James Harland MFFMF

[Jill]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
James Harland
Date and place of birth
c1790 Lindfield, Sussex
Names of parents
James & Hopestill Harland
Date and place of baptism - if applicable
9th Sep 1790 Lindfield, Sussex
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
9th Sep 1819 St Marylebone, London to Elizabeth Jenner, witnesses Thos Walder, Susan Packham
Occupation(s) - if any
1820: Miller (son Robert’s bapt)
1823: Cowkeeper (dau Elizabeth’s bapt)
1825 & 1827: Coal merchant (sons Jenner & John’s baptisms)
1833 & 1835: Miller (children William’s & Charity’s baptisms)
1837: Milkman (son Elisha’s bapt)
1839: Labourer (dau Mary Ann’s birth cert)
1841: Labourer
Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
1820: Horsted Keynes, Sussex (son Robert’s bapt & poll book)
1823: St George, Bloomsbury (dau Elizabeth’s bapt at Horsted Keynes)
1825: Bean Street, Southwark (son Jenner’s baptism, James’s sister Hopestill was living nearby, she had married Thomas Pillow the previous year)
1827: Red Cross Alley, Borough, Southwark (son John’s bapt)
1830: Red Cross Court, Borough, Southwark (son Henry’s bapt)
1833-1837: Brighton (abode Brighton for next 3 children’s bapts)
1839: Lindfield (dau Mary Ann’s birth cert)
1841: Gravely Colony, Lindfield, Sussex which was a colony set up by the Quaker chemist and philanthropist William Allen as a model community with cottages designed by himself which were let with allotment or smallholding plots at affordable rents intended to be an alternative to emigration to the colonies. Also known as the American colony. There was also a school (part of which still stands at Black Hill, Lindfield along with the Master’s house) which was also an industrial school teaching skills such as weaving and printing.
Date, place and cause of death
4th Jan 1848, hanging himself, state of mind unknown, informant: Francis Harding Gell, Coroner, Lewes His older brother Richard also hanged himself [1840]
Date and place of burial / cremation.
According to a newspaper report Revd Sewell of the parish church at Lindfield after taking advice, refused to allow the body into the church or to conduct a funeral service so James was buried at 8pm without ceremony. Another report says he hanged himself from a fir tree. (There are still a number of fir trees on the hill above his home)
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
None, have searched the probate/admons for South Malling under which Lindfield fell.]
Memorial inscription - if any
None

Link to wife Elizabeth Jenner
Link to dau Mary Ann Harland
Father James Harland