• Christened: 16 Sep 1753, Hellingly, Sussex, England ¹
• Married: 16 Jun 1777, Hellingly, Sussex, England ²
• Buried: 28 Jul 1818, Hellingly, Sussex, England ³

  Research Notes:

Writing his Will in Sep 1799 Edward Wenham of Hellingly, yeoman, bequeathed to his son Ode Wenham and his heirs his tenement garden, land and premises comprising of about 1 acre in Rie Dicker in the parish of Hellingly, along with his brick kiln with its grounds, buildings and hereditaments situated in the same place.

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10 Nov 1802: Minutes of a general court baron. ⁴

Admission of Ody Wenham youngest son of Edward Wenham, to 3 roods at the Dicker.

Grant, with consent of the homage, to Thomas Gosden the younger of Arlington, husbandman, of a rood of land abutting to his land late Dine's, S, Abbots Wood, E, the road from the Hide of Milton to the Dicker, W and the road leading into Abbots Wood, N, quitrent 2s.''

Admission of Ann Ellis, widow of Henry Ellis to two moieties of a messuage and 40 acres in Hellingly

Admission of William Mitchell of Hellingly, potter, on surrender by William Ashby to a messuage and 2 acres on the E part of the Dicker

25 Jul 1808: Conditional surrender. ⁵

Ody Wenham to the use of John Oxley of Hellingly, yeoman, of 3 roods at the Dicker in Hellingly

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SUSSEX.
Copyhold Estates, situate on and adjoining the Dicker, in the Parish of Hellingly.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. HARRIS,
At the White Hart Inn, Horsebridge, on Thursday the 23d day of June, 1814, at two o'clock in the Afternoon....

LOT IV

One Acre and three quarters of good ARABLE LAND, be the same more or less.
For a view of the premises, apply to Mr. ODY Wenham, the Proprietor.—Possession may be had immediately.

Sussex Advertiser, 13 Jun 1814, p. 1

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29 May 1815: Quit-claim. ⁶

Ody Wenham of Hellingly, labourer, to John Pitcher of Hellingly, carpenter

1. A messuage or tenement, brick-kiln, lime-kiln, garden, orchard and 1½ acres of waste land on the east side of the Dicker, near Boship in Hellingly, late Edward Wenham, copyhold of the manor of Laughton, quitrent 5s

2. One ½ acre of ground on the Dicker Common in Hellingly (N, W: land then late Edward Wenham, deceased, and then of Ody Wenham; S, E: the Dicker Common), quitrent 1s

Surrendered by Ody Wenham to John Pitcher to secure £150 and interest, 7 Feb 1807, and to which John Pitcher was admitted 5 Dec 1816 in default of payment of the sum

Witness: John Sinnock

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Ody Wenham Snr of Hellingly died aged 63 years (burial record).