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The Guy Connection
This connection page is
dedicated to the surname "GUY"
From the middle of the
18th Century onwards, an increasing number of Brickyards were established and
most of them were family-run. Some belonged to quite substantial Yeoman farmers,
such as the GUY'S
of Chiddingly.
Brickyard on Limekiln Farm,
Chiddingly [close to Chalvington Boundary]
Richard GUY,
first mentioned as a Brickmaker in 1754, had
a yard on Limekiln Farm, on the boundary
between Chiddingly and Chalvington and bought another at Mill
House Farm, on the
West side of the Dicker in 1789. Richard
supplied the bricks for building at Glynde Place in 1754, and was suceeded by
his son Walter GUY
in 1796.
Brickyard on Millhouse
Farm, West side of The Dicker, Chiddingly
William FUNNELL the
younger was granted the copyhold in 1773.
There was a
Limekiln here as well in 1773.The site was sold to Richard
GUY in
1789.
Mill House Farm
was run as a family
business until some time after 1844. . John
GUY advertised as
a Brickmaker from 1859-1867 and Mrs John Guy in 1882.
Brickyard at
Golden Cross near Chiddingly [now Brickfields Farm]
By 1789 Richard GUY was
working in partnership with his son Walter
GUY , who in 1800
acquired a third Brickyard to the North of the others.
In his will made in 1802
Richard GUY
left his share of the brickmaking business to 2 more of his sons, Jesse
and David GUY,
but Walter GUY
seems to have retained the management of it.
During the slump of the 1820's, Walter
GUY was forced to sell all 3 brickyards. But he leased 2 of them
back. The Guy's were still tenants of the Limekiln
Farm and Mill House Farm
Brickyards in 1844, but by the late 1850's they were all under
seperate management. John GUY and Thomas
GUY were both advertising as Brickmakers on The Dicker.
John GUY's widow
kept the brickyard going at Mill House Farm until the mid 1880's . And Thomas
GUY was suceeded by his son Gauis GUY
who continued until the mid 1880's as well.
By the middle 1880's Brickyards were
becoming very uneconomical. In 1887 John
GUY's son Stephen GUY moved to a
yard in Hawkswood, on the outskirts of Hailsham.
There he could supply the bricks to local development and send them to
Eastbourne via the railway.
A last generation of Guy's represented by
William GUY advertised as a Brickmaker in
Hailsham until the 1920's.
Source reading: Brickmaking In Sussex by
M Beswick
Dissenters
The GUY's
belonged to a group of Dissenters called Independent
Calvinists. A barn was registered as a place
of worship in 1813 and in the following year
a site was acquired for the construction of a chapel on the north side of the
Lewes Road at Lower Dicker. The names of
several of the Guy's were amongst the founding members and also in the
building accounts.
Walter GUY
was paid £62 13s for bricks and tiles
Jesse GUY
was paid £8 for carriage of materials
Descendents
of Gauis GUY
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