Publications
"I was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea . . .", by Peter D. Shearan, published June 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 6, article, pp.231-232) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508813] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The Shearans were originally from Yorkshire where Wilfrid Thomas Shearan was born in 1899. The family moved to Hastings to work at the Hastings Tramways Company in 1905. Wilfred met Edna May Martin in the late 1920s and the author was born at St. Leonards-on-Sea. Edna May Martin's ancestry is explored via the Martins of Hawkhurst and the Coules of Tonbridge.