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Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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utthe age of 51 yeares before that he marryed, i.e., in1695;81 and, in the inscription on his monument inWadhurst Church, he is stated to have been in the 82ndyear of his Age when he died, on the 10th of March,172f. I could not find any entry of his baptism atWadhurst, but the omission may probably be attributedto the very careless manner in which the Register waskept during the Civil War, the entries from April, 1641,to October, 1644, being most irregular, and the writingquite illiterate. John Barham married at Wadhurst, 14th February,169f, Lucy, daughter of John Chauntler, of Laughton,Gent., by Elizabeth, his wife, younger daughter of ArthurButton, of Baldees in Wadhurst. John Chauntler was herthird husband, her first being Gabriel Egles, of Ticehurst,by whom she had a son, Gabriel Egles, of Copwood inUckfield, Gent., who married Mary, daughter of William 81 Exchequer Depositions, 13 Geo. I. Evidence of Ann the wife of JohnBarham, now of Wadhurst, and late of Great Butts, Gentleman.
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I .- ia :.I : : Ii I I I (l 1 I ). f THE BA&HAMS OF SHOESMITHS IN WADHURST. 155 Rideout, of May field, and had a son, George Egles, whoafterwards succeeded, under the will of Lucy Barham(his fathers half-sister), to the Shoesmiths property. Dina Chauntler, John Barhams sister-in-law, was thewife of William Benge, of Faircrouch in Wadhurst,Gent., who re-built and extended the great Ironworks atLamberhurst (formerly owned by the Barhams of Buttes),known in later times as Gloucester Furnace. Thefoundations of the furnace were still traceable when Mr.Lower wrote his article on the Sussex Ironworks, in1849. In Courthopes History of Loxjield Half-Hundred,compiled about the year 1840, there is the followinginteresting description of Shoesmiths, and of the lastJohn Barham who resided there :—82 Shoesmiths was formerly a mansion of considerable note, but haslong since fallen into decay, and is now tenanted merely as a farm-house ; it is most beautifully situated on the slope of a small v

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