Publications
Jevington, Wannock and Willingdon: A Portrait in Old Postcards and Photographs, by Rosalind Hodge, published 10 October 2003 (112 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857702840 & ISBN-13: 9781857702842) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502954] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Murder at Chiddingly, by Rosalind Hodge, published September 2007 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 17 no. 7, article, pp.311-313) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508991] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Research into the "Onion Pie Murder" and the trial of Sarah French on 19 March 1852 at Lewes Crown Court where she was found guilty and hanged on the 10 April 1852
If only all Baptism Registers were like this!, by Rosalind Hodge, published December 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 8, article, pp.426-427) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508993] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:This summer whilst researching my father's BARRAS family at the North Yorkshire Record Office in Northallerton, I was most surprised and delighted when looking at the registers of the 1770s, for the parish of Bolton cum Redmire in Wensleydale, to find single baptism entries containing details of four generations.
Jevington Jigg, by Rosalind Hodge, published September 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 7, article, pp.346-347) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508848] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Earlier this year I received an enquiry about the famous smuggler 'Jevington Jigg' from an author wanting to verify facts for use in a new book on Sussex walks. Enclosed was a long article from a book about smuggling and I soon realised that what had been published about 'Jigg' was a combination of supposition and pure fiction with character's names, properties and the dates not matching what documentary evidence exists.
'Jigg' was a mysterious 18th century character about which them is scant documentary evidence. Them has been a great amount of poetic licence and romanticism attached to many stories written about him, which is hardly surprising given the nature of smuggling and it all makes for a 'good tale'. There is no doubt he existed and was involved in smuggling along a stretch of the coast around Beachy Head, Birling Gap and Crowlink. So, reading the article made me curious about the real 'Jevington Jigg' usually referred to as James PETTIT (or PETTETT).
'Jigg' was a mysterious 18th century character about which them is scant documentary evidence. Them has been a great amount of poetic licence and romanticism attached to many stories written about him, which is hardly surprising given the nature of smuggling and it all makes for a 'good tale'. There is no doubt he existed and was involved in smuggling along a stretch of the coast around Beachy Head, Birling Gap and Crowlink. So, reading the article made me curious about the real 'Jevington Jigg' usually referred to as James PETTIT (or PETTETT).