1846/7. She was seemingly born Folkestone. No birth on bmd which would seem to include Folkestone!

August 2014 - now not sure if I have the correct Ann Longhurst here!! 1851 census entry shows this Ann as born Folkestone - once married 1871 & 1881Cs show her born Brighton!! There is a bmd birth of Ann Longhurst Lewes Sep 1845 , but she has a father George, and Ann's 1870 m.c. to Charles Gunn definitely says her father is Charles!!. So I think she just said she was born Brighton Sussex as her parents had spent most of their lives in Sussex and she had grown up with them ~1849-1860 in Brighton

And 1851C, living Garden Street, Lewes.

1861C

1851C. Ann Longhurst, 4, is living with her parents, Charles Longhurst & Lucy, & 6 siblings at 3, Lavender Street, Brighthelmstone

1861C. Probably a servant.

1870. 4/9/1870 Ann Elizabeth Longhurst, 24, father Charles, marries Charles Edward Gunn, 28, at St Nich. Brighton

1871C Ann Gunn, 24, living 132 London Road Brighton . All born Brighton, son 4 mths . A quick birth!

1881C. Ann Gunn, 34, living 25 Fairlight Place Brighton with husband & 5 children

1901C. Ann Blackman, 54, is still living 88 Trafalgar St Brighton with her husband, James Blackman, fish merchant, their son James Blackman, & her last legitimate Gunn child, Thomas, a fish salesman . So where is Frederick aged ~16?

1911C. Ann Elisabeth Blackman, 63 , is living 160 Sackville Road Hove, in 6 rooms, with just James, he a fish merchant, employer, and a servant. She has been married 25 years & has had 8 children, 1 of whom has died . We only know of 2 children ,Frederick 1885 James E 1888 ,after the death of her 1st husband, so she must be including her Gunn children with him, of whom we know 5. .

1912, Ann E Blackman dies Steyning Dec 1912, aged 67 - suggesting born 1845 if this age correct . Steyning reg district covers Hove.

Her husband might die as James Blackman , E.Preston aged 78 in 1930. I do not think he is the James E Blackman, aged 91, Brighton 1941, as a James Edward Blackman did exist .

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page/brighton_and_hove_revisited tells us that

"102 St. James’s Street became a fishmongers around 1923, when James Blackman set up there.

From 1936 Frederick Gunn fishmonger, took over the shop and remained there for 45 years". He almost certainly the Frederick Gunn aged 6 in 1891C, born ~1884 before James Blackman's first wife had died in 1886, leaving him free to marry Frederick's mother, Ann Gunn . Thus James Blackman certainly the step father of Frederick and very likely his biological father too.

When did Frederick die?- no seeming death on Ancestry 1960-1990!

This Fred 1884 was the younger stepbrother of Charles Edward Gunn 1870- thus a step? great uncle of Vic's, both having the same mother, Ann E Longhurst.

Researching her 2nd husband further back, he married Mary Emma Johnson Brighton 1872: then

in 1881C, at Sussex Street Brighton

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