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/t%e2%80%99wus-fer-frenchys%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99foreigners-i-bluv/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/t%e2%80%99wus-fer-frenchys%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99foreigners-i-bluv/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:20:24 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=464 http://www.funnell.org/archives/t%e2%80%99wus-fer-frenchys%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99foreigners-i-bluv/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tim-cladpole-4/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tim-cladpole-4/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:54:05 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=453 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tim-cladpole-4/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-jan-cladpole-3/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-jan-cladpole-3/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:37:34 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=450 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-jan-cladpole-3/feed/ 1 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-2/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-2/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:49:46 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=448 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-2/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-1/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-1/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:12:06 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=435 Richard Lower was born at Alfriston, Sussex on the 19th of September 1782. He opened a school about 1803 in the parish of Chiddingly, where he must have known many of our Funnell ancestors. He resided there until a few months before his death in 1865. In 1830, his first work was printed as a sixpenny pamphlet: Tom Cladpole's Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself, and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his Uncle Tim. Spiced with typical British humour, his text offers not only an insight into the changing world our rural ancestors lived in (the London Bobbies were formed in 1829) but also as to how “they spoke Sussex”. You will not regret reading on…]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-1/feed/ 0