M 45 Ag Lab Y

Morris Sarah F 45 -

Ashdown Hannah F 30 Ind Y

Ashdown Alfred M 9 Y

Ashdown Albert M 7 Y

Ashdown William M 3 Y

Butchers James M 40 Ag Lab Y

Butchers Harriet F 30 Y

Leeves Sarah F 18 Ind Y

Butchers Charles M 16 Ag Lab Y

Skinner James M 40 Ag Lab Y

Skinner Mary F 40 Y

Skinner George M 18 Y

Skinner Julia F 11 Y

Skinner William M 9 Y

Skinner Edwin M 7 Y

Skinner Sabina F 5 Y

Skinner Emily F 3 Y

1851 Census

Surname Forename

Relation-

ship to

head

Marital

Status Sex Age Occupation Were born

Masters Maria Wi Ma F 44 SSX Udimore

Whiteman William FA WD M 79 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Barden William LG Un M 23 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Skinner John LG M 15 Scholar SSX Brede

Cruttenden Benjamin HD Ma M 60 Bailiff SSX Northiam

Cruttenden Harriotte Wi Ma F 57 SSX Icklesham

Cruttenden Frederick SO Un M 23 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Cruttenden Elizabeth Da Un F 20 Dressmaker SSX Udimore

Cruttenden Mary Ann Da Un F 18 Employed at

home

SSX Udimore

Cruttenden Edwin SO M 16 Scholar SSX Udimore

Willmshurst Henry LG Un M 36 Gamekeeper SSX Robertsbridge

Page James HD Ma M 41 Ag Lab SSX Wilmington

Page Harriotte Wi Ma F 29 SSX Udimore

Page James

Frederick

SO M 4 SSX Udimore

Page Eliza Da F 1 SSX Udimore

Skinner James HD Ma M 53 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Skinner Susan Wi Ma F 33 SSX Brightling

Skinner Edwin SO Un M 16 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Skinner Emily Da F 13 SSX Udimore

Skinner Ann Da F 6 SSX Udimore

Skinner Jane Da F 4 SSX Udimore

Skinner Matilda Da F 1 SSX Udimore

Bourne William H SS Un M 11 Scholar SSX Brightling

Masters Benjamin HD Ma M 43 Àg Lab SSX Peasmarsh

Masters Maria Wi Ma F 42 KEN Benenden

Masters Spencer SO Un M 16 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Masters Charles SO M 14 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Masters William SO M 11 SSX Brede

Masters Maria Da F 11 SSX Brede

Masters George SO M 9 SSX Brede

Masters James SO M 4 SSX Udimore

Eldridge William HD Ma M 37 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Eldridge Caroline Wi Ma F 27 SSX Beckley

Eldridge John SO Un M 14 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Eldridge Thomas SO M 12 Scholar SSX Udimore

Eldridge James SO M 9 Scholar SSX Udimore

Eldridge Stephen SO M 5 SSX Udimore

Eldridge Edwin J SO M 1 SSX Udimore

1861 Census

Surname Forename Relation-

ship

Marital


Masters Benjamin HD Ma M 55 Carter SSX Peasmarsh


Masters Charles SO Un M 24 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Masters George SO Un M 19 Carter SSX Udimore

Masters James SO Un M 14 SSX Udimore

Eldridge John HD Ma M 50 Wheeler Emp 2

Men

SSX Ewhurst

Eldridge Elizabeth Wi Ma F 45 CAM Whittlesley

Eldridge John SO Ma M 21 Wheeler SSX Guestling

Eldridge Thomas SO Un M 14 SSX Guestling

Eldridge Sarah Ann DL Ma F 20 SSX Icklesham

Bufford Elenor LG WD F 69 CAM Whittlesle)

Eldridge Eliza Sarah Da Un F 1M SSX Udimore

Barden William HD Ma M 33 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Barden Mary Wi Ma F 33 SSX Udimore

Barden Ann Da Un F 9 Scholar SSX Udimore

Barden Rhoda Da Un F 4 SSX Udimore

Barden Frances Da Un F 2 SSX Udimore

Masters William LG Un M 21 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Masters Spencer HD Ma M 26 SSX Udimore

Masters Jane Wi Ma F 25 SSX Udimore

Freeman John HD Ma M 54 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Freeman Frances Wi Ma F 52 SSX Rye

Freeman Lucy Da Un M 24 SSX Udimore

Freeman Emily Da Un F 19 SSX Udimore

Freeman John SO Un M 21 SSX Udimore

Freeman Maria Da Un F 16 SSX Udimore

Freeman Alfred SO M 12 SSX Udimore

Boyce James HD Ma M 52 Shepherd KEN Rolvenden

Boyce Harriet Wi Ma F 51 KEN Sandhurst

Boyce Henry SO Un M 17 Ag Lab KEN Sandhurst

Boyce Albert SO Un M 14 KEN Sandhurst

Boyce Samuel SO Un M 11 Scholar KEN Sandhurst

Boyce Mary Ann Da Un F 9 Scholar KEN Sandhurst

Sabbage Henry HD Ma M 32 Carter SSX Hardham

Sabbage Maria Wi Ma F 21 SSX Udimore

Sabbage Ann Da Un F 2 SSX Udimore

Sabbage Harriett Da Un F 5M SSX Udimore

Coughlan Michael HD Ma M 56 Ag Lab IRL -

Coughlan Mary Jane Wi Ma F 50 IRL -

Coughlan James SO Un M 20 IRL -

Coughlan Daniel SO Un M 11 KEN Sutton

1871 Census


ship

Marital


Masters Benjamin HD Ma M 62 Labourer SSX Peasmarsh


Savage

(Sabbage?)

Ann GD F 12 Scholar SSX Udimore

Durrant Thomas GS M 12 Scholar SSX Udimore

Ennis Ignatius HD Ma M 30 Ag Lab LND Bermondsey

Ennis Lucy Wi Ma F 25 SSX Udimore

Ennis Anne E Da F 4 SSX Udimore

Ennis Thomas SO M 2 SSX Udimore

Mathews George LG WD M 62 Farm Lab SSX Westham

Freeman John HD Ma M 31 Farm Lab SSX Udimore

Freeman Ellen Wi Ma F 29 KEN Sandhurst

Freeman John SO M 10M SSX Udimore

Freeman John FA WD M 64 Invalid SSX Udimore

Freeman Alfred SO Un M 22 Farm Lab SSX Udimore

Freeman Emily Da Un F 28 SSX Udimore

Carey William HD Ma M 43 Farm Lab SSX Icklesham

Carey Ann Wi Ma F 59 SSX Udimore

Carey Eliza Da Un F 21 SSX Icklesham

Carey George SO Un M 15 Farm Lab SSX Icklesham

Carey Frederick SO Un M 12 Scholar SSX Icklesham

Ennis George SL Un M 22 Farm Lab LND Bermondsey

Ennis Ann DL Un F 16 LND Bermondsey

Kemp Charlotte HD WD F 48 SSX Mountfield

Kemp George SO Un M 21 Farm Lab SSX Salehurst

Kemp Horace SO Un M 19 Farm Lab SSX Salehurst

Kemp Ellen Da Un F 16 Servant SSX Sedlescombe

Kemp Elizabeth Da Un F 15 Servant SSX Udimore

Kemp Ann Da F 12 Scholar SSX Udimore

Kemp Thomas SO M 10 Scholar SSX Udimore

Kemp Maria Da F 7 Scholar SSX Udimore

Cooper James HD Ma M 51 Shepherd SSX Beckley

Cooper Naomi Wi Ma F 50 SSX Peasmarsh

Cooper James SO Un M 17 Shepherd SSX Iden

Cooper Frank SO Un M 11 Scholar SSX Iden

Cooper Mary Da F 7 Scholar SSX Iden

Cooper Charles SO M 4 Scholar SSX Udimore

Eldridge John HD Ma M 60 Wheelwright - -

Eldridge Elizabeth Wi Ma F 55 CAM Cambridge

Eldridge Eliza J GD F 9 SSX Udimore

Gladwish Robert LG Un M 43 Farm Lab SSX Beckley

Ledger Thomas LG Un M 34 Farm Lab SSX Brighton

1881 Census


ship

Marital

Status

Sex Age Occupation Were born

Butler Frederick HD Ma M 27 Ag Lab SSX Northiam

Butler Emily A Wi Ma F 22 SSX Brede

Terry James HD Ma M 36 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Terry Bathsheba Wi Ma F 30 SSX Bexhill

Terry Caroline E Da F 9 Scholar SSX Udimore

Terry Mary S Da F 6 Scholar SSX Udimore

Gladwish Robert LG Un M 50 Ag Lab SSX Beckley

Beeching William HD Ma M 45 Ag Lab SSX Flimwell

Beeching Fanny Wi Ma F 40 SSX Flimwell

Beeching James SO Un M 18 Ag Lab SSX Etchingham

Beeching Fanny Da F 16 SSX Etchingham

Beeching George SO M 14 Ag Lab SSX Etchingham

Beeching Walter SO M 10 Scholar SSX Ticehurst

Beeching Alice Da F 7 Scholar SSX Ticehurst

Beeching Mary Da F 5 Scholar SSX Beckley

Beeching Thomas SO M 3 SSX Beckley

Masters Benjamin HD Ma M 73 Ag Lab SSX Peasmarsh


Potter James HD Ma M 35 Ag Lab SSX Icklesham

Potter Charlotte Wi Ma F 32 SSX Fairlight

Potter James SO M 8 Scholar SSX Pett

Potter Ellen Da F 6 Scholar SSX Pett

Potter George SO M 2 SSX Udimore

Uninhabited

Miller Stephen HD Ma M 52 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Miller Ellen Wi Ma F 50 SSX Brede

Miller Charles SO Un M 21 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Miller Emily Da F 16 SSX Udimore

Miller Susanna Da F 9 Scholar SSX Udimore

Miller George FA WD M 85 SSX Hellingly



Cooper Frank SO Un M 20 Ag Lab SSX Iden

Cooper Mary Da Un F 17 General Dom SV SSX Iden

Cooper Charles SO Un M 14 Ag Lab SSX Udimore

1891 Census


ship

Marital




Cooper Charles SO Un M 24 Gamekeeper SSX Udimore

Carter Mary A HD WD F 40 SSX Battle

Carter Thomas SO Un M 20 Ag Lab SSX Brede

Carter Harry So Un M 18 Ag Lab SSX Brede

Carter Richard W SO Un M 16 Ag Lab SSX Icklesham

Carter Hannah Da Un F 12 General Dom

SV SSX Icklesham

Carter Mary A Da Un F 10 Scholar SSX Icklesham

Carter Sarah E Da Un F 5 Scholar SSX Udimore

Beeching James HD Ma M 28 Ag Lab SSX Etchingham

Beeching Kate Wi Ma F 23 SSX Brede

Beeching Alice Da F 1 SSX Brede

Beeching William HD Ma M 60 Stockman SSX*

(KEN) Goudhurst

Beeching Fanny Wi Ma F 54 SSX Flimwell

Beeching George SO Un M 28 Ag Lab SSX Etchingham

Beeching Walter SO Un M 20 Ag Lab SSX Etchingham

Beeching Alice Da Un F 18 SSX Ticehurst

Beeching Mary Da Un F 15 SSX Beckley

Beeching Thomas SO Un M 14 Ag Lab SSX Beckley

Gladwish Robert LG Un M 61 Ag Lab SSX Beckley

1901 Census


ship

Marital


Masters Spencer HD Ma M 38 Ordinary Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Masters Hannah Wi Ma F 32 SSX Broomhill

Bryant Arthur R SO Un M 12 SSX Rye

Masters William SO Un M 12 SSX Rye

Masters George SO Un M 6 SSX Beckley

Masters Edith Da Un F 5 SSX Udimore

Masters Ernest SO Un M 3 SSX Udimore

Masters Elsie Da Un F 1 SSX Udimore

Skinner Edward J HD Ma M 34 Waggoner on Farm KEN Romney

Skinner Agnes Wi Ma F 34 SSX Iden

Skinner Charles H SO Un M 8 SSX Iden

Skinner Mary Da Un F 6 SSX Iden

Skinner Nellie J Da Un F 4 SSX Northiam

Skinner George T SO Un M 3 SSX Brede

Skinner Herbert SO Ùn M 1 SSX Udimore

Marchant William HD Ma M 61 Ordinary Ag Lab SSX Icklesham

Marchant Ellen Wi Ma F 59 SSX Ore

Miller Stephen HD Ma M 73 Ordinary Ag Lab SSX Udimore

Miller Ellen Wi Ma F 68 SSX Brede

Miller May GD Un F 13 SSX Udimore

1911 Census


ship

Marital


Masters Spencer HD Ma M 47 Carter on farm SSX Udimore

Masters Anna Wi Ma F 46 SSX Ewhurst

Masters Ernest SO Un M 13 Carter on farm SSX Udimore

Masters Elsie Da Un F 11 School SSX Udimore

Offen Lovell HD WD M 35 Stockman on Farm SSX Peasmarsh

Offen Nellie Si Un F 23 SSX Peasmarsh

Offen Nettie Da Un M 13 KEN Tenterden

Offen Albert SO Un F 12 KEN Tenterden

Offen Lillie Da Un F 10 KEN Tenterden

Offen George SO KEN Tenterden

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Hastings and Rother Family History Society · Notable past residences of the village include comedian, writer and actor Spike Milligan who lived at Dumb Women’s Lane for a number