THE TICEHURST FAMILY

The Ticehursts were notable contributors to Battle and its environs for over a century. They were printers and stationers, postmasters, clerks to banks and public bodies, photographers, surveyors and electricity pioneers, and their descendants have become well-known in various professions.

ORIGINS When the Ticehursts began at Battle is obscure. One researcher states that Joseph Ticehurst was born about 1660, place not stated, and had a son Thomas who lived at Almonry Farm between 1692 and 1696, Thomas in turn having a son Joseph (1730-1795), and his son was William, with whom this account begins to take shape.1 In fact the parish records tell a slightly different story. The only Joseph recorded as having married in Sussex who could be the man born about 1660 was married in Ashburnham on 16 February 1707, to Ann Vigor. Ann could therefore not be mother of a Thomas who lived at Battle in the 1690s, though Joseph cannot be ruled out as there may have been an earlier, unrecorded marriage for one of that name. The name Joseph is significant because it reappears in the later genealogy: it is present in the two generations immediately preceding William (c1767-1852). William's father Joseph (baptised 4 March 1726 and buried on 8 July 1795) married Mary Lidwell on 30 November 1762, having at least five children of whom William was probably the second. This Joseph was the third child of James (who was buried on 4 August 1763) and his wife Mary (Lidwell). Neither their marriage not their births are in the Battle church records, which are fairly reliable. The only relevant marriage recorded is on 30 March 1719, when Joseph Ticehurst married Mary Tutt at Hellingly. In accordance with usual practice this would have been the bride's parish, so it is possible that James was the son of a Thomas of Almonry Farm. This would not be the Thomas recorded (as Tishurst) baptised at Battle on 26 November 1710, the son of Thomas (not of Joseph) and Mercy Perry of Mountfield; but the Almonry man might have been Thomas Tiseherst, yeoman, who appears in the probate records for 1709.2 This seems likely. No earlier Ticehursts are recorded at Battle. Nevertheless the family name Joseph must have come from somewhere, so despite the surviving parish records the suspicion must remain that the account of that name in about 1660 is the right one. In either case, at this point we have a line that without doubt begins early in the eighteenth century and ends, as far as a direct and local line is concerned, with the death of a first world war veteran and his wife in the last half of the twentieth century. Of the three brothers who fought in 1914-18 Frederic had already emigrated to Canada and John later left town, but Arthur died at Battle in 1968, having married but without issue. When his widow Dorothy died at Battle late in 1975 that was the end of the name, at least in so far as William's descendants were concerned.

WILLIAM TICEHURST (c1769-1852) The first Ticehurst to be substantially noticed was William, baptised at Battle on 18 January 1769. The register of baptisms gives his parents as Joseph and Mary Tishurst. On 25 September 1793 he married Sophia Darby at Battle, both of them 'of this parish'; between them they produced four children. After her death in 1801 he quickly married Ann Clark; the witness was one James Ticehurst, a grocer of Lewes; this may have been his brother James, baptised on 15 June 1776. Ann had been born in Middlesex. Her father, a sailor, had been drowned in the famous sinking of the Royal George at Portsmouth in 1782. When launched in 1756 this ship had been the biggest in the world and by 1782 had seen much service. She capsized while undergoing routine maintenance just outside Portsmouth, with the loss of about 900 lives. Before her marriage Ann was a governess with the Hicks family at Battle. William and Ann had nine children, five sons and four daughters. William is described in records as a schoolmaster, and it is postulated that he took up this occupation in Battle in 1806,3 being in charge of the school founded from Elizabeth Langton’s will dated 8 December 1791 (though there were some less permanent schools in the town before then). He is reported as being a schoolmaster at Battle in 1791, however, and again in 1823 and 1832,4 at a different school.5 It is therefore probable that William came from an educated family, suggesting some financial comfort, or perhaps he was 'noticed' as a bright boy by one of the gentry. However, there was a John Ticehurst, who may have been his uncle, who is described in the burial register as 'church clerk', which clearly means literacy and probably more (he was buried on 8 October 1782). Somehow, through inheritance or otherwise, William established himself in the town. He came to be appointed High Constable during the Napoleonic Wars of 1802-15, when he was responsible for billeting soldiers in local pubs (some 6900 of them during the war) and for preparing for the expected invasion. William lived at Langton House, which he bought from John Roberts6 in 1829; the family was to keep it until 1935. This property appears to have been the home of the parish poorhouse for more than a century when it was sold in 1809 for £1315 (a very large sum of money for those days; twenty years later William can scarcely have paid less). William lived until 1852, by which time he had a large number of grandchildren. The post of High Constable was probably less important in Battle than in most parishes. He – of course it was always a he – was responsible for police services over the whole Hundred of Battle. A hundred was usually a large area but in Sussex it was a subdivision of the Rape of Hastings and therefore smaller than places with the same name elsewhere. The Hundred included only the two parishes of Battle and Whatlington, each of which would have had one or more officers known by the term Petty Constable. The High Constable was responsible to the magistrates for them and for what police actions were needed: the keeping of public order, the investigation of crimes and the arrest of suspected criminals, the bringing to court of those likely to be subjected to paternity orders, and so on. It is likely that in the Napoleonic period there would have been a greater call for his services because of the presence of numbers of soldiers at the barracks off Whatlington Road, who being young men away from home were less likely to keep good order than the existing inhabitants. We do not know when he ceased to be High Constable, and it may have been before the major

disturbances of 1829. By the time that high constables ceased to exist, under an 1842 Act, a professional police force had already come into being in eastern Sussex. William was appointed postmaster in 1822 and chairman of the Board of Guardians in 1837; he was also parish clerk. His appointments may constitute the first contribution of the family to local administration. Being a postmaster has always been a responsible job, and before the institution of the penny post in 1840 it would have involved receiving and costing articles to be posted, ensuring that they went by the appropriate coach if not locally delivered, and delivering post arriving at his office from elsewhere. As to the parish council or vestry, in the early nineteenth century there was almost no other local administration. The vestry appointed the overseers of the poor law and looked after road maintenance in so far as this was done, and it set the rates. It lost any turnpike roads as they were built and then, in 1834, the poor law. Two of the four children of William and Sophia were females who are now difficult to trace. One son died an infant. The eldest son, William (1794-1860), became a sea captain with the East India Company and did not return to Battle, finally retiring to Oswestry. He married Sarah Darby, who may have been a cousin on his mother’s side, and by the time that he died he had at least seven grandchildren. Augusta went to Scotland as a governess, to the family of the wife of the then Dean of Battle. Sophia married a London jeweller named John Carter. The 1851 census records two children living with them at Barking. Later census information is not entirely helpful, but it is possible that Sophia, by then a widow, died at Walthamstow on 6 April 1874. Of the nine children of William's second marriage the four daughters all moved away. Ann, the eldest (born 1808) married a farmer's son by the name of Simms and they emigrated to north America. Elenor or Ellen (born 1809) married William Head, an East Grinstead solicitor, and they had nine children; she died at East Grinstead in 1879, in the same year as her husband. Jane Frances (born 1816) died unmarried in 1836. Emily (born 1819) may have married one of the Aldertons of Battle, who worked for the Laurences at Powdermills, but official records have so far concealed any convincing evidence. The man appears to have been William Sibson Alderton (1817-51) but the records do not attest to it; it may also be that after his death in New York she married Count Karcheski there.

THE FURTHER DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM TICEHURST (c1769-1852) As so often in former centuries, it was the male children (in this case of the second marriage) who had the most obvious effect on Battle. The first son was Thomas, born in 1803, who was at first a banker's clerk for the Savings Bank for the Rape of Hastings, and then in Hastings. He became a surveyor and by 1839 he was the first Clerk to the Battle Union, gently (one hopes) pointing out that emigration to New South Wales was available to certain families.7 The second was Frederic (1810-77), who became a surgeon and the founder of a long line of medical practitioners, and in due course mayor of Hastings. He and his wife Mary Ann (1810-63) had nine children, all born at Hastings or St Leonards. One, Augustus Rowland (1845-1916), followed his father into medicine, and three of the surviving sons of Augustus followed him; the line of medics continues today. All of them practised at Hastings. Norman

Frederick, the eldest (1873-1969) was awarded the OBE for his work at Normanhurst Military Hospital in the First World War. The other two, Gerald (1878-1943) and Claude (1881-1941), both served with the RAMC as captains in the First World War. The military records of the time were seriously damaged during the following war, and from them we know only that Gerald was sent to France on 27 September 1916. Both Norman and Claude were keen ornithologists, the latter being a colleague of Hugh Whistler of Battle (1889-1943) who wrote extensively on birds, particularly with reference to India.8 More obviously for Battle itself there was Francis William (1811-1902); there is a memorial plaque to him and his wife Jane in St Mary’s church. His occupations are set out in the various censuses as:

1841 stationer 1851 bookseller 1861 head postmaster, registrar of BMD 1871 stationer, printer 1881 clerk to Guardians 1891 printer, stationer, bookseller 1901 printer, stationer

This may be filled out a little. He was registrar until 1878, when his son Frederic succeeded him. He succeeded his brother Thomas as clerk to the Guardians in 1844, remaining in that post until 1884, when again Frederic succeeded him. His term as postmaster ended at about the same time. He was involved in gypsum exploitation from 1870, and Stowell's map of Battle Abbey lands (1901) shows him as owning land along the south side of Uckham Lane, where the nurseries now stand. When he died he left the comfortable sum of £11124. He published (presumably having written) the first guidebook to Battle: Ticehurst’s Hand-book to Battle Abbey etc etc, a rare find today. It is undated but evidence suggests that it predates the departure of the Websters late in the 1850s. He may already have written Gleanings respecting Battle and its Abbey, reprints of which are available.

https://archive.org/details/gelaningsrespect00ticeuoft The authorship and date added to the cover have not been confirmed.

Francis married Jane Gorham in 1838, and they had eleven children before her death forty years later. The female children were generally unfortunate. Jane (born 1839) married John Thorpe, a prosperous miller of Battle but died within the year, without children. Ellen (born 1842) married Henry Plantagenet Weston of Sedlescombe, recorded in the 1871 census as a wine and spirit merchant. When his bankruptcy proceedings began in 1873 Weston was described as a gentleman; the business was at Penge in Surrey. But after 1871 Ellen falls completely out of the formal records. Weston remarried in 1880 and died in Brussels in

1898. This suggests that Ellen died in the 1870s but no record has yet been found to demonstrate this. Emily (born 1855) died unmarried at 36. Kate (born 1857) married George Thorpe but died childless within three years. Of the two other females, Elizabeth (born 1851) married but died childless at 37. Clara (born 1854) lived to 68 and did not marry. Of the sons, George died at the age of 11 and Arthur at 14. The three who lived longest were

Francis (1841-1891), who moved to Warwickshire with his wife from Kent Frances (Cheesman), who pre-deceased him. Initially employed at the Powermills gunpowder mill, he became a gunpowder agent and cartridge maker. None of their eight children have connections with Battle.

Frederic Gorham (1849-1922), who is described below.

Charles (1853-1925), who married Emma Yexley and stayed in Battle, a printer, dying at 72, but his family and their descendants are recorded as living at Hastings.

Frederic married Caroline Pitcher in the Hailsham area in 1876 and they had three sons. The censuses report him as:

1871 practical electrician 1881 superintendant registrar, telegraph engineer 1891 clerk to Guardians 1901 clerk to Guardians 1911 superintendant registrar, clerk to Guardians.

By 1870 Frederic had joined with a Mr Sparks to form the firm of Ticehurst & Sparks, described as "coal, coke & lime merchants" in a local trade directory. This was Joseph Sparks

of St Mary's Villas. Frederic was also a photographer, early for Battle.

http://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BattlePhotographers.htm This was taken after the restoration by William Butterfield in 1867-69. It will be noted that part of the land in front of the large central tomb is now the pavement of Upper Lake following changes made in 1947.

In addition to succeeding his father as shown above he was also a churchwarden at St Mary's and clerk to the Rural District Council established in 1894. As an electrician he was a founder member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and installed a generator at 76-77 High Street as well as one of the first telephones in the town. Frederic's eldest son was also named Frederic Gorham, born in 1877 as local birth records and the 1881 and 1901 censuses confirm (there are no discovered entries for him in 1891 and 1911); for reasons that must remain unclear his Canadian army records state that he was born in 1881, though the other family information in them is correct. There was indeed a Frederick (sic) Ticehurst born at Battle in 1880, but not of the same family, and he died in 1889. In 1891 Frederic was described as a law student, but the Canadians have him as an

electrician and a former Territorial. That an F G Ticehurst of the right age who left Liverpool for Quebec on SS Canada on 25 February 1904 is described in the marine records as a farm hand just adds to the confusion. Frederic was sent to France in August 1915 and survived the experience, presumably thereafter returning to Saskatchewan. (His father having been a 'practical electrician', presumably the younger man learned his trade with him.)

The next son was Arthur Cecil (1880-1968). His army record describes him as an electrical engineer of Langton House, and he joined the Royal Engineers in 1914. Sent to France that December, he was wounded in the following July and came home; but he returned to the war and was awarded the MC in January 1917. His final rank was Major. In 1918 he married Dorothy Jerrard Thurman at Hove; no children are recorded. Arthur died at Battle in January 1968, and Dorothy in 1975; she appears to be the last of the family in the town. Arthur's occupation in the cemetery record states 'retired Major'. The third was John William (1885-1964), who also became a Major in the Royal Engineers. In 1916, presumably on home leave, he married Muriel Kilby of Bisham by Marlow, and thereafter all his connections were with the Thames Valley. They had one son. Sources This article is sourced from official records, supplemented by family information publicly available. The latter may not be wholly reliable. Use has also been made of a summary of the family, by Lewis Pyke, held by the Battle Museum which lists three possible ancestors of the first William Ticehurst (c1767-1852) and contains some information that cannot be confirmed by recourse to official records. This document is referenced as BMLH notes. Family, migration and military records at www.ancestry.co.uk See endnotes

George Kiloh © BDHS 2018

GENEALOGY

A genealogy of the Battle Ticehursts follows, in outline: Table 1A William Ticehurst (c1768-1852) – first marriage Table 1B William Ticehurst (c1768-1852) – second marriage Table 1B1 William Ticehurst (c1768-1852) – second marriage, continued Table 2 Thomas Ticehurst (1800-1876) Table 3 Francis William Ticehurst (1811-1902) Table 3A Francis William Ticehurst (1811-1902), continued Table 4 Francis William Ticehurst (1841-1891) Notes: In so far as information is available, each cell is arranged as follows: Full name followed by place of birth, date of birth, date of death, place of death (bp = baptism, bu = burial) Comma, followed by marriage information: place of marriage, date of marriage, name of spouse, place of spouse's birth, date, date of spouse's death, place. Main person's occupation. Quarters of the year are A = January to March (and so on). Places cited may be registration districts if not more closely known.

Table 1A THE ANTECEDENTS OF WILLIAM TICEHURST (1769-1852), AND HIS FIRST MARRIAGE James Ticehurst -bu04.08.1763

Battle, m Mary Lidwell -bu10.07.1773 Battle

Mary Battle

bp23.02.1722 John Ticehurst

Battle bp 06.04.1724-

bu03.10.1724 Battle

Joseph Ticehurst Battle

bp02.03.1726-bu08.07.1795 Battle, m Battle 30.11.1762

Mary Lidwell

John Ticehurst Battle

bp18.07.1729-bu 08.10.1782 Battle, m Battle 19.05.1767

Mary Byne Battle bu24.04.1792

Sarah Battle

bp10.02.1734, m Battle 03.04.1758

Edward Wren

Elizabeth Battle

bp15.03.36, m Battle 16.09.1758 Richard Mepham

James Ticehurst bu03.09.1749 Battle

See table 1A1

Joseph Ticehurst Battle

bp07.05.1765-bu07.11.1766 Battle

Joseph Ticehurst Battle bp27.09.1771

James Ticehurst Battle bp14.06.1776

Henry Ticehurst bu06.11.1786 Battle

William Ticehurst Battle bp18.01.1769-bu Battle 27.11.1852, m (1) Battle

25.09.1793 Sophia Darby bu07.04.1801 Battle

Schoolmaster.

See table 1B for second marriage

William Ticehurst Battle bp 26.09.1794-D1880 Oswestry, m Chelmsford 1824 Sarah Darby

Sea captain.

Augusta Battle bp 06.01.1796 to Scotland

Sophia Battle bp 19.05.1797 Rowland Battle bp 14.06.1799-bu 27.02.1802 Battle

Sarah Ann Chigwell 1826- Augusta Chigwell 1828- William Duke Tidd Ticehurst Chigwell 1829-25.08.1882

Lewes, m St Pancras Frances Anne Head -21.10.1873

Ahmednagar. Surgeon-Major Indian Medical Dept.

Lewis Frederick Ticehurst Middlesex 1830-15.01.1891 Highbury, m Mary Elizabeth

Bushey 1836-29.12.1897 Stockwell

Emily Augusta Haverstock Hill 1835-24.03.1885 Oswestry, m

St Pancras C1861 Henry Christian Corfield Mayfair 1831-

02.02.1907 Regents Park Solicitor

Seven children Four children

TABLE 1A1 JOHN TICEHURST (1729-1782) AND HIS CHILDREN

John Ticehurst Battle bp18.07.1729-bu 06.10.1782 Battle, m Battle 19.05.1767

Mary Byne –bu24.04.1792 Battle

see table 1

Ruth Battle bp21.03.1768-, m Battle 23.01.1793 John King

Mary Battle bp03.11.1769- Elizabeth Battle bp25.09.1775- John Ticehurst Battle bp01.12.1775-

James Ticehurst Battle bp 14.06.1776-

Table 1B WILLIAM TICEHURST (c1768-1852) AND HIS SECOND MARRIAGE, PART 1

William Ticehurst Battle bp18.01.1769-bu Battle

27.11.1852, m (2) Battle Ann Clark

Schoolmaster.

See table 1A for first marriage

Thomas Ticehurst Battle 1803-C1876 Lewes, m Mary Taunton

1806-D1880 Kensington Surveyor

Ann Battle bp 28.08.1805 m Simms To USA

Elenor Battle bp 13.07.1808-D1879 East Grinstead, m William Alston Head East

Grinstead 1809-04.04.1879 Hastings

Frederic Ticehurst Battle bp 09.09.1810-20.07.1877

Hastings, m Mary Ann Thatcher 1810-D1883 Hastings

Surgeon, GP; mayor of Hastings

Francis William Ticehurst Battle 13.05.1811-11.07.1902, m

Battle 14.11.1838 Jane Gorham c1816-10.11.1878 Battle

Bookseller, stationer, printer, postmaster

See table

1B1 for more

See table 2 Nine children See table 2A

Augustus Rowland Ticehurst Hastings 1845-07.07.1916 Huntbourne St Michaels, m Hastings B1872 Amy Sophia Venables

1851-11.08.1939 High Halden Surgeon

Another eight children

Norman Frederick Ticehurst St Leonards 1873-05.12.1969 Tenterden, m Greenwich

08.12.1913 Ivy Cross City of London A1881-Dec1945

Cuckfield

Surgeon. Ornithologist. OBE. Normanhurst Mil Hospital in

WW2.

Mabel St Leonards 1875-09.04.1956 Tenterden

Gerald Augustus Ticehurst St Leonards 31.08.1878-

18.04.1943 Hastings, m Chertsey 27.06.1908 Henrietta Elizabeth Taylor Camberwell

B1881-Dec1968 Hastings

Medic. Capt RAMC in WW1

Claude Buchanan Ticehurst St Leonards 1881-17.02.1941

Appledore, m Maidstone 18.01.1923 Mary Priscilla

Starbuck Yalding 29.07.1886-Mar1970 Maidstone

Temp Capt RAMC 1917-18, Karachi. Medic, ornithologist, colleague of Hugh Whistler.

Rose St Leonards D1882-Dec1928 Hastings

See table VVV for more

Children Children Children

Table 1B1 WILLIAM TICEHURST (c1768-1852) AND HIS SECOND MARRIAGE, PART 2

William Ticehurst Battle bp18.01.1769-bu Battle

27.11.1852, m (2) Battle Ann Clark

Schoolmaster.

See table 1A for first marriage and table 1B for earlier children

Henry Ticehurst Battle bp 29.09.1813-D1900 East

Ashford, m Mary Hanney -16.01.1848 Marseille

Jane Frances Battle bp 22.03.1816-20.11.1836 Battle

Rowland James Ticehurst Battle bp 13.08.1817-

02.03.1888 Cheltenham, m Devizes B1843 Anna Clark

Devizes c1815-

Emily Battle bp 07.11.1819 m(1) Alderton, m(2) New York

Count Karcheski

At least five children

Rowland Ticehurst Cheltenham A1844-25.02.1924 Cheltenham,

m Cheltenham C1871 Annie Grace Carlyle -17.12.87

Weston-super Mare

Frederic James Ticehurst Cheltenham A1849-06.10.16

Cheltenham, m Lambeth B1878 Sarah Farquharson -

18.04.1928 Birdlip Solicitor

Frances Cheltenham B1846 m Cheltenham B1884

Two children Four children

TABLE 2 THOMAS TICEHURST (1800-1876)

see Table 1A

William Ticehurst Battle bp18.01.1769-bu Battle 27.11.1852, m (1) Battle

25.09.1793 Sophia Darby bu07.04.1801 Battle

Schoolmaster.

Thomas Ticehurst Battle 1803-C1876 Lewes, m Mary Taunton

1806-D1880 Kensington Surveyor

Emma Elizabeth Battle 1831-A1898 Hendon

Emily Battle 1834- Ann F Battle 1835-D1915 Elham

Thomas C Battle 1836- Draper

William James Ticehurst Battle C1839- seaman

TABLE 3 FRANCIS WILLIAM TICEHURST (1811-1902) see Table 1B

William Ticehurst Battle bp18.01.1769-bu Battle

27.11.1852, m (2) Battle Ann

Clark Schoolmaster.

Francis William Ticehurst Battle

13.05.1811-11.07.1902, m Battle 14.11.1838 Jane Gorham

1818-10.11.1878 Battle

Continued in table 3A ►

Jane Frances Battle C1839-C1867

Hastings, m Battle A1866 John Albion

Norman Thorpe Battle D1837-

16.12.1921 Battle

Francis William Battle B1841-

03.07.1891 Warwickshire, m

West Ashford D1869 Frances

Cheesman Charing 1846-14.03.1889

Warwick Solicitor

Ellen Elizabeth Battle C1842-, m

Battle B1870 Henry Plantagenet Weston

Emily Anna Jane Battle D1843-

09.07.1891 Battle

George Frederick Ticehurst Battle

1847-C1858 Battle

Frederic Gorham Battle D1849-

23.01.1922 Battle, m Hellingly

09.04.1876 Caroline Maria Pitcher

Hailsham 1852-24.02.1935

Elizabeth Battle C1851-D1888

Hastings, m Battle D1883 Robert Mills

Godden East Ashford D1851-Jun1918 East

Ashford

See table 4

Frederic Gorham Ticehurst Battle 1877- To Canada

Arthur Cecil Ticehurst Battle A1880-04.01.1968 Battle, m

Hove A1918 Dorothy Gerrard Thurman Dorchester A1887-

04.12.1975 Battle Served in WW1, Major+MC

Engineer

John William Ticehurst Battle C1885-A1964 Wycombe, m

Maidenhead B1916 Muriel Alice Kilby Holloway A1890-

26.02.1956 Marlow

One child

Table 3A FRANCIS WILLIAM TICEHURST (1811-1902) continued from Table 3 see Table 1B

William Ticehurst Battle bp18.01.1769-bu Battle

27.11.1852, m (2) Battle Ann Clark

Schoolmaster.

Francis William Ticehurst Battle 13.05.1811-11.07.1902, m

Battle 14.11.1838 Jane Gorham c1816-10.11.1878 Battle

See table 3 for earlier children

Charles James Ticehurst Battle

C1853-05.07.1925 Battle, m Hastings

C1883 Emma Sarah Charlotte Yexley Stepney -27.12.1926 Battle

Printer

Clara Charlotte Battle C1855-

Dec1922 Eastbourne

Milliner

Kate Maria Battle

D1857-21.04.86 Hastings, m Battle

D1883 George William Thorpe

Arthur John Gorham Ticehurst Battle

D1861-21.09.1875 Tonbridge

Basil Charles Yexley Ticehurst Hastings B1884-

01.01.1931 Walthamstow, m Hastings C1909 Evelyn Wildish

Gladys Mary Yexley Hastings A1892-

21.09.1950 Broxbourne, m

Westminster B1927

Charles Brandon

Two daughters

Table 4 FRANCIS WILLIAM TICEHURST (1841-1891) See Table 3

Francis William Ticehurst Battle 13.05.1811-11.07.1902, m

Battle 14.11.1838 Jane Gorham 1818-10.11.1878 Battle

Francis William Ticehurst Battle 1841-03.07.1891 Warwickshire,

m West Ashford D1869 Frances Cheesman Charing 1846-14.03.1889 Warwick. Gunpowder agent, cartridge

maker

Rose Fanny Battle 1870-

Lillie L Battle 1870- Hugh Gorham Ticehurst Battle

1871-16.06.1930 Bexley, m

Marylebone A1897 Edith Clara Merrall Southwark B1877-

29.05.1949 Ross on Wye

Mary B Battle 1872- Violet Jane Aston 1876-

Daisy Margaret Aston 1879-

Francis William Gorham Ticehurst

Aston 1880-

Arthur E Ticehurst Aston 1880-

Children

1 BMLH notes.

2 Elliott archive, BH14.01.

3 BMLH notes.

4 Universal Directory, 1791; Pigot’s Directory for the other years.

5 Universal Directory for 1793.

6 BMLH notes.

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pDBDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=TICEHURST+FAMILY+BATTLE&source=bl&ots=54RZhYH0XH&sig=29qrK9ifg0h9XN8-iYCuc4ClLzU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=B_sKVaKlL4_B7Aa7joHoBQ&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=TICEHURST%20FAMILY%20BATTLE&f=false 8 See http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1970.tb00106.x/pdf