3.  John⁹ Sheather (Henry⁸, Charles⁷, William⁶, John⁵, Thomas⁴, Thomas³, John² Stace,

Thomas¹) was born 29 Sep 1848 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England, and died 06 Sep 1922 in Beckley, Sussex, England. 

He married Mary Anne Crouch 04 Mar 1878 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England, daughter of

Stephen Crouch and Mary Crouch.  She was born 26 Jul 1852 in Beckley, Sussex, England, and

died 29 Jan 1937 in The Oaks, Beckley, Sussex, England.

Notes for John Sheather:

Bought a Butchers shop and Dwelling house in Beckley at auction on thurs 18th Aug 1904 for

the sum of £230 plus £20 for the fixtures and fittings. (He's listed as a farm baliff). It was being

sold by Mr. Thomas Whatman.

We have bills, etc. for the property.

Later that year he made a private deal with Alfred Skinner to rent it to him for the sum of £13 p.a.

Alfred was a friend of his son and future daughter in law. (my grandparents)

On 30th September 1908 he bought Witts, (12 acre farm) for £105. We have the title to the

property going back to 1789, but original documents from 1826. A letter from one solicitor refers

to it as Frymans.

... Jane Baker (nee Sheather) Nov. 2003

Notes for Mary Ann Crouch:

Mary's first husband was John Paine, born 1853 in Beckley, Sussex, England and died 1876 in

Rye, Reg., Sussex, England. They married in 1874 in Rye Reg., Sussex, England. John was the

son of David Paine and Mary Ann Laurence. John's brother Henry Paine married Mary Jane Fuller.

Mary Ann's sister Lewis (Louis Charles) Bull and Henry Monk

More About John Sheather:

1851 Census: HO107/1634 Folio 413 Page 2

1851 Census-1: Eggs Hole, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

1861 Census: RG9 557 Page 337

1861 Census-1: Eggs Hole, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

1871 Census: RG10 / 1024 Page 56 

1871 Census-1: Ag Labourer

1871 Census-2: Aggs Hole, Pearsmarch, Sussex, England

1881 Census: Folio 1019/32 page 16

1881 Census-1: Ag Labourer

1881 Census-2: Horse Shoe Lane Fram House, Beckley, Sussex, England

1891 Census: Horse Shoe Lane Fram House, Beckley, Sussex, England

1901 Census: RG13 861 folio 25 page 10

1901 Census-1: Baliff on Farm

1901 Census-2: Whatcomb Farm House, Beckley, Sussex
Baptism: 05 Nov 1848, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

Burial: All Saints Church, Beckley, Sussex, England (Source: Jane Baker (Sheather). Nov 2003)

Cause of Death (Facts Pg): Cancer

Occupation: Farm Bailiff/Labourer/Farmer

Occupation: Farm Bailiff/Labourer/Farmer

More About Mary Anne Crouch:

1861 Census: RG9 558 Page 50

1861 Census-1: 2 Fairhalls Cottage, Beckley, Sussex, England

1881 Census: Folio 1019/32 page16

1881 Census-1: Horse Shoe Lane Fram House, Beckley, Sussex, England

1891 Census: Horse Shoe Lane Fram House, Beckley, Sussex, England

1901 Census: RG13 861 folio 25 page 10

1901 Census-1: Whatcomb Farm House, Beckley, Sussex

Burial: All Saints Church, Beckley, Sussex, England (Source: Jane Baker (Sheather). Nov 2003)

Children of John Sheather and Mary Crouch are:

+      15               i.    Ellen Enfield¹⁰ Sheather, born 26 Apr 1879 in Beckley, Sussex, England; died 28 Jan 1954 in Beckley, Sussex, England.

+      16              ii.    Emily Ann Sheather, born 07 Apr 1881 in Beckley, Sussex, England; died 1973 in Bournmouth, England.

+      17             iii.    Stephen Henry Sheather, born 05 Jan 1883 in Beckley, Sussex, England; died 16 Jan 1959 in Chingford, London, England.

        8.  Henry⁹ Sheather (Henry⁸, Charles⁷, William⁶, John⁵, Thomas⁴, Thomas³, John² Stace,

Thomas¹) was born 1862 in Aggs Hole, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England, and died Bet. Jan - Mar

1926 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England. 

He married Mary Harrington 24 Apr 1889 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England, daughter of Dennis

Harrington.  She was born 1865 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England.

More About Henry Sheather:

1871 Census: RG10 / 1024 Page 56 

1871 Census-1: Scholar

1871 Census-2: Aggs Hole, Pearsmarch, Sussex, England

1881 Census: RG11 1018 Page 17

1881 Census-1: Ag Labourer

1881 Census-2: Aggs Hole, Pearsmarch, Sussex, England

1891 Census: I Aggs Hole, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

1891 Census-1: Ag Labourer

1901 Census: 1 Pelsham Farm, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

1901 Census-1: Carter on Farm

Baptism: 13 Feb 1862, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

More About Mary Harrington:

1881 Census: 19 Marina Hastings St Mary Magdalen, Sussex, England

1891 Census: 1 Eggs Hole, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

1901 Census: 1 Pelsham Farm, Peasmarsh, Sussex, England

  Mary Harrington on Left, Left to Right in front are Maye Ethel Frances, Olive Christine and Amy Gertrude - from the Annie Postcard Collection     

Children of Henry Sheather and Mary Harrington are:

+      41               i.    Maye Ethel Frances¹⁰ Sheather, born 1890 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England.

+      42              ii.    Amy Gertrude Sheather, born 22 Sep 1891 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England; died Bet. Oct - Dec 1978 in Hastings, Sussex, England.

+      43             iii.    Olive Christine Sheather, born 1897 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England.

+      44             iv.    Cyril Henry Sheather, born 1898 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England; died 01 Jun 1940 in WW2 - 1st Bn., Grenadier Guards, DUNKIRK, France.

+      45              v.    Dennis Sheather, born 19 May 1901 in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England; died Bet. Jan - Mar 1975 in Hastings, Sussex, England.

Generation No. 3

        15.  Ellen Enfield¹⁰ Sheather (John⁹, Henry⁸, Charles⁷, William⁶, John⁵, Thomas⁴,

Thomas³, John² Stace, Thomas¹) was born 26 Apr 1879 in Beckley, Sussex, England, and died

28 Jan 1954 in Beckley, Sussex, England. 

She married Alfred James Bull 30 Jan 1904 in Parish Church, Beckley, Sussex, England, son of

Alfred Bull and Jane Bull.  He was born 26 Oct 1880 in Beckley, Sussex, England, and died 04

May 1958 in Beckley, Sussex, England.

Headstone inscription"

To

The memory of

A beloved wife and mother

ELLEN ENFIELD BULL

Who died 28th January 1954

Aged 74 years

ALSO

ALFRED JAMES HULL

Died 4th May 1958

Aged 77

More About Ellen Enfield Sheather:

1881 Census: Horse Shoe Lane Fram House, Beckley, Sussex, England

1891 Census: Horse Shoe Lane Fram House, Beckley, Sussex, England

Burial: Beckley Parish Church Graveyard, Sussex, England

Residence: 1904, Beckley, Sussex, England

More About Alfred James Bull:

1881 Census: Beckley, Sussex, England

1891 Census: Burnt Houses, Beckley, Sussex, England

Burial: Beckley Parish Church Graveyard, Sussex, England

Residence: 1904, Beckley, Sussex, England

        16.  Emily Ann¹⁰ Sheather (John⁹, Henry⁸, Charles⁷, William⁶, John⁵, Thomas⁴, Thomas³,

John² Stace, Thomas¹) was born 07 Apr 1881 in Beckley, Sussex, England, and died 1973 in Bournmouth, England. 

She married Horace (Sir) John Wilson  07 Apr 1908, son of Harry Wilson and Elizabeth Smith. 

He was born 10 Oct 1882, and died 26 May 1972 in London, England.

From "The Times" (Copyright) May 26 1972 Obituary: Sir Horace Wilson

New York Times Obituary

More About Emily Ann Sheather:

1891 Census: Horse Shoe Lane, Beckley, Sussex, England

Notes for Horace (Sir) John Wilson:

Of all top 20th century civil servants, Horace Wilson is the most elusive.

Two years younger than Warren Fisher, he was, like him, promoted Permanent Secretary at the

astonishing age of 39, later succeeding him, in 1939, as permanent Secretary to the Treasury and

Head of the Civil Service for three brief years.

Wilson’s decisive period was by then over. During that period, when Czechoslovakia was

betrayed and Poland invaded, Beaverbrook said "The Civil Service is silenced by the imposition

of Horace Wilson.....the power of the man can scarcely be exaggerated ... the country is being

ruled from an anteroom of Downing Street". In 1940 he was coldly dismissed, to serve out his

time in disgrace.

The resemblance to Fisher - is in fact slight - disappears. Fisher was passionate and overtly

political, a scion of Winchester and Oxford. Wilson was truer to the general civil service breed;

a degree-less entrant to the "second division" of the Service in an obscure department (the

Ministry of Labour) which had been unexpectedly catapulted to prominence by the manpower

problems of the First War, by unemployment and by trades union conciliation.

Wilson is the most photographed of all 20th century civil servants. His lizard like features peer

at us from a dozen prints, notably leaving his home in De Vere Gardens (scarcely now a haunt of

civil servants) to see Hitler on Chamberlain’s behalf as the Munich crisis reached its height. In

his face, amiability and fastidiousness struggle for mastery. Hitler screamed at him but saw him

twice; one wonders what he thought of this elegant shadow sent to threaten or do business.

Until 1938, like Chamberlain, he had never travelled in an aeroplane, and had scarcely ever been

abroad.

After his retirement, Wilson returned to his native Bournemouth to become the Chairman of the

National Joint Council of Local Authorities Administrative, Technical and Clerical Services - an

odd fate for one of the arbiters of modern Europe.

And yet - his most unforgiving critics, Gilbert and Gott who wrote "The Appeasers" in 1966,

said "we felt honoured to be received by Sir Horace Wilson, who helped us understand ... as no

documents could ... we hope he will take our criticism in good part" - a strangely touching if

double-edged epigraph. John Colville, Chamberlain’s and the Churchill’s Private Secretary, said

"Chamberlain did little without (Wilson’s) advice; he was not ambitious; he was kind, high

principled and frequently wise". When Churchill took over in 1940 as the Germans hurtled

towards the Channel coast, Wilson "arrived as usual (at his office in No. 10) ... as he opened the

door, he saw on the sofa confronting him Brendan Bracken and Randolph Churchill. They stared

at Sir Horace, but no-one spoke or smiled. Then he withdrew, never to return to that seat (of)

power" - and, unlike other appeasers, never to be forgiven.

How did it all happen, and can we today draw lessons? As the chief industrial conciliator, Wilson first came to Prime Ministerial notice over the confrontation with the miners which

sparked the 1926 General Strike. Later, in the unemployment crisis, he became Chief Industrial

Adviser, greatly impressing at the 1932 Ottowa Conference which paved the way for new

imperial trading arrangements. In 1935 Fisher transferred him to 10 Downing St. to prop up the

ailing Prime Minister Baldwin; Chamberlain, succeeding in 1937, soon fell under his spell.

Chamberlain’s biographer says: "He valued the measuring of a nice question by an intellect the

tranquility and firmness of which he admired".

Chamberlain knew his own mind on European policy; how far Wilson formed it, or simply

articulated and encouraged, is unknowable. Like Warren Fisher, Wilson distrusted the Foreign

Office and soon managed to get rid of its Germanophobe Permanent Secretary Vansittart, and

perhaps Anthony Eden too. But Wilson’s brief was much wider; he was in effect Chamberlain’s

chef de Cabinet and spin-doctor in relation to all Departments. Armed with Wilson’s steely grip,

Chamberlain soon subdued departmental opposition, surrounding himself with a tiny band of

sympathetic Ministers contemptuous of dissenting views on Europe and directive of a

sycophantic press.

Chamberlain intended to secure accommodation on almost any terms with a resurgent Nazi

Germany. An isolationist, he could not see that Britain had anything to gain by preventing

Hitler dominating Eastern Europe, and he was, not irrationally, more afraid of Stalin and

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