Publications
Who is Priscilla?, by Alec Potter, published March 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 1, article, pp.21-23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508968] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:I first met up with Priscilla POTTER at the beginning of my family tree research. My great-great-grandfather James POTTER (1823-1881) married Ann MERCER (1830-) in the parish church of St Nicholas, Brighton on 30 April 1853. Priscilla had signed the register as one of the two witnesses. At the time I had come across no other incidence of a family member of that name, nor has the name appeared during my researches into the family since. Was Priscilla one of 'my' family and, if she was, where did she fit into the story? Or was this just a coincidence? Further thought would have to wait until a later date, while I continued to follow up more direct family leads.
Somersetshire embarkation, by Roy Grant, published September 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 7, article, p.333) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508848] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:In recent correspondence with a POTTER descendent on the Sussex Rootschat network, I discovered that the following Register of Emigrant Labourers applying for a free passage to South Australia, March 1839 showed quite a number of Sussex families that were leaving for Australia aboard a ship called the Somersetshire. The lady very kindly gave me the opportunity to note the trades, names, ages, and the ages of any children that accompanied them, as well as places in Sussex where they resided.