Publications
What, No Sussex Ancestors?, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published December 1979 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 2, article, pp.43-44) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Monumental Inscriptions in the Library of the Sussex Archaeological Society, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published December 1979 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 2, article, pp.47-48) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Monumental Inscriptions at Sompting Parish Church, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published March 1980 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 3, article, pp.84-85) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Monumental Inscriptions at Broadwater, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published June 1980 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 4, article, pp.119-121) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Lord Nelson's Relatives in Sussex - Part 1, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published September 1980 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 5, article, pp.165-169) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Lord Nelson's brother-in-law George Matcham lived in Slaugham and Lord Nelson's daughter Horatia came to visit with Lady Hamilton. Eventually Horatia's son William George Ward married her cousin's daughter Catherine Victoriana Nelson Blanckley. Illustrated with a family tree. Article covers the years 1723 - 1878 in the parish of Slaugham
Lord Nelson's Relatives in Sussex - Part 2, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published December 1980 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 6, article, pp.192-194) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Lord Nelson's sister is Catherine who married George Matcham in 1787 and they had nine children. Much family history is from a tombstone in Slaugham and covers the years 1767 - 1886.
Trelawny - Fraud, Fiction or Fact?, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published June 1981 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 8, article, pp.248-252) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:A hundred years ago on the 13th of August 1881 Edward John Trelawny died at this home in West Street, Sompting, only a few months short of the age of 89. His arrival in the Sussex village some eleven years earlier had been typical of the strange character he had displayed all his life.
Energy in a Country Churchyard, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published September 1981 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 9, article, pp.300-302) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Alfriston & Its Parish Registers, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published March 1982 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 1, article, pp.14-16) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
A Poet and his Family: Percy Bysshe Shelly, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published September 1982 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 3, article, pp.95-100) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
A Sussex Man at Trafalgar - John Pilfold, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published December 1982 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 4, article, pp.116-120) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Place-Names Confusion: Make sure of your County, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published March 1983 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 5, article, pp.140-141) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Captured by French Privateers - William Brooker of Newhaven 1797, by Phyl & Stan Excell, published June 1983 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 6, article, pp.190-192) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Parish Registers for Beginners - & Others, by Phyl & Stan Excell, published September 1983 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 7, article, pp.211-216) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Cricket in Sussex, by Phyl & Stan Excell, published December 1983 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 8, article, pp.258-259) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Sussex Dialect and Family History, by Phyl & Stan Excell, published March 1984 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 1, article, pp.19-20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9788] & The Keep [LIB/501258] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Lord Nelson's Relatives in Sussex, by the late Phyllis and Stanley Excell, published March 2000 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 1, article, pp.28-33) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Reprint of SFH September & December 1980
Alfriston and its Parish Registers, by Phyl and Stanley Excell, published March 2013 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 5, article, pp.219-221) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508976] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Alfriston must be one of the most beautiful places in the country. The vista along the village street changes at every undulation and bend. Perhaps there are more shops now than there once were, but they are quiet and unassuming and it is a delight to pause and linger in them, if only for the pleasure of entering one of the old and mellow buildings.