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Hartfield: The Yeoman Family of Miles, and an Unknown Artist, by R. H. Adams, published August 1946 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 3, article, p.68) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

My Old Family Diary, by Lorna Standing née Miles, published June 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 6, article, pp.214-216) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508813] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Diary from 1850 to 1862 by one of the author's ancestors

The Miles family from Lindfield, by Elizabeth Gardiner, published September 2004 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 3, article, pp.113-118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508836] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A narrative of the descendants of John Miles and Ann Bucknell who married 26 May 1685 at Lindfield

The Hartfield Miles family, by Elizabeth Gardiner, published December 2004 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 4, article, pp.154-157) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508837] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A narrative of the descendants of John Miles and Elizabeth Riste who married at Hartfield 28 October 1777 and had at least seven children.

Aunt Ede, by Elizabeth Gardiner, published December 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 4, article, pp.168-170) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508845] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

We have a cup commemorating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. Its a bit tatty and certainly would not attract the interest of the specialists on the Antiques Roadshow. The cup came from Aunt Ede, known by the family to have "married a blind man from St Dunstan's and being bombed out during the war". With other research having come to a grinding halt, I now had time to try and verify the family story.
From a priceless resource (a photocopy of two pages from my granddad's diary, listing his parents and all his siblings with dates of birth, and death of those who predeceased him) I knew that Aunt Ede was my dad's aunt and the fourth of 12 children born to Arthur James MILES and his wife Mary Ann (HUNTLEY). The diary told me that Edith Harriett MILES was born 11 March 1872.

It all started with two photographs, by Simon Evans, published June 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 6, article, pp.254-257) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508847] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

One of the great fortunes of my family history research has been the passing down of the family photograph albums to me as family archivist. A very precious example is the album that belonged to my grandmother Florrie COLLINS and by her father before her, Edward Reeves COLLINS, who was a keen amateur photographer in the 1890s and 1900s. Unfortunately as is the case with most of these old albums, the majority of the photos are not annotated and we risk never knowing who these wonderful Victorian figures were. This is the story of how two photographs held enough information to track down those pictured, and to tell a little story of a pair of difficult lives.
Nestling in the album were two adjacent and similar photographs: Left: Annotated by my grandmother "Aunt Matilda", later "Mrs MILES, standing" and Right Not annotated but identified as "Mrs READ, sitting".

Illegal Marriages, by Susan Martin, published June 2012 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 2, article, pp.54-55) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508851] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A follow on from the interesting article 'An Unexpected Discovery' by David Pearce in December's issue. Illegal marriages between men and their deceased wives sisters and women and their deceased husbands' brothers were far from unusual. I have come across several examples in my family (as probably have other readers). Here are two examples:
On September 20th 1841 Sarah WILMORE (WILMER) married Nathan Burchell in St Mary's parish church, Shipley.
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On 31 December 1898 Job MILES married Rose MILES in Chichester Register Office