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starts with Edward Osborne who married Rose Gromebridge on 24th April 1692 in
Horsmonden, Kent. The third Edward Osborne in line, born in 1723, was a farmer in Goudhurst Kent His oldest son John was disinherited in his will of 1774: All Edward's assets were left to his brothers "on condition that they do not in any way consult or employ my eldest son John Osborne in the farming business but leave him to shift for himself that he may |
learn by experience what a father's advice could never make him do; nor
that they ever suffer him to control or squander any of their
substance but that they remain masters of my personal estate without any
molestation from him. Was this the reason he changed his name from Osborne to Usborne? The family were described by Thomas (b.1866) in the 1920's as "labouring class", a label that does not apply to the modern generations. |
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