Peter Hunnisett

John & Elizabeth Pattenden of East Grinstead

John Pattenden, the eldest surviving son of Richard and Mary, was baptised in East Grinstead on 27^th December 1753.

Elizabeth Gower, a daughter of Richard and Ann, was baptised in Cuckfield on 18^th June 1756.

John Pattenden married Elizabeth Gower in East Grinstead on 30^th October 1774 and they had the following children:

They also had a son, John, who was named in his father's will but no baptism has been found for him.

John made a will, dated 23^rd April 1814, in which he left his farm at Hedgecourt Common (possibly 8 acres of land) to his wife and on her death it was to be split equally between all his children except Elizabeth who had presumably already died. Edward and Henry were each to have an additional £10 and Edward was to be the executor of his father’s will.

John of Hedge Court was buried in East Grinstead, aged 70, on 6^th April 1823.

Elizabeth died in Horne on 27^th March 1838, aged 81, and was buried in East Grinstead on 2^nd April. She must have been staying with her son Henry when she died as his wife Jane registered the death.

Of their children:

• Mary married Benjamin Cork in West Hoathly on 14^th Sep 1806 and in 1841 they were living in Hartfield, Sussex.

• William married Amelia Dearling.

• Edward married Lucy Brooker in Croydon, St John the Baptist, in August 1821 and they had the following children baptised:

  Edward

  10 Feb 1822

  Worth

  William

  30 May 1824

  East Grinstead

  Caroline

  28 Jan 1827

  East Grinstead

  Amelia

  1 Feb 1829

  East Grinstead

  James

  11 Aug 1833

  Worth

  In 1841 Edward was a sawyer living in Copthorne, in the parish of Worth, Sussex. In 1851 he was farming 9 acres at Copthorne Farm with his wife and sons Edward, William and James living at home. The sons were all shown as sawyers. In 1861 Edward and Lucy were still farming 11 acres in Worth. Edward died in 1863.

• Henry married Jane Wood in East Grinstead on 9^th January 1820 where they had the following children:

  John

  7 May 1820

  East Grinstead

  Eliza

  25 Aug 1822

  East Grinstead

  Henry

  10 Jul 1825

  East Grinstead

  Jane

  24 Jun 1827

  East Grinstead

  William

  24 May 1829

  East Grinstead

  Sarah

  29 May 1831

  East Grinstead

  George

  22 Jul 1832

  East Grinstead

  Harriet

  6 Jul 1834

  East Grinstead

  James

  1836

  Horne (died young?)

  Peter

  31 Dec 1837

  East Grinstead

  Thomas

  1840

  Horne

  Edmund

  1842

  Horne (died 1842)

  Amos

  3 Oct 1843

  Horne

  Henry was a sawyer living in Horne in 1841 with his wife and most of their children. In 1851 they were at Hedge Court in Horne parish. By 1861 Henry was shown as a farmer and sawyer at Waterbury Castle, Horne and in 1871 he was still farming 20 acres in Hedge Court Road with the help of his son Amos. Henry died in 1874 aged 84.

• Charlotte married James Meads in Balcombe on 21^st January 1822 and are known to have had the following children baptised:

  John

  28 Jul 1822

  Ardingly

  William

  17 Feb 1824

  Ardingly

  James

  20 Feb 1825

  Ardingly

  Eleanor

  24 Dec 1826

  Ardingly

  Thomas

  28 Dec 1828

  Ardingly

  Mary

  10 Apr 1831

  Ardingly

  Joseph

  3 Feb 1839

  Ardingly

  In 1841 James and Charlotte were in Ardingly with their youngest three children. Charlotte died in 1848.

• Jane married Charles Tuckett in Holborn on 30^th November 1827 and they had the following children:

  twins

  ca. 1827

  both died

  Charles

  14 July 1829

  Holborn

  Henry

  ca. 1831

  Jane

  ca. 1833

  John

  ca. 1835

  Joseph

  ca. 1838

  Jane’s husband died in 1846 and in May 1848 Jane was baptised into the Mormon Church in East Grinstead. In 1849 She emigrated to the United States on the ‘Berlin’ taking her 5 children and a Caroline Pattenden with her. She spent 5 years in St Louis, Missouri before travelling to Utah where she died in Salt Lake City in 1882.

• Susan married William Peckham in Southwark on 4^th Oct 1818 and they lived in Croydon where they had two daughters, both of whom died after about a year:

  Susan

  29 Aug 1820

  Croydon - bur. 18 Nov 1821

  Caroline

  6 Oct 1822

  Croydon - bur. 22 July 1823

  William was a carpenter and in 1841 they were living at Shirley Common in Croydon and had 5-year-old Sarah Beadell with them. Sarah was the daughter of John Beadell and Mary, nee Peckham, and Mary was a daughter of a William Peckham and his wife Susanna. However this was a different William Peckham although he must have been related.

  Susan died at the age of 72 in the Union House, Shirley, Croydon, on 2^nd December 1857.