The Weald - People history and genealogy

Date

Type

Information

Source

16^th Dec 1816

Born

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

12^th Jan 1817

Christened

At St Andrew & St Mary Church in the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

c 1840

Married

1842

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

1844

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

1847

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

1851

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

1858

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

1849

Birth of a daughter

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

1855

Birth of a daughter

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

1862

Birth of a daughter

In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex

Fletching Parish Registers

6^th Jun 1841

Census

At Fletching in the Parish of Fletching, Sussex; John Stevenson, M, Head, age 20 to 24, born Sussex; occupation: journeyman

1841 Census
Fletching, Sussex

3^rd Apr 1881

Census

At Spring Farm House in the Parish of Fletching, Sussex; John Stevenson, M, Head, married, age 44, born Fletching, employs 2 men and 1 boy; occupation: farmer

1881 Census
Fletching, Sussex

1879

Recollections

At Spring Farm

Ashdown Forest dispute

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: 14^th Jan 1783 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex

Phoebe Grover

b: c 1765

b: 1760 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 31^st Dec 1760 St Andrew & St Mary Church

Ann

James

Henry

Phoebe

b: 1785 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 8^th May 1785 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1787 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 2^nd Sep 1787 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1791 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 24^th Aug 1791 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1794 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 31^st Aug 1794 St Andrew & St Mary Church

Grandfather record

Henry Stevenson

m: 7^th Feb 1816 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex

Eunice Brown

b: 1791 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 24^th Aug 1791 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: c 1795

John

George

Harriet Eunice

b: 16^th Dec 1816 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 12^th Jan 1817 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1819 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 15^th Mar 1819 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1824 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 14^th Nov 1824 St Andrew & St Mary Church

Parental record

John Stevenson
farmer

m: c 1840

Mary Ann

b: 16^th Dec 1816 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 12^th Jan 1817 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1822 Stanmer, Sussex

Herbert

Owen

Sidney

Clara Jarusha

Frank Medhurst

Maryanne

William Henry

Bertha Laura

b: 1842 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 15^th May 1842 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1844 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 24^th Jan 1844 St Andrew & St Mary Church
d: 11^th Mar 1932 Fletching, Sussex
bur: After 11^th Mar 1932 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex

b: 1847 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 10^th Jan 1847 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1849 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 11^th Mar 1849 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1851 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 6^th Jul 1851 St Andrew & St Mary Church
d: 24^th Mar 1933 Fletching, Sussex
bur: After 24^th Mar 1933 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex

b: 1855 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 4^th Mar 1855 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1858 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 7^th Nov 1858 St Andrew & St Mary Church

b: 1862 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 5^th Oct 1862 St Andrew & St Mary Church

Family record