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Mark Antony Lower, son of Richard Lower and Mary Lower [Oxley]

Mark Antony Lower, born 14th July 1813 in Chiddingly, the son of Richard Lower school master and his wife Mary Oxley. Mark Lower worked at his sister's school at East Hoathly before establishing his own school at Heathfield and then at Alfriston in 1832. He moved to Lewes in 1835 and established his school there initially in an old chapel and then at St Anne's House in the High Street. In 1838 he married Mercy Holman. It is during his 32 years in Lewes that Mark Antony Lower established himself as the county's foremost antiquarian as a founder member of the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1846; provider of numerous articles in the society's Collections; publication of English Surnames in 1842, Patronymica Britannica in 1860 and The Worthies of Sussex in 1865. After the death of his wife in 1867, Mark Antony Lower moved to Seaford and married Sarah Scrase in 1870 which coincided with the publication of A Compendious History of Sussex. He moved to London in 1871 where he died in 1876.

See also:
The Sussex Martyrs by M.A. Lower (1851)
The Worthies of Sussex by M.A. Lower (1865)
A Compendious History of Sussex Volume I by M.A. Lower (1870)
A Compendious History of Sussex Volume II by M.A. Lower (1870)

Date

Type

Information

Source

14^th Jul 1813

Born

In the Parish of Chiddingly, Sussex

Nonconformist Registers

5^th Aug 1813

Christened

At Heathfield Chapel in the Parish of Heathfield, Sussex; son of Richard Lower & Mary Lower

Heathfield Independent Chapel Registers

8^th Jan 1838

Married

In the Parish of Bromley, Kent

ODNB web site

4^th May 1870

Married

In the Parish of Seaford, Sussex

IGI - Family Search
Batch M14848-2

22^nd Mar 1876

Died

At 4 Percival Villas, in London; aged 62 years

Probate Registry of England and Wales

after 22^nd Mar 1876

Buried

At St. Anne in the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

ODNB web site

1841

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

1861 Census

1848

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

1861 Census

1854

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

1861 Census

1839

Birth of a daughter

In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

1861 Census

1842

Birth of a daughter

In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

1845

Birth of a daughter

In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

1850

Birth of a daughter

In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

1861 Census

1852

Birth of a daughter

In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex

1861 Census

21^st Apr 1876

Probate

At Principal registry, in London; Effects: under £600

Probate Registry of England and Wales

The ancestral pedigree of Mark Antony Lower

Richard Lower

m: c 1780

Sarah

b: c 1760

b: c 1760

Richard

b: 19^th Sep 1782 Eastbourne, Sussex
d: 30^th Sep 1865 Tonbridge, Kent

Grandfather record

Richard Lower

m: 9^th Apr 1803 Berwick, Sussex

Mary Oxley

b: 19^th Sep 1782 Eastbourne, Sussex
d: 30^th Sep 1865 Tonbridge, Kent

b: 1780

Unnamed

Alfred Ebenezer

Simon Peter

Mark Antony

Joseph

Mary

Jemima

Matthew Henry

b: c 1805

b: 5^th Jun 1809 Chiddingly, Sussex
ch: 27^th Jul 1809 Heathfield Chapel, Heathfield, Sussex

b: 23^rd Dec 1810 Chiddingly, Sussex
ch: 31^st Jan 1811 Heathfield Chapel, Heathfield, Sussex

b: 14^th Jul 1813 Chiddingly, Sussex
ch: 5^th Aug 1813 Heathfield Chapel, Heathfield, Sussex
d: 22^nd Mar 1876 4 Percival Villas, London
bur: After 22^nd Mar 1876 St. Anne, Lewes, Sussex

b: 18^th Sep 1815 Chiddingly, Sussex
ch: 9^th Oct 1815 Heathfield Chapel, Heathfield, Sussex

b: 31^st May 1817 Heathfield, Sussex
ch: 13^th Jul 1817 Heathfield Chapel

b: 2^nd Jul 1819 Heathfield, Sussex
ch: 4^th Nov 1819 Heathfield Chapel

b: 26^th Jan 1822 Heathfield, Sussex
ch: 18^th Apr 1822 Heathfield Chapel

Martha Oxley

b: 20^th Mar 1807 Heathfield, Sussex
ch: 21^st Apr 1807 Heathfield Chapel

Parental record

1st marriage

Mark Antony Lower

m: 8^th Jan 1838 Bromley, Kent

Mercy Holman

b: 14^th Jul 1813 Chiddingly, Sussex
ch: 5^th Aug 1813 Heathfield Chapel, Heathfield, Sussex
d: 22^nd Mar 1876 4 Percival Villas, London
bur: After 22^nd Mar 1876 St. Anne, Lewes, Sussex

b: 15^th Dec 1813 Framfield, Sussex
d: 31^st May 1867 Lewes, Sussex
bur: 4^th Jun 1867 St. Anne, Lewes, Sussex

Winefride Holman

Nynian Holman

Isabella Holman

Philippa Holman

William de Warenne Holman

Fanny Gertrude Holman

Evelyn Holman

Walter Anthony Holman

b: 1839 Lewes, Sussex

b: 1841 Lewes, Sussex

b: 1842 Lewes, Sussex
d: 1844 Lewes, Sussex

b: 1845 Lewes, Sussex
d: 1858 Lewes, Sussex

b: 1848 Lewes, Sussex

b: 1850 Lewes, Sussex

b: 1852 Lewes, Sussex

b: 1854 Lewes, Sussex

Family record

2nd marriage

Mark Antony Lower

m: 4^th May 1870 Seaford, Sussex

Sarah Scrase

b: 14^th Jul 1813 Chiddingly, Sussex
ch: 5^th Aug 1813 Heathfield Chapel, Heathfield, Sussex
d: 22^nd Mar 1876 4 Percival Villas, London
bur: After 22^nd Mar 1876 St. Anne, Lewes, Sussex

b: 1813
d: 1875 Peckham, London
bur: 21^st Oct 1875 St. Anne, Lewes, Sussex

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