ref1 = "1&nbsp;<b>Historic Hastings</b>, By J. Manwaring Baines, published by F.J.Parsons Ltd., Hastings, 1955<br>page 239<br><em>The chamberlains\' accounts usually show only one ropemaker per year:<br>John Mann(1692-98), James Wright(1700-01) ... After this date details<br>are scanty, but we know George Tree was working from 1742 to 1765 ...<br> <br>By this date there was a great demand for sails, and there were<br>usually at least two sailmakers at work in the town: Jeremiah<br>Thwaites, possibly an ancestor of the shipwright, (1742-69), John<br>Butler (1753-55), and John Fautley (1764-69).<br> <br>He doesn\'t actually give a source for the sailmaker information but I<br>presume that it also comes from the chamberlain\'s accounts which I<br>have not seen.</em>"
ref2 = "2&nbsp;<b>Parish Register - Rotherhithe, St. Mary</b>, microfilm copy of the original parish register,  London Metropolitan Archives, X046/005<br><em>1709, Feb 22, Jeremiah of Thos and Mary Thwaits</em>"
ref3 = "3&nbsp;<b>Parish Register - Battle, St. Mary the Virgin</b><br><em>In the registers of the parish of Battle<br>East Sussex Record office reference PAR 236/1/1/2<br>PAGE 182<br>MARRIAGES solemnized in the parish of Battle in the County of Sussex in the<br>year 1733<br>Jerimiah Thwaits of Rotherhithe Parish in the County Middlesex and Mary<br>Sergant of the town of Hastings Parish ----  were married in this parish by<br>licence with consent of ------ this seventeenth day of August in the year<br>one thousand seven hundred and thirty three.</em>"
ref4 = "4&nbsp;<b>Will - Piseing, Alice - 1763</b>, dated 15 December 1763 and proved 20 August 1765,  Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, PRC 17/97/187<br><em>also I give to my grandaughter Joanna Stephenson a Rubbed Gold Ring the posie (Two faithfull hearts united)</em><br><br><b>Will - Stevenson, Henry - 1788</b>, dated 29 May 1788,  East Sussex Record Office<br><em>my Daughter Joanna the wife of Thomas Thwaites</em>"
ref5 = "5&nbsp;<b>Will - Thwaites, Mary, widow - 1803</b>, date 20 January 1803 and proved 4 May 1808 to Thomas Thwaites and John Thwaites,  East Sussex Record Office, A70  p.274<br><em>the two children of my late daughter Ann Lulham deceased the sum of five pounds apiece of lawful money of Great Britain</em><br><br><b>Parish Register - Hastings, St. Clements</b>, consulted in the form of microfilm copies at the Latter Day Saints, Eaton, Norwich<br>marriages, 1771<br><em>Aug 20   John Lulham & Ann Thwaites spinseter,  <br>witnesses: Thos. Thwaites & Henry Thwaites</em>"
ref6 = "6&nbsp;<b>Will - Thwaites, Jeremiah - 1768</b><br><em>I ... bequeath unto my son George Thwaites - alive at this date</em>"
ref7 = "7&nbsp;<b>Thwaites, Lesley - email communication</b>,  information received 2004<br><em>John Thwaites married Sarah Grisbrook of  Tenterden by licence dated 27th<br>January 1784 in Tenterden church  on 29th January 1784.  The witnesses were<br>John Grisbrook and William Randall and the Rev. Mansel officiated.   (I have<br>a copy of the marriage record)</em>"