The Weald - People history and genealogy

During The Ashdown Forest Dispute 1876-1882 commoners and land owners were interviewed by the solicitor William Raper. Their comments were recorded in a series of notebooks:

Samuel Slater. 87. Very deaf - memory almost gone. Tompsetts Bank. Born in Hartfield. His Father was parish clerk. (When) about 27 worked for 2 years for Godly at Upper Parrock. Had litter from the Forest and turned out. Before that worked at Chartners Farm. Does not remember before that. Lived before he was grown up with Philcox at Little Parrock for a year.
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3^rd April 1881

Census

At Holly Cottage in the Parish of East Grinstead, Sussex; Samuel Slater, M, Father, widowed, age 90, born Hartfield, handicap: deaf; occupation Labourer

1881 Census
East Grinstead, Sussex

m: c 1700

b: c 1680

b: 1704 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 4^th Jul 1704 St. Mary's Church

b: 1707 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 13^th Apr 1707 St. Mary's Church

Great-Great-
Grandfather
record

John Slatter

m: 14^th Nov 1725 St. Mary's Church, Hartfield, Sussex

Susan Butcher

b: 1704 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 4^th Jul 1704 St. Mary's Church

b: c 1705

b: 1726 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 15^th Dec 1726 St. Mary's Church

b: 1729 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 29^th Apr 1729 St. Mary's Church

b: 1732 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 7^th May 1732 St. Mary's Church

b: 1734 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 24^th Nov 1734 St. Mary's Church

b: 1736 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 2^nd Nov 1736 St. Mary's Church

Great-
Grandfather
record

John Slatter

m: 20^th Jul 1750 St Swithin Parish Church, East Grinstead, Sussex

Elizabeth Gilbert

b: 1726 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 15^th Dec 1726 St. Mary's Church

b: c 1730

b: c Oct 1750 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 18^th Nov 1750 St. Mary's Church

b: 1753 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 4^th Nov 1753 St. Mary's Church

b: 1758 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 15^th Jan 1758 St. Mary's Church

b: 1760 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 6^th May 1760 St. Mary's Church

b: 1^st Jan 1762 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 24^th Jan 1762 St. Mary's Church
d: 9^th Mar 1849 The Lych Gate, Hartfield, Sussex
bur: After 9^th Mar 1849 St. Mary's Church, Hartfield, Sussex

b: 1764 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 11^th Jun 1764 St. Mary's Church

b: 1766 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 28^th Apr 1766 St. Mary's Church

b: 1768 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 10^th Apr 1768 St. Mary's Church

Elizabeth

Fortunatus

b: 1751 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 29^th Dec 1751 St. Mary's Church

b: 1755 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 2^nd Nov 1755 St. Mary's Church

Grandfather
record

Fortunatus Slater

m: 18^th Jun 1785 St. Mary's Church, Hartfield, Sussex

Ann Berry

b: 1^st Jan 1762 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 24^th Jan 1762 St. Mary's Church
d: 9^th Mar 1849 The Lych Gate, Hartfield, Sussex
bur: After 9^th Mar 1849 St. Mary's Church, Hartfield, Sussex

b: 22^nd Sep 1754 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 24^th Oct 1754 St Andrew & St Mary Church
d: 8^th Jul 1846 The Lych Gate, Hartfield, Sussex
bur: 10^th Jul 1846 St. Mary's Church, Hartfield, Sussex

b: 1785 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 18^th Jun 1785 St. Mary's Church

b: 1786 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 15^th Nov 1786 St. Mary's Church

b: 1789 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 13^th Feb 1789 St. Mary's Church

b: 1791 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 25^th Apr 1791 St. Mary's Church

b: 1793 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 16^th Apr 1793 St. Mary's Church

b: 1795 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 10^th Jul 1795 St. Mary's Church
d: May 1870 Hartfield, Sussex
bur: 14^th May 1870 St. Michael's Church, Hartfield, Sussex

b: 1798 Hartfield, Sussex
ch: 14^th Jan 1798 St. Mary's Church

Parental
record