Person:Daniel French (10)

On 18 July 1802 at Rye (Sussex) Daniel French married Sarah Batcheler.(baptized 2 March 1785, Rye), daughter of John Batcheler (baptized 19 Feb 1747, Rye) and Rebekah (Russell) Batcheler. He was son of John Batcheler (baptized 14 Feb 1724, Rye) and Sarah (Sillis) Batcheler. He was son of John Batchelor and Mary Chapman. ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rosemary Appleton, Sussex Family History Group

Daniel French - Pevensey sluice, transferred to Kingston (ADM 175/2 1816/19) - this is a PRO reference and you may find more detail if you can either contact PRO (Kew) on line ------------------------------------------------------------------ Following information supplied by Eileen Stage

Nomination to Coast guards ADM 175/74. Date of Nomination 11 Aug 1819. Daniel French. Nominated from Kingston (Sussex). to Shanklin. (IOW). Chief Boatman.. Nominated for Chief Officer........................Kingston station, Arundel port (Sussex ADM 175/1 p 17. Daniel French, chief boatman. Removed 11 Aug 1819.

Appointed Chief Officer, Shankilin............Shanklin station (IOW) Cowes port  ADM 175/1 p31.  11 Aug 1819 from Kingston.  Daniel French, Chief officer.  Discharged dead  6 Jan 1820 (no cause given)

10 Jan 1820. Buried in St Marys Brading. "Came from Sandown "ag (Burial record in"Parish Register - Brading Burials, FHC film #1470802. He is recorded as "Daniel C. French, abode - Sandown. No. 236)

---------------------------------------------------- 

Cowes Customs History <http://www.customscowes.shalfleet.net/> Officers serving in H M Customs on the Isle of Wight "6 January 1820 Daniel FRENCH Chief Officer, Coast Guard Boat, Shanklin Letters Book "

----------------------------------------------------- 

Document from National Archives: A transcription (some parts illegible) of this image from Collector (the Head of Customs at the Port) to the Board of Customs. 7 January 1820

  "6 January 1819

Hon Sir

We have to report to your honors the melancholy Death of Mr. Daniel French, Chief Officer of the Preventive Boat at Shanklin caused by a violent cold ---- his Exertion and Night Watchings his Salving and Preserving the Cargo of the Brig William wrecked at Sandown- the 29 Nov last on her voyage from -------- to Portsmouth as ---ssed in our Letter to your Honors 1 Dec --- 253 -

Daniell French was a Strong Athletic Man 40 years of Age and ---- his Death brought on by the Severity of the Frost and Bad Weather - scarce knew we are informed what ill health was except by name.

He has left a Widow and Seven Children in deep Afliction and unprovided for except the Eldest Son, Daniel French who since November last has been temporarily employed by the Inspecting Commander in his Father boat - On the 28 Dec last We received -------- Duties on the Cargo of Timber ------ salved and we verily believe that the Major part of this Sum collected for the Revenue may be attributed to the Exertion of French the deceased his Boat, Crew and Riding Officers in watching & protecting the Goods salved on our open and exposed Shore in one of the most inclement Seasons felt in the Isle of Wight many years - 20 Nights and Days at the end of which being seized with Cold & Cough on his Chest he was obliged to take to his Bed all which is

 Respectfully submitted    7 January  1820"

DANIEL FRENCH: Pay of boatman £5 per year Pay of chief boatman £10 per year Pension £30 per year

Keats found inspiration for some of his greatest poetry while staying at Shanklin in 1819

Following information is from: A2A The English Strand of the UK Archives Network http://www.a2a.org.uk/default.asp East Sussex Record Office: Archive of Rye Corporation [RYE/1 - RYE/44] ARCHIVE OF RYE CORPORATION Catalogue Ref. RYE Creator(s): Rye Corporation ASSEMBLIES, HUNDREDS AND SESSIONS Indictments - ref. RYE/8

     FILE - Thomas Paine, labourer; assault on Daniel French, mariner - ref.  RYE/8/60  -  date: 27 Dec 1801 -------------------------------------------------------------- A more detailed report of the assault by Thomas Paine in in a transcript of document RYE/8/60 at the  East Sussex Record Office in Lewes  which I had transcribed by a  member of the Sussex Family History Society.  . The actual text of the document  reads as follows.........................

"The Ancient Town of Rye in the County of Sussex. (To wit) The jurors for our Lord the King, upon their Oath present that Thomas Paine late of the Ancient Town of Rye in the County of Sussex Labourer on the twenty seventh day of December in the forty second year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the third King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to in the Town of Rye aforesaid in the County of Sussex aforesaid in and upon Daniel French Mariner then and there being in the peace of God and of our said Lord the King with Force and Arms an Assault did make and him the said Daniel French then and there did beat wound and evil intreat and then and there to him other enormous things did to the Great Damage and Hurt of him the said Daniel French to the Evil Example of all others offending in the like kind and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity"

Whilst a note across the top in a separate and less impressive hand stated that the accused had pleaded, "not guilty." The actual verdict of the court was Guilty. -------------------------------

"From 1816-35 the Customs and Excise mounted a blockade to counter the extensive smuggling along this stretch of coast.  The Royal Navy Coast Blockade Service with responsibility for the coast from Sheerness to Chichester had 3,000 officers and men at 350 stations between Camber and Beachy Head.  There were extensive troop concentrations in Pevensey Bay as The Crumbles shingle spit, like Dungeness, was regarded as a likely landing point for a French invasion.   The Bexhill birth register records many German surnames associated with the 4th and 5th Battallions of the King's German Legion who were based there prior to Waterloo including LUTTER and LUTTERMAN  cf the origins of LUTER??? Ref.  Longstaff-Tyrrell, Peter "Barracks to Bunkers"- 250 years of military activity in Sussex.  Sutton Publishing 2002.  ISBN 0-7509-2908-1 "  (Information received via e-mail on 22 May 2008 from Colin Morey)

1. ↑ Parish Records of Rye, Sussex. 1682-1812.. (FHL films 1067289 and 1067290).