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:
Turk, Benjamin. 73. Born at Grovehurst in Buxted 25 April 1806. Have lived in this locality all my life except 1 1/2 years when I lived at Etchingham when I was 9 or 10. I worked for Mr. Hart for over 40 years at Grovehurst Farm. Then went to Shadwell Farm, then belonging to Mr. Scobell, John Brooker my brother-in-law being bailiff (he now lives at Cowden). I worked there 16 years, then to Etchingham 1 vie years, then to Cowden for 2 years, then to Mr. Bellingham at New Barns (Lord De La Warr's) lie year, then to my present place for a year. We had about 20 load of litter from the Forest every year. I was at Grovehurst without missing one year. William Wheatley (dead) used to cut it.
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| unknown father | Not married | Anne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1747 Rotherfield, Sussex ch: 15th Oct 1747 St. Denys Church | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thomas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1771 Rotherfield, Sussex ch: 1st Dec 1771 St. Denys Church d: Dec 1852 Buxted, Sussex bur: 27th Dec 1852 St. Margaret's Church, Buxted, Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd marriage | Thomas Turk bailiff | m: 21st Nov 1806 St. Dunstan's Church, West Peckham, Kent | Sarah Leonard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1771 Rotherfield, Sussex ch: 1st Dec 1771 St. Denys Church d: Dec 1852 Buxted, Sussex bur: 27th Dec 1852 St. Margaret's Church, Buxted, Sussex | b: 1775 Speldhurst, Kent ch: 5th Mar 1775 St. John's Church, Groombridge, Kent and Sussex d: May 1846 Rotherfield, Sussex bur: 13th May 1846 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Benjamin | Sarah | Henry | Harriett | Stephen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 25th Apr 1806 Grovehurst, Buxted, Sussex d: Nov 1893 Inchreed, Rotherfield, Sussex bur: 14th Nov 1893 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex | b: 18th Dec 1811 Buxted, Sussex d: 26th Sep 1902 Dog Rock, Dalton, NSW, Australia bur: After 26th Sep 1902 Dalton Uniting Church, Dalton, NSW, Australia | b: 1812 Buxted, Sussex | b: 1816 Buxted, Sussex | b: 1818 Buxted, Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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