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Christened 28 May 1843 at Danehill, Sussex
Died 1904
Father: William Lutener Langridge
Mother: Mary Funnell

Married Isabella Crossfield Titterington 30 March 1865 at Parish Church, Hollington Children. Arthur James Langridge  b.1866 at Hollington, Sussex, d.1947 at Church in the Wood, 1 child. Luke Lutener Langridge  b.23 Aug 1867 at Hollington, Sussex, m.1st Qtr 1890, d.22 Jul 1952 at New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2 Children. Luke Lutener Langridge 2 children. Edith Agnes Langridge  b.02 Jan 1869 at Hollington, Sussex, Florence Margaret Langridge  b.06 Aug 1870 at Hollington, Sussex, m.07 Apr 1896 at Longparish, Hants, d.24 Nov 1952 at New Plymouth, New Zealand, 3 Children. William Lutener Langridge  b.16 Sep 1874 at Hollington, Sussex, Isabel Caroline Langridge  b.19 Jan 1876 at Hollington, Sussex, m.26 Aug 1899 at Hollington, Sussex, d.30 Oct 1959 at Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, 5 Children. Mabel Helen Langridge  b.02 Feb 1877 at Hollington, Sussex, m.3rd Qtr 1901, James Nimrod Langridge  b.15 Apr 1878 at Battle, Hastings, Sussex, c.01 Sep 1878 at Hollington, Sussex, m.2nd Qtr 1902, d.04 Jan 1970, 2 Children.

Notes: Marriage Whitnessed by: Wm L Langridge junior and Sarah Jane Tittrington

Our great grandfather, James, has proved to be one of the most elusive of our forbears to track down and much of this is educated assumption based on the evidence available. He was baptised in Danehill on 28 May 1843 and in the 1851 census is shown with the rest of his family on a 23 acre farm at Chelwood Common near Fletching. He would have been 11 when his father and the family moved to Hollington in 1854. His elder brother, William Lutener Jnr, was a builder and James followed him into that trade. His father is recorded as having secured a number of building contracts in the Hollington area over a number of years and I would guess that his two sons would be working for him. Another son, Luke may also have been involved but he died at the age of 22 in 1862. William Jnr died at the age of 47 in 1884 and is buried with all his family in a large grave at the Church in the Wood, Hollington.

James and Isabella Crossfield Titterington were married at the Church in the Wood on 30 Mar 1865. Isabella was born in Arnside, Westmorland on 6 Feb 1842, the daughter of Jonathan Titterington, an innkeeper, and Margaret Crossfield and she was the sixth of a family of eleven. I can recall Dad talking of holidays in Arnside as a boy. Apart from Arthur who was a dairyman it appears that all James’s sons followed him into the building industry.

The only other references I have found regarding James are the 1881 census where he and Isabella are shown at Clifton Villa with some of the family and in my grandparents marriage certificate from 1896 where he is recorded as being a builder. A letter from Oct 1886 (reproduced later) states that Luke had found out that his father was in work so it appears that he and Isabella were separated at that stage. He is not recorded as being with Isabella in 1891 or in 1901. In 1891 she is shown as a School Board Officer living at Providence Cottage with Florence, also by now a schoolteacher, Mabel and another schoolteacher lodger, Wm Beetham. James Jnr is with his grandfather and Aunt Carline at Rock Cottage in both 1891 and 1901. Mention has been made that James may have died in 1904 but I have yet to find verification of this.


Occupation: Builder 1881, 1896 (FML M Cert)

1861 Lived: Rook Cottage, Hollington, Sussex (SSX), Rel: Son, Status: U, Age: 17, Occupation: Joiner, Where Born: Fletching, UNK