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Harry Tate, "my adopted son", by Ray George, published March 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 1, article, pp.8-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508968] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Just after every Christmas, we went to tea at Grandpa George's. In the front room which was only used for occasions such as this, was a big wind-up gramophone which used a scratchy needle. We listen to such favourites as 'The lost chord' and 'Come into the garden Maud'. After tea, I was enthralled by his tales of life in Bethnal Green in the east end of London before he came to Worthing in 1921. So began my interest in family history. But it wasn't until much later, when he was about 90, that one afternoon I jotted down a tree of his family from what he told me. These jottings have been very useful and even today, over 30 years later. contain things I have yet to explore. There was a distant and unknown relationship with VANDERSTEEN. If you want to know what I made of it, then see www.vandersteen.org.uk because hem I am concerned with the Worthing connection, for my mother was Worthing born and bred.

Harry Tate . . . who am I?, by Ray George, published December 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 8, article, pp.369-371) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508849] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Readers of my previous article (SFH March 2008) were left wondering whether I would ever discover the true identity of Harry TATE with so little information to go on. What information do I have? Firstly, my mother told me that his birthday was 20 December. The age given on his marriage certificate and in censuses all agree that the year is 1877. His place of birth in the 1891 census is given as Paddington and in the 1901 census as Kilburn. I've heard of Paddington, but where is Kilburn? To help me, I purchased some Alan Godfrey reproductions of the old 1:2500 Ordnance Survey maps. The National Gazetteer for 1868 tells me that Kilburn is a hamlet and suburban district in the parishes of Hampstead and Willesden 2½ miles from Hyde Park corner. Kilburn is north of Maida Vale along the Edgware Road and lies just across the boundary with the parish of Paddington. Indeed a parish map of Paddington from 1836 shows that fields of Kilburn Farm occupy the northern tip of the parish. But which registration district should I search? Paddington was in the Registration District of Kensington, Hampstead in the Registration District of Hampstead and Willesden in the Registration District of Hendon.