Publications
Was Thomas a soldier from Sussex, by Tony Parker, published December 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 4, article, pp.164-166) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508845] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:In 1950 I was given some Tunbridge Ware by my father's sister which she wanted to be kept in the family. It had been made by Thomas Amos BOYCE my great-grandfather who was a well known manufacturer. It included one small box which she said was made by his wife's father James BROWN, senior. Thomas Amos had married Harriett Emma BROWN (16 May 1848-13 March 1906) and had gone into partnership with her brother James BROWN to start the firm of Boyce, Brown and Kemp in Tunbridge Wells. They had also merged with the business of her father James BROWN, senior (3 November 1813-30 December 1893) who was already a well known manufacturer. It was this that prompted me to start research on the family. Alas, most of the items were stolen by burglars some years ago but the interest in the family history continues to the present.