William Alston HEAD [3389]

  General Notes:

William Alston Head
Baptism Date: 1 Dec 1808
Baptism Place: East Grinstead, Sussex, England
Father: John Head
Mother: Sarah Head
FHL Film Number: 1041580

William was an Attorney of East Grinstead Sussex: Ref. Piggots 1839 Directory.

West Sussex Record Office: Additional Manuscripts, catalogue 22

Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue
Catalogue Ref. Add Mss 22
Creator(s):
West Sussex Record Office

Deeds of various properties in East Grinstead, Worth, Lingfield, co. Surrey, and St. George, Hanover Square, London

Miscellaneous Premises in Lingfield, co. Surrey

FILE - Conveyance (Lease and Release), in Consideration of L650 - ref. Add Mss 17549, 17550 - date: 29 & 30 September 1831
[from Scope and Content] Witnesses: William Alston Head, Richard George

FILE - Mortgage (Lease and Release), in Consideration of L400 - ref. Add Mss 17551, 17552 - date: 3 & 4 October 1831
[from Scope and Content] George Chapman of Lingfield, co. Surrey, surgeon, to John Jewell, jun., of Linehouse in Lingfield, co. Surrey, farmer, and William Alston Head of East Grinstead, gent

FILE - Assignment of mortgage - ref. Add Mss 17554 - date: 22 November 1858
[from Scope and Content] From (a) John Jewell and William Alston Head, to (b) George Head of East Grinstead, banker

Court Books of the Manors of Ashurst alias Grinstead Wild alias Walhill (1691 - 1914), Sheffield Grinstead (1643 - 1870) and Brambletye (1651 - 1870) in East Grinstead, and Sheffield Lingfield (1643 - 1883) in Lingfield, co. Surrey

Court Books of the Manor of Ashurst alias Grinstead Wild alias Walhill in East Grinstead

Courts Baron
Stewards: Nathaniel Moores 1691 - 1740; Nathaniel Moore jun. 1740 - 68; George Banking 1770 - 81; Thomas Walley Partington 1783 - 1821; Pinder Simpson 1822 - 44; William Pearless 1845 - 48; William Alston 1848 - 61; William Austen Pearless, c. 1861; Nugent Septimus Pearless, 1883

Ref A2A

PRO - C202 = Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Writ Files
C 202/220A/16 Nottingham - William Parsons; Oxford - John Marriott Davenport; Salop - Richard Ford; Somerset - Charles Bayly, Charles Macy, James Wigan; Stafford - Francis Blagg, Frederick Bond, John Barlow Seckerson, Francis Woodward; Suffolk - Edgar Chenery; Sussex - William Alston Head, William Scrivens; Warwick - John Bird, William Russell, Edward Short, James Stringer; Wilts - Matthias Thomas Hodding; Worcester - Thomas Beale, John Curtler; York - Charles Hoyland Bingley, Henry John Coleman, William Greenwood Rylah. 1830
2007

  Research Notes:

Some data, complements of Alston Family Tree (Colin Lee) Ancestry - 2018

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, East Grinstead Sussex. William is recorded as head of house married aged 42 an attorney and solicitor born East Grinstead

2. Census: England, 8 Apr 1861, East Grinstead Sussex. William is recorded as head of house married aged 52 and Attorney at Law and solicitor born East Grinstead

3. Census: England, 2 Apr 1871, East Grinstead Sussex. William is recorded as head of house married age 62 a solicitor born East Grinstead

4. William Alston Head: Will, 13 Nov 1868.
William will's his entire estate to his son William Alston Head.

Head William Alston
6 June 1879.
The will of William Alston Head late of East Grinstead in the County of Sussex Gentleman who died 4 April 1879 at 4 Cambridge Terrace Hastings in the said County was proved at the Principal Registry by William Alston Head of East Grinstead Solicitor the Son the executor according to the tenor. Personal estate under £800
Ref: National Probate Calendar.

William married Ellen TICEHURST [3390] [MRIN: 1148]. (Ellen TICEHURST [3390] was born in 1809 in Battle SSX and died in 1879 in East Grinstead.)