#On This Day 15 October 1854

 My great grandfather, Thomas White was baptised in Egerton, Kent almost exactly a month after he was born on 19 September 1854.  He married Betsy Linkins in 1873 at the Congregational Chapel in Ashford.

Thomas was variously described in the census records as an agricultural worker, gardner, farm worker and in 1921 was working on a fruit farm.

Thomas was living at The Lees, Chilham, Kent when he died of an aortic aneurism in 1923.  He is interred in Chilham churchyard.

Update to my first post about me, my interests and my heritage

Over more than 20 plus ago I created a website for Cuckfield to help family and local historians.  It was a way of passing forward some help I had had received from someone who helped me with Kilbarchan ancestors, some 450 miles away.  You can see find the website at Cuckfield Compendium. 

I joined the Society for One Place Studies for my place of Cuckfield earlier this year and have recently expanded that to having its own blog which you can find at cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com.  There is obviously not a lot there yet but I will be posting regularly.  I am hoping that two places of presence on the internet will find more people finding information to help them.

 You can also follow me on Twitter, Pebble, Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky.

#OnThisDay 8 October 1775

 My 3 x Great Grandmother, Esther (Hester) Dann, was born in 1775 and baptised on 8  October 1775 in Burwash, Sussex, England.   Esther married Zachariah Weston from Etchingham on 31 March 1800.  In 1851 she is on parish relief and living with her son Samuel in "Underwoods", Etchingham.  She died a widow in 1854 and is buried in Etchingham.