Publications
H A Waller & Sons of Whitecross Street, Brighton: A Brief History of a Family Firm, by John Redfern, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531] Download PDF
Abstract:In a world of corporate business, far-flung enterprise, bids, take-overs and mergers, it is hard to recall the era of private enterprise, personal drive, application, self-denial and sheer hard work of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Brighton, like many towns of similar capacity, well-versed already in the world of leisure and entertainment, expanding in many directions with an excellent connection to the capital, offered opportunity to verve and talent. Henry Waller had both.
H. A. Waller & Sons of Whitecross Street, Brighton, by Michael M. Chapman, published 2004 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 34, article, pp.40-40, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506532] Download PDF
Abstract:In Sussex Industrial History 33 (2003) appeared an article on the history of H.A. Waller & Sons which contained an illustration of a petrol-driven drill produced for British Railways. This was stated to be a product of H.A. Waller. A member, Michael M. Chapman, has supplied additional information and a correction.
Samuel Deere or Waller of Brighton, 1809-1869, by Jeremy Geere, published June 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 2, article, pp.94-96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508969] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Often, when I have resolved a difficult family history question, I wonder why it had taken me so long to pursue the particular enquiry that revealed the answer. In reality, it is often like looking for a needle in a haystack but very satisfying when you find it.
This story really starts back in 1958 when my father, Geoffrey, announced my sister's birth in the Daily Telegraph. Mr Clement M Gear (a former member of the SFHG, now deceased) saw the notice and wrote to my father thus awakening my father's interest in family history. He got as far as his great-grandfather, Samuel GEERE (SG1), who married in Islington, London in 1876, son of Samuel GEERE (SG2), bricklayer. At that time, census returns for 1861 onwards were unavailable for research. There was a belief that the family came from Brighton but no proof. Samuel GEERE (SG1) died in 1923 aged 74 so was born in about 1849. No birth was found for him and my father gave up and no further research was attempted until I became interested at the age of ten in 1972.
This story really starts back in 1958 when my father, Geoffrey, announced my sister's birth in the Daily Telegraph. Mr Clement M Gear (a former member of the SFHG, now deceased) saw the notice and wrote to my father thus awakening my father's interest in family history. He got as far as his great-grandfather, Samuel GEERE (SG1), who married in Islington, London in 1876, son of Samuel GEERE (SG2), bricklayer. At that time, census returns for 1861 onwards were unavailable for research. There was a belief that the family came from Brighton but no proof. Samuel GEERE (SG1) died in 1923 aged 74 so was born in about 1849. No birth was found for him and my father gave up and no further research was attempted until I became interested at the age of ten in 1972.