Deeds of Whitehouse Farm, Waldron

Summary of contents

AMS 5598/1 Selwyns in Waldron, purchased by Joseph Fuller the elder in 1788

AMS 5598/2 Whitehouse Farm in Waldron, inherited by Joseph Fuller the younger in 1793

AMS 5598/3 The whole estate, 1793-1839

AMS 5598/4 Brookhouse in Waldron, purchased by Joseph Paine Fuller in 1839

AMS 5598/5 The whole estate, 1839-1913

Documents deposited 25 April 1966 (ACC 749)

These documents were originally listed in a single chronological sequence as AMS 5598/1-39, with the frequent use of A and B numbers to list associated documents. Because the original listing served to obscure the separate descent of the individual properties, the opportunity was taken when preparing the list for inclusion on the Access to Archives website to re-list the deeds in their original bundles the better to convey the distinct titles.

In 1946 F Holcombe Fuller deposited a group of family papers with the Sussex Archaeological Society, which listed them as HA 670-695. These were transferred to ESRO in 1982 and relisted as AMS 5923; cross-references to these and other documents formerly held by the Society have been inserted at the appropriate points in this list.

What was known by 1888 as Whitehouse Farm in Waldron was an amalgam of several freehold and copyhold tenements which had been assembled by members of the Fuller family between 1788 and 1839. Already in 1743 a Joseph Fuller owned land in the area. In 1788 Joseph Fuller the elder purchased Selwyns, a house and 52 acres with a pew in Waldron Church. In 1793 his son Joseph Fuller inherited Whitehouse Farm, a mixed freehold and copyhold estate, from his uncle Nicholas Wood of Claverham in Arlington, and in 1839 his grandson Joseph Paine Fuller purchased Brookhouse in Waldron.

Following Joseph Paine Fuller's premature death the property descended to his sister Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Blaker of Perching [in Edburton]. On her death on 29 April 1888 the property was inherited by her son Nathaniel Paine Blaker of Brighton, surgeon, the author of Sussex in Bygone Days (Hove, 1919). A photograph of the author appears opposite page 139.

The name R L Gordon was endorsed an abstract of title in about 1930; the documents were deposited by P L Gordon of Tenterden in 1966.