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Thomas and Anne Sulston

Thomas Sulston (1813-1873) married Anne Hunt (1826-1903) in 1850 at St James Church in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire. They both came from families who were tenant farmers. When they were first married, they lived at Chilling Place in Piddington (Oxfordshire) where Thomas is a farmer in the 1851 census. By 1853, they had moved to the 160 acre farm in Boarstall which had been farmed by two generations of Anne's family. In the 1871 census, Thomas and Anne are living at this farm with her widowed father, William Hunt (1786 - about 1880). By the time of the 1881 census, Anne is widowed and employing two men and two boys on the farm. She has five children living with her - Hettie, Jonas, Aubrey, Addie and Ernest. Aubrey and Ernest continued to live on the farm into the twentieth century.

Thomas and Anne had a family of fourteen children of whom three died in infancy. Their eldest son, William, emigrated with his young family to Canada in the 1870's. He was later followed by his brother James Andrew. They founded an extensive dynasty there, with some members of the family moving to the USA. Thomas and Anne's other children remained in the UK and seven of them married and raised families. Three of the grandchildren later emigrated to South Africa. The total number of currently known descendants of Thomas and Anne is over 350.

Thomas died in 1873 and Anne in 1903. They are buried in the churchyard in Boarstall alongside other members of the family.

Thomas and Anne Sulston

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