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Thomas and his wife Eliza (nee Fuller) were members of Lewes Baptist Church. They married in 1838 in Lewes.
The 1852 census, taken on the night of 3 March 1851, shows the family at Barcombe, Sussex. Thomas aged 40 is designated as a Agricultural Labourer, born in Chailey, Sussex. Eliza, his wife, was born in South Malling. Children were Henry Pannett 11, Lucy Pannett 7, Eliza Pannett 4
Sarah J Pannett 3, John Avis Pannett 1. In the 1841 census he is designated a farmer so may have come down in the world.
They came as steerage passengers to
ML= Myra Legg SW= Stephen Wright
SW: Could you tell me about your father, Horace McMillan. He was brought up in
Southbridge?
ML: Now I would suggest that you talk to Trevor McMillan about this because he has
had it researched and I think he'll know. Dad was the eldest of the second family. Well it
was a widower with, say, three children and a widow with three you know, who both
married again and had five children.
SW: Do you know very much about that whole upbringing that he had?
ML: No. I only know that he had to
The Malvern Collie Club at Springfield
Benmore Station and the Weir Family
A late starter in the Girl Guide movement, Mrs Neroli Osborne, the newly-appointed Canterbury assistant provincial commissioner, has more than made up for lost time.
