Adrian, the youngest of Thomas and Tamasin's six sons, was born in Ninfield and baptised on 20 October 1633. His mother died when he was only 5 and his father a year later so he was probably brought up by relatives. He married Susanna Hollands (1639-1702) in Hailsham on 25 January 1665/6 and they had seven children baptised in Wartling

Adrian was presumably a man of some means as the Hearth Tax returns of 1670 show that he paid tax on three hearths. This unpopular tax, first imposed in 1662, was levied on the occupiers of all houses worth not less than twenty shillings per year, and was two shillings per year for each hearth. The fact that there were no iron works near Wartling shows that Adrian could not have followed the family tradition of employment in the iron industry, but there is no direct evidence to show what he did. The will of Adrian's cousin John Honisett of Bexhill in 1682 in which he left £8 to 'Atheven? Honnisett of Wartling, husbandman' suggests that Adrian was a husbandman. The name Adrian (if indeed that is correct!) seems to have given many scribes (or transcribers?) a problem; the 1670 Hearth Tax return for him has been transcribed as Abraham and the will of William Honnisett of Newenden in 1650 which may also refer to him has 'my brother Athewll?'.

He died aged 49 and was buried in a woollen shroud in Wartling on 21 March 1682/3. Coffins were still rare at this date and most people were simply wrapped in a shroud for burial. The Burial in Wool Act of 1678, introduced to encourage prosperity in the wool trade, made it illegal to bury anyone in a shroud which was not made of wool. An affidavit had to be made in the parish registers that the law had been complied with.