The Cullens of Sittingbourne, Tynham and Green Street in Kent, U.K.
 

Alexander Hugh Mac Cullen (1854-1917)
and Janet Cullen (nee Day) (1856-1933) taken on their 40th wedding anniversary,
April 10, 1914

 

Emma Lucy Sims, the wife of Montague Sydney Sims, and my grandmother, was born Emma Lucy Cullen. The Cullen family lived in the North of Kent for many generations in and around Tynham and Sittingbourne.

This page and those linked to it will, as it grows, detail what we know of the Cullen family with particular emphasis on Emma Lucy's parents portrayed to the left; their forbears and their descendents.

Alexander Hugh Mac Cullen and Janet Day were married at Holy Trinity Church, Milton Regis, near Sittingbourne, Kent, England on April 10, 1877. They had a total of 10 children, of which four died at birth or in their first year.

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Where they lived:

We can trace the family's movements through birth and census records and other miscellaneous items.

Alexander Hugh Mac Cullen was born at Green Street, Tynham, Kent  on March 12th, 1854.

So far we have not located the family on the 1861 Census.

We know where Alexander Hugh's family was in 1871 - at 20 High Street, Sittingbourne. However, Alexander Hugh (now 16) had left home although his brothers Adolph (age 14) and William (age 15) are still there. He was working as a Draper's Apprentice at 4 Broadway in Barking, Essex.

Alexander Hugh and Janet Day married in 1877 in Milton Regis next Sittingbourne. They seem to have stayed there until Isabelle was born in 1879, and then moved to Newington in 1880, since Emma Lucy was born there.

In the 1881 Census, the young family - Alexander Hugh, wife Janet and daughters Isabella J and Emma L.- are living at Newington Street, Newington in Milton, Kent. He is described as a plumber. Also present is a niece, Minnie Warrick born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and listed as a scholar, age 12.

John was born in Newington and the next year Daisy was born in Plaistow, so the family must have moved in 1883 or 1884. According to the 1901 census they lived at 44 Maud Road, Plaistow.

In the 1891 Census, the family - Alexander Hugh, wife Janet, and children Isabella, Ermina (perhaps a misspelling of Emma), John, Daisy, Alexander and Edward - are living at 137 High Street, Plaistow, West Ham, Essex.

In the 1901 Census, the family - Alexander Hugh, wife Janet, and children Emma, John, Daisy, Alexander and Edward are living at 1 St. Michael's Place, Hastings, Sussex. Alexander (now 47) is shown as a greengrocer working on his own account.

Alexander Hugh died in Bexhill, Sussex on July 20, 1917. Janet died on July 23, 1933 at 27 Wilton Road, Bexhill, Sussex. In her last years, her eldest daughter Belle, who was a professional nurse, moved in to care for her at that address.

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