Our
Ashdown Heritage
I
am looking for John Ashdown
bap 1638-1680. I have one
possibility--John Ashdown s/o John Mary/Marie Ashdown chr 10 Sep 1665
at
Brabourne, Kent. If this is correct I am looking for another
John
Ashdown
chr 1603-1648. He was buried at Brabourne 8 Oct
1678. If
you have
any
information that would tie into the time periods mentioned above or a
marriage for John Ashdown and Mary/Marie about 1664, I would
love
to hear
from you.
Pauline [email protected]
Mary Maud Ashdown, born 24 Dec 1852,
d/o James Ashdown & Mary Gurr.
Birth registered in St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings.
Mary Maud Ashdown married 28. Feb 1875 to
Frederick George Elson in Chelsea, London.
Dave [email protected]
I would be particularly grateful for any information about
Pat/Philip/Barbara
ASHDOWN (my cousins) who I think would have been born just before or
during WW2
in SE London. Their father, Charlie, was working about 1950 at Sidcup,
Kent
firestation.
Paul [email protected]
My roots are set down in Withyham and Rotherfield and in the 1851
census my
ggggrandfather's address was merely shown as 'edge of forest'. My
grandfather was the first to move away from the area and that was only as
far as Brighton.
If you visit my site you can follow my line back to John ASHDOWN who was
baptised
at St Denys,
Rotherfield in 1704 and married Mary Ovenden in 1729.
http://www.the-forest-ashdowns.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
There were several 'Johns' around at that time and I have yet to establish
which of three ways back is the correct one. Perhaps someone can help!
Mike Ashdown [email protected]
My Ashdown family starts with George Ashdown (my 3rd great grandfather), who was born it is believed in St Paul's Cray, West Kent Parish, Kent in England in about 1804. Very little is known of his parentage. It is believed that George was the son of George Ashdown. This assumption is based on the death certificate of a James Ashdown, believed to be a nephew, who was witness to two of the weddings that took place in Beechworth of children of Ellen Ashdown, George's daughter.
James born 1803, he is believed to have married Edith Farrant in Kent in 1827. They had a son, James, who emigrated to Australia to the Chiltern area and ran a pub there in the goldfields.
Samuel, born 24 Jul 1803, died 18 Oct 1820
Ellen, born 14 Oct 1806, no further information.
I have lots of material on George and some on James and his son, James, but would love to find more about my Ashdown ancestry in Kent.
Can anybody help breakdown this major brickwall.
Carol
Dale Melbourne
Australia
[email protected]
I am wondering if you know anything about the family of William ASHDOWN
and Ada
Smith SWEETLOVE who married in the Sept quarter 1878. They had children
by the
names of Elizabeth, Patience, Henry, Annie, Ellen, Arthur, John and
William.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Margaret Brown
[email protected]
DAVID and ASHDOWN(E)
On October 25th 1841 Marriage solemnized at Frant in the
Church
of the
Parish in the County of Sussex between James JUDGES, full age,
bachelor,
bricklayer, of Woolwich,
Kent
Father:
Stephen JUDGES, labourer, and Ann DAVID, full age, spinster, of Frant,
Father:
James DAVID, sawyer in the presence of Asher LATTER Susanah
SMITH
after
Banns
Ann JUDGES died on 14th June 1872 in Tunbridge Wells at the age of 56
according to her burial card.
1851 Census, 1614/4d/187 (p.53/f.236) Hervey Town, Tunbridge Wells,
Kent
Susan Ashdown Head
Unm 45
Laundress
Born Sussex
Eliza
" Sister
Unm
32 Laundress Born Tunbridge Wells
C.
"
Niece Unm 14
Scholar Born
Tunbridge
Wells
Ann Judges Sister
Marr
34
Born
Tunbridge Wells
Eliza
"
Daur
8
Born
Tunbridge Wells
Ann
"
Daur
6
Born
Tunbridge Wells
Albert "
Son
3
Born
Tunbridge Wells
Ann JUDGES's sisters were recorded with the surname ASHDOWN and not
DAVID, as
would have been expected from the marriage certificate above.
This puzzled me, although in my childhood in the 1930's I had heard my
father
talk of "the ASHDOWNs". I have a fragment of an old Bible,
from
my father's papers, on which the following names are recorded, along
with what
seems to be children's scribble:
Martha Ashdowne
Born Dec 17 1803
Susanah Ashdowne Born March 20
1806
John Ashdowne Born
August 2 1808
James Bromly Ashdowne Born August 30 1811
Henry Ashdowne
Born Dec 25
1813
Ann Ashdowne
Born May 13 1816
The dates for Susanah and Ann ASHDOWNE are consistent with the records
for
Susan ASHDOWN and Ann JUDGES in the 1851 Census for Tunbridge
Wells. It
would appear that the Ann ASHDOWNE born on May 13th 1816 is the same
person as
the Ann DAVID, spinster, who married James JUDGES on October 25th 1841.
The Census record also refers to another sister of Ann JUDGES, Eliza,
who does
not appear on my old Bible cover. Could this have been the
Eliza
Elizabeth who married William FOORD at Frant on 25th July
1852?
The name
Eliza Elizabeth was not uncommon in the JUDGES family.
Martha DAVID married a Richard ASHDOWN at Wadhurst in 1776.
Might it be
possible that James DAVID of Frant, sawyer, was a stepfather?
The villages mentioned are all on the Kent-Sussex border, with
Tunbridge Wells
as the nearest town. Frant is about 3 miles away.
How do I fit into the picture? My great-grandfather was James
JUDGES
(1818-1873), born in Yalding, Kent, later a policeman, then Sheriff's
Officer
(i.e. Bailiff!) in Tunbridge Wells. His daughter Ann
(1845-1902),
a
dressmaker, married William ROBERTS (1843-1885), born in East Farleigh,
Kent,
carpenter, cabinet maker and later publican in Tunbridge
Wells.
Their son
Albert Edward ROBERTS (1868-1942), carpenter in Tunbridge Wells, was my
father.
My mother was Dorothy Isabel WATSON (1900-1971), born West Ham,London,
and I am
David Ambrose Edward ROBERTS (1926-), born in TunbridgeWells and now
living in
Wales.
David Roberts
[email protected]
I
am looking for any information about WILLIAM ASHDOWNE
(born c1796) and his wife Charlotte (nee NIGHTINGALE).
William
and
Charlotte lived for many years at Mapleton, just outside Westerham in
Kent
where the majority of their children were christened.
In the 1841 census, William was a farmer at Bushes Farm, Chevening but
by 1851,
William and Charlotte had disappeared and the majority of the family
were
living in Gravesend.
William and Charlotte's Children were:
Mary
Anne Ashdown
b. c1815, Westerham.
William Ashdown b.
c1816, Westerham.
Thomas Ashdown b.
1818, Westerham.
Charles Ashdown b.
c1820, Westerham.
John Ashdown b.
c1822, Westerham.
George Ashdown b. c1824,
Westerham.
James Ashdown b. c1825.
Alfred Ashdown b.
c1827, Westerham.
Esther Ashdown b.
c1829, Westerham.
Edwin Ashdowne b.
Sep 1834, Chiddingstone Kent.
Robert Ashdown b. 19
Feb 1838.
Mary Rogers [email protected]
