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People Connected to Sussex

Historic County of England

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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.

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Heads of Sussex Families on Geni

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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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William Denyer

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F

Thomas Farrant (c 1662-1727 East Grnstead

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John Garton (1746 Shipley - )

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Henry Harwood (1741 - )

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K

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M

John Mitchell (1740-1827)

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Richard Oliver (1505-1554) Tottington, Lyminster, Sussex
John Osborne (c1527-1597) - Poynings
John de Oxenbridge (c1298-c 1343) - Beckley and Brede

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Thomas Penfold (c 1480-1547)
Pratt - Richard (Wickham) (1730-1812)

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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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Thomas Weaver (c 1791 - ) Waldron

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Emigrants from Sussex

Please add the names of people from Sussex who settled in the "New World"

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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.