Richard Johnson shopkeeper sold the Bateman's estate in March 1773 to the Salehurst shopkeeper John Freeland (1732-1811) of Hurst Green for £950; the property was then described as 'a house and land (80 acres) called Bateman's, Lanebridge, Merihams and Highland formerly occupied by Rogers, then John Langridge and now Elizabeth Langridge'. In 1785, John Freeland is recorded as owner/occupier of Bateman's with a Land Tax value of £23. Two years later, in March 1787, he conveyed the estate (upon which he had built a house occupied by Sutton) to Robert Pattenden (1754-1821), yeoman for £1,050 borrowed from his step-father, John Freeland. Robert Pattenden had married John Freeland's stepdaughter Mary Blundell (1757-1789) in 1785 and already occupied a windmill which he had built on the land.
Robert Pattenden and family lived at Batemans until his death in June 1821. He married four times - Mary his first wife died in 1789 and bore four children two of whom died in infancy; his second wife, Frances Squiers he married in 1791 but she died two years later along with their only son John; and his third wife, the widowed Margaret Johnson, he married in 1794 and she bore him four children before she died in 1804; and finally his fourth wife, the widowed Ann Blackford he married in 1806 but there were no children and she outlived him and died in 1829. Robert and his first three wives and two of the children from the first marriage are buried at St. Bartholomews Church in Burwash.
After Robert's death the estate was conveyed in March 1824 to Richard Smith Appleyard of Great St. James Street, Bedford Row, London. Windmill Field was sold for £530 and Bateman's with the remaining 40 acres of land for £1,270.Robert Pattenden's son John continued to farm at Bateman's as a tenant. He married Mary Glyde Reeves in 1824 and she, now widowed, and children are on the 1841 census as the farmer at Bateman's Farm
ref: East Sussex Record Office - AMS5982/1
| John Blundell | m: 27th Jun 1752 St. Mary, Battle, Sussex | Elizabeth Baker | 1st marriage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: c 1730 | b: c 1732 d: May 1802 Salehurst, Sussex bur: 17th May 1802 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Salehurst, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth | Mary | Anne | Mary | Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: Oct 1752 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 25th Oct 1752 St. Mary the Virgin Church d: Jan 1753 Salehurst, Sussex bur: 6th Jan 1753 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Salehurst, Sussex | b: 1753 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 24th Oct 1753 St. Mary the Virgin Church d: Dec 1754 Salehurst, Sussex bur: 26th Dec 1754 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Salehurst, Sussex | b: 1755 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 27th Mar 1755 St. Mary the Virgin Church | b: 1757 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 13th Apr 1757 St. Mary the Virgin Church d: Jun 1789 Burwash, Sussex bur: 4th Jun 1789 St. Bartholomew's Church, Burwash, Sussex | b: 1759 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 1st Feb 1759 St. Mary the Virgin Church | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st marriage | Robert Pattenden | m: 28th Jun 1782 | Mary Blundell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1754 Herstmonceux, Sussex ch: 24th Apr 1754 All Saints Church d: Jun 1821 Burwash, Sussex bur: 22nd Jun 1821 St. Bartholomew's Church, Burwash, Sussex | b: 1757 Salehurst, Sussex ch: 13th Apr 1757 St. Mary the Virgin Church d: Jun 1789 Burwash, Sussex bur: 4th Jun 1789 St. Bartholomew's Church, Burwash, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elizabeth | Ellis | John | Mary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1783 Burwash, Sussex ch: 16th Apr 1783 St. Bartholomew's Church d: Jan 1821 Northbridge Street, Salehurst, Sussex bur: 30th Jan 1821 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Salehurst, Sussex | b: 1785 Burwash, Sussex ch: 11th Jul 1785 St. Bartholomew's Church d: Apr 1812 Burwash, Sussex bur: 9th Apr 1812 St. Bartholomew's Church, Burwash, Sussex | b: 1787 Burwash, Sussex ch: 14th May 1787 St. Bartholomew's Church d: Jun 1787 Burwash, Sussex bur: 26th Jun 1787 St. Bartholomew's Church, Burwash, Sussex | b: 1788 Burwash, Sussex ch: 3rd Oct 1788 St. Bartholomew's Church d: 22nd Nov 1788 Burwash, Sussex bur: 25th Nov 1788 St. Bartholomew's Church, Burwash, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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