Hooe is a parish 6 miles. southwest of Battle, 10 west of Hastings, and 11 east-north-east of Eastbourne, in Ninfield hundred, rape of Hastings, and union of Hailsham, East Sussex The living is a vicarage in the archdeconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester; rated at £7 2s 6d; tithes commuted in 1839; aggregate amount £220 7s 4d. impropriated, and £326 vicarial. The Rev. Thomas Roberts Jones, M. A., is incumbent and patron. The church, said to be dedicated to St Oswald, is an antique stone edifice, with a low and massive embattled tower, a nave and chancel, and a small chapel on the north side, used as a vestry. . “The manor of Hooe being given to the abbey of Bec in Normandy, by Henry, Earl of Ewe, between AD 1096 and 1139, here was (according to the general usage in such cases) shortly after erected an alien priory of Benedictine monks to that foreign house, though sometimes reckoned as parcel of its principal cell in England, Okeburn. It was given by King Henry the VI, with Preston , to Eton College, and by King Edward IV to Ashford College in Kent, A fair for cattle is held here on May 1st. The parish comprises 2,447 acres, and a population, in 1851, of 574 inhabitants. Here is a parochial school for boys and girls, supported by voluntary subscriptions.
HALL’S CROSS is half a mile north; Grove, a quarter of a mile west; Bunt’s bridge, Half a mile west; Court Lodge, half a mile south; Barnhorn and Nutbrown, 2 miles south-east; Little Common, Cowhurst, Pages, and Whites. 2½ miles south-east; Collington, 3 miles south-east; Conden, 3 miles south-east.
Jones, Rev. Thomas Roberts, M. A. [vicar] Blackman, John, farmer, Grove farm. Blackman, Samuel, farmer Carey, Peter, brick layer Carey Stephen. Shoemaker Chapman, Charlotte (Mrs), mistress of Parochial school Chrismas, William, farmer |
Cuthbert, Jsph, “Red Lion”, & blacksmith Dale, Edward, wheelwright Goldsmith, Edwin. farmer Goldsmith Elizabeth (Mrs), farmer King, George, grocer & draper Lemmon, Joshua, farmer Lemmon, Levi, farmer & brickmaker Morris, Thomas, boot & shoemaker & shopkeeper |
Pettett, Jas. & Wm. farmers, Court Lodge Pilbeam, Robert & Sons, carpenters and wheelwright's Pilbeam, John, Lamb, Sewers Bridge Relfe, Thomas, land surveyor and collector of assessed taxes Rich, William, farmer White John, farmer |
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Page 1138 – Bricklayers – Carey P. Hooe, Battle
Page 1141 – Brick & Tile makers – Lemmon L. Hooe, Battle
Page 1162 – Carpenters – Pilbeam R. & Sons Hooe, Battle
Page 1204 – Farmers – Chrismas W., Hooe, Battle
Page 1212 – Farmers – Goldsmith E. Hooe, Battle
Page 1212 – Farmers – Goldsmith Mrs E. Hooe, Battle
Page 1220 – Farmers – Lemmon J. Hooe, Battle
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Page 1229 – Farmers – Rich W. Hooe, Battle
Page 1240 – Farmers – White J. Hooe, Battle
Page 1329 – Publicans – Lamb, J. Pilbeam, Sewers bridge, Hooe, Battle
Page 1335 – Publicans – Red Lion, J. Cuthbert, Hooe, Battle
Page 1374 – Smiths, etc.,– Cuthbert J. Hooe, Battle
Page 1393 – Surveyors – Relfe T. Hooe, Battle
Page 1414 – Wheelwrights – Dale E. Hooe, Battle