including Cuckfield & Worthing
(leading to the Duffield/Canadian line)
"Our earliest connection is through THOMAS GEERE of Cuckfield, born about 1590. His descendant is PETER GEERE of Washington, Sussex. He is the father of HANNAH GEERE, mother of ELIAS BLAKE GEERE, a bricklayer born 1785 in Washington, Sussex, (my 3rd. great grandfather) who married HESTER (or ESTER) SPICER in 1810."
THOMAS GEERE of Keymer and Cuckfield, Yeoman. Born 1590 or 1600/5. Died before 1675. Married Mary ("Goody" of Ardingly). Buried 02/01/1675.
THOMAS GEERE the Younger. Yeoman, christened 11/05/1628 @ Keymer. Buried 14/04/1697 @ Cuckfield. Married Anne ? buried 20/04/1687 @ Cuckfield.
ELLIS GEERE. Yeoman, christened 26/12/1655 @ Cuckfield. Died 1718. Married SARAH WOOD 12/04/1690 @ Cuckfield.
SARAH died 1726.
ELLIS GEERE. Yeoman and farmer. Christened 21/01/1691 @ Cuckfield. Married MARY HILYERT 21/01/1718 @ St. Thomas at Cliffe, Lewis, Sussex. ELLIS died 28/03/1762.
PETER GEERE. Christened (when an adult) 18/01/1770 @ Washington, Sussex. Married MARY PATCHIN 02/01/1759 @ Washington, Sussex. PETER buried 11/08/1795 @ Washington, Sussex.
HANNAH GEERE unmarried in 1785 of Washington, Sussex. John Blake, servant to John Carter, a farmer of Ashurst, was the father of her child ELIAS BLAKE GEERE (Ref A)
A ELAIS GEERE (ELIAS ?) father of JOHN BLAKE GEERE, father of ARTHUR BLAKE GEERE born @ Broadwater 1848,
father of GEORGE HENRY GEERE. leading up to NICHOLAS GEERE of Aldborough & his daughter NICOLA GEERE.
ELIAS BLAKE GEERE, bricklayer, baptized 25/07/1785 @ Washington, Sussex. (father, John Blake). Died 19/12/1869 @ Worthing or Broadwater, Sussex. (Keith's grt-grt-grt grandfather.) Married ESTHER (or Hester) SPICER 04/11/1810 @ Broadwater. ESTER born 1789/91 @ Broadwater. Died in 1866. Ref 2
ELIAS BLAKE GEERE, builder, born 1821 @ Broadwater, christened 22/03/1821 @ Broadwater. Married HARRIET DUMBRELL, 04/04/1847 @ Brighton. HARRIET born 1817 @ Ashurst. ELIAS died 06/12/1899 @ Broadwater.
HARRIET JANE GEERE, servant, born 1854 @ St. Nicholas, Brighton, married GEORGE ANTHONY DUFFIELD, bricklayer, 07/02/1880 @ Broadwater. GEORGE born 13/01/1856 @ Ferring. (Ed's note: not sure who the death date relates to, Harriet or George): died 1918 @ Worthing.
HOWARD VINCENT DUFFIELD, moulder, painter, born 30/03/1895 @ Worthing. Married CLARA MAUD BOTTERILL 24/10/1920 @ Galt, Ontario, Canada. HOWARD died 16/01/1971 @ Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
STANLEY HOWARD DUFFIELD born 13/03/1926 @ Toronto, Canada, married MARY MADELINE JAMES 21/07/1951 @ Toronto, Canada. STANLEY died 17/02/2002 @ Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
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2 JOSEPH BLAKE GEERE BORN 1812/6 @ Broadwater, Sussex. Died 1900. Married SUSANNAH BACON 24/04/1841 @
Broadwater. She was born 1813/14 @ Worthing, Sussex, daughter of JOHN BACON. (great great great uncle)
3 SUSANNAH (or Susan) GEER/E born Feb 1842 @ Broadwater. Died 1845 @ Worthing. (1st cousin thrice removed).
2 JOHN BLAKE GEERE born 1814 @ Broadwater. Married MARY ? 1832-37 @ Broadwater. MARY born about 1815/16 @
Broadwater.
3 HARRIET GEER born 1836 in Sussex.
3 GEORGE BLAKE GEERE born 11/12/1837 @ Broadwater.
3 JOHN BLAKE GEERE born 09/10/1839 @ Broadwater.
3 JAMES BLAKE GEERE born 20/10/1841 @ Broadwater.
3 ELIAS BLAKE GEERE born 05/07/1843 @ Broadwater.
3 ALICE BLAKE GEERE born 25/11/1844 @ Broadwater.
3 WILLIAM BLAKE GEERE born 13/08/1846 @ Broadwater. Died 1925. Married ELLEN MANN 05/12/1868 @ Goring Sussex
4 JOSEPH GEERE born 1872 died 1943
4 GEORGE GEERE born 1877. Died 1953.
3 FANNY BLAKE GEERE born 1850 @ Broadwater died 1850 @ Broadwater.
3 ARTHUR BLAKE GEERE BORN 1848/9 @ Worthing. Died 1922 @ Cuckfield. Married MARY ? ? who was born 1848 @
Cuckfield. (see A. above)
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