Publications
A Case of Mental Instability in Victorian Times, by Barry Farrant, published September 2015 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 7, article, pp.318-322) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508953]
Preview:This is a rather complicated story! It has a number of well researched facts and also much conjecture. Thomas Frederick SRATT was born at 1 Byron Street, Hove on 15th March 1887, the son of Thomas Saunders SPRATT and Eleanor Bertha SPRATT (née RIDGE). He was subsequently baptised at All Saints Church, Brighton on 21st August 1889 along with his sister Emily Grace SPRATT born at the same address in November 1888. Thomas Saunders SPRATT was a writing clerk.