Anthony Fussey & The Twenty Perches
Anthony FUSSEY (1784–1860), our 4th Great Grandfather, was a resilient agricultural laborer whose life was rooted entirely in the Holderness peninsula of the East Riding of Yorkshire, where he and his wife achieved the remarkable feat of raising a massive family of 15 children on a tiny plot of land measuring just 20 perches. Living through the peak of the British...
