Family legend has it that William Titchener moved from Wiltshire to Kent to take up a position as a farm labourer. The history of the early Titcheners in Kent is recorded in a document written by E.G Titchener, probably in the 1920's, which says: "One summer day in the years between Trafalgar and Waterloo a young man was walking over London Bridge. To young William Titchener, brought up in a quiet Wiltshire village yet full of interest in the great world of which London was the centre, it was a "a crowded hour of glorious life" thus to stand on the famous bridge and drink in the sights and sounds of London Town. But he could not linger; he must hurry on all too soon, for at 10.0 o'clock he had to present himself at an inn in the Borough, where he was to join Mr. Spain's carter. On the great waggon which the carter had brought up to market laden with Kentish fruit William Titchener would journey down through Kent to Park Gate Farm near Chelsfield, where he had obtained a situation."
It has been an effort to establish where William came from in Wiltshire but this has been done; he came from Highworth, Wilts on the Wiltshire/Berkshire border. There are lots of Titcheners in the census' from the villages in the Vale of the White Horse to the east of Swindon.
How he came to 'obtain a situation' may never be discovered now though, looking at the 1851 census from the area in Kent he settled suggests others had moved from Wiltshire to Kent too so there may be a family connection. As far as I know no others of his family came to Kent.
The connection to the Titcheners in the area around Highworth is a course of enquiry.
A chart of Titchener descendants is HERE.