Barnabas Perry

On the 6th August 1807 Barnabas Perry applied for Poor Relief in Rodborough,Gloucestershire.
The overseers report says
Barnabas Perry, weaver son of Barnabas and Betty age 28 born in Shepton Mallet Somerset. His father apprenticed as a weaver at Frome. Sister relieved by Frome. Barnabas has a wife Jane and four children, Betty John, Martha and Mary.

The Field family and Farming in Fairlight

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Farming in Fairlight The Field Family

Members of the Field family either worked as farm labourers or were tenant farmers.

The landowners in Fairlight were the Lucas Shadwell family

There are a cluster of 4 farms

· Wakehams Farm, Pett Level Road, Fairlight, East Sussex Still run as a farm and farm shop toay http://www.wakehamsfarm.co.uk/

· Stoney link Farm

· Cherry Tree farm

· Chisholm farm

James Field was born in Fairlight on 18th January 1759

His children are the first of the Field family recorded in the census

James Field born 1790 became a farmer while his older brother Samuel Field born 1786 remained an agricultural labourer. The other decendents of James Field born 1759 did not live in Fairlight.

In 1841 Samuel Field was an Agricultural labourer age 55 working at Lower Winterslow Farm Guestling

His eldest son Thomas Standen Field moved away and worked as a miller in Benenden Kent. He may have worked or learnt his skills form his father’s brother, Thomas 18.04.1789 who was a Miller in Northiam Kent

In the same 1841 census, James Field his brother( b1790) is recorded as a farmer at Lower Stone Link Farm, Fairlight, Hastings, East Sussex. In 1851 the farm has 160 acres and James is employing 5 labourers.By 1861 Lower Stone Link Farm, has reduced to 116 acres, employing 3 men and in 1871 Lower Stone Link Farm, Fairlight, Hastings, East Sussex is a farm of 50 acres, employing 3 men and 1 boy.

The farm was taken over by James’s 1790 son Thomas Field b 1830

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In 1891 Thomas Field is a Farmer at Lower stone clink farm 17 Rosemary lane

The Farm was taken on by his daughter Rose Field who continued with the farm until 1911 running it as a dairy farm

·Alfred Field 68, another son of James b 1790 is recorded in 1861 as living at Fairlight Head working as an agricultural labourer .By 1891 he has become a Farmer at Cherry Gardens farm Fairlight, Sussex, England

His grown up children lived in the same house and worked on the farm: John 26, Albert 22, Charles, age 30 and married widowed daughter Honor. Another son James was also recorded at the farm in his own household :

1891 Son James and wife Rose and young children living

and working at the farm.

By 1901 James Age: 49 has become a tenant farmer at Wakehams farm near Rosemary lane Fairlight, Sussex, England, 2 farms away from Thomas field b 1830

and wife Mary

His son James b 1880 took over the farm and also worked Chisholm farm. In 1911 at the age of 31 he is a tenant farmer at both Wakehams and Chisholm farm (kelly directory 1911) and 1911 cesnsus (2 adults 3 chilren)He was a farmer there until 1918 ( 69 acres ).

An old map of Ethel St Cardiff

Old Maps is a good place to view Ethel Street,Cardiff. There are maps showing Ethel street from 1901.
The coordinates for Ethel Street are 315728 176897

The Rockwood

(Not the Rockwood but a similar Barque of the period)

George James Perry set sail on The Rokwood from Cardiff on MAY 1st 1869 on a voyage from Cardiff to Calcutta; Colombo (Ceylon) and back to London.
The Private Log of this ship's carpenter can be read at clanbarker.com

This was The Rockwood's maiden voyage.
In 1889 it was still serving as a trading vessel.

1889 Timaru Herald reports

The Shaw Savill and Albion Co.'s chartered barque Rockwood finished her loading on Saturday evening and sails for London to-day. She has taken on 700 tons wheat and a little over 1600 bales of wool. She should arrive in time for the April wool sales.

John and Ellen Sullivan Ireland America and Cardiff

John Sullivan and Ellen Sullivan travelled to America from Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland.They sailed to America from Queenstown (Cork) on The Virginia.

The Virginia was run by the National Line

A Norwegian company They advertised the journey as :

National Line via Copenhagen and Kristiansand. By steamship to Hull, railway to Liverpool and from there to New York

Built in 1863 at Jarrow-on-Tyne by Palmer‘s Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd.

S/S Virginia 1863 2,876 gross

This is a similar ship ss Canada built in 1883

The Virginia set sail from Liverpool on Virginia on the 13th of April,(source http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_shiplist.asp?co=natio ­)

They arrived in America (New York) on 29 Apr 1870. John was 25

The record carried the following information:

Estimated birth year: abt 1845

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland

Destination: United States of America

Place of Origin: Ireland

Ethnicity/Race-

/Nationality: Irish

Ship Name: Virginia

Source Citation: Year: 1870; Arrival: New York , United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll: M237_326; Line: 51; List number: 325; .

Source Information:Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

Mary Sullivan their first child was born in 1878 in the US.

By 1881 they had returned to Ireland where the second child Agnes and third child James (1883) were born.

By 1885 the family were living in Cardiff (Emily was born here in 1885.) The family are recorded in the 1891 Wales Census living at 78 Ethel street. Mary the eldest is working as a dress maker.

Ethel Street Rent 1898

The Western Mail from 1898 carried many advertisements for the sale by auction of properties in Ethel street Rents ranged from 5s to 6 shilling per week

You can view these via 19^th century newspapers using your library ticket via Infotrac

If you are a Hampshire library user :

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/library/reference-online/ref-newspapers.htm

but many other libraries offer this service.

Here is the transcript:

Mr J.E Gunn has received instructions to sell.

At The Royal Hotel Cardiff on Monday 17^th day of June 1896

Lot of all the four lease hold cottages and being numbers 21 ,23,25,27, Ethel street, Canton, Cardiff held on a term for 90 years from Feb. 1881 at an annual rate of £2 10 shillings each house

The properties have recently been thoroughly renovated and are all well let at 5 shillings per week. They contain front and back room kitchen , scullery, wc? on the ground floor and three bedrooms on the first floor.