Publications
You can't count on ancestors being who you think they were!, by Sue Randall, published March 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 1, article, pp.48-51) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508968] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:l had always believed that my family roots were firmly ensconced in Hertfordshire. My grandmother Dorothy Elizabeth MALES born 1906, known as Dolly, came from generations of agricultural labourers in Codicote. Mothers, wives and daughters were straw plaiters for the nearby Luton hat trade. Dolly married Mark Simeon HICKMAN in 1929. He was born in Portsmouth where his father Alfred Arthur HICKMAN served as Naval Diving and Gunnery instructor.