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1923	The Story of Wadhurst by Alfred A. Wace ⇒ p. 43

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1743	History			Vicarage	Wace's Wadhurst
	Things came to a head with Samuel Bush (Vicar 1743-1783). When first appointed he lodged at the present Vicarage with the then owner [John] Legas, who was at that time building the present Hill House for himself. On Legas moving to that, he let the Vicar stay on as his tenant; but they quarrelled, and Legas a few months before he died turned him out. Bush was then on bad terms with the principal land owners over tithe payments, and found much difficulty in housing himself. Indeed for some time he was refused even a sitting in the Church. W. Gurr admitted him at last to Little Pell, but they too fell out.

1751	History			Vicarage	Wace's Wadhurst
	In 1751 Legas died, leaving his first house [now the Vicarage] to his niece, who then married R., Tapsell, an ironmaster. In his hands the house was much improved, and the cost of that and losses in iron made him bankrupt in 1765. Samuel Bush then was able to buy Tapsell's life interest in the house, and he lived on there after Tapsell's death in 1777

1780	History			Vicarage	Wace's Wadhurst
	With a desire to save his successors the misery he had himself endured from being houseless, he bequeathed to the Warden and Fellows of Wadham a sum of money sufficient to buy a proper house for the Vicar ; and the College, being unable to acquire any of the houses suggested as suitable by Bush, bought Legas' first house, the present Vicarage

30^th Mar 1851	Census	Head; occupation VICAR OF WADHURST	John Foley	Vicarage House	1851 Census Wadhurst, Sussex
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Wife	Caroline E. Foley
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Daughter	Augusta A. Foley
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Son	John W. Foley
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Daughter	Mary Foley
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Daughter	Cecilia Foley
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Servant; occupation Kitchenmaid	Eliza Basset
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Servant; occupation FOOTMAN	Albert Brown
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Servant; occupation COOK	Elizabeth Chapman
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Servant; occupation NURSE	Susan Foster
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Servant; occupation Housemaid	Maria Pankhurst
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Servant; occupation GENERAL SERVANT	Obadiah Robinson
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Visitor	Louisa Smith
30^th Mar 1851	Census	Servant; occupation Nursemaid	Helen Watson

c 1875		Part of the 6 inch to 1 mile map of Sussex produced in 1875 by Ordnance Survey		Vicarage

3^rd Apr 1881	Census	John Foley, M, Head, married, age 75, born Worcestershire; occupation Vicar Of Wadhurst	John Foley	Vicarage	1881 Census Wadhurst, Sussex
3^rd Apr 1881	Census	Caroline E. Foley, F, Wife, married, age 66, born Norfolk	Caroline E. Foley
3^rd Apr 1881	Census	Mary C. Foley, F, Daughter, single, age 21, born Wadhurst	Mary C. Foley
3^rd Apr 1881	Census	Isabel M. Barwick, F, Servant, single, age 21, born Canterbury; occupation Cook	Isabel M. Barwick
3^rd Apr 1881	Census	Elizabeth Francis, F, Servant, single, age 20, born Frant; occupation Parlour maid	Elizabeth Francis
3^rd Apr 1881	Census	Sylvia Baldock, F, Servant, single, age 16, born Wadhurst; occupation Housemaid	Sylvia Baldock
3^rd Apr 1881	Census	Albert Watts, M, Servant, age 13, born Wadhurst; occupation House boy	Albert Watts

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