The HARLAND Family of Sussex

Ancestors of Mandy Willard

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The HARLAND Family of Sussex

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Hurstpierpoint

My Possible Harland Ancestors

A 5x Great Grandmother may have been Sarah Harland. But, and this is a big but, it depends on who was the father of my illegitimately born Great Grandfather William Stillaway (1866-1939).

William Stillaway's mother was Eliza Stillaway (1846-1908) and in 1874 she married Henry Silverson (1850-?). I think that she had previously had a relationship with Henry's elder brother William Silverson (1842-?). My reasons being that Eliza gave birth to illegitimate twins named William and Eliza - named after herself and possibly their father? William Silverson was himself a twin and although he was in the area (Henfield and Woodmancote) when the 1861 census was recorded, he wasn't there in 1871 and by 1881 he may have been a sailor on board a ship moored down in Plymouth. So did he do a runner after the twins were born?

However, even if William Silverson was not my direct ancestor, his brother was my step ancestor, making Sarah Harland a step 5x Great Grandmother. Sarah may have been the daughter of Richard Harland and Ann Juniper, or Henry Harland and Elizabeth Gander who married in Hurstpierpoint in 1751.