Help Build A History of Crowborough
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Crowborough has a long past and while there have been an assortment of books written about it over the past this is, to our knowledge, the frist community based website. So why not become a part of the history yourself and send us your stories or recollections of people, places and events in Crowborough.
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I am tracing my family history and have found that many of my ancestors came from the crowborough area my great grandfather William Wright Chewter was baptised at St Michaels Church Withyham and lived in Church lane Crowborough until he moved up to south east london in 1892 . I have been able to trace a link back to my 5 times great grandfather also called William Born Rotherfield 1755 I would be interested to know if there are any descendents bearing the same surname currently living in the area apart from my son Niel who lives in Rusthall Tunbridge Wells
Regards William Chewter
Hello William,
My g-g-great mother was Hannah Chewter who was born in 1800 and married Thomas Sands in 1817 (?) in St. Denys church in Rotherfield. The Sands line then became my grandmothers line on my fathers side. This is as much as I know and the Sands family were widely spread around Rotherfield, Mayfield and Five Ashes in the 19th and early 20th century. Did you visit St. Denys Church in Rotherfiled on June 2nd? I noticed an entry with yoyr name in the visitors book on July 2nd. I now live in the USA but an interested to know more of my family history as it comes to light.
Best regards,
David,
Hannah Chewter was married to Thomas Sands. Thomas was the younger brother of Samuel Sands who was my 3x great grandfather. I am a Sands descendent through my late mother’s paternal line.
I have a quite large Sands family tree if anyone is interested. It is still a work in progress and must be taken as such.
Best regards
Clare
I was born in Crowborough. My Father Thomas boarer ws born in the Sumersales area and was a woodsman in the Five Hundred Acre Wood I grew up at Fishersgate. Amongst many of my memories of Crowborough one of my first was walking up Mardens Hill to go to Crowboroughone to buy some Foreign Stamps , for the Stamp Album my father had just bought me.
I married a Candian soldier during the second world war. He was stationed in the Crowborough ares
This last September I was delighted to return to Crowborough and spent time looking at the familiar sights
I was very pleasd to visit and spend time in The Canada Green and wander amongst the memorials.
I have a friend here now who also was in the Canadian Army in Crowborough , stationed in Caffyns Garage
I think he was their nearby when the bomb was dropped on the solders
Ivy stead Edmonton Alberta Canada
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