Publications
Looking for granddad!, by Bernard Wilson, published September 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 3, article, pp.144-151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508970] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:My mother's father, George WADE died in 1929, just over three years before I was born, so I never knew him. He lies buried in Broadwater Cemetery, Worthing, just across the road from where we lived during the war. Most Sundays would include a twenty minute visit to tidy the grave, and perhaps change the flowers. It was a simple grave, his name inscribed on a marble open book, representing the Bible, and a quotation "Only a sinner, saved by grace." It also commemorated his son, my uncle, Frank Hayward WADE, who died during the retreat from Mons on the second day of the First World War. He was 19.
A Falmer and Stanmer mystery solved, by Bernard Wilson, published June 2016 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 22 no. 2, article, pp.75-79) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/509232]
Preview:To Mr Hollis
Michaelmas 1908
We the undersigned parishioners of Falmer and Stanmer ask your acceptance of the accompanying Silver Cigar Case and Silver Mounted Umbrella together with a Walking Stick for your little son Roy, as a small parting gift on your leaving Mary Farm. We and the children will miss your cheery voice and pleasant greetings, and are sorry to lose so kind a friend and neighbour.
Michaelmas 1908
We the undersigned parishioners of Falmer and Stanmer ask your acceptance of the accompanying Silver Cigar Case and Silver Mounted Umbrella together with a Walking Stick for your little son Roy, as a small parting gift on your leaving Mary Farm. We and the children will miss your cheery voice and pleasant greetings, and are sorry to lose so kind a friend and neighbour.