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James became the first pastor of Cuckfield Baptist Church in 1772.

In 1776 he purchased Bulltrough Farm for £945. The farmhouse still stands at the top of Boltro Road in what is now Haywards Heath.

He has been variously described as a tanner and a maltster.
 
  James and Mary Walder memorial  
A memorial to James and Mary now mounted on the wall inside the modern day Baptist Church at Cuckfield.
 
James b. 1733 bu. 17 Feb 1782
Mary d. 31 Aug 1797 Cuckfield
 
 

Lydia m. John Trussler 31 Jan 1799 Patcham
---John d. 5 Mar 1805 Age 2
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East Sussex Land Tax 1785, Cuckfield
Owner Occupier Lands Rental
Mrs Mary Walder Herself Bulltrough £ 15.0.0
her house (late Gallards) £ 1.0.0

Affadavit of Michael Parkhurst of Cuckfield, mercer 2 Jan 1804 -Sergison 2/2/31
That Mary Walder of Cuckfield, widow of James Walder of Cuckfield, tanner, died at Cuckfield on 31 August 1797 and was buried at the Baptist Meeting House in Cuckfield on 5 September 1797, that she left James Walder and Lydia Walder, her son and daughter by the said James Walder, her husband, her surviving, and that the said James Walder, her son, and Lydia Walder, who since married John Trussler, were still living in Cuckfield.

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British Museum Pamphlet
THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER'S LABOUR, HOPE AND REWARD
being the substance of a sermon
occasioned by the Decease of
Mr James Walder
Preached at Cuckfield, Feby 17th 1782
By William Evershed

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