Tag: Rapson
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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…
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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…