CULLUM, John

1838 - 1913

John Thomas Cullum was born in the parish of Bungay, Suffolk on 5 June 1838, eldest child of Thomas Cullum, a master carpenter, and his wife Emma, née Winter (1818-1853), a sister of Cornelius Winter, who married at Bungay St Mary Church on 26 April 1836. In 1851, John was a 12-year-old, living at Bridge Street, Loddon, Norfolk with his parents, 36-year-old Thomas and 37-year-old Emma, with four siblings Charles 10, who was born at Bungay, Emma 9, who was born at Peasenhall, Suffolk, Ambrose 7 and newly born Rosa, both born at Loddon. John studied at the Norwich School of Art, from where in 1855, he exhibited at Gore House, Kensington, London and where he won a medal for shading in chalk. In 1861, John was still living at Loddon, being described as a heraldic artist. He married in the Bungay district of Suffolk in 1865, Elizabeth Mills and in 1881, a 42-year-old decorative artist, living at 36 Haberdasher Street, Shoreditch, London with his 45-year-old wife Emma, who was born at Denton, Norfolk and by 1891, still a decorative artist had moved to 19 Ashford Street, Shoreditch and in 1901, a 62-year-old artist & photographer living at 203 Union Street, Tormoham, Devon with his 65-year-old wife, now Mary E, born Denton, Norfolk and in 1911 was living at 11 Ellacombe Road, Torquay. John Thomas Cullum died in Devon in 1913, aged 74.

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