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Sussex Ancestors: Christmas in Sussex
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Wednesday, 31 December 2014. The appropriately named Richard Christmas was baptised on Christmas Day 1838 in Chiddingly. Christmas is one of the rarer surnames (it is ranked 26,344. Th in the world) but it is not so unusual in Sussex. It may have its origins with a 12th. Century Cristemass family although it is often thought to be a surname given to those involved in organising Christmas celebrations or to someone born at Christmastime. Rd May 1851 aged just...
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Sussex Ancestors: December 2014
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Wednesday, 31 December 2014. The appropriately named Richard Christmas was baptised on Christmas Day 1838 in Chiddingly. Christmas is one of the rarer surnames (it is ranked 26,344. Th in the world) but it is not so unusual in Sussex. It may have its origins with a 12th. Century Cristemass family although it is often thought to be a surname given to those involved in organising Christmas celebrations or to someone born at Christmastime. Rd May 1851 aged just...
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Sussex Ancestors: October 2013
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Monday, 28 October 2013. Getting ready for the Queen's visit. Over the past month the Sussex Family History Group. Library have been busy moving from their home at St Michaels church hall in Lewes where they have been based for the last 21 years to their new home at the Keep. Last Saturday, a lot of work saw the room finally look a big more presentable (thank goodness for cupboards! The Keep opens to the public on the 19th November. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Sussex Ancestors: May 2014
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Thursday, 15 May 2014. I have just signed the petition. To have mothers names included on marriage certificates, something I feel very strongly about. In this day and age it is ludicrous that mothers are not included - not just to help the family historians of the future but far more importantly to recognise we are just as significant as our spouses - and in many cases it is the mothers who are primary carers in their children's lives. Well, they were only '...
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Sussex Ancestors: February 2014
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Monday, 17 February 2014. A little too large! As the librarian for the Sussex Family History Group I am currently sorting through a lots of boxes which haven't been opened for some time. The latest box included a transcript of a press cutting of the burial of William Agate in Horsham in 1827. According to this report, when William Agate died he was 'very corpulent'. William was actually described as being 126 stone ' horsemans weight'. A horsemans weight mea...
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Sussex Ancestors: July 2013
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Wednesday, 24 July 2013. Improved coverage of Sussex on FamilySearch. FamilySearch have improved their coverage of Sussex parish registers with the addition of over 400,000 baptism, marriage and burial records taken from parish registers. These are index entries only with no access to the original image. A list of the parishes covered can be found here. And it looks as if more will be added at some time in the future (but no indication when). For several kno...
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Sussex Ancestors: Miser of Mayfield
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Wednesday, 5 November 2014. William Luck was buried in Mayfield in 1704 and as his burial record shows he was worth a bit more than expected - especially as he was getting handouts from the parish in order to get by:. 13 [Dec 1704] Willm Luck had Releife of y. Parish Dyed with Eighty pounds by him. According to Measuring Worth ( www.measuringworth.com. The discovery of that money must have had the parish officials gnashing their teeth!
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Sussex Ancestors: A woman's place
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Thursday, 15 May 2014. I have just signed the petition. To have mothers names included on marriage certificates, something I feel very strongly about. In this day and age it is ludicrous that mothers are not included - not just to help the family historians of the future but far more importantly to recognise we are just as significant as our spouses - and in many cases it is the mothers who are primary carers in their children's lives. Well, they were only '...
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Sussex Ancestors: April 2014
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A blog for all things Sussex and Genealogical! Wednesday, 30 April 2014. Wednesday, 16 April 2014. Wordless Wednesday - Pipewell Gate, Winchelsea. The Pipewell or Ferry Gate was built in the early 14th century along with three others to allow access into the new town of Winchelsea. The road from this gate led down to the ferry across the river Brede. The gate. Was destroyed in 1380 during a French raid but rebuilt in around 1404. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Wordless Wednesday - Pipewell Gate, Winchelsea.