The Breach Family's Sussex Origins

A Family History Blog by Alison Vainlo (Breach)

Sunday 11 March 2018

Associated Line AL4 - The Cheal Family 1694 - 1929

This Branch line follows ancestors of Mary Cheal (b. 1818), wife of Richard Breach (b. 1814) from Generation Eight of the Main Ancestral Breach Line. Names in bold type continue the ancestral line down.


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East Sussex Map


The Cheal family lived in Westdean, East Sussex.






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First Branch Generation

AG1 - William Cheale and Lydia Stephens 1690 - 1734

William Cheale was born in 1690. He married Lydia Stephens (b. 1694) on the 5th of July 1720, in Plumpton, Sussex. They had five children as follows:
  1. Unknown female (b. 1728) 
  2. George (b. 1730) (Twin?) George continues the ancestral line down.
  3. Richard (b. 1730) (Twin?)
  4. Edward (b. 1732, d. 1819)
  5. Thomas (b. 1734, d. 1807)

No death dates were found for William or Lydia.


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Second Branch Generation
AG2 - George Cheale and Ann Rowlley 1730 - 1766

George was born in 1730, the son of William Cheale (b. 1690) and Lydia Stephens (b. 1694). He married Ann Rowlley (b. 1730) on the 9th of March 1752 in Westdean. They had seven children as follows:

  1. William (b. 1752)
  2. Mary (b. 1754)
  3. Lydia (b. 1755) 
  4. Elizabeth (b. 1757)
  5. Edward (b. 1759)
  6. Thomas (b. 1761, d. 1815) Thomas continues the ancestral line down.
  7. Ann (b. 1763)

Ann died in 1766 but there was no record of George’s death.



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Third Branch Generation

AG3 - Thomas Cheale and Jane Chapman 1761 - 1827

Thomas was born in 1761 in Westdean, the son of George Cheale (b. 1730) and Ann Rowlley (b. 1730). He married Jane Chapman (b. 1766) (daughter of Thomas Chapman (b. 1740, d. 1806) and Jane Butler (b. 1741, d. 1803) in June 1785, and they had five children as follows:

  1. William (b. 1786)
  2. Thomas (b. 1788) Married Sarah Marchant in 1812, and they had eight children; John Thomas (b. 1817), Caroline (b. 1819), Martin (b. 1823), William Marchant (b. 1827) Ruth (b. 1830), Eleanor (b. 1832)(she married her first cousin, Edward Cheal (b. 1827) (see below), George (b. 1832), James (b. 1835).
  3. George (b. 1791)
  4. Edward (b. 1793) Edward continues the ancestral line down.
  5. Charlotte (b. 1797)

Thomas died in 1815 and Jane died in 1828.



Foxhole Cottages, Exceat near Westdean.
Probable home of the Cheale family.






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Fourth Branch Generation
AG4 - Edward Cheal and Jane Potter 1793 - 1871

Edward was born in 1793 in Westdean, the son of Thomas Cheale (b. 1761) and Jane Chapman (b. 1766). He married Jane Potter (b. 1792) and they had nine children, all born in Westdean. Edward worked as an agricultural labourer. Jane died in 1868 and Edward died in 1871 while he was living with his daughter, Mary and her husband Richard Breach.


Edward and Jane had nine children as follows:


1. John 1816 - 

John was born in 1816 in Westdean. John worked as an agricultural labourer. 

 


 AG5 - Mary 1818 - 1887 

Mary was born on the 14th of June 1818. She married Richard Breach (b. 1814) (son of Richard Breach b. 1776, and Elizabeth Dennis, b. 1777) on the 11th of December 1841 in Westdean. They had nine children as follows:

  1. Emma (b. 1842, d. 1920)
  2. Sarah Ann (b. 1843, d. 1926)
  3. Jane (b. 1845, d. 1908)
  4. David (b. 1847, d. 1920) David continues the ancestral line down in Generation Eight, see link below.
  5. James (b. 1848, d. 1930)
  6. Albert (b. 1851, d. 1905)
  7. Frederick (b. 1853, d. 1943)
  8. Charles (b. 1855, d. 1877)
  9. George Henry (b. 1860, d. 1954)





3. David 1820 - 1845 

David was born in 1820 in Westdean. David worked as an agricultural labourer. He died at the age of twenty five in 1845.



4. Joseph 1822 - 1883 

Joseph was born in 1822 in Westdean. He never married and remained with his parents until the 1871 census where I found him boarding with George Breach (b. 1837) (son of Henry Breach and Mary French) and his wife Selina Kemp Marchant (b.1835) (daughter of Thomas Marchant and Sarah Woods), while working as an agricultural labourer (Joseph and George had been neighbours in childhood). By 1881 George and Selina had moved to Friston and Joseph, now a pauper was found in the Union Workhouse, Eastbourne where he probably died in 1883 aged sixty two.




 

5. Charles 1825 - 1836 
Charles was born in 1825 in Westdean. He died at the age of ten in February 1836.


6. Edward 1827 - 1914 

Edward was born on the 9th of March 1827 in Westdean. He worked as an agricultural labourer at first but by the 1851 census he was working as a shepherd at the farm of John Ellis in Westdean. He married his first cousin Eleanor Cheal (b. 1832) (daughter of Thomas Cheal and Sarah Marchant) (see Third Branch Generation above) in 1850 and had eleven children as follows:

  1. David (b. 1851, d. 1919)
  2. Charles (b. 1853)
  3. Alice (b. 1855, d. 1894)
  4. Miriam Ruth (b. 1858, d. 1929) Married Frederick Breach (b. 1853, d. 1943)(son of Richard Breach and Mary Cheal) on the 16th of December 1876 in Westdean. They had ten children: Annie Eleanor Mary (b. 1877), Alice Louisa (b. 1879), Emily Jane (b. 1882), Charles Frederick (b. 1885), Miriam Ruth (b. 1886), Edith Clara (b. 1888), Sarah (b. 1891), Elizabeth b. 1893), Albert Edward (b. 1895, d. 2 Aug 1917, buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium), Margaret (b. 1897). 
  5. Sarah Louisa (b. 1860)
  6. Thomas Henry (b. 1862, d. 1931)
  7. Mary Jane (b. 1864)
  8. Emily (b. 1867)
  9. William George (b. 1869) 
  10. Albert James (b. 1871, d. 1871)
  11. Frederick (b. 1873, d. 1873) 

 

Eleanor died in 1890 in Willingdon, at the age of 58. Edward married his second wife, Hannah Kirby (b. 1862) in 1895, in Hailsham. There was an age gap of 35 years. The couple had one son, Edward Richard (b. 1895), who died in 1916 during WW1.
Edward died in December 1814, and Hannah, who never remarried, died in 1940.

 

 


7. William 1829 - 1836 

 

William was born in 1829 in Westdean. He died in February 1836 at the age of six.

8. Ann 1831 - 1914 
Ann was born around 1831 in Westdean. Ann married Henry William Mockett (b. 1824 in Selmeston, Sussex) in 1855 in Eastbourne. An and Henry had two children, David in 1856, and Horace H in 1861. Henry died in 1884 in Lewes and Ann died in 1914. 


9.Sarah 1834 - 1836 
Sarah was born in 1834 in Westdean. Sarah died in January 1836 at the age of two.


Three of Edward and Jane's children (above) all died within a month in 1846. Sarah was buried on the 29th of January, William on the 6th of February, and Charles on the 21st of February. They were all under the age of eleven so probably succumbed to some disease, such as Scarlet Fever. 

Index of burials in Westdean in 1836
showing the three Cheal(e) children.



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