Publications
Finding Grandfather, by Kevin Mooney, published March 2015 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 5, article, pp.221-223) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508855]
Preview:Before giving up on ever finding my maternal Granddad, Albert Edward ONER, I'm sharing the story with members of SFHG and hoping that somebody is able to help find him. Family folklore has it that, when he joined the army in 1897, he changed his name because he was too young. However, this is unlikely to be the case as many young men enlisted in the armed services before they were old enough, they simply gave a false age. They weren't even asked for their date of birth, just their age, so there was no need for a change of name as well as age. Therefore, if he did change his name and his age, there must have been a good, maybe sinister, reason.