Stephen Cheeseman and Sarah Bejent's Family

(last updated: 11 July 2008)

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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.

Details of these various families can be viewed on my Cheeseman and Bass Families and Rhiannon Magor's Miss websites on Rootsweb.

1. Rose Cheeseman (1783-) & (1) John Thorndin & (2) John Hambrook (1774-)

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).

2. Sarah Cheeseman (1784-1842) & William Lorden (1781-1866)

Sarah was baptised at West Hythe on 20 February 1875. The parish records for St Leonard's Parish Church (pictured on the left) at Hythe show that Sarah and William were married there on 20 April 1806. Both were said to be 'of West Hythe' even though later censuses indicate that William was born at Wareham in Kent. The couple subsequently lived in Dymchurch where they had at least eight children: William Cheeseman Lorden (1807-1846), Stephen Lorden (1809-1837), Sarah Lorden (1812-1900), Jesse Lorden (1814-1847), Charles Lorden (1817-1832), Jonah Lordan (1819-1891), Lewis Leonard Lorden (1824-1876) and James Henry Lorden (1831-1900). All were baptised at the local parish church of St Peter and St Paul (pictured below in 1855).

Sarah Lorden (nee Cheeseman) died at Dymchurch on 10 February 1842. William continued to live by himself in Dymchurch until his death there in 1866. At the time of the 1861 census he had with him his unmarried daughter Sarah Lorden and his granddaughter Annie Lorden. Annie was born in Hythe in 1854 and was probably Sarah's illegitimate daughter.

What of William and Sarah's children? We know little of the lives of William Cheeseman and Charles Lorden beyond their dates of birth and death. Known details of their other children and their family and lives are as follows:

2.1. Stephen Lorden (1809-1837) and Charlotte Loud Pelling

The Gawrock-Parker Genealogy website has a Stephen Lorden who was born at Kent and died there on 28 March 1837. He was said to have married Charlotte Loud Pelling and had three children, all born at Dymchurch in Kent, before Stephen's death there in 1837. These were: Stephen Lorden (born in 1834), Charles Loud Lorden (1835) and Sarah Lorden (13 Feb 1837). The website further indicates that Stephen and Charlotte's eldest son, Stephen, emigrated to Australia where he married Emma Kendall Badcock at Ballarat East on 1 October 1861. Emma was the daughter of John and Harriet Badcock (nee Kendall). She was born at Hoxton in Middlesex in England on 23 January 1843 and died at Penola in South Australia on 23 Sep 1893. Stephen Lorden died at Orange in New South Wales on 2 Sep 1901. Stephen jnr and Emma had eleven children all born in Australia: Stephen, Emma, Alice, Marion, Charlotte, Susan, Charles Loud, William George, Henry Edward, Arthur and Frederick Lorden.

Stephen's younger brother, Charles Loud Lorden, also emigrated to Australia (in 1858 on the sailing ship the KENT). He married Sarah Minehan at Dubbo in New South Wales on 8 January 1885, and died at Orange in 1901. He and Sarah had at least one child: Charlotte Loud Dalton Minehan who was born in 1887.

2.2. Sarah Lorden (1812-1900)

Born at Dymchurch in 1812, Sarah Lorden never married but did have a daughter out of wedlock, Annie Collinson Lorden who was born at Hythe in 1854. At the time of the 1861 census, Sarah and Annie were living at Dymchurch with Sarah's father William Lorden. The 1871 census has Sarah working as the resident schoolmistress at the national school house at Dymchurch. With her was her 'niece' Annie C. Lorden and a lodger Thomas Ackerman, a certificate marker from London. In 1881 and 1891 Sarah, an unmarried annuitant, was living with Thomas and Annie in the School House in Lynsted. The younger couple were married in 1878. They were still there at the time of Sarah's death, probably in Lynsted, in 1900.

Annie and Thomas both worked as registered teachers in the Board School at Lynsted in Kent. They had four children all born at Lynsted: Thomas Lorden Ackerman, Sydney Lorden Ackerman, Leon Lorden Ackerman and Annie Lorden Grace Ackerman.The Commonwealth War Grave Commission website shows that LCpl Leon Lorden Ackerman of The Buffs (East Kent) Regiment was killed at the Somme on 1 July 1916 and was buried at the Thiepval war cemetery in France. The website notes that he was the son of 'Thomas Lumbley Ackerman of Hope Villa in Lynstead in Sittingbourne in Kent'. Leon was 32 years old when he died. Rhiannon Magor tells us that Leon's name is included on a marble war memorial located in the church at Lynsted.

2.3. Jesse Lorden (1814-1847) and Sarah (1814-1908)

Born at Dymchurch in 1814, Jesse worked as bricklayer until his death in Dymchurch in 1847. The Catherine House records show that he married either Sarah Blatcher or Sarah Constance in 1841 (vol 5, page 202). Sarah was a school mistress who was born in Hythe in around 1814. The couple had three children before Jesse's death in 1847: Sarah Lorden (born in Hythe in 1844), Lewis George Lorden (Dymchurch, 1845) and Mercy (Folkestone, 1847). Following the death of her first husband, Sarah married Thomas Bentley, a carpenter from Bromley in Kent, in 1852. In 1861 she and Thomas were living on Theatre Street in Hythe with Sarah's three children as well as two she had with Thomas: Emma (8) and Clarrissa (5). By 1871 Sarah was again widowed. She had also lost her first son, Lewis George Lorden, who died in 1868 aged 24 years. Sarah continued to live on Theatre Street in Hythe with different members of her family until 1901 when she and her youngest daughter, Clarissa, were living in an Alms House on Bartholomew Street. According to the Catherine House records, Sarah Bentley (nee Lorden) died in Hythe in 1908 aged 93 years.

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 been married. The census records suggest that Mercy may have married a James Ham or Hams, a pipe maker who was born in Folkestone in 1850, probably in 1871. She and James lived in Folkstone until Mercy death there in 1900. She was then 53 years old. It seems that either Sarah or Mercy had a son out of wedlock, Ernest E. Lorden, who was born in Hythe in 1863 and was living with his grandmother in 1881. He worked as a carpenter. I have been unable to find any other record of 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. The couple lived at Dymchurch until sometime between 1861 and 1871 when they moved first to Ashford and then to Maidstone in Kent (where each died and were buried, Jonah in 1891 and Charlotte in 1887). They had four children in all: Leonard William Lorden (born in 1840), Jonah (1841), Charlotte (1843) and Elizabeth (1847). Elizabeth was born at St Helen's on the Isle of Jersey while the others were born at Dymchurch.

The censuses show that Leonard William Lorden worked first as a draper's assistant and then as a draper. According to the Catherine House records, he married Jane Crandall in the Newington district of London in Surrey in the July quarter of 1868. Jane was born at Leigh in Kent in 1843. In 1871 Leonard and Jane were living on High Street in Hythe where they had their four children: Mabel Crandall Lorden (1870-1875); Kate Crandall Lorden (1872) who married Herbert Stainer, a solicitor from Folkestone, in 1900; Leonard W. C. Lorden (1875) and Ethel Crandall Lorden (1877). In 1891 Ethel was a pupil at an all-girl school at Hove in Kent run by a Marianne E. Mansfield (Ethel's brother Leonard was then boarding at the Maidstone Grammar School). The Catherine House records show Ethel was married in the Elham district of Kent in 1904 (possibly to Frank Robert Cornish).

From around 1881 the family lived at 'Eusfield' in the Newington parish of East Hythe. By the turn of the century only Leonard, who had retired, Jane and their youngest daughter Ethel were living there. Ethel was working as a domestic servant.

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.

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.

3. Stephen Cheeseman (1787-1829)

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.

4. William Cheeseman (1790-1863) & Ann(e) (1793-1859)

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.

William and Anne's children included:

4.1. William Cheeseman (1814-1896) & Susan(nah) Vanton (1819-1897)

William was baptised at Lympne on 27 February 1814. He married Susan Vanton at Lympne on 29 August 1840 and continued to live and work, as a labourer, at Lympne until his death in February 1863. The parish records for Lympne and West Hythe shows they had a number of children baptised at St Stephen's, Lympne: Thomas (baptised 1846), Emily (1848), James (1850), William (1852), Henry (1854), Ann (1857) and Stephen (1859). The 1851 to 1881 censuses show that the family lived all this time at Court-at-Street in Lympne. The Catherine House records indicate that William and Susan probably died and were buried at Lympne in 1896 and 1897 respectively.

What of their children? The Lympne parish records show that Thomas Cheeseman married Elizabeth Sarah Jane Brooks there in 1874. Both Thomas and Elizabeth were said to be 'of Lympne', and the wedding was witnessed by a James Cheeseman (presumably Thomas' brother). The 1881 census shows Thomas and Elizabeth living at Court-at-Street in Lympne. Elizabeth must have died sometime between then and 1889, for the census for the latter date shows Thomas Cheeseman, a 55 year-old agricultural labourer, living at Court-at-Street in Lympne with a Charlotte Rose Ann (37 and born at Mersham in Kent) and their children: Emily (12), Abigail Ellen (9), Bessie Maud (5) and Charlotte Ann (3) where all had been born in Lympne. The national burial index has a Thomas Cheesman, aged 57, of Lympne being buried there in 1903.

As for William and Susan's other children, the 1901 census shows: 1) a William Cheeseman, a 48 year-old carman and general carrier who was born at Court St in Lympne, living at 42 Denmark St in Folkestone with his wife Jane (50); and 2) a John Cheeseman, a hay trusser aged 59 and born in Lympne, living in the civil parish of Sympne Entire in Kent with his wife Eliza (60 and born at North Mopine in Hertfordshire) and grandaughter Ellen Louisa Lewis (11 and born in Portsmouth in Hampshire). The national burial index has an 81 year-old John Cheeseman of House Hill at Lyminge being buried at Lympne on 31 August 1922.

4.2. Robert Cheeseman (1832- ) & Mary Ann Higgins (1837- )

Robert was born in Lympne in 1832 and married Mary Ann Higgins there on 6 March 1858. Mary was born in Bonnington in Kent in 1837. The census and parish records for Lympne and West Hythe show that they had at least seven children: Louis (or Lewis) William (baptised in West Hythe in 1855), Alfred James (Lympne, 1860), William Henry John (Burmarsh, 1861), Albert Charles (Lympne, 1863), Emma J. (Hinxhill, 1867) and Ellen H. (Hinxhill, 1869). As this list indicates, the family was living at Burmarsh in 1861 and Hinxhill in Kent in 1871. The 1891 census has no record of Robert. His wife, Mary Ann, is a housekeeper at the home of James Baldock at Paddock Street, Challock in Ashford (Mary Ann is recorded as being married). Robert and Mary's son, Robert Cheeseman (28), was then living at Westwell in Ashford with his wife Sarah (25 and born at Challock in Kent), their children, Annie (5), Ellen (3) and Hilda (1), and Robert's brother Albert Cheeseman (27, single and working as an agricultural labourer).

5. Angelica Cheeseman (1799-<1851) & John Waddell (1799-1881)

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.

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.

5.1. George Waddell (1820-1892) & (1) Sarah Parris (1820-<1861) and (2) Jane Bayley (1830- )

The Catherine House records show George Waddell and Sarah Parris were married in the New Romney district of Kent in the October quarter of 1841 (vol 5, page 567). Sarah had been born at Hempstead in Middlesex in 1820. The 1851 census has George (a 30 year-old journeyman cordwainer) living at Dymchurch with his wife Sarah and four children: Sarah (9), Rhoda Ann (7), Jane (4) and Charlotte (2) where all were born at Dymchurch. Sarah died some time before the 1861 census which shows George, a 40 year-old widower and shoemaker, living on Public Street in Dymchurch with five of his children: Charlotte (11), Eliza (9), Louisa (7), Rhoda (6) and Henry (3).

In 1863 George married Jane Bayley who was from Lydd in Kent and had already had a daughter, Mary (born at Lydd in 1856). The 1871 census shows George (50) and Jane (39) living at Lydd where, according to Rhiannan Magor, George had a shoe shop. The 1881 and 1891 censuses have George and his wife Jane and their various children living at Lydd. Altogether he and Jane had four children: Harriet, Rose Sarah, George and Henrietta Waddell where all were born at Lydd.

George Waddell snr died in Lydd in 1892.

What of George and Jane's children?

Rhiannon Magor tells us that their daughter, Harriett Waddell, married Charles Oiller from Lydd in 1882. The 1891 census shows Harriet and Charles and their young family at the British Lion, a public house in Lydd in Kent. Also present was Harriet's sister, Rose S. Waddell (25 year-old domestic servant). In 1901 the family was living at No 1 Battery at Lydd. Charles and Harriet had altogether eight children, all born at Lydd: Charles William Douglas Oiller (1883), Francis Norman oiller (1885), Catherine F. Oiller (1887), Joseph George Oiller (1887), Arthur Percy Oiller (1890), Raymond Cecil Oiller (1892), Lilian Gladys Oiller (1899) and Dorothy May Oiller (1902). According to Rhiannon, Charles Oiller married Ellen Katherine Louise Tart and had one child and Arthur Oiller married Ethel Brignall and had six children.

Rose Sarah Waddell married John William Brignall in Kent in 1895. The 1901 census shows them living at East Bay in Lydd in Kent with their three children - John E. (6), Ethel (4) and George (8m) - and three nephews: Ernest Alfred Oiller (16 year-old fisherman), John Wallis Oiller (14) and Fred Oiller.

What of George and Sarah's children?

Rhiannon Magor tells us that Sarah Waddell worked as a servant for George Playford and his family in Winchelsea St Thomas the Apostle in 1861. She later married Edward Court from Dymchurch and appears to have had no children.

Rhoda Ann Waddell married John Pennington (from Bouth Colton in Lancashire) in Ulverstone in Cumbria in 1867. The couple had two children: George Henry Pennington (born at Haverthwaite Colton in Lancashire in 1868) and Elizabeth Pennington (Cartmel, Lancashire in 1882). The 1871 and 1881 censuses show the family at Low Wood in Lancashire. Rhoda died there, aged 46 years, in 1889. The 1891 census has John, a 50 year-old widower, horse driver and groom, and his daughter Elizabeth, still at Low Wood. By 1901 John was working as a gunpowder van driver. He was still at Low Wood and this time had with him his son George Henry Waddell (a 33 year-old railway signalman), George's wife Mary Ann Patrick who he had married in 1891, and their four children: George Thomas (9), Rhoda Ann (6), John Henry (5) and Maggie (1). Mary Ann and her son George were born at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, the other three children were born in Haverthwait in Lancashire.

Jane Waddell, then aged 21 years, was working as s servant for the Snelling family at St Mary Magdalene in Hastings in Sussex in 1871. We have not been able to trace her after that.

According to Rhiannon Magor Eliza Waddell was working as a servant in Brookland in 1871 and living with a James Brignall and family. James was a farmer of 200 acres 'on what we today call "The Flats". She gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Fanny Waddell, in 1872'. Five years later, Eliza married William John Ridden. The couple had four children: William John, Albert Edwin, George, Jane and Frederick Ridden. Rhiannon continues 'Their address in 1881 was 31 Harvey Street Folkestone. This street is on the north side of Folkestone, close to Harvey Grammar School'. In 1891 the family was living at 68 St James Street in Dover. By this time William (39) was working as a fisherman. They had with them Frederick Ridden (a 38 year-old hotel porter born in Hythe), his wife Ann (37, Dover) and their son Charles (6, Dover). Frederick was described as a boarder but was probably also William's brother. In 1901 William and Eliza were at 44 Adrian Street in Dover with three of their children: Albert (21), Jane (16) and George (12).

In 1871 Louisa Waddell was working as a servant for the Cherfield family at Tenterfield in Kent. Rhiannon Magor has her marrying Thomas George Weir at Romney Marsh in the June quarter of 1876. In 1901 she and Thomas were living at Hougham Christ Church in Dover. They had two children: George (born at Dover in 1885) and Alice Rhoda (1880, Dover).

According to Rhiannon Magor, Henry Waddell married twice, first to a Rose Green and then to an Elizabeth with whom he had two childred: William and Henry both of who were born at Lydd in Kent.

Image sources:
St Stephen Lympne 1855, St Leonard Hythe 1855 and St Peter & St Paul Dymchurch 1855, sepia drawings by William F. Saunders. All obtained from the Kent Archeological Society visual records website.

Last updated 11 July 2008

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