During The Ashdown Forest Dispute 1876-1882 commoners and land owners were interviewed by the solicitor William Raper. Their comments were recorded in a series of notebooks:
Gurr, Caesar. Rents a cottage and about an acre of land of Mr. Melville at New Bridge. Aged 60. Born in Maresfield in a house built by my grandfather Bennett on the edge of the Forest. Lived there till I married when I was over 30. I used to do job work till I was 20 and then went to work daily at Pippingford out in the Forest where I still work. For the first 30 years I was always about in the Forest on the Maresfield side. I used to cut a little litter for my father's pigs but I cut for no one else. I saw most of what went on in the Forest.
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| Henry Gurr | m: 25th Dec 1787 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex | Philadelphia Falconer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: c 1765 | b: 1767 d: Dec 1807 Fletching, Sussex bur: 1st Jan 1807 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William | Henry | Elizabeth | Ann | Philadelphia | Joseph | Mary Godfrey | Thomas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1788 Fletching, Sussex ch: 30th Mar 1788 St Andrew & St Mary Church d: Apr to Jun 1872 Uckfield, Sussex | b: 1790 Fletching, Sussex ch: 11th Apr 1790 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1791 Fletching, Sussex ch: 26th Jun 1791 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1793 Fletching, Sussex ch: 3rd Nov 1793 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1796 Fletching, Sussex ch: 10th Apr 1796 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1800 Fletching, Sussex ch: 16th Feb 1800 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1801 Fletching, Sussex ch: 16th Aug 1801 St Andrew & St Mary Church | b: 1804 Fletching, Sussex ch: 17th Jun 1804 St Andrew & St Mary Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Gurr | m: 18th Apr 1809 St Bartholomew Parish Church, Maresfield, Sussex | Fanny Bennett | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1788 Fletching, Sussex ch: 30th Mar 1788 St Andrew & St Mary Church d: Apr to Jun 1872 Uckfield, Sussex | b: 1789 Fletching, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisa | Harriett | Henry | Caesar | Jane | Elizabeth | Jesse | Selina | b: Nov 1809 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 5th Nov 1809 St Bartholomew Parish Church d: 4th Jul 1888 | b: 1814 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 3rd Jul 1814 St Bartholomew Parish Church | b: 1819 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 4th Apr 1819 St Bartholomew Parish Church | b: 1821 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 19th Aug 1821 St Bartholomew Parish Church | b: 1823 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 28th Dec 1823 St Bartholomew Parish Church | b: 1827 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 18th Mar 1827 St Bartholomew Parish Church | b: 1830 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 28th Feb 1830 St Bartholomew Parish Church | b: 1833 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 23rd Jun 1833 St Bartholomew Parish Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ann | William | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1812 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 1st Mar 1812 St Bartholomew Parish Church | b: 1816 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 29th Dec 1816 St Bartholomew Parish Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Caesar Gurr farm labourer | m: Jul to Sep 1847 | Elizabeth Stevenson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1821 Maresfield, Sussex ch: 19th Aug 1821 St Bartholomew Parish Church | b: 1824 Maresfield, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry | Ceaser | Albert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1850 Maresfield, Sussex | b: 1867 Hartfield, Sussex | b: 1869 Hartfield, Sussex ch: 30th May 1869 St. Mary's Church | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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