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From: "Ian and Julie Cochran" <>
Subject: [EARWAKER] Sidlesham Earwickers
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:24:30 +1000


Hello everyone

I'm a recent addition to the mailing list and I'm hoping someone may be able to add to my very limited knowledge of the Earwickers who lived in Sidlesham in the first half of the 19th century.

One of my g-g-grandmothers was Martha Earwicker who was baptised in Sidlesham in September 1808 and who married Charles Lucas in Pagham in February 1830.

I believe Martha's parents were James Earwicker [baptised Sidlesham 1.8. 1773] and Sarah nee Shepherd [married Sidlesham 20.2.1798].

Martha and Charles' known family consisted of six sons and five daughters. They were:

ELIZABETH, b. Ssx c.1830;
JOHN, b. Pagham c.6.11.1831. John emigrated to Australia and married and died in Victoria;
FANNY, b. Pagham, c.5.5.1833. I believe Fanny married a railway employee George Stanford who hailed from Pagham;
GEORGE, b. Pagham c.6.9.1835;
THOMAS, b. Pagham c. 2.4.1837. Thomas was a ship's crewman for some years before he emigrated to Australia and married and died in Victoria;
JANE JEMIMA b.Pagham c. 21.7.1839;
CHARLES b. Pagham c. 21.11.1841;
EDMUND b. Pagham c. 1.10.1843. I believe Edmund was for a time a Superintendent of County Police based in Chichester;
FRANK b. Pagham c. 29.8.1845. I believe he became a ship's carpenter;
SARAH ANN b. Pagham c. 1848. I believe Sarah married Francis Goldsmith, a sailor in the Navy;
MARY b. Pagham . 18.3.1849, and
HENRY b. Pagham c.1853. At the time of the 1881 census Henry was working as an agricultural labourer, unmarried and still living with his parents.

I would greatly appreciate:
# any information about the ancestors or descendants of this family group, and
# details of any published sources which would provide some description or understanding of rural life in the Sidlesham/Pagham district of Sussex in the first half of the 19th century. Were there any local newspapers serving the district at that time?

I hope this is not a too ambitious inquiry to pose.

IAN COCHRAN
Canberra, Australia

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