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Amos Welfare, son of William Welfare and Mary Anne Welfare [Gurr]
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Date
Type
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1836
Born
In the Parish of Fletching, Sussex
Fletching Parish Registers
 
26th June 1836
Christened
At St Andrew & St Mary Church in the Parish of Fletching, Sussex
Fletching Parish Registers
 
30th March 1851
Census
At Lamb Beershop in the Parish of Fletching, Sussex; Son
1851 Census
Fletching, Sussex
 
21st April 1866
Married
Elizabeth Page at St Andrew & St Mary Church in the Parish of Fletching, Sussex
Fletching Parish Registers
 
1871
Occupation Gamekeeper
Ian Harvey's research
 
27th December 1872
Birth of a daughter
Alice in the Parish of Fletching, Sussex
Ian Harvey's research
 
1879
Home
At Black Ven Farm
Ian Harvey's research
 
5th August 1879
Died
In the Parish of Nutley, Sussex
Ian Harvey's research
 

The Sussex Express - August 9 1879 - Fletching
INQUEST ON A GAMEKEEPER

Yesterday J.E. Fallagar, Esq. opened an inquest at the Prince of Wales Inn on the body of Mr. Amos Welfare.

Mr. John Carey, farmer and higgler, deposed that the deceased lived at Black Ven, Fletching. He was a keeper in the employ of Sir Spencer Maryon Wilson, and between 40 and 50 years of age. Witness went with him on Tuesday afternoon to a pond about 150 yards from the Prince of Wales to bathe. The deceased began to undress to bathe and witness felt the water and said it was too cold. The deceased said, as he was undressed, he thought he should swim to the boat on the opposite side of the pond (about 100 yards). He went about three parts of the way across and witness went up the meadow to keep him in sight. Thomas Marchant [second witness] hallooed out that he was coming back, and witness returned and saw him swimming back again, rather slowly. When about 40 yards from the bank, his head went under the water, but came up again at once. He swam a little way further, and then sank without struggling. The boat was locked and they could not get it loose. The pond is about 14 or 15 feet deep where the deceased sank. The policeman was fetched, who broke the chain off the boat and the pond was dragged for the deceased's body. The deceased did not call for help at all.

Thomas Marchant corroborated, saying after deceased's head first went under water, and he had swum about five yards, witness called for a rope as he thought deceased might want assistance. Carey did not seem to have been drinking.

PC Kidd gave evidence to the effect that the body was not recovered till Wednesday afternoon, and also said he did not think there was any loose timber or rafts near the spot that could have been thrown in to deceased.

The jury returned a verdict of "Accidentally Drowned".


Ancestor's report
Descendent's report
Walfare, Welfair, Welfare, Welfear, Welfore, Wellfare, Wealfaire family records
The ancestral pedigree of Amos Welfare
  
 Edward Welfarem: 23rd Jul 1781 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, SussexSarah Jupp 
 b: c 1760  b: c 1760 
  
       
 Thomas Sarah Edward William Ann Lucy Henry
 b: c Oct 1781 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 11th Nov 1781 St Andrew & St Mary Church
 b: 1784 Little Horsted, Sussex
ch: 29th Mar 1784 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Waldron, Sussex
 b: c 1786 Little Horsted, Sussex
d: 23rd Aug 1858 Fletching, Sussex
bur: After 23rd Aug 1858 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex
 b: 1790 Little Horsted, Sussex
ch: 21st Mar 1790 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Waldron, Sussex
 b: 1792 Little Horsted, Sussex
ch: 1st Apr 1792 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Waldron, Sussex
 b: 1796 Little Horsted, Sussex
ch: 23rd Oct 1796 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Waldron, Sussex
 b: 1799 Little Horsted, Sussex
ch: 3rd Nov 1799 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Waldron, Sussex
             
Grandfather
record
   
   
    
 William Welfarem: 4th Oct 1812 St. Margaret's Church, Little Horsted, SussexMary Gurr 
 b: 1790 Little Horsted, Sussex
ch: 21st Mar 1790 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Waldron, Sussex
  b: 1793 Isfield, Sussex
ch: 14th Jul 1793 St. Margaret's Church
 
  
           
William  Thomas  Annesley  Joseph Lucy Eliza Margaret Agnes Amos
b: 1813 Ringmer, Sussex
ch: 12th Sep 1813
  b: 5th Nov 1817 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 15th Feb 1818 St Andrew & St Mary Church
  b: 1822 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 29th Sep 1822 St Andrew & St Mary Church
  b: 1827 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 22nd Jul 1827 St Andrew & St Mary Church
d: Feb 1855 Piltdown, Sussex
bur: 11th Feb 1855 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, Sussex
 b: 1830 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 7th Mar 1830 St Andrew & St Mary Church
 b: 1832 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 27th May 1832 St Andrew & St Mary Church
 b: 1834 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 27th Apr 1834 St Andrew & St Mary Church
 b: 1836 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 26th Jun 1836 St Andrew & St Mary Church
d: 5th Aug 1879 Nutley, Sussex
 Harriett  William  Henry           
 b: 1815 Isfield, Sussex  b: 1820 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 7th May 1820 St Andrew & St Mary Church
  b: 1825 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 19th Jun 1825 St Andrew & St Mary Church
           
                       
Parental
record
   
   
    
 Amos Welfarem: 21st Apr 1866 St Andrew & St Mary Church, Fletching, SussexElizabeth Page 
 b: 1836 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 26th Jun 1836 St Andrew & St Mary Church
d: 5th Aug 1879 Nutley, Sussex
  b: 2nd Feb 1844 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 14th Apr 1844 St Andrew & St Mary Church
d: 5th Jan 1875 Fletching, Sussex
 
  
  
 Alice 
 b: 27th Dec 1872 Fletching, Sussex
ch: 2nd Feb 1873 St Andrew & St Mary Church
d: 15th Feb 1926 Eastbourne, Sussex
bur: After 15th Feb 1926 Ocklynch Cemetery, Eastbourne, Eastbourne, Sussex
 
   
Family
record

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