Publications
The Zinzan connection, by Roger Chadwick, published June 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 2, article, pp.72-75) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508843] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:When I first started researching my family history I did what is recommended to the beginner, I talked to my living relatives. My mother, who at that time was in her late eighties and my only living relative of that era, was a huge help. She had a collection of family photos and birth. marriage and death certificates which got me off to a flying start, particularly as she had the unusual maiden name of FURR. However, she could not remember the maiden name of her only brother Bill's wife, who I had only ever known as Auntie Winnie. My Uncle Bill and Auntie Winnie had lived in Eastbourne and both had been dead for a number of years so it was impossible to ask them.
A fairly intensive search of the marriage indexes for England & Wales eventually produced a result. William Howard James FURR had been married in 1950 at Hendon, Middlesex. Unusually the index gave the name of the spouse as Winifred Rosemary HAMMERSLEY, or ZINZAN. This jogged my mother's memory and it transpired that Winnie had been born a ZINZAN and had had a short wartime marriage to John R HAMMERSLEY.
A fairly intensive search of the marriage indexes for England & Wales eventually produced a result. William Howard James FURR had been married in 1950 at Hendon, Middlesex. Unusually the index gave the name of the spouse as Winifred Rosemary HAMMERSLEY, or ZINZAN. This jogged my mother's memory and it transpired that Winnie had been born a ZINZAN and had had a short wartime marriage to John R HAMMERSLEY.