WORSFOLD FAMILY TREE

John WORSFOLD = Ann HEDGER (widow of Thomas WORSFOLD) NB 4 earlier generations can be seen M11/9/1744 Amberley at Museum (courtesy of John WORSFOLD = Sarah STRINGER Ray Worsfold of Queensland, Australia) b. 24/9/1751 Wisborough Green b. April 1754 Shipley m. 16/7/1775 Shipley

Henry WORSFOLD/WORSFIELD/WORSFOLDE = Elizabeth MOORE (and Henry later remarried twice) bap. 22/10/1775 Shipley d. Dec.1857 b. 1777 m. 14/6/1805

Edward WORSFOLD/WORSFIELD = Eliza SMITH b. 1812 m. 11/5/1844 W Grinstead

Edward WORSFOLD = Ellen THORNS bap. 13/12/1849 West Grinstead b. 1849/50 West Grinstead d. 1915, aged 65, Brighton m. late 1873 West Grinstead a sawyer in a timber yard

Edward William Ellen Eliza Alice Mary Phyllis Kate Thomas Henry Justinian Victor Eliza May b. 1874 West Grinstead bap. 25/2/1877 b. 29/10/1879 bap 24/9/1882 bap 27/9/1885 Wiston bap 8/1/1888 Wiston b. 28/5/1890 Publican of George Inn, West Grinstead bap. 13/11/1879 Wiston, m. (a carpenter in (a carpenter, then bap. 6/7/1890 Steyning. m. Rose Annie m. Thomas John West Grinstead Charles William Steyning) m. Cecilia wagon-maker in Wiston HOLDEN, 1906, Steyning GROVES (fellmonger m. George DIVALL Ernest ROBINS Grace BOYNETTE Steyning) (aka May) at a Steyning tannery (able seaman, RN) (Hairdresser and 14/1/1922 m. Fanny MUNNERY (not married) and by 1916 a fuller) 14/1/1913 Wiston Tobacconist) 25/1/1915 d. 1944, aged 54, 13/4/1901, Steyning (G killed in WW1 – 12/6/1905 in Lived at 4 Station Rd. Battle of Jutland, 1916 d. 1983, Worthing, aged 93 At least one child At least 3 children (No children) At least 2 children (No children found) At least 3 children (No children) Notes to accompany the Worsfold Family Tree

When Alice Worsfold and her two elder siblings were born, and for the preceding two generations, this Worsfold family lived in Partridge Green (within the West Grinstead registration area).

Between 1880 and 1882 they moved to Wiston, where they were settled by the time their fourth child Phyllis was born in 1882. In Wiston they lived at ‘Near Smith’s Shop’ and ‘Stocks Cottages’ and also at ‘New Cottages’ (or are these all the same place?). Whilst here, all the children attended Wiston and Buncton Parochial School. Their father, Edward, was one of the two sawyers listed as working at Wiston and a ‘Sawyer’s Wood’ on the Wiston Estate.

After 18 years in Wiston, they moved to Steyning around 1910, probably at about the time when Edward (b. 1849) was admitted to the County Hospital (as it was then known) in Brighton, where he was a patient during the 1911 census. (It’s possible, as often happened, they might have been evicted from their Wiston home when Edward was no longer able to work on the estate.) His death was registered in Brighton rather than Steyning, so perhaps he remained a patient in that hospital, or in a nearby workhouse, until his death.

In the 1911 census, Ellen, his wife, plus daughter Eliza May, now listed simply as May, were residing at the home of elder daughter Ellen Eliza and son-in-law John Groves in Steyning.