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Living in Hole Farm, Boarshead, Rotherfield, on the christenings of her children. 25/10/2011 Lewes Records Office, a Mary Dadswell, wife of John Comber, abode Holly Bridge, was buried at Rotherfield 23/5/1847 aged 43 years, curate Nevill Green. There were several Mary Dadswells christened in Rotherfield 1803/1804 and so I cannot be certain of our Marys parentage. However, I have looked up the marriage record on microfilm again for John Coomber and Mary Dadswell. There is no information re parents or ages at all, but I noted that the witnesses were Thomas Marchant and Thomas Cole. The latter sounded familiar to me, and when I double-checked, a Thomas Coles was a witness at the marriage of Robert Dadswell to Mary Brooker(our Mary's grandparents), and also a Thomas Cole was a witness at the marriage of Robert Dadswell(1784 -1852), son of the previous Robert Dadswell, to Frances Baldock, these two being the parents of the Mary Dadswell that I believe married John Coomber. Also, the 1861 census shows the widowed John Coomber and his son John visiting the house of 73 year old James Dadswell and his wife Mary. If John's wife Mary's parents were Robert and Frances, then I believe that John was visiting his dead wife's uncle. I visited the office of the Sussex Archaelogical Society on 2/7/2012 to view some papers donated by the family of a John Dadswell, including many letters from the 1930's from him to Catherine Pullein, historian of Rotherfield, regarding his ancestry. Among those papers were several Dadswell family trees. I have studied these, together with work done by others records on theweald.org and ancestry.co.uk, and on a website compiled by a Mandy Willard who has also done much work on this as a part of her family history, and hope that I have made a pretty good stab at ascertaining our Mary's ancestry.

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Mary Dadswell - 1803-03-20

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