Stephen and Sarah were married at West Hythe on 11 February 1782. They had between 1783 and 1799 six children we know of in addition to our John: Rose, Sarah, Stephen William, Amy and Angelica where all were born either at West Hythe or Lympne. The details below are what we have been able to find out to date about each of John's siblings and their spouses and families.
Rose was baptised at West Hythe in 1783. The BTs for Lympne and West Hythe show a Rose Cheeseman 'from the parish of Saltwood' (located between Hythe and Folkstone) marrying a John Thorndin in West Hythe on 18 October 1806. This probably suggests that Rose had moved from West Hythe to Saltwood to work.
Information posted on Rootsweb by Arlene Baer indicates that Rose's first husband died sometime before 1817 and that she re-married, to John Hambrook, a blacksmith from Swingfield in Kent. Arlene, who is the couple's 3x great granddaughter, continues that Rose and John and their four children - George, Sarah Elizabeth, John William and Mary - 'emigrated to America on the Neptune, arriving in NYC on May 18 1837. [They] settled in New Castle, Westchester, NY.'
Details of Rose's second marriage and her family and descendants are contained on the Remnat Family and Friends Rootsweb site (last updated on 7 June 2008).
William and Sarah's other children all married and had children. We have been able to use the information on Ancestry.com and other sources to put together the following outlines of their lives and families:
2.1. William Cheeseman Lorden (1807-46) and Mary Ann Butts
Ancestry's London Marriages database shows that William Cheeseman Lorden married after banns Mary Ann Butts at St George Parish Church in Bloomsbury in London on 25 October 1834 (the UK censuses indicate that Mary Ann was born in Scotland although we have still to discover exactly where). The 1841 census showed William (a 30 year-old plumber) and Mary (25) living at St Leonard's Parish at Hythe where, according to LDS Family Search and other sources, they had at least four children before William's death there in 1846:
2.1.1. Thomas Lorden (born around 1835);
2.1.2. John Butts Lorden (1837-75) who worked as a grocer and married his cousin Charlotte Lorden, the daughter of Jonah Lorden and Charlotte Hunt, at Milton-next-Gravesend in 1873. John Butts Lorden died at Gravesend in 1875. We don't think that he and Charlotte had any children;
2.1.3. Charles Lorden who was born in 1839 and probably died at Folkestone in Kent in 1850; and
2.1.4. Mary Ann Lorden (born in 1846) who married a bricklayer, Thomas West, at Milton-next-Gravesend in Kent in 1874. The UK censuses show that Thomas and Mary Ann continued to live at Gravesend after their marriage and had at least five children there: Thomas, Frederick George, Mary Ann, Louise or Louisa and Lucy West.
Following the death of her first husband in 1846, Mary Ann Lorden nee Butts re-married, to a Henry G. Ford who had been born at Boughton in Kent in around 1830. The 1871 census showed Mary Ann (55) and Henry (40) living at 9 Queen Street in Gravesend. With them were two of Mary's children - John Lorden (a 30 year-old grocer) and Mary Ann Lorden (26 year-old servant) both of whom were born at Hythe - and William H. Ford, a 12 year-old milk boy who was born at Gravesend.
2.2. Stephen Lorden (1809-1837) and Charlotte Loud Pelling (1813-78)
The LDS Family Search shows that Stephen Lorden was born at Hythe in Kent in 1809 and died and was buried at Dymchurch in Kent on 28 March 1837. He married Charlotte Loud Pelling, the daughter of Henry Pelling and Mary Anne Loud, at West Tarring in Sussex on 25 May 1832. Charlotte was born at Aldingbourne in Sussex in 1813. She and Stephen lived at Dymchurch after their marriage and had three children there - Stephen (born in 1834), Charles Loud (1835) and Sarah Lorden (1837) - before Stephen's death in 1837. In 1847 Charlotte re-married, to Edwin Gates, the son of William Gates, at the Church of St Nicholas at Brighton in Sussex. The UK censuses show that Edwin, who worked as a plasterer, and Charlotte lived at Brighton after their marriage and had at least three children there - William (who was born at West Tarring), Thomas and Edwin Gates - before Charlotte's death at Brighton in 1878.
What of Stephen and Charlotte's children? We have not yet been able to determine what happened to their daughter Sarah. The 1841 census shows their eldest son, Stephen Lorden, was living at West Tarring with his grandfather Henry Pelling and his family. At the time of the 1851 census Stephen, who was working as a draper's assistant, and his brother Charles Lorden (an 18 year-old clerk) were boarding together at Chelsea in London. Ancestry's index of Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists to Victoria shows that Charles Lorden emigrated to Australia on the sailing ship KENT. This sailed from Gravesend and arrived at Melbourne on 13 August 1858. According to the Gawrock-Parker Genealogy website, Charles' brother, Stephen Lorden, also emigrated to Australia although we have not as yet been able to determine when and on which ship he sailed.
Click here to read about Charles and Stephen's family and descendants in Australia.
2.3. Jesse Lorden (1814-1847) and Sarah Blatcher (1814-1908)
Born at Dymchurch in 1814, Jesse worked as a bricklayer until his death at Folkestone in 1847. The LDS Family Search shows that he married Sarah Blatcher at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Dover in Kent on 3 October 1841. Sarah was a school mistress who was born at Hythe in around 1814. The couple had three children before Jesse's death in 1847: Sarah Cheeseman Lorden (born at Hythe in 1844), Lewis George Lorden (Dymchurch, 1845) and Mercy Jane Lorden (Folkestone, 1847).
The 1851 census shows the widowed Sarah living on Chapple Street in Hythe with her three children and three lodgers. The following year Sarah married Thomas Bentley, a carpenter from Bromley in Kent. At the time of the 1861 census she and Thomas were living on Theatre Street in Hythe with Sarah's three children as well as two she had had with Thomas (Emma and Clarrissa Bentley). By 1871 Sarah was again widowed. She had also lost her first son, Lewis George Lorden, who had died in 1868 when he was 23 years old. Sarah continued to live on Theatre Street in Hythe with different members of her family until 1901 when she and her youngest daughter, Clarissa Bentley, were living in an Alms House on Bartholomew Street. According to the Catherine House records, Sarah Bentley (nee Lorden nee Blatcher), aged 93 years, died at Hythe in 1908.
What of Sarah and Jesse's children? We don't know what happened to their eldest daughter Sarah. As mentioned above, Lewis died when he was 23 years old and doesn't appear to have married. The LDS Family Search shows that the 26 year-old Mercy Jane Lorden married James John Hams, the 23 year-old son of William Hams and Susannah Hall, at Christ Church at Folkestone on 22 September 1873. The UK censuses show that she and James lived at Folkstone until Mercy's death there in 1900. We don't think that she and William had any children although it seems that either she or her sister Sarah may have had a son out of wedlock; Ernest E. Lorden, who was born at Hythe in 1863 and was living with his grandmother in 1881. We know he worked as a carpenter but nothing else about him.
2.4. Jonah Lorden (1819-1891) and Charlotte Hunt (1819-1887)
Born at Dymchurch in 1819, Jonah married a local girl, Charlotte Hunt, there in 1839. Charlotte was also born at Dymchurch in 1819, the daughter of Leonard William Hunt and Hephzibah Wills (who were married at Dover in 1811). After their wedding Jonah, who worked as a builder, and Charlotte lived at Dymchurch until sometime between 1861 and 1871 when they moved first to Ashford and then to Maidstone in Kent. The England and Wales National Probate Index shows that Jonah died at Maidstone on 19 July 1891 and that his will was proved by his son Leonard William Lorden, a draper of High Street Hythe, and his widowed daughter Charlotte Lorden of 91 Manor Road West Hill near Hastings in Sussex. Jonah's wife, Charlotte Lorden nee Hunt, had pre-deceased him, dying at Maidstone in 1887.
Jonah and Charlotte had four children we know of: Leonard William (born in 1840), Jonah (1841), Charlotte (1843) and Elizabeth Lorden (1847).
2.4.1. Leonard William Lorden (1839-1914) and Jane Crandall (1843-1916)
Leonard was baptised at Dymchurch in Kent on 27 October 1839. He lived with his parents at Dymchurch until sometime after 1851 when he went to Hythe where he worked as a draper's assistant. In 1868 he married Jane Crandall at the Holy Trinity Church at Newington in London. Their marriage certificate contained on Ancestry's London Parishes database shows that Jane, who was born at Leigh in Kent in around 1843, was the daughter of Richard Crandall who, together with a Lizzie Crandall, witnessed the wedding. The UK censuses show that Leonard and Jane lived at Hythe after their wedding and had four children we know of there: Mabel Crandall (1870-75), Kate Crandall (1871-1949), Leonard William Lorden (1875-1939) and Ethel Crandall Lorden (1877- ).
The England and Wales National Probate Index shows that Leonard William Lorden of 'Ensfield' on Station Road in Hythe died there on 19 July 1914. Probate was awarded to his son-in-law Herbert Stainer (1873-1951), a solicitor, and his married daughter Ethel Crandall Cornish. According to the Catherine House records, Ethel had married Frank Robert Cornish in the Elham RD of Kent in 1904. The same source informs us that Ethel's older sister Kate Crandall Lorden had married Herbert Stainer, who had been born at Folkestone in 1873, in the Elham RD in 1900. The 1901 census shows Kate and Herbert living at 13 Beachborough Villas in North Folkestone. We don't know if the girls' brother, Leonard William Crandall Lorden, who we think died in the Wellington RD of Somerset in 1939, ever married.
2.4.2. Jonah Lorden (1841-74) and Sarah Judith Jones
Jonah lived at Dymchurch with his parents until his marriage to Sarah Judith Jones, the daughter of James Crowhurst Jones and Charlotte Samson Goymer, at Buckland (near Dover) in Kent on 7 August 1864 (Sarah was born in London in around 1843). The LDS Family Search tells us that Jonah died and was buried at Ashford in Kent on 17 October 1874. Although still to be confirmed, we think that the widowed Sarah married again, in 1890 to either Joseph Thomas Barnes or James Robert Goodey.
The LDS Family Search indicates that Jonah and Sarah had a daughter, Edith Charlotte Lorden (1866-1937), who was baptised at Christ Church Milton-next-Gravesend on 14 January 1866. Ancestry's London parishes database shows that she married after banns George Robert Cockle (1863-1935), the son of William Cockle a coachbuilder and Matilda Weeks, at St Peter's Parish Church at Hammersmith in London on 30 August 1890. George was a 27 year-old optician from Pimlico. Edith was 25 years old and living at 2 George Street, St Peter's Square. The wedding was witnessed by a 'Jennie' (difficult to read) Lorden. The 1891 census shows Edith C. (25) and George R. Cockle (27, Paddington London), an optician's assistant, living on Hanover Square in Belgravia in London. They were still there in 1901 (note that Edith was said to have been born at Dover) together with their three children, all of whom were born at Pimlico: Hilda Lorden (9), Herbert Lorden (7) and Victor Lorden Cockle (3). The England and Wales National Probate Calendar shows that George Robert Cockle of 48 Priory Road Kew Gardens in Surrey died at the Royal Hospital at Richmond in Surrey on 10 January 1935. Probate went to his son, Herbert Lorden Cockle, a dental mechanic. George's wife, Edith Charlotte Cockle nee Lorden, died in the Rochford Registration District of Essex in 1937.
Ancestry's databases and other sources show that George and Edith's daughter, Hilda Lorden Cockle (1891-1969), married Arthur William Leddington (1881-1950) at the Holy Trinity Church in Upper Chelsea on 24 May 1919. Arthur was a 38 year-old bachelor and civil servant, the son of Joseph Wintor (?) Leddington, also a civil servant, and was living at 224 Pavilion Road in Chelsea. Hilda, 27, was at 21 Ranlegh Road. Her brother, Herbert Lorden Cockle (1893-1979) married Louise Beatrice Jenks, the 28 year-old daughter of Harry Jenks of the Royal Flying Corps, at All Saints Church in Fullham on 15 March 1918. Herbert was then a 25 year-old soldier and dental technician who was living at 21 Ranleigh Lane in Pimlico. George and Edith's younger son, Victor Lorden Cockle (1897-1974), married Gwendoline S. Barrington in the Rochford RD of Essex in 1926.
2.4.3. Charlotte Lorden
The LDS Family Search shows that Charlotte was baptised at Dymchurch in Kent on 25 October 1842 and that a Charlotte Lorden, the 31 year-old daughter of Jonah Lorden, married John Butts Lorden, 38 year-old son of William Cheeseman Lorden, at St Peter and St Paul's Church at Milton-next-Gravesend in Kent on 18 November 1873 (John died at Gravesend two years later). At the time of the 1891 census, Charlotte (48) was with her father, Jonah Lorden, who later died at Maidstone on 19 July 1891. Part of his will went to his widowed daughter Charlotte Lorden of 91 Manor Road West Hill near Hastings in Sussex. I could find no record of her after that.
2.4.4) Elizabeth Lorden (1847-prob 91) and Henry Clements (1818-94)
Born at Dymchurch Elizabeth married Henry Clements at St Peter's Church at Stepney in London on 24 January 1874. Their marriage certificate contained on Ancestry's London Marriages database shows that Henry was a 56 year-old widower and gentleman who was living at Kennington near Hythe in Kent. His father was Henry Clements, a deceased farmer. Elizabeth's father, Jonah Lorden, was also described as a gentleman. She was a spinster living in St Peter's parish in Stepney at the time of the wedding which was witnessed by Leonard William and Charlotte Lorden.
The 1881 census shows Elizabeth and Henry Clements, a 65 year-old 'late inspector of Nuisances' who was born at Moldash in Kent, living at Willesborough in the East Ashford district of Kent. With them were their two children: Henry F. L. Clements (6, Kennington) and Mary A. H. Clements (2, Willesborough) and a 14 year-old domestic servant Minnie Wright. Although still to be confirmed, we think that Elizabeth died shortly after the census was taken. The 1891 census shows Henry, a 77 year-old widower, living at Willesborough with his 16 year-old son Henry F. L. Clements (who we think died in the East Ashford RD of Kent in 1913). The England and Wales Probate Calendar shows that a Henry Clements of the East Ashford Union at Willesborough in Kent died there on 3 February 1894. Probate was allocated to a James Cutbush Clements, a butcher. We haven't as yet been able to find what happened to Henry and Elizabeth's daughter Mary.
2.5. Lewis Leonard Lorden (1824-1876) and Mary Ann Gardiner (1825-1903)
Born at Dymchurch in 1824, Lewis worked as a painter, plumber and builder. He married a local girl, Mary Ann Gardiner, in around 1847. The couple lived all their married lives in the township of Hythe, first at Bridge Place and then on High Street where Mary Ann ran a lodging house. They had three children all born at Hythe: Louisa Leonora (1848-1906). Louisa was a dressmaker. She remained unmarried and lived most of her life with her parents/mother at Hythe; William Henry Lorden (1852). William worked as a painter. He married Eliza Charlotte Venner probably in Folkstone, in 1881. They had two girls we know of, Charlotte and Elizabeth who were both born in Hythe; Emily Jane Lorden (1856). Emily, too, worked as a dressmaker, appears not to have married, and lived most of her life with her parents/mother at Hythe. Rhiannon Magor has Lewis Leonard Lorden and Mary Ann Lorden (nee Gardiner) dying in the Elham registration district in 1876 and 1903 respectively.
LDS Family Search shows that Annie Collinson Lorden, the daughter of Leonard William Lorden, and Thomas Lumbly Ackerman, son of Joseph Ackerman, were married at Lynsted in Kent on 8 June 1878. By the time of the 1881 census, they had a son Thomas Lorden Ackerman. and Thomas and Annie's children included, in addition to Thomas (11), Sydney Lorden (9), Leon Lorden (6), and Annie Lorden Ackerman (3) where all were born at Lynsted. The 1901 census has Thomas Lumbly and Annie Collinson Ackerman still at the Board School House in Lynsted. With them were Thomas Lorden Ackerman (21 year-old clerk from the War Office), Leon Lorden Ackerman (16) and Annie Lorden Grace Ackerman (13). Their other son Sydney Lorden Ackerman was boarding at Islington in London and also worked in a clerical position in the War Office.
2.6. James Henry Lorden (1831-1900) and Ann Butler (1831-)
James, or Henry as he was called, was with his parents at Dymchurch in 1841. The Catherine House records show that he and Anne Butler were married in the Marylebone registration district of London in the January quarter of 1854. The 1861 census has Henry working as a wholesale grocer and living with his wife and family at 14 Russell Place in Islington in London. They were at Wembly in 1871, Hackney in 1881 and Hammersmith in London in 1891. Henry died in Hammersmith in 1900. His widow Anne then went to live with her eldest daughter Anne Freeman (also widowed) at 16 Benbow Road, Hammersmith in London.
Henry and Anne had ten children altogether: Anne, Fanny, Edward, Emma, Charlotte, Eliza, Louisa, Minnie, Florence and Charles. The Catherine House records show that Annie Lorden, born in Clerkenwell in London in 1855, married Arthur Freeman, a grocer's assistant, in the Fulham registration district of London in 1888. Annie and Arthur had five children - Henry, Ernest, Bertie, Reginald and may - before Arthur's death sometime between 1895 and 1901. Fanny Lorden, born at Clerkenwell in 1858 probably married Alfred henry Johnson in London in 1883. The Catherine House records show an Edward Lorden and Ellen Hughes were married in the Pancras district of London in the July quarter of 1889. At the time of the 1901 census Edward (a 42 year-old carpenter) and Ellen (42) were living at 4 Respect gardens in Eastbourne in Sussex. Also present were EdwardÕs sister Louisa Lorden (32 year-old domestic cook) and their two children: Teddy (10) and Florice (8) where both were born at Eastbourne. I could not find the family in the 1891 census. Born in Islington in London in 1861, Emma lived with her parents until 1871. In 1881 she was working as a domestic servant in the home of a stock broker, Thomas Smith, at Chelsea in London. Charlotte, or 'Lottie', was born in Islington in 1864 and lived with her parents until 1871. In 1881 she was the parlourmaid in charge of the house at 3 Auriol Road at Chelsea in London. Eliza was born at Islington in 1866 and lived with her family until 1871. In 1881 she was a cook at a boarding house run by an Ann Shotton at 34 Warwick Gardens in Kensington in London.
Stephen junior was baptised at West Hythe on 13 May 1787. There is no record of him marrying or having children. The parish records for Lympne and West Hythe show a Stephen Cheeseman, aged 44 years of Hythe being buried at Lympne on 9 November 1829.
William was born at West Hythe on 8 April 1790 and was baptised the next day. He worked as a labourer and married an Ann probably in Brook (a few miles north of Lympne) in around 1814. After their marriage the couple lived in Lympne where they had up to fourteen children: William (baptised 27 Feb 1814), Stephen (17 Dec 1815), James (20 Jun 1817-1820), Amy (25 Apr 1819), Rose (17 Jun 1821), John (30 Mar 1822-1844), Sarah Bejent (10 Jun 1825-1835), Caroline Vale (25 Mar 1827), Mary (7 Feb 1829-1829), Mary Elizabeth (11 Apr 1830), Robert (1832), Thomas (1833), Henry (21 Feb 1835-1857) and possibly John (7 Aug 1842).
The 1841 census shows William (aged 50) and Ann (45) living at Court-at-Street in Lympne with their children John (15), Mary (11), Robert (9), Thomas (8) and Henry (5). The 1851 census shows William (61) and his wife Ann (58) living at 100 Honeypot farm in Lympne with two of their children - Amy (32) and Henry (15) - and a grandson James aged 19. All had been born in Lympne except Ann who was born in Brook in Kent. The 1861 census shows William (widow, 72, an agricultural labourer who was born at West Hythe) living with his son William and their family at 15 Court-at-Street in Lympne.
William died at Lympne on 12 February 1863. His death certificate shows he was 73 years old and died from a paralytic stroke. The informant was an Amy Austen who signed the certificate with a cross.
Angelica died sometime before 1851. The census for that year showed John (then a 55 year-old master cordwainer) living next door to the Rectory in Dymchurch with his unmarried daughter Sarah (27) and grandson Thomas Waddell (7). John was said to be born at Warhorne in Kent (located about ten miles west of Burmarsh). In 1861 he and his grandson were living on Public Street in Dymchurch. They were both still there in 1871 (Thomas was recorded as a fisherman). By the time of the 1881 census, John Waddell (then an 85 year-old widower) was a patient in the New Romney Union Workhouse. The 'Index of births and deaths at Romney Union Workhouse, 1836-1914' indicates that he died there on 5 August 1881 of senile decay and was buried at Dymchurch.
Sarah married William Lorden, the son of William Lorden snr and Mary Bensted, at St Leonard's Parish Church at Hythe (pictured on the left) on 20 April 1806. William was born at Warehorne in Kent in 1871 but had moved to West Hythe where, according to the record of marriage, he and Sarah were both living at the time of their wedding. After their marriage they lived at Dymchurch, where William worked as a builder, and had at least eight children there: William Cheeseman (born in 1807), Stephen (1809), Sarah (1812), Jesse (1814), Charles (1816), Jonah (1819), Lewis Leonard (1824) and James Henry Lorden (1831). All were baptised at the Dymchurch parish church of St Peter and St Paul (pictured below in 1855).
Baptised at West Hythe on 12 May 1799, the parish registers for Lympne and West Hythe show that Angelica Cheesman 'of Lympne' married John Waddell at the parish church of St Stephen (pictured on the left) at Lympne on 16 Jan 1819. The wedding was witnessed by John and Mary Anne Cheesman. John and Angelica had three children: George Waddell (baptised at Burmarsh in 1820), Jane Waddell (Burmarsh, 1821) and Sarah Waddell (Dymchurch, 1824). The 1841 census shows the family living at Dymchurch.