Publications
The Sheppards of Plumpton Place Mill, by David Link, published September 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 3, article, pp.120-124) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508970] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The stocky white-haired old man sits with crossed hands next to his thin black-garbed wife. More than 30 children and grandchildren surround the elderly couple in the yard of a Brighton police station. The photograph of this gathering, which took place about 1895, records one of the last times that many of these members of the SHEPPARD family were together. John SHEPPARD, the patriarch of the family, was born in Plumpton in 1828, and there he wed his wife, Harriet, and raised nine children, six of whom stood beside him that day.