Andrew Nance [Parents] was born in 1810. He died in 1877. He married Martha Blunden in 1846.
Martha Blunden [Parents] was christened in 1826 in Poling. She married Andrew Nance in 1846.
Stephen Blunden [Parents] was born in 1749. He was christened in 1749 in Goring. He died in 1807 in Poling. He married Fanny Goble in 1787 in Broadwater.
Farmer
Fanny Goble was born in 1757 in Broadwater. She died in 1829 in Poling. She married Stephen Blunden in 1787 in Broadwater.
They had the following children:
M i George Blunden was christened in 1788. He died on 31 Jan 1845.
James Blunden [Parents] was born in Clapham, Sussex. He married Elizabeth Parsons on 14 Dec 1741 in Heene.
Brickburner
Elizabeth Parsons was born in Turring, Sussex. She married James Blunden on 14 Dec 1741 in Heene.
They had the following children:
M i John Blunden was born in 1742. He was christened in Coombes. M ii James Blunden was born in 1744 in Goring. He died in 1791. M iii George Blunden was born in Torrington. He died in 1791.
Blacburner when married 1780, Yeoman at death in 1791M iv William Blunden was born in 1748. M v Stephen Blunden was born in 1749. He died in 1807.
John Blunden was born in Bosgrove. He died in 1731. He married Ann Royle in 1702.
Yeoman, later Brickburner
Ann Royle [Parents] died in 1763. She married John Blunden in 1702.
They had the following children:
F i Ann Blunden was born in 1703. F ii Sarah Blunden was born in 1704. F iii Mary Blunden. M iv James Blunden. F v Elizabeth Blunden was born in 1719. She died in 1747. M vi Robert Blunden.
Henry Roile died in 1716 in ASt Pancras, Chichester. He married Magdalen Roili.
Magdalen Roili was born in St Pancras, Chichester. She died in 1741. She married Henry Roile.
They had the following children:
F i Ann Royle died in 1763.
Andrew Nance [Parents] was born in 1777. He died in 1853. He married Ann Norris.
Andrew Nance owned large amounts of land in Portsmouth, England, and was a beer and wine merchant. He had two of the best hotels in the district — The Blue Posts and The Fountain. They were already well known coaching inns with a long history when he bought them. He brought the actual coaches up to a very high standard and they were said to "fly" between Golden Cross, Charing Cross and the Blue Posts to Portsmouth in nine and one half hours. Very fast!!! They were later driven by Andrew Nance�s son. The Rocket was the speediest coach on the road and very well known!Imagine our ancestors driving their coaches on rough roads, in all weathers, day and night, their fast horses galloping through the night, hooves clattering and manes flying. They were often held up by highwaymen and it was literally your-money-or-your-life in those days. Very wealthy people travelled in the coaches and there were no banks in which to secure money.
Andrew Nance was an extremely shrewd businessman and eminently successful. He was a director of many companies and eventually became the Mayor of Portsmouth. He was the �beau ideal� of a hearty English gentleman.�oss, 1877. His death occasioned a deep feeling of regret in the borough. Portsmouth has been deprived of one of her leading citizens. Andrew Nance was of an unostentatious and retiring disposition. Many years as a member of the Town Council, he deservedly gained a high reputation in business, his judgement being particularly sound, his perception most acute and his enterprises unbounded. He was, more over, always willing to lend a leading hand to others".
Ann Norris was born in 1779. She died in 1850. She married Andrew Nance.
They had the following children:
M i Andrew Nance was born in 1810. He died in 1877. F ii Martha Nance was born in 1798. She died in 1824. F iii Suseanne Nance was born in 1801. She died in 1805. F iv Ann Nance was born in 1803. She died in 1805. F v Susanna Nance was born in 1808. She died in 1862. F vi Marianne Nance was born in 1805. F vii Charlotte Nance. M viii William Nance was born in 1813. M ix James Nance was born in 1816. F x Elizabeth Nance was born in 1819. She died on 16 Jul 1895. F xi Eleanor Nance was born in 1820. She died in 1882. M xii Richard Nance was born in 1822. He died in 1822.
Martha Nance [Parents] was born in 1798. She died in 1824. She married Calton.
Drewitt. married Susanna Nance.
Susanna Nance [Parents] was born in 1808. She died in 1862. She married Drewitt.
Fiske. married Marianne Nance.
Marianne Nance [Parents] was born in 1805. She married Fiske.
William Nance [Parents] was born in 1813. He married Lucy Rands.
Lucy Rands.Lucy married William Nance.
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