Publications
A Winchelsea tragedy, by Michael J. Burchall, published September 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 7, article, pp.360-363) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508974] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:By using a combination of local and national records it is often possible to reconstruct part of the dramatic and tragic stories connected with faceless people in the past. Such a story is that of John EAGLES who, according to his own testimony, first appears in Winchelsea about 1813 when he must have been aged about 22. He was a butcher by trade and may have just finished his apprenticeship although where he was born, brought up and apprenticed is not presently known, but he does not appear to have belonged to a local family or to have left Sussex descendants.