Peter Hunnisett

William & Mary Dearling of Horne, Surrey

William Dearling was born around 1752.

Mary Ledger, daughter of William and Elizabeth, was baptised in Horne, Surrey, on 29^th June 1755.

William Dearling married Mary Ledger in Godstone on 20^th September 1775. Their known children were:

The family appear to have lived in the vicinity of Horne but sometimes favoured the church at Lingfield where some of their children were baptised and where William and Mary and three of their children are known to have been buried.

William was buried in Lingfield on 4^th February 1825, aged 72.

Mary was buried in Lingfield on 29^th January 1837, aged 81.

Of their known children:

• Philley may have had an illegitimate daughter, also called Philadelphia, baptised in Godstone in 1801.

• Thomas was buried in Lingfield on 7^th December 1821, aged 37.

• James was buried in Lingfield on 8^th June 1812, aged 25.

• Mille, as Amelia Dearling, married William Pattenden in East Grinstead on 21^st October 1814.

• Elizabeth married Thomas Jackson in Horne on 20^th March 1815. Thomas and Hester Dearling were witnesses.

• Sophia married Robert Buckland in Horne on 21^st May 1827 and they are known to have had the following children, some baptised in Horne:

  William

  2 Sep 1827

  Horne

  James

  11 Jan 1829

  Horne

  Stephen

  ca. 1833

  Robert

  25 May 1834

  Horne

  Stephen

  reg. Q1 1839

  Robert was an agricultural labourer and in 1841 they were living in a cottage at Hedge Court, Horne. In 1851 they were in Felbridge. Sophia appears to have died in the 1850s.

• Hester was buried in Lingfield on 6^th August 1815, aged 19.