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Family history connections, by Kathy Brooking, published June 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 2, article, pp.98-99) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508843] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

I began my research into my own family history in 1995, there are no Sussex connections, totally Irish on the paternal line and the Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire borders and the Midlands with my maternal line, but I also decided to take a look into my husband's family, his maternal line has been very gratifying as his mother's family are the only connections I have found in Berkshire where we live. His paternal line was slightly complicated by the fact that his cousin has been researching the BROOKING family, from Devon for the last 20 years and is a founder member of The Brooking Society one of the first one-name research societies to be set up, so I do not research the BROOKINGs but I do research the women they married and this is where I discovered a Sussex link.

Tale of Two Photograph Albums, by Kathy Brooking, published December 2012 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 4, article, pp.174-176) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508975] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

I have written before about the family of my brother-in-law Victor PAVEY born 1936 West Chiltington, Sussex, but this article concerns branches of his family, not his direct line, and two photograph albums discovered when he and my sister moved from the family home in West Grinstead in 2006.
This branch of the PAVEY family moved from West Chiltington when Victor was two (1938) and they moved into a cottage on the edge of the BURRELL estate as Victor's father, Alfred PAVEY, worked for the estate his whole life. In 1977 my sister Maureen and Victor were given the opportunity to buy this parcel of land. It consisted of two cottages, one lived in by Victor's parents, the other by his Aunt Nell, and they proceeded to reside there for nearly thirty years