Publications
Family Myths Busted, by Cordelia Hull, published September 2015 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 7, article, p.341) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508953]
Preview:In the June Sussex Family Historian the editor asked whether readers had disproved any family myths. I have busted three of mine. The first concerns my mother, who was born in Brighton on 5 June 1915 and whose middle name was Eva. She always claimed she had been named after Eva LAND, the first wife of her uncle (John Alphonse Valentine GRIFFIN born Brighton 14 Feb 1883). According to family myth, Eva LAND had 'gone down with the Titanic' in 1912. Over time, various family members had searched the passenger lists of the Titanic looking for an Eva LAND or an Eva GRIFFIN - but to no avail. Then, thanks to Ancestry.com, I discovered that John GRIFFIN's first wife was really Eva Jessie WALCROFT and that she had died in Connecticut on 29 May 1922 - ten years after the Titanic went down and nearly seven years after my mother had been born. So two myths shot down for the price of one.