Sydenham Town Forum

When visiting Sydenham, travelled along Jews Walk to Taylor's Lane, home of my forbears. The earliest Cheasman (Cheseman) I have so far is an Isaac .
So I've been wondering when/what the Jewish connection is to Sydenham and whether my origins are in a Jewish family, perhaps anglicising their name ...

Thanks a lot for your time, trouble and interest in clearing this up for me Steve. I've also had aresponse from a 3rd person referring to 1851 and '61 censuses saying the same thing. I'll advise my original contact as diplomatically as I know how!
Hope to make time to view the 'old place' in the ...

Thanks again for the previous information - but reviewing my earlier information I now have a conflict. I'd been given Stephen Cheasman at Taylor's Lane 1851 census, but this Taylor's LAne was at Lee, apparently due east of Lewisham. I will be querying my informant too - a Cheeseman researcher for ...

Thanks again Steve.
Yes I'd got most of the information, and have recently been told that Stephen snr.'s wife Jane was born Llandilo, Monmouthshire.
the IGI has Arthur Wallace listed as son of Stephen Farmer Cheasman and Emma. Does your comment imply that the original definitely has Fenner not ...

Thanks a lot Steve. It seems that spelling wasn't a precise art even a hundred years ago, and it's probable that my gt gt grandfather Stephen Fenner 'Cheasman' was a grandson of Isaac 'Cheseman' (Isaac's spelling in his signature in 1786 on a settlement document at Beckenham) and Ann Fenner his wife ...

I've been researching my Cheasman ancestry in the Sydenham area and today discovered Cheseman Street. Can anyone please enlighten me as to the naming of this? Was a Cheseman a civic dignitory, a well-to-do family (I wish!) etc.etc.

If a well known character/family are there other local things I ...