There are two Rabson connections to the Oylers of Kent:

Elizabeth Rabson of Ticehurst, Sussex married George Oyler of Hawkhurst Kent in 1778 and Sophia Rabson married Samuel Oyler in 1814. Elizabeth and Sophia were half-sisters, daughters of John Rabson.

John Rabson was born in 1740 in Penshurst to Richard and Constance Rabson of Penshurst, Kent. John married three times:

1st marriage: John married Sarah Palmer, a widow. Sarah had been the housekeeper for John's uncle William Rabson. She died in 1776

2nd marriage. After Sarah's death John married Mary Barnaby in Ticehurst in 1777. They had 6 children:

•  Mary Rabson 1777,

• Elizabeth Rabson Oct 28th 1778 (married George Oyler),

• John Rabson 1780,

• Barnabas Rabson 1781-1857,

• William Rabson 1782,

• Sarah Rabson 1784.

 
In 1787 John Rabson (farmer) is named as the father of a bastard child by Sarah Weller (single woman) of Ticehurst.  (Ref: National Archives)

3rd marriage: After Mary Rabson died John (widower) then married Mary Noakes (a widow) in 1792 and had 5 more children:

• Sophia Rabson 1793, married Samuel Oyler July 28th 1814,

• Fredrick Rabson 1794,

• Richard Henry Rabson 1796 - 1867

• Harriet Rabson 1798

• Gilford Vinall Rabson 1800.