The Cheney Family Of Puncknowle

A Memory of Puncknowle.

My great grandfather John Cheney, died in 1943. The Cheney family lived in Puncknowle for centuries and were blacksmiths. They originally came from Litton Cheney, a village nearby, in the sixteenth century, Sir Ralph and Dame Edith Cheney, being the earliest names I have found. My grandmother, Mary Elizabeth, was born the eldest daughter in 1877 to John and Ann nee Hansford, and she married Lionel White from Charmouth in St Mary's Church Puncknowle on 4 June 1896. John and Ann lived next door to the old Post Office