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William Tribe (Secondus) Born 1802 Died 1886 and the firm of 'Tribe and Company'
William Tribe (Secondus), the eldest son of William the Founder, was born in August (I believe on the 19th of the month) of the year 1802, in or near the borough of Tenterden, in Kent. He was a tall, robust man, of magnificent build and enormous strength, nearly approaching six feet in height, and broad in proportion, and at eighty years of age would have proved the equal of many men in their prime. He married Mary (Ottaway) and had several children. He lived during the great part of his life in or around Tenterden, and was at one time a tollgate keeper, at another a dogwood [scraper] and dogwood merchant, and he also at one time kept a stud of carthorse stallions, among which was the famous Black Prince, in his time the champion horse of Kent. Later on he crossed the Sussex border and settled at Burwash, near Heathfield, Sussex, where he hired Waterloo Farm, Burwash. This he farmed successfully for a number of years, when he again set his face and feet Kent-wards, and hired Cold Bath Farm, Tunbridge Wells, on the edge of the border, but on the Kentish side. Here he laid the foundations of the business which eventually became one of the largest and most successful dairying concerns in the borough of Tunbridge Wells, doing business in Hungershall and Neville Parks, Broadwater Down, and many other of the principle parts of the borough. Here it was, too, that he died, after many years of sucessful business.
William Tribe | m: 3rd Oct 1791 | Eleanor Hosmer | 1st marriage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: c 1765 d: c 1818 | b: c 1768 Smarden, Kent d: 20th Dec 1853 Smarden, Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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b: 20th Jul 1794 | b: 13th Nov 1797 | b: 10th Jan 1799 | b: 12th Aug 1801 Smarden, Kent d: 5th Mar 1886 bur: After 5th Mar 1886 Ebenezer, Heathfield, Sussex | b: 8th Nov 1803 | b: 28th Apr 1806 d: 18th Jan 1875 New York, USA | b: 7th Jan 1809 | b: 15th May 1811 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Tribe farmer | m: c 1828 | Mary Crittenden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: 12th Aug 1801 Smarden, Kent d: 5th Mar 1886 bur: After 5th Mar 1886 Ebenezer, Heathfield, Sussex | b: 15th May 1803 Smarden, Kent d: 1st Mar 1881 bur: After 1st Mar 1881 Ebenezer, Heathfield, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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b: 1829 Upchurch, Kent | b: c 1832 | b: 1835 Biddenden, Kent | b: 1836 Biddenden, Kent | b: 5th Nov 1837 Biddenden, Kent d: 6th Mar 1895 | b: 1843 Biddenden, Kent d: 1st Nov 1890 | b: 1845 Biddenden, Kent | b: 1849 Biddenden, Kent d: 25th Jun 1872 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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