Albert Blann, was born in Heene, son of Henry and Ann. Father Henry was an Agricultural Labourer, born in Beeding. Blann is a very common name in Sussex. Michael Blann was a Downs Shepherd from Beeding who sang a very lovely folksong (The Trees are all Bare...) I have no idea whether they were related!
In 1841, Albert, with parents Henry and Ann and their older children, was living at Little Heene. At the time of the 1851 census, the family was at 19 Heene Street. Albert was the sixth of their 7 children.
In 1861 there was an Albert Blann, born in Heene, serving as an Able Seaman on an 180 ton boat, based in Shoreham. It was a Costing Grade boat, Captained by James Billinghurst, from Littlehampton and presumably a fishing boat. This may not be our Albert, but it is likely.
Alice, nee Potten, was from Patching, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Potten. Father Henry was from Mayfield, in Sussex, and was described, in the 1861 Census, in Salvington, as a Lath Winder. (By 1871 he was described as a Lath Winder (retired)). Married in Brighton, they moved to Patching in 1820/21. Alice was one of the youngest of their very extensive family.
Alice and Albert were married in West Tarring, in January 1864. At 9 Brunswick Road Common Lodgings' in 1871, Albert was a Common Lodgings Housekeeper with Alice, daughter Minnie (Ellen), and 25 Lodgers, male and female, from all over the country, including 3 from Ireland. Hucksters, Drovers, Hawkers, Saddlers, a Wheelwright and several Labourers.
Albert Archibald Joseph, was born in Heene, the second child in the family, and died in 1881. In 1881, at 2 Brunswick Road were Albert, Grocer, and Alice, Grocer's wife, with daughter Minnie, 15, and sons Henry and Ernest Adolphus, aged 4 and 2.
In 1891 at 9 Brunswick Road, were Grocer Albert with wife Alice, sons Henry and Ernest, daughter Margaret, aged 5, married daughter Ellen Linnell, aged 29, a Dressmaker, with her 3-year-old son Joseph, and two male Lodgers, father and son.
At the King and Queen Public House at 9 Brunswick Road in 1901 were Albert, still a Grocer, Son Henry, aged 24, a Carpenter, and also daughter Margaret Beatrice Kate, aged 15. 79 year-old widowed Jobbing Gardener, Edwin Patten, was with them as a Boarder.
The King and Queen (as the Brunswick became) was built in 1839. It wasn't so much a pub as a Beer House after the Brunswick became an Hotel. It is now a private house.
In 1911 Albert was living in Acton, Middlesex, with his daughter Margaret, and son-in-law Frank Bradley, a Londoner and a Butcher. Albert was described as a Cab Driver and Old Age Pensioner. His son Ernest, single, aged 33, a Fishmonger, was living there too.