Posted in Stories on Jan 30th, 2007 11 Comments »
Arthur and Herbert (Bert) left Liverpool England on 29 January 1912 and migrated to Canada. They arrived in Canada in February 1912 and joined Walter at his ranch in Saskatchewan. The three prepared everything for their trip, which included pork, beef, flour, lard and other food necessities as well as the needed cooking equipment. They […]
Posted in Facts on Jan 29th, 2007 16 Comments »
On the 11th of October 1915, 231 men of 1/3 (Kent) Field Company Royal Engineers sailed out of Devonport Docks for the eastern Mediterranean and Gallipoli. Just the previous day, the War Cabinet had decided to stop sending troops to Gallipoli where operations had not strictly gone to plan. Luck ran out that day for […]
Posted in Titbits on Jan 26th, 2007 No Comments »
These are links to free Funnell trivia on ancestry.com : Distribution of Funnell families in England and Wales in 1891 (yes, Sussex wins!) Distribution of Funnell families in the Unites States in 1920 Funnell immigrants to the USA Funnell’s top occupations in the 1880 US census Funnells live longer! Not many Funnells in France. But […]
Posted in Research on Jan 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
The following constitute a non exhaustive list of settlement orders concerning Funnells. They are all extracts noted in ESRO by a professional researcher working on my behalf. We hope they will be useful to you if you wish to locate the original documents which may contain more information. Parish records may also contain further details. […]
Posted in Research on Jan 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
There are several explications as to the origins of our surname put forward by more learned men than me. The three most credible explications all point to the same region : Pevensey Bay or to be more precise in historical terms, the liberty of Pevensey which was an early name for the “Rape of Pevensey”. […]
Posted in Research on Jan 20th, 2007 No Comments »
The following article is taken from “Sussex County Magazine”, vol. 6, p.131. THE FAMILY OF FUNNELL Mark Anthony Lower records the following : – "There are two tradesmen at Lewes (i.e. in 1873), one of whom keeps a beerhouse called the Grape-vine and the other a respectable able grocer, Mr Alfred Funnell, who deals in […]
Posted in News on Jan 20th, 2007 2 Comments »
Well, I’ve done it! At last the long announced overhaul is finished. All I have to do now is some fine-tuning and a lot of writing. For the record, most of the work was done over the weekend (20/21 january) and the finishing touches were administered in the night of Monday 22nd. Hope you like […]
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