Publications
The Fascination of Family History, by Rita M. Steadman, published December 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 7, article, pp.280-281) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The story of Charlotte Stallard born c.1878
White plague, by Susan Martin, published March 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 5, article, pp.231-235) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508846] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:l am pretty sure that every reader will have at least one ancestor or close relative of an ancestor whose death certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis, or as we know it now tuberculosis. Our ancestors would probably have named it, if they dared acknowledge it, consumption. This little story is surely one which was replicated in many other families in the 19th century.
Lucy STALLARD was born Lucy TRIMMER and baptised in Harting parish church on 9 February 1835. Her parents were Peter TRIMMER (1789-1855) (my great-great-grandmother's cousin) and Ann EAMES (1789-1876). Lucy grew up in the village situated on the Hampshire border, the youngest of nine children. Her father was an agricultural labourer. Like many girls from the village she went into domestic service, and at the age of 16 as the 1851 census shows she was working as a domestic servant to the widowed Richard HEASEY, of Manor Farm, Greatham. This Greatham was not the one near Pulborough, but about seven miles north from Harting over the Hampshire border, east from Alton. Another domestic servant Jane HARRIS (born BOOKER) a 26-year-old widow also came from Harting. Perhaps Lucy got her position through Jane.
Lucy STALLARD was born Lucy TRIMMER and baptised in Harting parish church on 9 February 1835. Her parents were Peter TRIMMER (1789-1855) (my great-great-grandmother's cousin) and Ann EAMES (1789-1876). Lucy grew up in the village situated on the Hampshire border, the youngest of nine children. Her father was an agricultural labourer. Like many girls from the village she went into domestic service, and at the age of 16 as the 1851 census shows she was working as a domestic servant to the widowed Richard HEASEY, of Manor Farm, Greatham. This Greatham was not the one near Pulborough, but about seven miles north from Harting over the Hampshire border, east from Alton. Another domestic servant Jane HARRIS (born BOOKER) a 26-year-old widow also came from Harting. Perhaps Lucy got her position through Jane.