Perhaps they lived on nearby farms or bestates/b and simply took their children to the village church to be baptized. Or went there themselves to be married. And later, to be buried. In fact, if we take the origin of the name as being an indication of occupational origins then it is easy to ... The villages of Chiltington, Hamsey, Laughton and bAlfriston/b, where the Cossticks later registered their baptisms and marriages, certainly existed at the time of the Domesday survey. ...
