Thomas Andrew

[ElizabethHerts]

Name
Thomas Andrew

Date and place of birth
probably early 1738, Cocking, Sussex

Names of parents
John Andrew and Margaret, née Barker

Date and place of baptism
16 May 1738, Cocking Parish Church, Cocking, Sussex

Details of each of his or her marriages
Elizabeth Ayling
18 September 1764, Cocking Parish Church, Cocking, Sussex

by Licence - I have the marriage allegation

Children:
Thomas chr. 15 Jun 1765
Elizabeth chr. 26 Dec 1766
John chr. 11 Sep 1768
Jane chr. 25 May 1770
Henry chr. 10 Jan 1772
James chr. 25 Dec 1773
Ann chr. 26 Feb 1776
William chr. 26 Feb 1776
Charles chr. 18 Dec 1777
Francis chr. 18 Dec 1777
Stephen chr. 27 Jul 1780
Mary chr. 9 Nov 1782

all christened at Cocking


Occupation(s)
Farmer

Addresses where they lived
Cocking, Sussex
Cranleigh, Surrey

Date, place and cause of death
probably end July 1803, no details known

Date and place of burial
2 August 1803
Cocking Parish Church, Cocking, Sussex

Details of will / administration of their estate
Made 8th June 1803, proved 28th January 1804
livng at Cranleigh, Surrey, farmer
under £600

Memorial inscription
unknown

link to daughter, Elizabeth Andrew:
http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=13041

[ElizabethHerts]

Oh dear! I might have been following the wrong line for Thomas Andrew.:o

IGI:
Burial:
Name: Thomas Andrew
Gender: Male
Burial Date: 26 Apr 1748
Burial Place: Cocking, Sussex, England
Mother's Name: Margaret Andrew
Mother's Birthplace:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I03189-8

I'm getting confused, as the village of Bepton is just 1.5 miles from Cocking and a Thomas Andrew is buried there on 1st April 1803.

This is my Thomas Andrew:
On the National Archives website:

Closes of arable land, pasture and woodground, and the barn standing upon one of the closes, called Woolverstone at Cocking, having the highway leading from Midhurst to Singleton on W. COWDRAY/1053-1066 1773-1844

These documents are held at West Sussex Record Office

Contents:
This property was bought by John Challen in 1820. Deeds, 1773-1786 (nos. 1053-1056), also relate to lands, arable, meadow, pasture and woodground called Sagers and Inholmes in Heyshott. No. 1058 is a copy of the will (proved 1804) of Thomas Andrew of Cranleigh (co. Surr.). Nos. 1059, 1062-1064, are copies of documents in a chancery suit, Andrew v. Andrew and others, 1816-1822.


My Elizabeth is mentioned in this 1803 will. I have e-mailed Sussex RO for information about the Chancery suit.

However, if the Thomas born in 1738 died in 1748, who is my Thomas' parents? Was he baptised at Cocking or Bepton, or somewhere else?

[ElizabethHerts]

My Thomas was buried at Cocking, and he can't be the one at Bepton, as he made his will on 8th June 1803.

[ElizabethHerts]

Panic over, there was another Thomas Andrew with a mother Margaret baptised at Cocking.

Name: Thomas Andrew
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 16 Apr 1748
Christening Place: Cocking, Sussex, England
Mother's Name: Margaret Andrew
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I03189-8

[ElizabethHerts]

I have spent a couple of days in the Record Office at Chichester and I have taken photos of the Chancery case. It's going to take some time to transcribe, though!

It's one of the best record offices to visit with the wills easy to access. I have so many copies of wills from West Sussex now, but I don't know when I will have time to transcribe them.