http://www.funnell.org Family trees and fallen leaves Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.funnell.org/archives/bert-funnells-big-swim/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/bert-funnells-big-swim/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:56:56 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=654 I found this story dated 20th August 1913, from a New Zealand newspaper, The Northern Advocate, published on the site “Papers Past”.
It relates Australian seaman Bert Funnell's lucky escape from drowning when he was rescued from the ocean waters 3 hours after falling overboard from the S.S. Aorangi. Bert was from Stanmore, Sydney.]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/bert-funnells-big-swim/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/dont-need-that-coffin-yet/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/dont-need-that-coffin-yet/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:34:05 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=640 "STEPHEN Ziegler from Horam is writing up his family history.
His grandmother, it turned out, had six brothers who served in the Great War and remarkably they all came back, though two died later due to wounds.
His gran married Sydney Funnell in 1923..."]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/dont-need-that-coffin-yet/feed/ 1 http://www.funnell.org/archives/victor-ernest-funnell-sunk-with-hms-triumph-25th-may-1915/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/victor-ernest-funnell-sunk-with-hms-triumph-25th-may-1915/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:08:31 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=576 Victor Ernest Funnell, born in 1892 in Hove, was the fourth of James Funnell and Naomi Packham of Chalvington’s eight children.
He joined the Royal Navy at 16½ and boarded the battleship "HMS Triumph" in August 1915. Three officers and 75 ratings died in it's sinking.
Victor Ernest Funnell was one of them.]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/victor-ernest-funnell-sunk-with-hms-triumph-25th-may-1915/feed/ 4 http://www.funnell.org/archives/captain-funnell-preferred-the-smog/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/captain-funnell-preferred-the-smog/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:01:50 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=550 At a time when climate change is becoming ever more preoccupying, researching family history once again allows to put things into perspective. An article in an 1853 edition of satirical magazine “Punch” relates a fictive "Thames steamer Captain Funnell’s" arguments during a meeting called to oppose Home Secretary, Lord Palmerston’s London smoke abatement act. An early insight into continuing public ignorance supported by industrial propaganda. For researchers, this site gives a very interesting environmental timeline.]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/captain-funnell-preferred-the-smog/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/ronald-spencer-funnell-surfing-pioneer-on-the-cornish-coast/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/ronald-spencer-funnell-surfing-pioneer-on-the-cornish-coast/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:50:58 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=499 Ronald Spencer Funnell was born in 1894 in Totnes, Devon. After World War One, he married a Newquay lass, Phyllis Maud Cock, and after a spell in Croydon, they settled in her home town with their 3 children, the fourth being born at St Columb. Ronald, who for many years ran the Post Office at Newquay, was also an author of local touring guides and notably, surfing manuels. The British Surfing Musuem is urgently looking to contact his descendants.]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/ronald-spencer-funnell-surfing-pioneer-on-the-cornish-coast/feed/ 1 http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-burwash-gangster-1838/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-burwash-gangster-1838/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:16:22 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=39 http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-burwash-gangster-1838/feed/ 3 http://www.funnell.org/archives/robert-funnell-20-years-in-the-royal-navy-1845-1865/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/robert-funnell-20-years-in-the-royal-navy-1845-1865/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:53:40 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=406 http://www.funnell.org/archives/robert-funnell-20-years-in-the-royal-navy-1845-1865/feed/ 1 http://www.funnell.org/archives/foiled-fake-fleet-marriage-leaves-funnell-in-a-fix/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/foiled-fake-fleet-marriage-leaves-funnell-in-a-fix/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:39:09 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=349 http://www.funnell.org/archives/foiled-fake-fleet-marriage-leaves-funnell-in-a-fix/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/the-funnells-of-strawberry-hill/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/the-funnells-of-strawberry-hill/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:34:09 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=322 http://www.funnell.org/archives/the-funnells-of-strawberry-hill/feed/ 1 http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-one-way-ticket-to-canada/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-one-way-ticket-to-canada/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:28:52 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=203 this article, in the 1830's, like many others, the parish of Chiddingly was having a hard time feeding it's poor. Someone came up with the idea of financing settlers to the "new world". Thomas, his wife, Ann and their 9 children settled in Ontario, Canada, a land which offered them many more opportunities than the parish ever could.]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-one-way-ticket-to-canada/feed/ 2