Publications
Letters from Australia, by Thelma Dyer, published December 1973 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 3, article, pp.54-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Being extracts from letters sent by William Dyer, formerly of Ferring, from Australia
Skeletons in the Closet, by Sandy Guy, published September 2015 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 7, article, pp.336-339) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508953]
Preview:Michael COLLINS, one of Ireland's greatest political leaders, was born Clonakilty, County Cork, in 1890. My grandmother Theresa DYER was born in the same coastal town fifteen years later, according to her 1928 marriage certificate. In the late 1980s I meandered around this attractive town of Georgian houses and colourful shop-fronts thinking about my grandmother, who sang songs such as Cockles and Mussels when I was a child. I thought about my ancestors, who probably stepped across the same cobblestones, strolled the same scenic shores of Clonakilty Bay, explored the ruins of the nearby 14th century Timoleague Abbey, and picnicked around the Bronze Age Dromberg Stone Circle. Sitting in one of Clonakilty's many traditional pubs, where a band played foot stomping Irish music, I couldn't have been more charmed by my Irish heritage.