Publications
Milling connections: the Harris family of Patcham, by Carolyn Wheeler, published March 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 5, article, pp.226-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508846] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:I grew up in the village of Patcham in the 1940s and my father, Roy HARRIS, with his brother, Frank, ran HARRIS's bakery, grocers and post office. I was proud that the beautiful windmill, depicted on my school badge and a picturesque sight on the hill above the village, had been built by my great-grandfather, Joseph HARRIS. But knowledge of Joseph's background was sketchy: we believed that he had come from Lewes to Patcham, become apprenticed to a miller, learnt his trade and subsequently established a successful business, and that he had eventually died of pneumonia in 1903 after foolishly struggling up the hill to tend to the mill in a terrible storm.
Enterprise and adversity, by Carolyn Wheeler, published December 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 8, article, pp.384-388) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508849] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:My paternal grandmother, née Alice Ada EWER, born in 1881, was a sweet unassuming woman who apparently knew little about her origins, which, as I discovered, were so interesting that, had she known, she would surely have passed the information on to her children and grandchildren.