Publications
Grandmother's Diary, by Doreen Wright, published June 1986 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 1, article, pp.17-19) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Diary of Sarah Henrietta Simmons
Letters from Canada to Sussex, 1885-89, by Mrs. D. Wright, published December 1991 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 8, article, pp.294-297) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:A letter postmarked Guelph and addressed to Mrs Thomas Simmons arrived at Church Street, Seaford, in June 1885, and ended over twelve years anxious waiting for news of the whereabouts of her son Thomas Simmons junior and his family
A Question of Identity, by Mrs. J. A. Marten, published September 1998 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 3, article, p.94) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508818] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Search for the Simmons/Smmonds of Slab Castle, Plumpton
The Mystery of Thomas Pattenden's Will, by Mrs. Karen Tayler née Pattenden, published March 2001 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 5, article, pp.168-169) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The article discusses the circumstances surrounding Thomas Pattenden of Old Mill Farm, East Grinstead who wrote his will in 1916 and appointed his son-in-law Sidney Herbert Simmons and his niece Sarah Pattenden joint executors. In 1920 they were granted probate
Barking up the wrong family tree, by Teresa Simmonds, published September 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 3, article, pp.112-115) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508844] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Because of a fundamental error, I had spent eighteen months barking up the wrong family tree. That was way back in the pre-interne days. My father-in-law had told me his grandfather was George SIMMONDS who was about 80 when he died in about 1944. I trusted father-in-law, a wonderful and honest man. I had taken his information at face-value but never thought to talk to his sister.
When my father-in-law's sister, Agnes COBBY nee SIMMONDS sent us some family documents, I knew I had to abandon the current research and start all over again. The marriage certificate of her father, George Henry SIMMONDS to Agnes MOORE on 22 August 1914 at Brighton Register Office showed the groom's father was William SIMMONDS, a boiler tuber at the railway works, not George SIMMONDS at all. The bride's father was James MOORE, a fish hawker and the witnesses were William SIMMONDS and Beatrice MOORE.
When my father-in-law's sister, Agnes COBBY nee SIMMONDS sent us some family documents, I knew I had to abandon the current research and start all over again. The marriage certificate of her father, George Henry SIMMONDS to Agnes MOORE on 22 August 1914 at Brighton Register Office showed the groom's father was William SIMMONDS, a boiler tuber at the railway works, not George SIMMONDS at all. The bride's father was James MOORE, a fish hawker and the witnesses were William SIMMONDS and Beatrice MOORE.
Searching for Simons!, by Debbie Lakin, published December 2017 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 22 no. 8, article, pp.383-386) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860]