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John Funnell (1818 - 1863 Chiddingly to Warbleton)
Family:
Father - John Thelwell
Mother - Phillis Funnell (1801 - 1879)
Wife - Elizabeth Harriet Message (1822 -1914, married John on 28 October 1840, Herstmonceux, Sussex)
Children:
Elizabeth Harriet (born 1842)
Mary (born 1844)
John (born 1846)
Orpah (born 1847)
Phillis (1849 - 1947)
Lois (born 1851)
Charlotte (born 1853)
Owen (born 1855)
Caroline (born 1857)
Horace (born 1859
Edith (born 1861)
Rhoda (born 1863)
(Please note: I have not fully checked out all the above people yet hence many death dates are missing)
Census Information:
1841 census:
John appears on the census age 20 living with Elizabeth Harriet and a lodger, David Harmer in Sandhole Lane, Warbleton. John was an Agricultural Labourer.
1851 census:
John and Elizabeth are again living at Sandhole Lane, Warbleton, along with David Harmer still lodging with the family. The children with them are: Elizabeth aged 9, Mary aged 7, John aged 5, Orpah aged 4 and Phillis aged 2. John was an Agricultural Labourer.
1861 census:
By 1861 the family had moved and were living at the ‘Three Cups’ Beerhouse, Three Cups, Punnetts Town. John was described as a Farmer of 15 acres and presumably running the Beerhouse too. He lived with his wife Elizabeth and children; Elizabeth aged 20, Orpah aged 14, Lois aged 10, Charlotte aged 8, Owen aged 6, Caroline aged 4, Horace aged 2 and a grandson Leonard aged 4 months.
Death:
John Funnell died on 22 May 1863 in Warbleton accidentally killed by the wheel of a cart running over him. John’s wife Elizabeth Harriet went on to marry James White on 5 February 1868 at Warbleton Church and appears in the following census:
1871 census:
At the Three Cups Beerhouse where James is the Beerhouse Keeper. Living with them was: Orpah aged 24, Charlotte aged 18, both Waiters, presumably in the Beerhouse, Owen aged 16, Horace aged 12, Edith aged 10 and Rhoda aged 8. Also with them was Leonard, grandson aged 10.
1881 census:
James was now a Farmer of 30 acres and Beerhouse Keeper, still living at the Three Cups Inn with Elizabeth Harriet, wife and Horace aged 22, Rhoda aged 18, Barmaid.
1891 census:
James and Elizabeth Harriet had now moved to Thomas’s Farm, Dallington where James was Farmer. Rhoda aged 27 lived with them.
1901 census:
James and Elizabeth Harriet remained at Thomas’s Farm, Dallington, James was still a Farmer and Rhoda still lived at home aged 38. Also with them were 2 grandchildren, Maud aged 13 and Douglas aged 8.
On 4 March 1914 Elizabeth Harriet died of Apoplexy and exhaustion at Giffords Farm, Brightling, Sussex.
© Kerry Baldwin
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