Bibliography - Bourner/Bourne/Bourn
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Bourn of Keymer, by P. B. Evershed, published September 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 3, article, p.99) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

On 21 May 1753 John Bourn was ordained a deacon at the General Baptist Meeting House in Ditchling. He died 3 August 1785 aged 80 leaving bequests to his wife Mary, their children and grandchildren. Article covers the years 1705 - 1840 in the parish of Keymer.

Bourners in the United States, by R. A. Miller, published March 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 1, article, pp.14-15) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/501165] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Research indicates all the forebears of the Bourners in the U.S. came from a very small area in Sussex - Battle, Crowhurst, Salehurst and Hastings

A Military Coup!, by Sharon Paskins, published December 2014 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 4, article, pp.160-163) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508854]

Several years ago a (non blood) relative of mine was having a clear out and, knowing my interest in family history, gave me a cardboard box "with some old family photos in". The box had been in the loft for years, and far from containing a few photos, it was full of family documents, memorabilia and photos dating back to the 1850s. I scanned all the carte de visits, family letters, wills, original birth marriage and death certificates and apprenticeship papers onto my PC and packed the box away in a safe place and forgot about it. With the WW1 centenary approaching, the box came to mind as a source of possible photographs so I dug it out and retrieved a pile of history that I had so carelessly dismissed all those years previously.
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From a Sussex perspective there were two entries in the autograph book that caught my eye; one from Norman BOURNE from the Royal Sussex Regiment and the other from R.T. OLIVER whose entry includes reference to St Leonards on Sea.