Ambrose Henry Bensley Stickells was born in 1864 in Hythe, Kent, the son of David Stickells, Cranbrook's photographer. At the age of 20 Ambrose Stickells was given a sum of money by his father, along with a horsedrawn van, and was packed off to make a living as a photographer around Kent and Sussex. At Mayfield he met and married his wife Mary Ann Lade in 1890 and they had children as Ambrose took his van to Leigh, where Mary Frances was born in 1891, to Robertsbridge, where Ambrose was born in 1896 and finally to Crowborough where Percy was born in 1898 and where the family settled. Over the years, Ambrose Stickells produced a series of picture postcards of people at home, people at work and places throughout Crowborough and the surrounding area. He was the premier photographer of Crowborough.
| David Stickells | m: c 1855 | Frances Bensley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1828 Ruckinge, Hythe, Kent | b: 1834 Norfolk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisa | Ambrose Henry Bensley | Arthur | Ada E. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1858 Ashford, Kent | b: 1864 Hythe, Kent d: 13th Jul 1940 Crowborough War Memorial Hospital, Crowborough, Sussex | b: 1870 Ashford, Kent | b: 1873 Ashford, Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ambrose Henry Bensley Stickells | m: c 1890 | Mary Lade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1864 Hythe, Kent d: 13th Jul 1940 Crowborough War Memorial Hospital, Crowborough, Sussex | b: 1865 Mayfield, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mary Frances | Ambrose Henry | Percy Rufus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1891 Leigh, Kent | b: 1896 Robertsbridge, Sussex | b: 1898 Crowborough, Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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