The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.1 | June 2023
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as a house maid, and the household also had a footman (James HEATH ), a groom (Thomas H DEALLER ), a page (Henry HALL ), a cook and housekeeper (Harriet DICKER ), a lady’s maid (Fanny MATTHEWS ) and a kitchen maid (Mary A NEWLAND ). Jane was obviously well settled with this family, whose address in Funtington was now ’32 Private’, Funtington, West Sussex on the 1871 census. Provo W P WALLIS was now an Admiral RN KCB and ‘on active service’. With his wife, Jemima WALLIS , the household comprised a butler (Robert ELEY ), a groom (John DIBBELL ), a footman (Henry HEATH ), a cook (Mary BARNS ), a lady’s maid (Ellen WILMSHURST ), two house maids (Jane BEARD and Agnes WHITE ) and a kitchen maid (Louisa MARTIN ). Robert B W WILSON , described as a 26-year-old nephew, born in Caracas Venezuela and a ‘gentleman living on private means’ was also in the household. Jane’s age was understated by 2 years. On 2nd December 1880 Jane, described as Mrs Jane BEARD of Funtington House, Funtington, made her will, in which she bequeathed all her monies and clothes to her two nieces (Rachel LAMBERT and Jane THOMPSON ) to be divided equally. Rachel and Jane were the daughters of Jane’s younger sister, Sarah, and her husband John LEWIS . The 1881 census for Funtington House, Funtington, shows the household reduced by one servant (the footman) and the groom had become a coachman. Provo WALLIS , Admiral
of the Fleet, GCB and is still entered as on ‘active list’ at the age of 89. He and his wife, Jemima, had 7 servants, including Jane. There was a butler (Robert WORDIN ), a coachman (Thomas BRYCE ), a cook (Mary BURNS ), a lady’s maid (Sarah HUNT ) a kitchen maid (Emma STAMP ) and two housemaids (Jane BEARD and Eliza COLLINS ). Again, Jane’s age was understated, this time by 3 years as by now she was aged 75. This is the last census on which Jane appears.
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