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Bigges Farm, north of Cuckfield. There is a Thomas Walder resident in the 1785 Land Tax records.
Other references noted below could well be the same gentleman or his father
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East Sussex Land Tax 1785, Cuckfield
Owner Occupier Lands Rental
Mr Henry Tuppin Thomas Walder Bigses £ 54.0.0

Register of Claims for Hemp and Flax Bounties 1783-95 -Esro QDH/EW1
John ? of Ifield 1791/92
Two acres and a half Biggs in Cuckfield Thomas Walder. Two acres said Thomas Walder.

Ditchling Meeting House Trust Deeds
1790 Thomas Walder of Cuckfield Yeoman
1821 Thomas Walder now of Lindfield
Ditchling Baptist Church
Received into Church Communion
17 May 1752 -Elizabeth and Thos from Cuckfield
23 Sep 1765 -Walder wife of Thomas in Cuckfield now Lindfield
29 Sep 1776 -Thos. son of Thos. Cuckfield, James son of Thos. Cuckfield
List of Members 1802
Thos. Walder Dead
Thomas Walder Spicehurst Balcombe
Meetings
1782 -1802, a Thomas Walder attended 11, described as Deacon twice.

 
Thomas Walder m. 4 Apr 1779 Twineham
Sarah Jenner
 
 

Sarah bap. 10 May 1780
Thomas bap. 23 Jul 1782
Rebecca bap. 7 Mar 1784 d. 4 Jan 1806 Age 22
James bap. 6 Sep 1786
Samuel bap. 20 Mar 1787 d. 20 Mar 1798 Age 11
Isaac bap.12 Dec 1789 d. 14 Apr 1797 Age 8
Elizabeth bap. 26 Nov 1791
 

The birth dates are from entries in the Horsham General Baptist Church Records. Parents Thomas and Sarah of Cuckfield

The deaths are recorded on a headstone now on the wall inside the Cuckfield Baptist Church, next to a stone for James Walder, the first pastor of the church.

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