senior of the grove?

[kylejustin]

there is a death entry on findmypast which may be mine. phillip lawrance, bur.22 dec 1789, st andrew's oving in sussex. here is a note: senior of the grove. there are 2 burials for phillip in this church, neither may be him. any idea's what senior of the grove means?

[Mary from Italy]

Sounds like he was Mr Phillip Lawrance senior, who lived at a place called The Grove.

[JudithM]

I'd say this Philip was the senior (ie older) of 2 (or more) men of the same name and was resident in an area of the parish known as the Grove

[kylejustin]

he had a son phillip, maybe it is my man?

[Jill on the A272]

It sounds to me like he's the older of 2 men of the same name living at the same address, Oving's still only a tiny place (surrounded by cabbage fields & so bit whiffy when I went there a few years back) the Grove sounds like a single house.

[JudithM]

Looking at the 1841 census Oving was in 2 enumeration districts and in the second of these, among a number of houses with the address Colworth there were two households at "Groves" -one a farmer and a female servant, the the other an ag lab and his family so quite possibly Philip senior was the farmer there when he died.

[kylejustin]

wow. im starting to think that maybe it is my phillip. i will have to ut it aside for now, till i can do some more research.