Publications
Rags To Riches - Almost, by Valerie Bolton, published March 2015 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 5, article, pp.203-207) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508855]
Preview:My father's father, my grandfather Henry HOLMAN (1859-1919), born in Hurstpierpoint, died when my father was a child, and both his parents had died before he married my grandmother. My father hardly remembered his father and knew little about his family. I knew the HOLMANs came from Sussex and that Henry had been some sort of reforming educationalist, but that was about all, so I got to work.
Great Uncle Thomas, by Valerie Bolton, published June 2016 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 22 no. 2, article, pp.51-55) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/509232]
Preview:My research into my grandfather, Henry HOLMAN, was published in the Sussex Family Historian last March. I wanted to turn to my mother's side, but decided I would quickly investigate Great Uncle Thomas, Henry's older brother, in case anything turned up - and I quickly found myself re-engrossed in the HOLMANs. Thomas was born on 9 January 1856 and died 31 December 1915. He was born, as were all 10 children, in Rose Cottages, Hurstpierpoint, to Walter HOLMAN, a brick maker, and Susanna PELLING (Eliza in the censuses), and he was three years older than my grandfather Henry.