Rectors of St Peter, Hamsey, East Sussex


Transcribed from a framed document in the church (photo shown):

Rectors of Hamsey - Framed in the Church - MTCDateRector
1306Peter do Molendinis
1362William de Lyndrig
1370John de Northflete
1371Richard Marior
1478Thomas Banys
1505James Doddesley
1521Jonathan Rowlandson
1541Giles Seynebarbe
1555Thomas Helior
1557Ralph Jackson
1559James Hilman
1563Thomas Lewkenor
1568William Pell
1577Daniel Gardiner
1582Samuel Norden
1641John Smith
1669John Leversidge
 John Shore
1681Michael Johnson
1722John Fortrie
1752John Davis
1766John Wenham
1773Henry Hemmington
1784William Gwynne
1818George Shiffner
1848George Croxton Shiffner
1906Edward Shiffner Best
1936Sydney Hansford Ward
1958James Godfrey Victor Strangeways
1964Rex Edward Ambrose Lloyd
1970Michael Lawrence Diamond
1978Raymond George Newham
1984Derek Baetide

Karen Wenke, OPC for Barcombe, found the following list written in the front of the parish register (1686 - 1780).  The page before has Geo Lewis, Curate of Hamsey, 1741.

Rectors of Hamsey InductedBuried
Samuel Norden 1605
Edward Wood1605 1641
John Smith 1669
John Leversidge? 1674
John Shore  1722
John Ghurtrie? 1752
John Davis 1766
John Wenham  1773
Wm Hemmington  

06/01/2007

Transcribed by Mark Collins & Karen Wenke

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