Publications
Descended from the Conqueror?, by Gordon Smith, published March 2005 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 5, article, pp.203-205) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508838] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The author and his wife's ancestors including James Tomes who, in 1831 aged 16, joined the Royal Navy where he served until he died while in service in 1870; his wife's Rattenbury genealogy linking back to a Bavarian from Rothenburg who came to England in the 15th century; and old family portraits in oil of John Ogle and Mary Ellis with the possible link back to William the Conqueror.