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The Foreman farmers and bakers, by Peter Foreman, published June 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 6, article, pp.288-293) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508847] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

I have always wanted to find out more about my ancestors. Of my four grandparents, only my grandfather FOREMAN was still living at the time of my birth and I do not remember him, as I was only five when he died. Both my parents died relatively young and long before my interest in the family tree developed. Consequently I have had few personal sources to feed on.

The Foremans - Political Activists of Horsham, by Peter Foreman, published December 2012 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 4, article, pp.160-164) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508975] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Some of you may recall a piece I wrote for the Sussex Family Historian some time ago about my Horsham ancestry. In it I mentioned my great great great grandfather William FOREMAN, who was born in Horsham in 1789. In 1809 he married Sarah LAKER who was born in Horsham in 1792. William was a farmer at Bournes Hill, and after at Amies Mill on the outskirts of Horsham. William and Sarah had six sons and six daughters between 1810 and 1825. Sarah died in 1860 and William, then aged 71, married Ellen WELLER, who was barely 20 years old. She bore him a further four sons before he died in 1872.
William (senior) eldest son William (junior), my great great grandfather, was born in Horsham in 1816. For many years he was a baker in East Street and later Queen Street, Horsham. In 1837 he married Elizabeth MANVELL who was born in Horsham in 1812 and they had five sons and five daughters between 1839 and 1857. All their sons became bakers or confectioners and it was this generation that started the migration of my branch of the FOREMAN family to Brighton during the latter part of the nineteenth century