Percy Adonis Marchant

  General Notes:

C1881 shown as Grocer's assistant
Badly injured at 33 - permanently retired at 38 - see below.
C1881Grocer's assistant
23.04.1891 Joined Brighton Police Force six years before his father's retireme n t .
His personnel file shows following:
24.06.1891 Promoted to 3rd Class
29.05.1894 Promoted to 2nd Class
22.07.1896 Promoted to 1st Class (sec "D")
13.06.1897 Insp. Duly reports that he saw PC Stannen who was on No. 1 Beat a n d P C Marchant who was on No. 3 Beat come out of the West Street Brewery at 6. 1 5 a.m .. Both PCs left the Town Hall shortly before 6 a.m. CROSS REF TO STANNE N' S RECO RD.
16.06.1897 Taken before the Watch Committee and reduced to 2nd Class
19.10.1897 Insp Blackman reports that Thomas Stevens No. 16 Grant Street (18 7 F 4 )came to the Level Station at 10.15 p.m. and stated that when crossing Alb io n Hi ll (187 F3) 10 minutes before he saw PC Marchant who was in plain clothe s d run k and having an altercation with another constable in uniform and Marcha nt a ssau lted Stevens by seizing him by the throat. The Inspector and Sergt. A . Hamp ton v isited PC Marchant at his home at 10.45 p.m. and he was there drunk
27.10.1897 Taken before the Watch Committee and reduced to 3rd Class and 4 ye a r s deducted from his period of service for pension purposes
26.07.1898 PC Marchant injured whilst attempting to stop a runaway horse. (S e e N ewspaper report below.)
07.02.1900 Granted a pension of £12-10-3 per annum through being practically i n c apacitated from earning his livelihood in the execution of his duty. Marcha n t t o present himself for further examination by the Police Surgeon at the exp ir atio n of 12 months. Also granted £10-8-0 payable in weekly instalments of 4/ - o ut o f the accident and special service fund created 1.6.1881.
05.07.1900 Pension increased to £25-0-0 per annum.
18.12.1901 Pension increased to £62-11-5 per annum Marchant having become tota l l y disabled from earning his livelihood.
30.12.1903 Permanent superannuation
08.07.1920 Died
EVENING ARGUS 27.7.1898
ACCIDENTS AT BRIGHTON
Policeman Seriously Injured
A couple of accidents - one of a somewhat serious character - occurred in Brig h t on last evening. About half-past five a horse attached to a vehicle bolted f r o m outside the Dolphin, North Road, having evidently been frightened by som e bo y s who made a noise. The animal ran through the adjacent streets into Chur ch St re et, where P.C. Marchant, in stopping the runaway, was knocked down. P.C . Terr y a nd a cabman rendered assistance to Marchant, whose bravery resulted i n his s usta ining concussion of the brain. He was removed to the Sussex Count y Hospital , whe re his detention was, of course, necessary. It was stated toda y that the i njure d man is doing fairly well................................... ...

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 5 Mar 1865, Cuckfield, West Sussex England.

• connection. ⁸⁶² The connection between Karyn McMullin & myself is as follows:

Karyn McMullin is researching a friend's MARCHANT line,
her G Grandmother was Ethel Daisy Marchant b 1892
daughter of Percy Adonis Marchant b 1864 - d 1920 and Mary Ann Ticehurst
Ethel Marchant's father was Percy Marchant (1864)
His father was Adonis Marchant (1845)
His father was Thomas Marchant (1807)
His father was John Marchant (1786)
His father was William Marchant (1759)
His father was Thomas Marchant (1731)
His father was William Marchant (1701)
His father was Thomas Marchant (1676)
His father was William Marchant (1648)
His father was Thoms Marchant (1615)
His father was Richard Marchant (1584)
His father was Miles Marchant (1545) & he also had William Marchant (1592)
He had William Marchant (1633)
He had William Marchant (1668)
He had Elizabeth Marchant (1706) who married Robert Saxby (c1704)
They had Robert Saxby (1732)
He had Richard Saxby (1770)
He had Isabella Saxby (1795) who married George Wilson (c1802)
They had Sarah Wilson (c1825) who married Henry Bird
They had George Wilson Bird (1858) who married Monaro Garrett (1862)
Her father was Thomas Garrett (1830)
His father was John Garrett (1805) & he also had Eleanor Garrett (1836) who married John Stafford (1834)
His father was William Stafford (1811) who married Elizabeth Goodall (1814) & they also had William Stafford (1842)
He had Eva Stafford (1874) who married Arthur Clinton (1868)
They had James Clinton (1895) who married Martha Walker (1901)
Her father was Thomas Walker (1854)
His father was William Walker (1820) & he also had Martha Walker (1865) who married John Sutherland (1861)
His father was John Sutherland (1829) who married Margaret Elliot (1835)
They had Elizabeth Sutherland (1863) who married John Nicol (1844)
They had Margaret Nicol (1889) who married G. A. Davies (1994)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Percy married Mary Ann Ticehurst. (Mary Ann Ticehurst was born circa 1870.)