Graylings/Police House

Listing:

TQ 61 NE DALLINGTON BATTLE ROAD20/16 Graylings, Wood’s Corner GV IIThis building is in 2 sections. The east portion was formerly a grocer’s shop. This is C17. 2 storeys. 3 windows. Ground floor stuccoed, above tile-hung. Hipped tile roof. Casement windows on first floor. One bay on ground floor C19shop window with one transom and 6 mullions and panes with segmental headed corners. The west portion which was formerly the residential portion attached to the shop is early C19. 2 storeys. 3 windows. Stuccoed. Tiled roof. Glazing bars intact.

Occupants

(NB During the time that one half of the building became a police house [date] , they are listed separately on the census for those years)

Thomas YORK (1697-1761) lived in Graylings stores in 1726 (source: see comment below)

1841 Census

1851 Census:

Graylings #1
Mary RUPELL		Head	Pauper	1812 Burwash
+ 5 children

Graylings #2
Mary ELLIOTT	51	Head	School mistress	1800 Hawkhurst
Eleanor ELLIOTT	24	Daughter In Law	School mistress	1827 Dallington
Eli ELLIOTT				1837

Graylings #3
William BARTELL		Head	Proprietor of houses	1789 Crowhurst
Frances Ann BARTELL		Wife		1796 Dallington
Alfred Parkinson			‘Annuitant’	1805 London
Edward John SMITH			Greenwich pensioner	1812 Brixton, Surrey
Sarah Jane HOOK			House servant	1830 Dallington

1861 Census to follow

1871 Census

Graylings #1
Thomas Croft	42	Head	Ag Lab	1829 Brightling
Harriet Croft	49	Wife		1822 Ashburnham
Alice Croft	8	Daughter	Scholar	1863 Ashburnham
Mary Croft	6	Daughter	Scholar	1865 Ashburnham
Sarah A Croft	3	Daughter	Scholar	1868 Dallington

Graylings #2
Elizabeth Mitchell	37	Wife		1834 Dallington
Jane A Sweetman	15	Daughter In Law	Cripple thru an Accident	1856 Brightling

Graylings #3
Frank	Croft	32	Head	Agricultural Labourer	1839 Dallington
Mary A	Croft	22	Wife		1849 Dallington

1881 Census

Graylings #1
William Steer	48	Head	Police constable	1833 Horsham
Grace Steer	44	Wife		1837 Hamsey
Edith Blanche Steer	11	Daughter	Scholar	1870 Burwash
Agnes M. Steer	8	Daughter	Scholar	1873 Dallington
Edwin E. Steer	7	Son	Scholar	1874 Dallington
Ernest E. Steer	7	Son	Scholar	1874 Dallington

Graylings #2
Caleb Simmond		Head	Corn Merchant	1851 Dallington
Dorcas Simmond	27	Wife		1854 Lambeth Surrey
Herbert Simmond	6	Son	Scholar	1875 Australia
Thomas Simmond	3	Son	Scholar	1878 Dallington
Arthur Simmond	2	Son		1879 Dallington
Aaron York	25	Servant	Assistant Corn Merchant	1856 Dallington

1891Census Wm BARTON Police Constable & family

1891 Census Caleb SIMMONS Grocer & family & Aaron YORK boarder

1901 Census entry for Grocers shop Caleb SIMMONS 50 & family & Aaron YORK boarder

1901 Census entry for Police Station Stephen MARCHANT, 35 Police Constable + family

1911 Census entry for Graylings Caleb SIMMONS and family inc Aaron York ‘boarder’

1915 PC HENDERSON b. 1873 Scotland, based at Police House (now Graylings) c 1915

1921 Census

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Comments & queries previously posted:

From Julia Mackintosh (nee YORK) October 2011:
I have been tracing my YORK family tree for some time and have found that the family settled in Dallington for a number of years. The children of Thomas YORK (1659?) and Susannah Blackman are all mentioned in a tenement analysis of the village:
Thomas YORK (1697-1761) lived in Graylings stores in 1726,
John YORK (1699-1748) (my direct ancestor) lived at Christmas Farm in 1745. I think that he was a bricklayer.
Benjamin YORK (1706-1747) is listed as living at the Old Manor 1740, following his father Thomas.
Does anyone know of any information about the bricklaying trade in the village or of any other information about the York family? Or about any of these buildings – do they all exist today?
I would love to hear from you. Many thanks, Julia (jmackintosh@rabutler.essex.sch.uk)