http://www.funnell.org Family trees and fallen leaves Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:35:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 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/ 0 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/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/arthur-funnell-an-orphan-shipped-to-canada-in-the-interest-of-the-british-empire/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/arthur-funnell-an-orphan-shipped-to-canada-in-the-interest-of-the-british-empire/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:32:25 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=159 http://www.funnell.org/archives/arthur-funnell-an-orphan-shipped-to-canada-in-the-interest-of-the-british-empire/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/james-funnell-1846-barcombe-a-sinister-twist-of-fate/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/james-funnell-1846-barcombe-a-sinister-twist-of-fate/#comments Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:33:32 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=119 http://www.funnell.org/archives/james-funnell-1846-barcombe-a-sinister-twist-of-fate/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/the-poet-and-the-paupers/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/the-poet-and-the-paupers/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:05:10 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/archives/30 http://www.funnell.org/archives/the-poet-and-the-paupers/feed/ 1