The Weald - Descendents Report

Generation No. 1
	1. Philadelphia Hesman [Akehurst] She was born 1812 at Sussex; died Jan 1850 at Mayfield, Sussex, aged 37 years; buried 11^th Jan 1850 at St. Dunstan Church, Mayfield, Sussex
	She married John Hesman, farm labourer on 23^rd Aug 1833 at St. Dunstan Church, Mayfield, Sussex. He was born 1798 at Rotherfield, Sussex; died Feb 1869 at Mayfield, Sussex, aged 71 years; buried 23^rd Feb 1869 at St. Dunstan Church, Mayfield, Sussex. They had the following children:
2	i	John who was born 1834 at Mayfield, Sussex; christened 16^th Feb 1834 St. Dunstan Church, Mayfield, Sussex
	ii	William who was born 1835 at Mayfield, Sussex; christened 23^rd Aug 1835 St. Dunstan Church, Mayfield, Sussex
	iii	Hannah who was born 1837 at Mayfield, Sussex

Generation No. 2
	2. John Hesman, farm labourer was the son of John Hesman, farm labourer and Philadelphia Hesman [Akehurst]. He was born 1834 at Mayfield, Sussex; christened 16^th Feb 1834 at St. Dunstan Church, Mayfield, Sussex
	i	Julia who was born 22^nd Aug 1856 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 23^rd Aug 1856 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	He married Elizabeth Deacon on 7^th Sep 1856 at St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex. She was born 1836 at Rotherfield, Sussex. They had the following children:
3	i	James Henry who was born 1858 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 14^th Feb 1858 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
4	ii	John Thomas who was born 1859 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 9^th Oct 1859 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex; died Jan 1934 Pembury, Kent; buried 12^th Jan 1934 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Recorded in the Register of Burials: Entry 20919 Buried in the same grave as his wife Mary Anne
	iii	Anne Elizabeth who was born 1863 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 10^th May 1863 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
5	iv	Thomas Wiliam who was born 1866 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 24^th Feb 1866 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	v	Christiana Mary who was born 18^th Oct 1867 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 9^th Feb 1868 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	vi	Elizabeth Margaret Edith who was born 23^rd May 1869 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 11^th Jul 1869 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	vii	Kezia Mary who was born 20^th May 1871 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 13^th Aug 1871 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	viii	Henry David who was born 4^th Oct 1872 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 8^th Dec 1872 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	ix	Ernest Albert who was born 25^th May 1875 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 21^st Feb 1877 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	x	Bertram Charles who was born 26^th Jan 1879 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 2^nd Apr 1885 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex

Generation No. 3
	3. James Henry Heasman was the son of John Hesman, farm labourer and Elizabeth Heasman [Deacon]. He was born 1858 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 14^th Feb 1858 at St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	He married Emily Eliza Rope on 29^th Jan 1877 at St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex. She was born 1852

	4. John Thomas Heaseman, carter was the son of John Hesman, farm labourer and Elizabeth Heasman [Deacon]. He was born 1859 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 9^th Oct 1859 at St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex; died Jan 1934 at Sandhill, Pembury, Kent; buried 12^th Jan 1934 at Tunbridge Wells Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Recorded in the Register of Burials: Entry 20919 Buried in the same grave as his wife Mary Anne
	He married Mary Anne Cleary on 8^th Oct 1884 at St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex, Witnesses: Thomas William Heasman and Travis Cleary. She was born 1861 at Tipperary, Ireland; died Nov 1914 at 1 Rose Cottage, Groombridge, Kent and Sussex; buried 17^th Nov 1914 at Tunbridge Wells Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Recorded in the Register of Burials: Entry 12271. They had the following children:
	i	Harold Bertram Charles who was born 4^th Feb 1885 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 12^th Apr 1885 St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
6	ii	Annie Gertrude Urith who was born 1888 at Rotherfield, Sussex; died Nov 1944 Tunbridge Wells, Kent; buried 17^th Nov 1944 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, internment reference: 26992
	iii	Henry who was born 1892 at Rotherfield, Sussex
	iv	Gordon R. S. who was born 1896 at Rotherfield, Sussex

	5. Thomas Wiliam Heasman, gardener and domestic servant was the son of John Hesman, farm labourer and Elizabeth Heasman [Deacon]. He was born 1866 at Rotherfield, Sussex; christened 24^th Feb 1866 at St. Denys Church, Rotherfield, Sussex
	He married Mary Alice L. Billing on Jan to Mar 1889, registered at Uckfield District, Sussex, ref: 1889 Q1 Vol 2b Page 177. She was born 1869 at Hailsham, Sussex. They had the following children:
	i	Hilda C. who was born 1890 at Southborough, Kent
	ii	Walter who was born 1893 at East Grinstead, Sussex
	iii	Alice M. who was born 1896 at Uckfield, Sussex

Generation No. 4
	6. Annie Gertrude Urith Smith [Heaseman] was the daughter of John Thomas Heaseman, carter and Mary Anne Heaseman [Cleary]. She was born 1888 at Rotherfield, Sussex; died Nov 1944 at Kent & Sussex Hospital, St Johns, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; buried 17^th Nov 1944 at Tunbridge Wells Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, internment reference: 26992
	She married Thomas Clifford Smith on Apr to June 1921, registered at Ticehurst District, Sussex, ref: 1921 Q2 Vol 2b Page 231. He was born Jan to Mar 1901 at Ardingly, Sussex, registered at Cuckfield District, Sussex, ref: 1901 Q1 Vol 2b Page 148; died 19^th Dec 1968 at Purley; buried 24^th Dec 1968 at Kent & Sussex crematorium, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, cremated and ashes buried thereafter; record numer 12127. They had the following children:
	i	Harold Clifford James who was born Oct 1921 at Rotherfield, Sussex