Instant Cousins

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  • Tracing the Carvers

    Part 3 For the past two weeks I have been tracing my grandfather’s origins and the lives of his brother and sister, two relatives who I never met and who I knew nothing of until I started researching their records. This week I look at Evelyn Daisy Carver, my grandfather’s only sister and my great…

  • Tracing the Carvers

    Part 2 Last week, I was discovering the line of ancestry of my grandfather, Clarence Carver (known by his middle name George), who was born in Lodsworth in Sussex. This was the heart of the Sussex countryside, one of a vertical line of parish villages, Lodsworth, Selham and Graffham that was home to the Aylings,…

  • Tracing the Carvers (1)

    This week I return to my family tree and the Carver’s who originated from Lodsworth in Sussex. Well, my grandfather, that is. Clarence Carver was born in the village of Lodsworth to an agricultural family. There were a lot of people named Carver around Lodsworth, and I believe the churchyard in the village has burial…

  • Sussex Roots

    This week I am returning to the Carver’s who originated in Lodsworth, Sussex. It is December with short days. I wonder what life was like in agriculture in those mid-19th Century days. Tending cattle and looking after the farm land would have been a brutal lifestyle in the rain and wind. While writing this I…

  • Tracing the Carvers

    I have been trying to discover the earlier generations of the Carver family, to whom I belong, in the early part of the 19th Century. My family originated in an agricultural area of Sussex, above the South Downs, between Horsham and Petersfield, in the registration district of Midhurst. There is a village near Easebourne called…

  • No Carver without a Spillett

    My title relates to the topic this week. Without the Spillett family there would have been no branch of the Carver family that I belong to. The union of these two families created a considerable dynasty of the Oxted Carver’s that stretches through five generations from my parent’s branch across the past 100 years. When…

  • Lodsworth, gateway to the Carver family

    The history of the Carver family has its roots in the agricultural 19th Century county of West Sussex. The small village of Lodsworth lies between Petworth and Midhurst, just above the South Downs. The views from Google street view suggest that the village was an idyllic place to have lived in, although I suspect that…