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Walter Burrell, 1600–1671?> (aged 71 years)
- Name
- Walter /Burrell/
- Surname
- Burrell
- Given names
- Walter
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1540–1614
Birth: 1540
— Cuckfield, Sussex, England Death: 2 September 1614 — Cuckfield, Sussex, England |
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himself |
1600–1671
Birth: 1600
60
— Cuckfield, Sussex, England Death: 1671 — Cuckfield, Sussex, England |
himself |
1600–1671
Birth: 1600
60
— Cuckfield, Sussex, England Death: 1671 — Cuckfield, Sussex, England |
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1 year
son |
1649–1718
Birth: 3 January 1649
49
— Cuckfield, Sussex, England Death: 13 September 1718 — Beckenham, London Borough of Bromley, London, England |
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Occupation
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Ironmaster and JP.
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Death
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Address
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Holmstead, Cuckfield, West Sussex, England.
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Last change
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Author of last change: Danny |
Note
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Walter took over the iron manufacture on his father's death, and in partnership with his brother, John, greatly increased the family fortune. After serving the court of Charles I and casting shot for the government in 1653, he bought Ockenden Manor from the Michels' (the first recorded owners in the mid 1500's) in 1658 and extended it. The mode of making iron in Sussex in the seventeenth century is detailed by John Ray, the celebrated naturalist, in two papers appended to his ‘Collection of English Words’. “This account of the whole process of the iron work,” he says, “I hadfrom one of the chief iron-masters of Sussex, my honoured friend, Walter Burrell, of Cuckfield, Esq., deceased. The particulars of the modus operandi of the manufacture, furnished from so authentic a source, are of sufficient value to warranttheir introduction in this place." |
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