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Walter Burrell, 16001671 (aged 71 years)

Name
Walter /Burrell/
Surname
Burrell
Given names
Walter
Family with parents
father
15401614
Birth: 1540 Cuckfield, Sussex, England
Death: 2 September 1614Cuckfield, Sussex, England
himself
16001671
Birth: 1600 60 Cuckfield, Sussex, England
Death: 1671Cuckfield, Sussex, England
Walter Burrell + … …
himself
16001671
Birth: 1600 60 Cuckfield, Sussex, England
Death: 1671Cuckfield, Sussex, England
son
1 year
son
St. George's Church, Beckenham, Kent, England.
16491718
Birth: 3 January 1649 49 Cuckfield, Sussex, England
Death: 13 September 1718Beckenham, London Borough of Bromley, London, England
Birth
Occupation
Ironmaster and JP.
Death of a father
Birth of a son
before 1648
Birth of a son
Death
Address
Holmstead, Cuckfield, West Sussex, England.
Last change
28 February 201221:15:27
Author of last change: Danny
Note

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."