James Fluen
was the father of ELIZA FLUEN (1855-1932) and the great-grandfather of WILLIAM HENRY FLUEN (1906-1969).
He was born in Andover on 13. May 1829 and christened 26. April 1830. He was an illegitimate child of the widow AMELIA Fruen (1792-1853) nee Coke alias Cope (Copes). The Hampshire Advertiser reports on 06. May 1843: "... James Fluen, and George Archer, all of Andover were fined 2 £ each for damaging underwood belonging to Mr. Cooper, of Goodworth ...”
But besides this youthful mistake he had rather an inconspicuous life working as general labourer, bricklayer, stoker at the gas works and fetter in the iron works.
However 1901, JAMES FLUEN lived in Andover, New Street them days, he seemingly lost all his possessions by a very destructive fire in that year.
" On Easter Monday, 9 April 1901, the most disastrous fire of the twentieth century occurred. 17 homes, a range of farm buildings and the Blacksmith’s Arms had been destroyed. 80-100 people had lost their homes and many of them were "destitute of even a change of clothing". Within days £200 had been collected. Families were put up in a couple of malt-houses, the Mission Room, the Union Workhouse or put up by their neighbours and families. The Andover Football Club’s rummage sale was cancelled and the donated clothing given
to the homeless. By 26 April the fund had grown to £442. An Andover resident heard that many people were barefoot and paid for them to have boots." JAMES FLUEN lived afterwards in one of Pollen's Almshouses in Marlborough Street (photo), where he must have stayed until short of his death as he was still registered under this adress in the UK Census 1911.
Still in the same year, on 21. July 1911, he died of Morbus Cordis (chronic cardiac disease) at Church View Terrace, Andover living in the household of his granddaughter, Rose Sophia Street and family, then.
AMELIA COKE alias COPE (COPES) was born between 1791/92 and 1796 according to different Census records. She was also known as 'Emilia' or 'Milly'. On 06. Dec 1812, she married Joseph Fruin or Fruen (1790-1817) of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire in Andover, Hampshire. He was the son of John Frewin (1757-1832) and Mary Wilkens (1754-1810).
AMELIA and Joseph had children:
(1) William Fruen (1813-1871) married to Sarah Hunt (1816-1869)
1.1 John Fruen born 1832
1.2 William Fruen born 1836
NOTE: Nothing is known about John's and William's whereabouts in England. Only their births seem to be registered in the UK. Both might have emigrated to the USA, like their cousin, William Henry Fruen (1845-1917), who settled in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota in the end. However this hypothesis cannot be verified.
1.3 Charles Fruen (1838-1838)
1.4 Edward Fruen (1843-1867)
1.5 Joseph Robert Fruen (1845-1902) & Frances Tubb Faithful (1842-1933)
NOTE: He and his wife joined his daughter, Elizabeth Hannah and her family, to the USA, where he died short after the arrival. Frances returned to the UK and died in Southampton, Hampshire years later.
1.5.1 Elizabeth Hannah Fruen (1865-1915) & Henry David Kimball White (1863-1939)
NOTE: Emigrated to the USA and settled in Salt Lake County, Utah.
1.5.2 William Edward Fruen (1868-1914) & Mary Bloor
1.5.3 Frances Fruen (1872-1956) & George Edward Smith
1.5.4 Joseph Robert Fruen (1873-1946) & Ada Maria Wateridge (1877-1934) & Georgina Reeves
1.5.5 Frank Henry Fruen (1875-1955) & Lily Williams (1874-1925)
1.5.6 Louisa Jane Fruen (1878-1953) & Frank Joseph Cantle Booth
1.6 Francis Fruen (1850-1923) & Mary Hannah White (1851-1925)
1.7 Mary Ann Fruen (1852-1852)
(2) James Fruen (1816-1817)
Because AMELIA was still a young woman, when her husband died, it is not unusual that she had still more children later on, even though they were born out of wedlock without registering their fathers' names:
(3) Sophia (Fruen) Fluen (1822-1890) & Richard Buckler born 1824
3.1 Caroline Buckler (1846-1932) & Bernard Hare (1846-1882)
3.2 Richard Buckler born 1851 & Margaret Watling (1856-1937)
(4) JAMES (Fruen) FLUEN & LOUISA RUDDOCK
AMELIA's own descent is as uncertain as her son's. The only more or less certain information about her is Census 1851, which states that she was age 60, then born in Andover and lived with her son James in the household of her unmarried sister, Sarah Copes (1791-1858) in Andover, Union Street. Although some online sources are suggesting that her maiden was Coke instead of Cope or Copes and that she might have been the youngest daughter of Elias and Elizabeth Coke, no corresponding records could be found to confirm it though. Also other theories about her descent seem to be rather red herrings than trustable sources. "I remember that my father, Billy, mentioned that his grandmother, ELIZA FLUEN, told him that there was a family link to Norfolk, but he never mentioned, which exact line it was."
AMELIA's death respectively burial got registered in Andover on 20. Nov 1853 under the name 'Millicent Fluen' (Vol 2c Pg 146).
JAMES FLUEN married LOUISA RUDDOCK in Andover, 03. Aug 1851. She was born in Wherwell, Hampshire on 19. July 1829 and died in Andover on 09. January 1869, about three weeks after she had given birth to their youngest son, James Fluen.
Louisa lived in the Andover Workhouse them days. "The Andover workhouse scandal of 1845-6 highlighted the hardship of the workhouse regime. McDougal, the Master of the Andover Workhouse, had a reputation for 
inhumanity; rumours of excess cruelty eventually led to a public enquiry. Bone crushing was a normal occupation for paupers. The bones of horses, dogs and other animals (and there were hints that some from local graveyards) were crushed for fertiliser for local farms. The paupers were so hungry that they scrambled for the rotting bones. Bone-crushing became the focus of a case which was
(A newspaper illustration from The Penny Satirist (6 September 1845), depicting the inmates of Andover workhouse fighting over bones to eat.)
reported extensively by The Times and was followed avidly by the public. Edwin Chadwick emerged particularly well and reached the height of his prestige and power at this time. Andover was only the most notorious example of workhouse cruelty. There were several other major scandals and incidents, all recorded by the press in minute detail."
LOUISA RUDDOCK was like her husband also an illegitimate child. She was the daughter of SARAH RUDDOCK (1805-1885) and JEREMIAH FURMAGE BARBER (1804-1857) both of Wherwell, Hampshire, England.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wherwell like this: "WHERWELL, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Hants. The village stands 1¼ mile NE of Fullerton-Bridge r. station, and 3½ SSE of Andover; and has a post-office under Andover, and a fair on 24 Sept.-The parish contains Fullerton and Westover tythings, comprises 3,546 acres, and is in Andover district. Rated property, £3,651. Pop., 626. Houses, 124. W. Park is the seat of W. Iremonger, Esq. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here by Elfrida, the widow of King Edgar; was given, at the dissolution, to the first Lord Delawarr; and passed to the Iremongers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £304.* Patron, W. Iremonger, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1859. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a village school. -The hundred contains six parishes, and is in .Andover division. Acres, 16,909. Pop. in 1851, 2,524. Houses, 524."
SARAH RUDDOCK was the youngest daughter of Thomas Ruddock (1772-1826) and Jane Tarrant (1772-1850), who married in Wherwell, 07. Nov 1793. However it is not clear, where her paternal and maternal families originated from, perhaps from Wiltshire.
Louisa's mother was the youngest of five children and christened in Wherwell, 22. Dec 1805. She married her widowed brother-in-law, William Turton (1792-1873), at some time between 1831-1834. Both had children:
(1) James Turton or Turton Ruddock (1834-1901) & Jane Reeves
(2) George Turton or Turton Ruddock (1838-1920) & Mary Jowles
(3) Sarah Jane Turton or Turton Ruddock (1840-1922) & Arch Stephens Boyce (-1865) & Charles Anthony Weston (1845-1901)
(4) John Turton born 1842
JEREMIAH BARBER's family can be traced back at least to his grandparents, Joseph Barber alias Barker (1754-1824) and Sarah Smith (1750-1824), his grandfather having died of smallpox. Jeremiah hisself was the son of Joseph Barber (1780-1808) and Louisa Furmage or Farmage alias Termadge (1776-1843), who married in Wherwell, 03. April 1804.
NOTE: It does not to be possible to trace Louisa Furmage's descent unless she was born under an alias name, like Leverea Furmage, whose name does not exist any more later on in UK Records. Leverea Furmage for example was born out of wedlock to Mary Furmage and christened 05. Apr 1776 at Bulford, Wiltshire, which is just 16 miles away from Wherwell. But this hypothesis cannot be verified at the moment.
Joseph Barber and Louisa Furmage had children:
(1) JEREMIAH BARBER (1804-1857) & SARAH RUDDOCK (1805-1885) & Tabitha Dobbs nee Waters (1805-1875)
1.1 LOUISA RUDDOCK (1829-1869) & JAMES FLUEN (1829-1911)
1.2 Joseph Barber (1835-1898) & Margaret Maloney (1843-1874) & Mary Connolley (1845-1885)
(2) Edward Barber (1806-1850), never married
(3) Dennis (DENISE) Barber born 1808 & Charles Bastin born 1804; shall have emigrated to Rutherglen, Australia
3.1 Francis Bastin born 1833
3.2 Mary Bastin born 1835
3.3 Albert Bastin (1836-1907) & Emma Johnson (1833-1887) & Sarah Porter born 1850
3.4 Louisa Bastin (1840-1904); emigrated to Rutherglen, Australia