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:
Stevenson, John. 62. Born in Fletching Street, 16 December 1816. Father, Henry Stevenson, was a bargeman. I helped him. In 1838 he took the Spring Farm and Bottings Farm in Fletching, 40 acres (Sir S. M. Wilson) and about 10 years after he took the Pasture Fields, 20 acres in Fletching (Sir S. M. Wilson). He farmed the whole till his death at Christmas 1878 and I succeeded him
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| William Stevenson | m: 14th Jan 1783 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex | Phoebe Grover | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: c 1765 | b: 1760 Fletching, Sussex ch: 31st Dec 1760 St Andrew & St Mary Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ann | James | Henry | Phoebe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1785 Fletching, Sussex ch: 8th May 1785 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1787 Fletching, Sussex ch: 2nd Sep 1787 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1791 Fletching, Sussex ch: 24th Aug 1791 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1794 Fletching, Sussex ch: 31st Aug 1794 St Andrew & St Mary Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Stevenson | m: 7th Feb 1816 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex | Eunice Brown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1791 Fletching, Sussex ch: 24th Aug 1791 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: c 1795 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John | George | Harriet Eunice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 16th Dec 1816 Fletching, Sussex ch: 12th Jan 1817 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1819 Fletching, Sussex ch: 15th Mar 1819 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1824 Fletching, Sussex ch: 14th Nov 1824 St Andrew & St Mary Church | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John Stevenson farmer | m: c 1840 | Mary Ann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 16th Dec 1816 Fletching, Sussex ch: 12th Jan 1817 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1822 Stanmer, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| b: 1842 Fletching, Sussex ch: 15th May 1842 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1844 Fletching, Sussex ch: 24th Jan 1844 St Andrew & St Mary Church d: 11th Mar 1932 Fletching, Sussex bur: After 11th Mar 1932 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex | b: 1847 Fletching, Sussex ch: 10th Jan 1847 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1849 Fletching, Sussex ch: 11th Mar 1849 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1851 Fletching, Sussex ch: 6th Jul 1851 St Andrew & St Mary Church d: 24th Mar 1933 Fletching, Sussex bur: After 24th Mar 1933 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex | b: 1855 Fletching, Sussex ch: 4th Mar 1855 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1858 Fletching, Sussex ch: 7th Nov 1858 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1862 Fletching, Sussex ch: 5th Oct 1862 St Andrew & St Mary Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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