The BUNN graves are on the south side of Houghton church, but the inscriptions (1992) are unreadable.
However they were noted by A H W Fynmore in the
1920s.
His notebooks and a modern typescript are in the West Sussex Record Office at Chichester. |
John BUNN (circa 1708 - 1790),
blacksmith of Houghton, Sussex.
On the 30th September 1735 he married
Elizabeth UPPERTON (1707 - 1736) at Bury, and is described 'of
Houghton'.
Elizabeth was buried on 22nd May 1736 age 28 at Bury
'from Houghton'.
John Bunn remarried, to Ann
LUTTARD (1708 - 1780) on the 23rd May 1738 at St. Peter the Great
in Chichester.
On the marriage allegation he is described as a blacksmith and a widower of Houghton.
On 1st January 1752 Champion BENNET was apprenticed for 7 years to John Bunn, 'blacksmith of Houghton'. (Sussex Record Society XXVIII).
In 1785 he owned land in Bury occupied by Richard EEDE, his son in law. This may be 'Bunn's acre' - next to the smithy.
From their MIs in Houghton churchyard, John Bunn died on the 7th July 1790 age 82 and Ann on the 21st February 1780 aged 71.
Children of John and Ann were:-
- Mary, baptised 23rd August 1739 at Houghton and married on the 15th June 1771 at Houghton to Richard
EEDE .
Mary died on the 20th February 1818 age 79 (78 on her MI at
Bury).
- Ann, baptised 29th April 1741 at Houghton and died there on the 31st March 1758
'in her seventeenth year', from her MI.
- Sarah, baptised on the 23rd May 1743 and married Edward Voice, 'of Walberton', on the 19th February 1765 at Houghton.
- Martha, baptised on the 15th August 1744 at Houghton and buried there on the 25th August 1744.
- Elizabeth, baptised 17th August 1744 at Houghton and was buried there on the 11th July 1753, 'in her ninth year'. She was the twin of Martha.
- Thomas, baptised on the 19th May 1746 at Houghton.
In his will made 22nd March 1805
(Chichester consistory, 1813), describes
himself as labourer of Houghton having a messuage and a half acre of
land in Houghton held of the manor of Amberley.
He also mentions his sister Sarah VOICE, widow.
He is mentioned in the will of Richard Ede 1805, his 'in law'.
Thomas Bunn died on the 8th April 1813 age 67 from
his MI at Houghton
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There is an MI in Bury church to Eliazabeth Bunn (nee UPPERTON) John Bunn's first wife, with the following verse,
"Stay, passenger and cast an eye,
As you are now so once was I,
And as I am so will you be,
Prepare yourself to follow me."
'All about Bury' by Lilian E Brown, (1948) |
