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Trades People of Westbourne 1845-1938, by Peter Ellacott, published 1981 (Bygone Westbourne, no. 1, 36 pp. & illus., Westbourne Local History Group) accessible at: Westbourne Local History Group

The poor of the parish and the work of the Westbourne select vestries, 1819-1835, by Peter Ellacott, published 1986 (Bygone Westbourne, no. 3, 32 pp., Westbourne Local History Group, ISBN-10: 0950749621 & ISBN-13: 9780950749624) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9555] & West Sussex Libraries

Bastards of Westbourne: a study of illegitimacy between 1720 and 1840, by Peter Ellacott, published 1996 (Bygone Westbourne, no. 9, 56 pp., Westbourne Local History Group, ISBN-10: 0950749680 & ISBN-13: 9780950749686) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13223] & Westbourne Local History Group & West Sussex Libraries

Martha Drew of Densworth in Funtington, Her Husbands and Their Families, by Peter Ellacott, published September 1998 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 3, article, pp.73-81) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508818] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Martha Drew was born 1600 the daughter of Bradshaw Drew whose home was the Manor of Densworth in East Ashling, a tithing in the parish of Funtington. Martha married into the Gunter family of Sir George Gunter, the Norton family of Charlton and finally Robert Gordon, Viscount Kenmure and Lord Lochinvar. Martha had five children, all of them by her second husband Gregory Norton

Trades People of Westbourne 1845-1938, by Peter Ellacott and updated by Peter Wilkinson and Peter Barge, published September 2015 (Westbourne Local History Group) accessible at: Westbourne Local History Group

Tradespeople of Westbourne 1845-1938 shows how businesses have come and gone during that time. They range from specialists such as wheelwrights and watch repairers to "all-in-one" shops such as Comber's. In 1895, this latter advertised itself as family grocer, baker, pork butcher, corn and provision merchant, and also offered British wines, patent medicines, Crosse and Blackwell's specialities, tinned meats and fruits, as well as brooms and brushes.
Everyday life in Westbourne over almost a century is cleverly illustrated by the latest publication from the village's local history group.
The book was originally compiled by Peter Ellacott in 1981, with a series of tables showing which traders were operating at any given date. It has now been updated by Peter Wilkinson and Peter Barge, with new indexes of individual trades and more than 300 surnames of those who followed them. There are also new illustrations and photos.