Dear Listers,   I have noticed that the Sussex Marriage Index CD contains a number of entries based on Bishops Transcripts, presumably where part of the PR is missing.  I assume that BTs were also submitted for Baptisms and Burials, and my first question is does the online SFHG database (Frontis) have any BT information for Baptisms and Burials?  The second question is do the PRTS CDs (I have West Grinstead, Cowfold, Bolney and Billingshurst) have any BT data with respect to Baptisms and Burials?  Thirdly, are any BTs available for online searching, or do I have to go to the County Record Office to search them?   Many Thanks   Neal Ward 9743

Hi: Another possibility. If you have access to Ancestry, or your local library has a subscription, Ancestry does have a database....London, England,Electoral Registers 1847-1965. And it includes the borough of Willesden. Regards John Cain 10370 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Noyce" <[email protected]> To: "FMB" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 6:41:18 AM Subject: Re: [SFHG] Willesden Green Library help wanted please You might need to be quick, as I understand that Brent Council are trying to close Willesden Library and demolish it! Graham Noyce St Ives Hunts Mem No 9038 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of FMB Sent: 09 September 2012 21:59 To: [email protected] Subject: [SFHG] Willesden Green Library help wanted please Is there anyone on the list who has easy access to the Willesden Green Library, Brent, who can look at some electoral registers, for years either side of WW2 for a possible former Hastings resident/descendant? Your help would be much appreciated. Thanking you, Frances Bunyan - 1841 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5258 - Release Date: 09/09/12 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You might need to be quick, as I understand that Brent Council are trying to close Willesden Library and demolish it! Graham Noyce St Ives Hunts Mem No 9038 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of FMB Sent: 09 September 2012 21:59 To: [email protected] Subject: [SFHG] Willesden Green Library help wanted please Is there anyone on the list who has easy access to the Willesden Green Library, Brent, who can look at some electoral registers, for years either side of WW2 for a possible former Hastings resident/descendant? Your help would be much appreciated. Thanking you, Frances Bunyan - 1841 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5258 - Release Date: 09/09/12

Frances, Some Electoral Registers for London are on Ancestry, if you can provide some info I can have a look. Cheers, Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of FMB Sent: 09 September 2012 21:59 To: [email protected] Subject: [SFHG] Willesden Green Library help wanted please Is there anyone on the list who has easy access to the Willesden Green Library, Brent, who can look at some electoral registers, for years either side of WW2 for a possible former Hastings resident/descendant? Your help would be much appreciated. Thanking you, Frances Bunyan - 1841 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5258 - Release Date: 09/09/12 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5258 - Release Date: 09/09/12

Is there anyone on the list who has easy access to the Willesden Green Library, Brent, who can look at some electoral registers, for years either side of WW2 for a possible former Hastings resident/descendant? Your help would be much appreciated. Thanking you, Frances Bunyan - 1841

I thought it was pronounced eye-field. Harvey

Hi Christine According to my copy of 'A272 An Ode to a Road' by Pieter Boogaart the pronunciation is 'izvil' (in italics with first i bold). Not sure how authoritative this is but the book is a very good guide to places on or near the A272. Found http://www.archive.org/stream/placenamesofsuss00robeiala/placenamesofsuss00r obeiala_djvu.txt which contains a great deal of information on Sussex place names but it doesn't seem helpful in this particular case. Regards Tony Albery 12351 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine Jackson Sent: 09 September 2012 03:25 To: SFHG Subject: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please Can some local lister please tell me how to pronounce the name of the parish of ISFIELD? (next to Barcombe).   Is it pronounced just how it is spelt, or is the 's' not pronounced (like Ifield)?   Any advice much appreciated,   Thank you Christine Jackson, SFHG 397 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5256 - Release Date: 09/08/12 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5256 - Release Date: 09/08/12

There are many places in Sussex where the pronunciation of place names is nothing like the spelling, eg, Alciston [AL-CIS-TON] which often appears as Alston, and Selmeston [SEL-MES-TON] which can appear as Simpson. However, Isfield should correctly be pronounced IS-FIELD to avoid confusion with Ifield near Crawley, although locals might well refer to ISFIELD as Ifield. Similarly, many Sussex place names ending in LY, or LEY are pronounced LIE as in ARDINGLY, and LEY as in BECKLEY. All very confusing for genealogists researching in Sussex who do not have a local knowledge. Mawr & Stenton's "Place Names of Sussex" is a useful if somewhat old guide to pronunciation before the 1920s giving many examples of spelling from original documents. Michael Burchall > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 07:50:58 -0400 > Subject: Re: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please > > Hello Christine, I have always pronounced it not sounding the s. We were > evacuated there in 1940 from Seaford, when the invasion was imminent. Mother > got fed up with it after a couple of weeks and we went back home to Seaford. > Dad had to stay behind, as it was women and children only and he was a Bus > driver. The concern was, I believe, that our coastal area would have been > bombarded prior to any invasion and Seaford, as I have since learned was > right in the middle of the proposed landing front. Regards to all, John > Green, 9502, in Ontario, canada. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christine Jackson" <[email protected]> > To: "SFHG" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 10:24 PM > Subject: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please > > > Can some local lister please tell me how to pronounce the name of the parish > of ISFIELD? (next to Barcombe). > > Is it pronounced just how it is spelt, or is the 's' not pronounced (like > Ifield)? > > Any advice much appreciated, > > Thank you > Christine Jackson, SFHG 397 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It sounds as if that could be the source of the confusion, over the years: Ifield, near Crawley, and Isfield, south of Uckfield. Phil Vaughan 15422 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine Jackson Sent: September-09-12 10:46 AM To: Tony Albery; 'SFHG' Subject: Re: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please Yes, Tony, I have the book - it's terrific and has inspired a talk I will be giving to my family history society here in Ottawa, Canada! That's why I asked about the pronunication - but I neglected to check in the book before posting my question. Sorry about that! I was born & raised in Brighton & something told me from all those years ago that maybe Isfield isn't pronounced as spelt, but I may just be confused because I also knew of Ifield further north in the county.     However, I greatly appreciate everyone's input - thanks to all of you who have responded! I'm coming over later this month & will check it out on the spot then.   Regards Christine Jackson SFHG 397   ________________________________ From: Tony Albery <[email protected]> To: 'Christine Jackson' <[email protected]>; 'SFHG' <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:07:55 AM Subject: RE: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please Hi Christine According to my copy of 'A272 An Ode to a Road' by Pieter Boogaart the pronunciation is 'izvil' (in italics with first i bold). Not sure how authoritative this is but the book is a very good guide to places on or near the A272. Found http://www.archive.org/stream/placenamesofsuss00robeiala/placenamesofsuss00r obeiala_djvu.txt which contains a great deal of information on Sussex place names but it doesn't seem helpful in this particular case. Regards Tony Albery 12351 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine Jackson Sent: 09 September 2012 03:25 To: SFHG Subject: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please Can some local lister please tell me how to pronounce the name of the parish of ISFIELD? (next to Barcombe).   Is it pronounced just how it is spelt, or is the 's' not pronounced (like Ifield)?   Any advice much appreciated,   Thank you Christine Jackson, SFHG 397 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5256 - Release Date: 09/08/12 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5256 - Release Date: 09/08/12 BTW, the author of A272: an Ode to a Road (I discovered the book only last year) is Dutch & I believe he was not living in England when he wrote it - just a frequent & very observant & interested visitor. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Christine, I have always pronounced it not sounding the s. We were evacuated there in 1940 from Seaford, when the invasion was imminent. Mother got fed up with it after a couple of weeks and we went back home to Seaford. Dad had to stay behind, as it was women and children only and he was a Bus driver. The concern was, I believe, that our coastal area would have been bombarded prior to any invasion and Seaford, as I have since learned was right in the middle of the proposed landing front. Regards to all, John Green, 9502, in Ontario, canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Jackson" <[email protected]> To: "SFHG" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 10:24 PM Subject: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please Can some local lister please tell me how to pronounce the name of the parish of ISFIELD? (next to Barcombe). Is it pronounced just how it is spelt, or is the 's' not pronounced (like Ifield)? Any advice much appreciated, Thank you Christine Jackson, SFHG 397 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes, Tony, I have the book - it's terrific and has inspired a talk I will be giving to my family history society here in Ottawa, Canada! That's why I asked about the pronunication - but I neglected to check in the book before posting my question. Sorry about that! I was born & raised in Brighton & something told me from all those years ago that maybe Isfield isn't pronounced as spelt, but I may just be confused because I also knew of Ifield further north in the county.     However, I greatly appreciate everyone's input - thanks to all of you who have responded! I'm coming over later this month & will check it out on the spot then.   Regards Christine Jackson SFHG 397   ________________________________ From: Tony Albery <[email protected]> To: 'Christine Jackson' <[email protected]>; 'SFHG' <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 9:07:55 AM Subject: RE: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please Hi Christine According to my copy of 'A272 An Ode to a Road' by Pieter Boogaart the pronunciation is 'izvil' (in italics with first i bold). Not sure how authoritative this is but the book is a very good guide to places on or near the A272. Found http://www.archive.org/stream/placenamesofsuss00robeiala/placenamesofsuss00r obeiala_djvu.txt which contains a great deal of information on Sussex place names but it doesn't seem helpful in this particular case. Regards Tony Albery 12351 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christine Jackson Sent: 09 September 2012 03:25 To: SFHG Subject: [SFHG] Pronunciation - help please Can some local lister please tell me how to pronounce the name of the parish of ISFIELD? (next to Barcombe).   Is it pronounced just how it is spelt, or is the 's' not pronounced (like Ifield)?   Any advice much appreciated,   Thank you Christine Jackson, SFHG 397 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5256 - Release Date: 09/08/12 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5256 - Release Date: 09/08/12 BTW, the author of A272: an Ode to a Road (I discovered the book only last year) is Dutch & I believe he was not living in England when he wrote it - just a frequent & very observant & interested visitor.

Can some local lister please tell me how to pronounce the name of the parish of ISFIELD? (next to Barcombe).   Is it pronounced just how it is spelt, or is the 's' not pronounced (like Ifield)?   Any advice much appreciated,   Thank you Christine Jackson, SFHG 397

hello Local members Tuesday 11th September at Roffey St Andrews Church Hall 1x30 we are discussing "my favorite bit of my family tree" hope to see you all there God Bless Christine

Littlehampton Museum are holding two "Family History : Ask the Experts" sessions. They will be held on Sat 22 Sep and Sat 13 Oct, both from 2.00pm to 4.30pm. Admission is free and there is a Pay-and-Display car park right on the doorstep. SFHG are providing the 'Experts', so if you are in the area, why not come along and say hello? More information at http://www.littlehampton-tc.gov.uk/main.cfm?type=2011EVENTSPROGRAMM . Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex SFHG Member No: 3323

Thanks to everyone who helped my find the book I was looking for. Pat Millard.

Hi Listers, I have a query regarding FRANCIS Peachey Chr : Mar or Jun 1794 , Pagham. Would anyone have access to the Pr or BT transcript records as there seems to be a double entry in the SFHG transcript with a variant in the mothers name. This is somewhat confusing as the IGI transcript shows the same parentage for both - any advice please? Richard Windsor Adelaide #14378

...and there is a copy here for £8.99: http://www.diandsaulbooks.co.uk/memories-of-a-1920s-childhood-by-eva-herbert-1482-p.asp -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:21 PM To: SFHG Subject: [SFHG] Book. Hello, can anyone help me please to locate a book called Memories of a 1920s Childhood by Eve Herbert. I believe it is about life in Wivelsfield. Also does anyone know if there has been anything written about life in this village during the war years, the second world war I mean. I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help with these requests. Kind regards, Pat Millard. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

East Surrey FHS Library seems to have a copy (author listed as Eva Herbert): http://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk/members/ESFHS%20library%20booklist%20(web%20version).pdf -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:21 PM To: SFHG Subject: [SFHG] Book. Hello, can anyone help me please to locate a book called Memories of a 1920s Childhood by Eve Herbert. I believe it is about life in Wivelsfield. Also does anyone know if there has been anything written about life in this village during the war years, the second world war I mean. I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help with these requests. Kind regards, Pat Millard. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello all, I am trying to trace the road where my ancestor, James Ranger, c 1697 lived. I have his will where he leaves his house to his sons. It is described as on the Kings Highway from Northiam windmill to Ewhurst to the little house, and mentions the Round Mill House and Mill Down hedge. I have left a message on the Northiam Message Board but have had no replies. There were 3 windmills in Northiam, one destroyed by fire and 2 demolished in the 40s. I have Googled "Round Mill House" but there is nothing under that name - Mill house, but is that the same property? Can anyone help? Thanks, John

I would be very grateful if someone with access to images of the original parish registers could look up the following marriages and let me know who the witnesses were:-  Elizabeth Ward and Thomas Baucham at Steyning on 21st April 1708.  Elizabeth Bawcombe, widow, and Seth Turner, widower, at Bramber 20th June 1726.  Mary Bawcomb and John Dennett at Edburton 20th July 1732.   Many Thanks   Neal 9743