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Samuel Heasman, farm labourer, son of Edward Wheatley Heasman and Catherine Heasman [Cockerell]
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Date
Type
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22nd February 1811
Born
In the Parish of East Grinstead, Sussex; twin
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21st April 1811
Christened
At St Swithin Parish Church in the Parish of East Grinstead, Sussex
East Grinstead Parish Registers
 
6th June 1841
Census
At Ashdown Forest in the Parish of East Grinstead, Sussex; Samuel Heasman, M, Head, age 30 to 34, born Sussex; occupation: farm labourer
1841 Census
East Grinstead, Sussex
 
30th March 1851
Census
At Ashdown Forest in the Parish of East Grinstead, Sussex; Head; occupation: farm labourer
1851 Census
East Grinstead, Sussex
 
9th October 1879
Recollections
Ashdown Forest dispute
 

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:

Heasman, Samuel. 68. Living at Pages Gill and on the Forest near Forest Row. Born 22 Feb 1811 in Pages Gill and baptised at East Grinstead. Lived in this part of the Forest all his life has never been away [more than] a month at a time. Father used to go out litter cutting on the Forest and kept 2 cows and 3 or 4 young stock which ran on the Forest. Used to go out on the Forest with Father as a boy at 9 or 10 and helped him rake up the litter he had cut and took to cutting litter myself as soon as I was big enough and have cut every year since for anyone who wanted it. I have never sent any out of East Grinstead and Hartfield. There used to be certain people who had the right to turn out but everybody now takes what he wants.

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3rd April 1881
Census
At Ashdown Forest in the Parish of East Grinstead, Sussex; Samuel Heasman, M, Brother, single, age 70, born East Grinstead; occupation: labourer
1881 Census
East Grinstead, Sussex

Ancestor's report
No descendent's report
Heasman, Hasmon, Heaseman, Hasman, Haseman, Heaysman, Heysman, Heayeman, Heseman, Hesman, Hesmane, Hesmon, Hesmond, Hesmer, Hesmore family records
The ancestral pedigree of Samuel Heasman, farm labourer
  
 William Hesemanm: 8th Jun 1585 St. Margaret's Church, Buxted, SussexElizabeth Cayley 
 b: c 1565  b: c 1565 
  
  
 Francis 
 b: c 1590 Buxted, Sussex 
   
Great-
Great-Great-
Great-Great-
Grandfather
record
   
   
   
 Francis Heasmanm: 4th Jun 1610Bridget Foord 
 b: c 1590 Buxted, Sussex  b: c 1590 
  
   
 Frances Thomas John
 b: 1611 Buxted, Sussex
ch: 21st Jul 1611 St. Margaret's Church
 b: 1617 Buxted, Sussex
ch: 10th Apr 1617 St. Margaret's Church
 b: c 1620
     
Great-Great-
Great-Great-
Grandfather
record
   
   
   
2nd marriageJohn Heasmanm: 2nd Dec 1658 St Swithin Parish Church, East Grinstead, SussexAnn Bane 
 b: c 1620  b: c 1635 
  
        
William Elizabeth Elizabeth Richard Edward John Robert Elizabeth
b: 1659 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 25th Oct 1659 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1660 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 15th Dec 1660 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 5th Sep 1662
 b: 1663/64 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 13th Mar 1663/64 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 2nd Sep 1668
 b: 1665 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 31st Jul 1665 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 30th Jul 1666
 b: 1666/67 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 2nd Feb 1666/67 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 11th Dec 1737
 b: 1668/69 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 8th Feb 1668/69 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 10th Feb 1668/69
 b: 1670 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 30th Apr 1670 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 12th Feb 1745/46
 b: 1672/73 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 2nd Jan 1672/73 St Swithin Parish Church
         
Great-
Great-Great-
Grandfather
record
   
   
   
 Edward Heasmanm: c 1685Jane 
 b: 1666/67 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 2nd Feb 1666/67 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 11th Dec 1737
  b: c 1665 
  
     
 William John Robert Elizabeth Edward
 b: 1689 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 18th Oct 1689 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 1772 East Grinstead, Sussex
bur: 8th Apr 1772 St Swithin Parish Church, East Grinstead, Sussex
 b: 1691 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 20th Nov 1691 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1695 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 27th Mar 1695 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1704 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 24th Oct 1704 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1706 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 27th Mar 1706 St Swithin Parish Church
         
Great-Great-
Grandfather
record
   
   
    
 William Heasmanm: 23rd Dec 1720 St. Thomas à Becket's Church, Framfield, SussexRachel 
 b: 1689 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 18th Oct 1689 St Swithin Parish Church
d: 1772 East Grinstead, Sussex
bur: 8th Apr 1772 St Swithin Parish Church, East Grinstead, Sussex
  b: 1702/3 Framfield, Sussex
ch: 2nd Feb 1702/3 St. Thomas à Becket's Church
 
  
         
William  Robert Edward Thomas James Henry Samuel Elizabeth
b: 1721 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 3rd Oct 1721 St Swithin Parish Church
  b: 1724 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 19th Jan 1724 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1727 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 8th Sep 1727 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1730 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 5th May 1730 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1732 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 17th Apr 1732 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1733 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 3rd Mar 1733 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1736/37 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 12th Jan 1736/37 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1742 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: Apr 1742 St Swithin Parish Church
   John           
   b: 1723 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 10th Dec 1723 St Swithin Parish Church
           
                    
Great-
Grandfather
record
   
   
    
 Samuel Heasmanm: 7th Apr 1760 St Swithin Parish Church, East Grinstead, SussexSarah Wheatley 
 b: 1736/37 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 12th Jan 1736/37 St Swithin Parish Church
  b: 1740/41 West Hoathly, Sussex
ch: 18th Feb 1740/41 St. Margaret's Church
d: 1806 East Grinstead, Sussex
bur: 3rd Feb 1806 St Swithin Parish Church, East Grinstead, Sussex
 
  
        
John Samuel Sarah Edward Wheatley Anna William James Susanna
b: 1761 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 30th Jan 1761 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1762 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 10th Oct 1762 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1764 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 1st Jan 1765 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1768 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 17th Feb 1768 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1770 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 25th Jul 1770 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1773 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 24th Feb 1773 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1775 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 30th Jul 1775 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1785 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 2nd Feb 1785 St Swithin Parish Church
             
Grandfather
record
   
   
   
 Edward Wheatley Heasmanm: 7th Aug 1791 St. Mary Magdalene, Cowden, KentCatherine Cockerell 
 b: 1768 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 17th Feb 1768 St Swithin Parish Church
  b: 1765 to 1770 Sussex 
  
           
Edward  Mary  Catherine  Sarah Richard Susan Samuel Henry
b: 1791 East Grinstead, Sussex  b: 1795 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 5th Apr 1795 St Swithin Parish Church
  b: 1799 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 1st Sep 1799 St Swithin Parish Church
  b: 1804 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 14th Oct 1804 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1806 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 6th Jul 1806 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1807 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 11th Oct 1807 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 22nd Feb 1811 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 21st Apr 1811 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 22nd Feb 1811 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 21st Apr 1811 St Swithin Parish Church
 William James John       
 b: 1792 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 31st Mar 1793 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1797 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 7th May 1797 St Swithin Parish Church
 b: 1802 East Grinstead, Sussex
ch: 10th Oct 1802 St Swithin Parish Church
       
                   
Parental
record

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