Publications
The Pallisers in Sussex, by Teresa Simmonds, published March 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 1, article, pp.28-31) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508842] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:PALLISER is not a surname associated with Sussex yet several different branches of the family made their homes here, notwithstanding their distant origins are to be found in Yorkshire.
My grandfather, Hugh Arbuthnot PALLISER was from Kensington, but he spent most of his life in Hove, playing bridge when he wasn't dancing at the Regent Ballroom and somehow managing to avoid making an appearance in any electoral registers. His first wife divorced him and he married my grandmother, Julia May CAFFREY in 1926 in Steyning. They were only together for six years when Hugh died of erysipelas in Stockwell Hospital (for contagious diseases) in 1932, three months before my mother was born in Eastboume.
But this is far too recent for genealogical imposes. What of the past?
My grandfather, Hugh Arbuthnot PALLISER was from Kensington, but he spent most of his life in Hove, playing bridge when he wasn't dancing at the Regent Ballroom and somehow managing to avoid making an appearance in any electoral registers. His first wife divorced him and he married my grandmother, Julia May CAFFREY in 1926 in Steyning. They were only together for six years when Hugh died of erysipelas in Stockwell Hospital (for contagious diseases) in 1932, three months before my mother was born in Eastboume.
But this is far too recent for genealogical imposes. What of the past?
Barking up the wrong family tree, by Teresa Simmonds, published September 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 3, article, pp.112-115) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508844] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Because of a fundamental error, I had spent eighteen months barking up the wrong family tree. That was way back in the pre-interne days. My father-in-law had told me his grandfather was George SIMMONDS who was about 80 when he died in about 1944. I trusted father-in-law, a wonderful and honest man. I had taken his information at face-value but never thought to talk to his sister.
When my father-in-law's sister, Agnes COBBY nee SIMMONDS sent us some family documents, I knew I had to abandon the current research and start all over again. The marriage certificate of her father, George Henry SIMMONDS to Agnes MOORE on 22 August 1914 at Brighton Register Office showed the groom's father was William SIMMONDS, a boiler tuber at the railway works, not George SIMMONDS at all. The bride's father was James MOORE, a fish hawker and the witnesses were William SIMMONDS and Beatrice MOORE.
When my father-in-law's sister, Agnes COBBY nee SIMMONDS sent us some family documents, I knew I had to abandon the current research and start all over again. The marriage certificate of her father, George Henry SIMMONDS to Agnes MOORE on 22 August 1914 at Brighton Register Office showed the groom's father was William SIMMONDS, a boiler tuber at the railway works, not George SIMMONDS at all. The bride's father was James MOORE, a fish hawker and the witnesses were William SIMMONDS and Beatrice MOORE.