JOSEPH OFFEN was born circa 1825 in Heathfield, Sussex
(source : 1871 census). He was baptised in 1825 in Peasmarsh, Sussex (source : Collette Kendall).
He married HARRIETT GADD in 1846 in Heathfield,
Sussex (source : Collette Kendall). She was born circa 1824 in Wadhurst, Sussex
(source : Collette Kendall). Harriett died in 1857 in Heathfield, Sussex (source :
Collette Kendall).
Joseph remarried JANE LOVELL in 1870 in Heathfield, Sussex
(source : Collette Kendall). She was born circa 1816 in Waldron, Sussex (source : 1871 census).
On the 1871 census, Joseph (45, head, gardener), his wife Jane (55) and Joseph's three step-children (all with the surname
LOVELL, Jane's maiden name, so all illegitimate or was LOVELL her married name?) EDWARD (11), HARRIETT (18)
and JAMES (24) (all born in Heathfield, Sussex) and a 90-year-old lodger RICHARD HOLMES are all at 1 Upper Church Street,
just next door to All Saints Church in
Heathfield, Sussex. On the 1881 census, Joseph, a 55-year-old gardener, wife Jane and the three Lovell children all listed as lodgers
(James - unmarried, 32 , chicken higler ; Edward - 21, unmarried, postman ; Jane - 4, scholar) are all at
Church Passage, Heathfield, Sussex.
Joseph died in 1888 in Heathfield, Sussex (source : Collette Kendall).
Jane died in 1900 in Dallington, Sussex (source : Collette Kendall).
The Children of JOSEPH OFFEN and HARRIETT GADD:
EMILY OFFEN
was born circa 1841 in Ticehurst, Sussex (source : Collette Kendall).
SUSAN OFFEN was baptised in 1846 in Heathfield, Sussex
(source : Collette Kendall).
HENRY OFFEN was born circa 1852 in Heathfield, Sussex
(source : 1871 census) .
ARNOLD JAMES OFFEN was born circa 1855 in Heathfield, Sussex
(source : 1871 census). He was baptised in 1856 in Heathfield, Sussex
(source : Collette Kendall). On the 1871 census, Arnold, a 15-year-old ag lab,
is a boarder at Nurse Upton's?, Heathfield, Sussex, with brother Henry, with the FARMER family.
He married NAOMI CORNFORD (born
circa 1859 in Heathfield, Sussex, died in 1892) in 1877 in Heathfield, Sussex
(source : Collette Kendall). He died in 1882 in Heathfield, Sussex
(source : Collette Kendall). They had two children :
WALTER WILLIAM OFFEN (born circa 1878 in Heathfield, Sussex) , and
ERNEST EDWARD OFFEN (baptised in 1880 in Heathfield, Sussex,
died in 1880 in Heathfield, Sussex)
(source : Collette Kendall).