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WATERCRESS BEDS. W.ASHLING
I well remember the watercress beds at West Ashling as I started work there the day after I left school. Mr Pusey and his wife (he married Miss Florry Hair) were my bosses. I remember a Charlie Hotson and Harry Earl who also worked there. I left in 1960 to join the Royal Air Force Fire and Rescue. My father Jack Young worked at Hambrok for Miss Nancy Hair all his working life. John Young.
East Ashling Grange
We lived at East Ashling Grange for the first 3 years of our marriage. My husband was in the Royal Sussex Regt. and was based at the Depot in Chichester. I am doing a family history for my children and would love a photo of the Grange. We have some of the garden with our firstborn in his pram but they are not interesting to other people I feel! We were married "off the strength" because we were too young for allowances or housing. Sir John & Lady Sinclair came to our rescue and rented us the old servants' quarters for very little money. Those were very happy days. Our eldest son was baptised at Funtington Church.
Now nearly 53 years later we have lived in Western Australia since 1971 and have a family of 4 chlidren, 10 grandchildren & two great grandchildren.
Can Anyone Help Me?
The origin of my family is in England. Lando Lagnese went in Italy in 1100. I want to know the etymology of Lagness. Can anyone help and contact me? Also in France and in Norway are little towns named Lagness.
Watercress Beds
I have no memories of West Ashling but somewhen before 1860 my G/G/Grandfather James Hare started the watercress beds there. It was not untill quite recently we found out what we know about this family. My G/Grandfather George was not infact registered as a Hare he had his mothers name which was Mayhew. All his children from his first marriage were all registered as Mayhew's and were all born in the East End of London where George was a railway porter. We think he brought some of his children which included my grandmother down to West Ashlingin when his wife died in 1872. My grandmother lived in the area and married my grandfather Kennedy Larbey at Westbourne in 1890 and they lived in and around the area until 1897.
The family to this day still own and run the watercress beds at West Ashling and at Hambrook. George Larbey
Great Grandad Strickland - Stickland
Escaping from his mammoth wife, Gran Con, who could eat a whole chicken at one sitting, Great Grandad Stickland fled Street in Somerset and took lodgings in the F&H. He suffered nightmares, and the person who slept in the same lodging room used to turn him over. One night he did not and that night he died. Perhaps he thought his wife had caught up with him. He was a grand horsemen and part of a Welsh family called the Sticklands (changed to Strickland by the Army in the Second World War). He is buried in Chichester, the poor man's grave was found in the 1970s and now forms the family grave. We have one picture of him and Gran Con. He had three daughters and 2 sons, they where all very proud of their dad and although Gran Con had the 'Strickland temper', she was well loved, her grand daughter remembers staying with her in the cottage in Street in Somerset. Please excuse the English, I suffer from dyslexia.
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