| Wadhurst Vicarage High Street Wadhurst |
Books and other documents | |
| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1923 | The Story of Wadhurst by Alfred A. Wace ⇒ p. 43 |
| Historical records | |||||
| 1743 | History | Vicarage | Wace's Wadhurst | ||
| Things came to a head with Samuel Bush (Vicar 1743-1783). When first appointed he lodged at the present Vicarage with the then owner [John] Legas, who was at that time building the present Hill House for himself. On Legas moving to that, he let the Vicar stay on as his tenant; but they quarrelled, and Legas a few months before he died turned him out. Bush was then on bad terms with the principal land owners over tithe payments, and found much difficulty in housing himself. Indeed for some time he was refused even a sitting in the Church. W. Gurr admitted him at last to Little Pell, but they too fell out. | |||||
| 1751 | History | Vicarage | Wace's Wadhurst | ||
| In 1751 Legas died, leaving his first house [now the Vicarage] to his niece, who then married R., Tapsell, an ironmaster. In his hands the house was much improved, and the cost of that and losses in iron made him bankrupt in 1765. Samuel Bush then was able to buy Tapsell's life interest in the house, and he lived on there after Tapsell's death in 1777 | |||||
| 1780 | History | Vicarage | Wace's Wadhurst | ||
| With a desire to save his successors the misery he had himself endured from being houseless, he bequeathed to the Warden and Fellows of Wadham a sum of money sufficient to buy a proper house for the Vicar ; and the College, being unable to acquire any of the houses suggested as suitable by Bush, bought Legas' first house, the present Vicarage | |||||
| 30th Mar 1851 | Census | Head; occupation: vicar of Wadhurst | John Foley, vicar of Wadhurst | Vicarage House | 1851 Census Wadhurst, Sussex |
| Wife | Caroline E. Foley | ||||
| Daughter | Augusta A. Foley | ||||
| Son | John W. Foley | ||||
| Daughter | Mary Foley | ||||
| Daughter | Cecilia Foley | ||||
| Servant; occupation: kitchenmaid | Eliza Basset | ||||
| Servant; occupation: footman | Albert Brown | ||||
| Servant, occupation: cook | Elizabeth Chapman | ||||
| Servant; occupation: nurse | Susan Foster | ||||
| Servant; occupation Housemaid | Maria Pankhurst | ||||
| Servant; occupation GENERAL SERVANT | Obadiah Robinson | ||||
| Visitor | Louisa Smith | ||||
| Servant; occupation Nursemaid | Helen Watson | ||||
| c 1875 | Part of the 6 inch to 1 mile map of Sussex produced in 1875 by Ordnance Survey | Vicarage | |||
| 3rd Apr 1881 | Census | John Foley, M, Head, married, age 75, born Worcestershire; occupation: vicar of Wadhurst | John Foley, vicar of Wadhurst | Vicarage | 1881 Census Wadhurst, Sussex |
| Caroline E. Foley, F, Wife, married, age 66, born Norfolk | Caroline E. Foley | ||||
| Mary C. Foley, F, Daughter, single, age 21, born Wadhurst | Mary C. Foley | ||||
| Isabel M. Barwick, F, Servant, single, age 21, born Canterbury; occupation: cook | Isabel M. Barwick | ||||
| Elizabeth Francis, F, Servant, single, age 20, born Frant; occupation: parlour maid | Elizabeth Francis | ||||
| Sylvia Baldock, F, Servant, single, age 16, born Wadhurst, occupation: housemaid | Sylvia Baldock | ||||
| Albert Watts, M, Servant, age 13, born Wadhurst; occupation House boy | Albert Watts | ||||
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