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HISTORY OF HARTING. 



NOTE IN CENSUS OF 1851. 



" 1821. The increase of population in Harting is 

 attributed to the return of the poor to their own 

 Parishes from the scarcity of agricultural employment." 

 Subsequent figures, however, tend to show that since 

 1821 there has been genuine growth not due to any 

 single or temporary cause. Probably this results 

 chiefly from better medical attendance, wiser charity 

 for the sick, and increased attention to the laws of 

 health. There has been of late years no such epidemic, 

 we may record with thankfulness to the Giver of 

 Health, as that which carried off forty-two persons at 

 Harting in the single year 1853. 



The following is a list of Nonagenarians in Harting 

 since 1820: 



1820 May 25... 

 1822 Jan. 29... 



1822 March 21 



1823 Sep. 26... 



1824 Sep. 2 ... 

 1835 Jan. 9 ... 

 1841 Feb. 25... 

 1841 Sep. 7 ... 

 1846 Nov. 7 ... 

 1852 Nov. 21 

 1854 July 13... 

 1857 Nov. 24 

 1859 Jan. 26... 

 1859 June 19... 

 1875 Dec. 15. 



Richard Gale 90 



Ann Restall 93 



Ann Gregory 95 



Charles Coles, Esq., Ditcham 90 



William White 90 



Thomas Loaten 93 



Mary Paye 96 



William Chitty 90 



Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, Uppark 91 



Mary Loyd 92 



John Restall 90 



George Vallar 93 



Sarah Caplin 91 



Lucy Hounsom 90 



Sarah Pook 96 



Eight men and seven women. 



Oldest man living (1877), John Love, 89; oldest 

 woman, Sarah New,88; Mr. John Bowstead, Uppark, 88. 



The meaning of old names is a dangerous specu- 

 lation. It is with some tremor, therefore, that I 

 append the following ventures : 



"Uppark," "Ou re park," or "Overpark" (1370), is 

 evidently so called in distinction to the two lower 



