Publications
Midhurst Common in the Thirties, by Thelma Pearce, published July 1993 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 5 Number 4, article, pp.25-27, Summer 1993) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15968]
Abstract:Extract from a letter to the Chairman of the Campaign to Save Midhurst Common. Description of the Common in the 1930s and 1940s including the housing of prisoners of war.
An unexpected discovery, by David Pearce, published December 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 8, article, pp.376-377) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508849] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:We all uncover facts and hitherto unknown information as family historians about our ancestors that our forebears might well have been shocked by. Researching my family history I discovered that my paternal great-grandparents, David James and Sarah Ann, had the same surname - PEARCE - when they married on 16 October 1875 in Brighton Register Office and on their marriage certificate they were described as widower and widow. I knew from censuses that David James had three brothers. Abraham, John and Alfred and from David and Sarah's marriage certificate that her maiden name was CRITTALL.