Date
Type
Information
Source
1802 to 1814
At Walshes; Occupation Owner
Pullein's Rotherfield
30th Mar 1747
Born
In the Parish of Mayfield, Sussex
Mayfield Parish Registers
Pullein's Rotherfield
21st Apr 1747
Christened
At St. Dunstan Church in the Parish of Mayfield, Sussex; son of John Fry and Hannah Fry
Mayfield Parish Registers
20th Dec 1790
Married
At St. Denys Church in the Parish of Rotherfield, Sussex
Rotherfield Marriage Registers
17th Jan 1814
Died
In the Parish of Rotherfield, Sussex; aged 66 years
Monumental Inscriptions at St. Denys Church, Rotherfield
Pullein's Rotherfield
24th Jan 1814
Buried
At St. Denys Church in the Parish of Rotherfield, Sussex; will proven 21st May 1814
Monumental Inscriptions at St. Denys Church, Rotherfield
Rotherfield Burial Registers
Altar Tomb
South side
To the Memory
of ROBT. FRY late of this Parish
Esqr.
Who died Jan 17th 1814
Aged 66 Years.
North side
To the Memory of
MARY Wife of ROBERT FRY
died December the 3rd 1791
Aged 28 Years.
21st May 1814
Will
Pullein's Rotherfield
Robert Fry's Will "To my daughter Mary Hannah [wife of my nephew Thomas Fry] my Manor of Walshes otherwise Sipsies with its rights privileges immunities and appurtenances. And also my capital messuage or Mansion House called Walshes with the cottages, barns, stables, outbuildings, farm lands, hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging in the parish of Rotherfield containing by admeasurement 307 acres, 2 roods and 12 perches now in tenure or occupation of John Moon his assigns or undertenants.
And also all that my messuage or tenement called Brookhouse, with the cottages …….. called by the several names of Brookhouse, Kitches, Kiddersash, Pickpale, Grimes, Fordbrook, Croft and Jumbers, containing by admeasurement 346 acres, 2 roods and 30 perches in parishes of Rotherfield and Buxted now in tenure or occupation of Joseph Wickens.
To hold the same to the said Mary Hannah Fry and her assigns during her natural life I appoint as trustees to preserve the estates during her life John Moon of Walshes farm aforesaid, and Richard Owen Stone of Mayfield, gentleman. And after her decease those estates shall be equally divided among her children. If only one survive that one to take the whole. If there be no issue, my brother John Fry of Mayfield gentleman shall take those estates for his life. And from his decease to be equally divided between his three sons John Fry the younger, Robert Fry the younger and the said Thomas Fry and their several heirs and assigns for ever.
I give to each trustee £100. To the poor of Rotherfield £70 to be distributed on S. Thomas the Apostle's day next following after my decease. £5 apiece to each servant in my service at my decease. All residue, livestock etc I give to my daughter Mary Hannah Fry."
proved 21st May 1814
c Oct to Dec 1802
Resume
Pullein's Rotherfield
Robert Fry acquires Walsh Manor:
"Robert Fry, gentleman, plaintiff, and Montague Bere, Baker Bere Esquire and Anne his Wife. Manor of Walshes alias Welches, and tenements, common of pasture for all manner of cattle, common of turbary [right to dig turf from the wasteland of a Manor] and common of estovers [right to take wood for fuel and repairs] in Crowborough Down and Rotherfield, quitclaimed to plaintiff and heirs"
1791
Birth of a daughter
In the Parish of Rotherfield, Sussex
Rotherfield Parish Registers
11th Aug 1790
Inherited
Pullein's Rotherfield
Extract from John Burges Will:
"To my nephew Robert Fry all those my several messuages barns buildings farms etc etc called Brookhouse, Ketches, Kiddersash, Pickpale, Grimes, ffordbrook, Croft and Jumbers in the several parishes of Rotherfield and Buxted now in occupation of John Pollington for ever. Charged with the payment of a clear annuity of forty pounds to niece Martha Bridger and her assigns for her natural life etc. Charged also with payment of one thousand pounds which I give and bequeath to all and every of her children lawfully begotten that shall be living at her decease as they respectively reach the age of twenty one years [Various provision regarding her death childless, or theirs before reaching twenty one, in which case the one thousand pounds went to the children of Jane Paige at twenty one].
To Robert Fry Latter's Wood, Highbeech alias Greenswood my messuage I now dwell in and its lands etc. my messuage in the town of Rotherfield called late Hill's, my messuage in the town of Rotherfield now in occupation of Thomas Langridge. And all other my messuages etc for ever. Provided and I order he shall permit my said niece Martha Bridger to dwell in one end of the said house late Hill's during her natural life paying nothing for the same ... All else of which I die possessed to my nephew Robert Fry charged with payment of an annuity of £4 to my servant man James Turk if he shall be in my service at my death. Also £4 annuity to my maid Hannah Dadswell if (as before)
My nephew Robert Fry executor."
Proved 1790.