Transcribed from a framed document in the church (photo shown):
Date | Rector | |
1306 | Peter do Molendinis | |
1362 | William de Lyndrig | |
1370 | John de Northflete | |
1371 | Richard Marior | |
1478 | Thomas Banys | |
1505 | James Doddesley | |
1521 | Jonathan Rowlandson | |
1541 | Giles Seynebarbe | |
1555 | Thomas Helior | |
1557 | Ralph Jackson | |
1559 | James Hilman | |
1563 | Thomas Lewkenor | |
1568 | William Pell | |
1577 | Daniel Gardiner | |
1582 | Samuel Norden | |
1641 | John Smith | |
1669 | John Leversidge | |
John Shore | ||
1681 | Michael Johnson | |
1722 | John Fortrie | |
1752 | John Davis | |
1766 | John Wenham | |
1773 | Henry Hemmington | |
1784 | William Gwynne | |
1818 | George Shiffner | |
1848 | George Croxton Shiffner | |
1906 | Edward Shiffner Best | |
1936 | Sydney Hansford Ward | |
1958 | James Godfrey Victor Strangeways | |
1964 | Rex Edward Ambrose Lloyd | |
1970 | Michael Lawrence Diamond | |
1978 | Raymond George Newham | |
1984 | Derek 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 | Inducted | Buried |
Samuel Norden | 1605 | |
Edward Wood | 1605 | 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 |