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George Olliver and Frances Barton © Born in East Preston, Sussex, George Oliver, was the son of Thomas Oliver and his wife Elizabeth nee Esan, and records indicate he was baptised in Ferring, Sussex on the 18th December, 17151, but to-date record has not been sighted. Ferring sits approximately 3km south-south-west of Angmering and 10km south-south-east of Arundel, in East Sussex. The site of the village of Ferring is an ancient one, with the discovery of flint tools and flint mines indicating that Stone Age people lived nearby. Remains have also been found from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, within the Highdown Hill fort. The Parish also has many Roman sites, including the remains of a Bath House and several cremation-urn burials. The village name itself is Saxon, being the settlement of people with the leader Ferra, with the suffix ‘ing’ meaning land of the South Saxons. The termination being widespread in Sussex. The present Norman Church, dedicated to St Andrew, was presumably built on the ruins of a Saxon church and the Domesday Book of 1086 records the Bishop of Chichester as holding Ferring for his own use. On the 7th November, 17442, it is believed George married Frances Barton in St Margaret’s, the Parish Church in Angmering, West Sussex. The marriage record states: George Olliver, yeoman, bachelor, of E.Preston and Frances BARTON, maiden, of Angmering. Frances, the daughter of Richard Barton and his wife Margaret was baptised in Angmering on the 28th March, 17141. The village of Angmering is located approx. 6km south-south-east of Arundel and 5km north-north-east of Littlehampton. One of the earliest settlements within the present parish boundary was Roman or Romano-British, with the remains of a substantial and luxurious villa, dated between AD 65 - 75, which lie beneath farmland about 2km to the west of the village centre. The bath house alone was comprised of eight rooms. An Iron Age ditch has been discovered close to the villa, and in 2001 a Middle Bronze Age settlement was located approx 700 metres north from the centre of the village. Additionally, a second site approx 700 metres to the north-east of the village centre revealed settlements from the Mid- to-Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Saxon era. The name ‘Angmering’ probably derives from a Saxon farming settlement of about 600AD, and it is thought that the original name was ‘Angenmaering’ meaning Angenmaer's people. Towards the end of the 9th century Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, bequeathed to his kinsman Osferthe ‘Angmerengatum and the land that thereto longyth’. Recorded as Angemare in the 1086 Domesday Book, various name changes have taken place over the centuries and these included Angemeringatun, Angmerengatum, Angemaeringum, Angemeringe, Aingmarying, Angmarrying, Angemare and Ameringe. Records indicate George & Frances moved to Ferring soon after their marriage and had at least five children baptised in the local church of St Andrew: Sarah 1747; Jane 1748, she married Henry Hills 1779; George 1750; Thomas 1753; and Anne 1755. It is thought both George & Frances died, possibly in Angmering, in the early 1800s, but to-date no records have been located.
References: 2. Angmering Village, Angmering History - Marriage Licences 1600-1700 http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/history/marriage_licn.htm
Sources: Ancestry.co.uk http://home.ancestry.co.uk/ Brief History of Angmering http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/history/anghist.htm Elliston Descendants & Connections http://gillywoodfamily.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/descendant-register-of-william-oliver.html History of Ferring http://www.ferringvillage.co.uk/ Olliver Family of Angmering http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/history/olliver.htm |
