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People Connected to Sussex
Historic County of England
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- Please link any GENI Profiles with links to Sussex to this project.
- You can ALSO add the earliest heads of families to the list of Sussex Families on Geni below (don't forget to link their profiles to the project as well). These would usually be male! Please restrict people added to the list to the earliest head of family!
Note People with links to Sussex can be linked to the project but not necessarily added to the list below.
People connected to Sussex can also be linked to the following projects.
Historical and Political people
- accommodated by the project Historical Sussex which covers the History of Sussex and historical/political people. Some of these are also listed in the Famous people category.
Famous or Notable People
Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown! Please visit Sussex - Famous People and add them to the listing there.
Emigrants
People from Sussex who went to the "New world" and were early progenitors in those countries. Where the earliest ancestor is known please add them to the list of "Sussex families on Geni" below if that was their roots, or to the appropriate county project.
Where the earliest known ancestor is the emigrant add them to the list below. In some cases if there is a project that covers them in detail please link the project.
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Heads of Sussex Families on Geni
Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.
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B
- Baldock
- John Baldock (1695-1747) Wadhurst, son of William Baldock and Ann Bowyer. Snippet not linked
- William Ball died 1559 - Fisherman of Hastings
- William Brinkhurst (1810-1882) Framfield
- James Brooker (c 1780 - ?) farmer of Ditchling
- John Bushby (1488- )
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D
E
F
- Thomas Farrant (c 1662-1727 East Grnstead
G
- John Garton (1746 Shipley - )
H
- Henry Harwood (1741 - )
I
J
K
L
M
- John Mitchell (1740-1827)
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O
- Richard Oliver (1505-1554) Tottington, Lyminster, Sussex
- John Osborne (c1527-1597) - Poynings
- John de Oxenbridge (c1298-c 1343) - Beckley and Brede
P
- Thomas Penfold (c 1480-1547)
- Pratt - Richard (Wickham) (1730-1812)
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R
S
- Thomas Shelley
- Shoosmith (complete tree not yet added - WIP still on PAF CJB)
- William Smythe Lyminster
- John Sweetnam b/ c 1578 Warbleton
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U
V
W
- Thomas Weaver (c 1791 - ) Waldron
X-Y-Z
Emigrants from Sussex
Please add the names of people from Sussex who settled in the "New World"
Americas
South America
United States
Canada
New Zealand
- Jane Mitchell (1848-1902)
- Frederick William Mitchell (1869 -1923)
South Africa
See 1820 British Settlers in South Africa
- Jesse Abraham Attree Emigrated from Sussex England about 1845 and settled in Wynberg, Cape, South Africa.
- Henry Holloway (1784-1834)
- Thomas Sweetnam 1820 Settler - Menezes' Party - went to South Africa.
Sussex Names
- AKEHURST. [Ang Sax - an oak, and hurst, a wood.]
- ASHBURNHAM. [Ang Sax - an ash; burne, a stream, and ham, a dwelling.]
- ASHDOWN. Æsc, an ash, and dun, a hill.
- ASHENDEN. Æsc, an ash, and denu, a valley.
- BALKHAM. Balca, a ridge, and ham, a dwelling.
- BARTON. Barton, a farm-yard. [Ang Sax - bere-tun, an enclosure.]
- BECK. Beck, a brook. [Ang Sax - becc.]
- BENTLEY. Bent, a tuft of grass, and ley (Ang Sax – leag), a pasture.
- BICKLEY. Beck, a brook, and ley, a pasture.
- BINSTEAD. Bin and steddle, a stand.
- BOURNE. A stream. [Ang Sax - burne.]
- BOSTEL. A hill path.
- BRACKFIELD. Brake, a fern, and field.
- BROAD. A common.
- BROOKSHA W. Brook, a water-meadow, and shaw, a wood.
- BURTENSHAW. Barton (bere-tun), a homestead, and shaw, a wood.
- BUTTERWICK. Butter, and wick, marshland.
- BYTHAM. {By the ham.} Ham, a dwelling.
- CALLOW. [Calo, Ang Sax - bald.] Smooth.
- COCKINGE. Ing. (Ang Sax) - a son.
- COMBER. Coombe, or Combe (Ang Sax) – A valley in the downs.
- COMPER. Comp (Ang Sax) - a valley.
- COPLEY. Cop, a ridge, and ley, a meadow.
- CROCKER. Crock (crocca, Ang. Sax.}, an earthen vessel.
- CROFT. Croft (Ang Sax.), a piece of pasture land near a house.
- CROWHURST. Crow, and hurst, a wood.
- ETHERIDGE. Ether {Ang Sax. ether), a pliant rod, and hedge.
- FELDWICK. Feld, or field, and wick, a town.
- FELSTEAD. Feld, or field, and stead, a place.
- GILHAM. Gill, a rivulet, and ham, a dwelling.
- GRIST. Grist, a grinding; a week's allowance of flour for a family.
- HASLEHURST. Hasel, and hurst, a wood.
- HATCH. A gate. In North of England, a heck.
- HAYLEY. Hay, and ley, a meadow.
- HAYWARD. A hedge-warden; an officer of the lord of the manor.
- HEADLAND. A part of a field.
- HEATHCOTE. Heath, and cote, or cot, a cottage.
- HENTY. Hen, and tye, a common.
- HIDE. [Hyd, Ang Sax.] As much land as could be tilled with one plough.
- HOCKHAM. [H%C3%B3h, Ang Sax, a heel, and ham, a meadow.]
- HOCKLEY. [H%C3%B3h, and leag, Ang Sax.] Both these words mean a field of a certain s
- HOLT. [Holt, Ang Sax., a grove.] A small plantation.
- HOLTHOUSE. Holt and house.
- HOOKER. see Hockham
- HOOKHAM. see Hockham
- HUCKWELL. Huck, to knock, or to spread anything about.
- HURST. A wood.
- INGS. [Ing, Ang Sax.] A common pasture.
- KELK. Kilk, or charlock.
- KITTLE. Kiddle, delicate; ticklish.
- LADE. Part of a wagon.
- LANGLEY. Long and ley, a meadow.
- LANGRIDGE. Long and ridge.
- LANGSHAW. Long and shaw, a wood.
- LANGTON. Long and ton, an enclosed place.
- LEE. A meadow
- LEIGH A meadow.
- LINGHAM. Ling, a /heath, and ham, an enclosure.
- LONGBOTTOM. Long, and bottom, a valley in the downs {the long valley}.
- LONGHURST. The long wood.
- LONGLEY. The long meadow.
- MEERES. Mere, a marsh.
- NAPPER. Napery, linen.
- PEART. Lively.
- PECK. An agricultural implement.
- FELLING. Pell, a pool, and ing, a pasture.
- RAVENSCROFT. Raven, and croft, a field.
- REEVE. An officer of the manor.
- SHAW. A wood.
- STEAD. An enclosed place.
- SOUTHERDEN. The south valley.
- WENHAM. Wen, or wain, a wagon, and ham, an enclosure. The wagon-house.
- WENMAN. The wagon-man.
- WHEATCROFT. The wheat field.
- WOODWARD. An officer of the manor; a wood-warden.
- WYNDHAM. Wynd, a path up a hill, and ham.
Taken from - "A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect" by Rev W.D.Parish - Vicar of Selmeston, Sussex
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