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NB. Later evidence makes it clear that William Adams owned TA 901. The tithe apportionment incorrectly attributes the number to Henry Austen but his property was in fact 901.5. A whole series of small tenements gradually acquired by the Adams family at the cross made them significant landowners in the developing village. Some of the individual tenements are difficult to identify with certainty but the identification of the sites owned by the family on the tithe map is largely correct. William Adams was acting as executor of the will of Ann Adams in 1840 and the tithe commissioners recorded him as owner of several tenements which he held in that capacity at that precise moment. Most of those tenements were purchased from the estate by other members of the family shortly afterwards. Because of that anomaly the tithe apportionment and the manor court books often identify different owners. We have associated the tenements with the owners named in the tithe apportionment The family was influential in the parish. The patriarch John Adams was a miller. George was the landlord at the Royal Oak while Henry was the owner of the non-conformist chapel that was then situated at the Cross, while other sources reveal that Elizabeth Adams was a shop owner at Barcombe Cross in 1839. The Day family, who sold some of this property to John Adams in 1819 (TA 905, 906), owned a barge on the Upper Ouse navigation, plying trade between Uckfield (Shortbridge) and Lewes and it is possible that one of the Adams family was also a barge owner. In 1804 Thomas Adams owned a 16 ft barge called the Victory and James and Thomas Day owned the Lark. Their cargo was said to be marl, chalk and timber etc (66). Traces of the canal locks can still be seen near Barcombe Mills. The navigation, never a particularly successful enterprise, was finally eclipsed by the advent of the railway. All properties to the west of the road were purchased by William Grantham by 1881. |
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