When Thomas Furner was christened on 15 July 1792, in Brede, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Furner, was 31 and his mother, Mary Coleman, was 29. He married Mary Polhill on 6 January 1816, in Brede, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Guestling, Sussex, England in 1851. He died in March 1853, in Guestling, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 60, and was buried in Guestling, Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
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English: occupational name from Middle English furner, fourner ‘baker, person in charge of a bake-house or oven’ (Old French fornier, furnier ‘baker’; Late Latin furnarius, a derivative of furnus ‘oven’). Compare Fournier .
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