Samuel Southerden 1859-1942
 

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Ancestors of
Samuel Southerden

Samuel Southerden

Margaret Southerden

Nellie Gertrude Southerden

Louie Southerden

Harry Southerden

Alfred Southerden

Rose Ethel Southerden

Florence Southerden

Beatrice Kate Southerden

Maud M Southerden

Albert Edward Southerden

Enfield Southerden

Charles George Southerden

Constance Southerden

James Frederick Reginald Southerden

Frank Southerden

Alma Kathleen Southerden

Victor Southerden

Beatrice Southerden

Lena Southerden

William Jack Southerden

 

 

 


 

Photographs supplied courtesy of
Mrs T Alboni & Mr D Bourne
 

 


Samuel was the fifth child of Daniel and Mary Ann Southerden.  He was born on 24 March 1859 in Winchelsea, Sussex.

He forged lifetime connections with the sea, living at Broomhill, Sussex, and becoming a renowned kettle fisherman - Kettle fishing was so named due to the way in which the still live fish looked like water in a boiling kettle.

He married his first wife Sarah Elizabeth Knight, on 25 June 1882 at St Clement's Church in Hastings.  She was born c1858, and was the daughter of John and Ellen Knight.  Samuel and Sarah had ten children.

In 1895 Samuel was the second coxwain of the Mary Stanford lifeboat, based in Rye.

After Sarah's death in 1901, Samuel married Alice Elizabeth Butler.  She was the daughter of George and Enfield Butler, and was born on 9 April 1883.  The couple went on to have eleven children.

Samuel died on 5 March 1942.
 

 
 


Samuel kettle fishing c1912


Samuel with a larger than normal catch at Jury's Gap

 
 


My thanks to Pat Tritton and George Webb, who collated the information for this page