Publications
The Cowley family: Brighton and beyond, by Peter Cowley, published September 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 7, article, p.378) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508974] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The history of our family has fascinated me ever since my uncle started researching our roots long before the days of powerful home computers and, of course, long before the days of the internet. His researches meant getting in the car, driving to a city or town, trawling through paper archives and even scraping the moss off faded tombstones.
The only way was up!, by Keith Brewer, published March 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 5, article, pp.210-211) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508846] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:When tracing a family tree, unexpected situations may be found, and such was the case for my father-in-law, Henry John COWLEY. Henry John, known to family and friends as 'John', was born on 26 December 1898 in the Newhaven Poor Law Union Workhouse to Mildred COWLEY (b about 1878), an unmarried domestic servant of Rottingdean. There is no name for his father on the birth certificate, although on his subsequent marriage certificate, he gives his father as Joseph COWLEY (deceased). Joseph (1844-1930) was in fact Mildred's father, and Henry's grandfather.