Bibliography - Stanley Excell (1911 - 1993)
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Sompting Parish Church, a brief guide, by Stanley P Excell, published 1979 (pamphlet, Friends of Sompting Church) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11822] & West Sussex Libraries

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Sussex Election of 1820, by Stanley Excell, published June 1986 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 1, article, pp.32-34) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Domesday in Horsham, by Stanley Excell, published September 1986 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 2, article, pp.43-45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A tentative pedigree is drawn using only parish registers and discusses the need to use other sources to prove relationships. The pedigree is for the descendants of the Domesday family and covers the years 1541 - 1634 in the parish of Horsham

No Problems?, by Stanley Excell, published September 1986 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 2, article, p.74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Enticknapp is pronounced Emlett in 1867 in Lurgashall, Sussex. Census enumerator had no problem with it but family historians may. Article covers the years 1861 - 1867 in the parish of Lurgeshall

Peine Forte et Dure, by Stanley Excell, published December 1986 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 3, article, pp.95-96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Avalanche! Avalanche!, by Stanley Excell, published March 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 4, article, pp.134-135) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Lewes Avalanche of 1836

Never Despise the Ag Lab, by Stanley Excell, published June 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 5, article, pp.179-180) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The 9th of September 1087, by Stanley Excell, published September 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 6, article, pp.219-221) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Informal Change of Name, by Stanley Excell, published December 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 7, article, pp.264-265) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Perils of a Family Historian, by Stanley Excell, published December 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 7, article, pp.287-289) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Bound for Botany Bay, by Stanley Excell, published March 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 1, article, pp.9-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Sussex Men if the First Fleet, by Stanley Excell, published March 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 1, article, p.18) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Only three convicts condemned at Assizes in Sussex sailed in the First Fleet to become the reluctant founders of a new world.

Voters in Seaford Borough in 1761, by Stanley Excell, published September 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 3, article, pp.138-139) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Camoys Brass at Trotton, by Stanley Excell, published December 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 4, article, pp.159-161) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

East Sussex Voters and the 1832 Reform Act, by Stanley Excell, published March 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 5, article, pp.211-213) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Sussex Borough Voters and the 1832 Reform Act, by Stanley Excell, published June 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 6, article, pp.250-251) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Man Who Walked with Kings, by Stanley Excell, published March 1990 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 1, article, pp.33-35) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Sir David Owen, a Welshman in Tudor Sussex lying in Easebourne Church

The Doom at Broadwater, by Stanley Excell, published June 1990 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 2, article, pp.73-75) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story behind the M.I. at Broadwater - In Memory of Elizabeth, widow of Mr. Peter Penfold who departed this Life the 25th of August 1793 aged 64 years

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.

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.

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.