Another unfortunate event in Cuckfield

 During the A-Z Challenge I posted about some unfortunate events which you can find here.  Here is an event that surely should be another in the same series.  This event was reported in the Argus in 1899.

DROWNING FATALITY:  CUCKFIELD

In July 1899 a youth named Everest, a son of an estate labourer in the employment of Mr Sergison, and living in a cottage near a well known picrureque waterfall in the lower part of Cuckfield Park, was bathing with his two brothers in the waterfall pool.  He shouted "Look out" as he slipped into the deeper part of the water and sank.  His father was alarmed and everything was done to recover the lad but was without success.  The water was run off and the body eventually recovered.  

Cuckfield is my One Place Study and our blog prompt for September is Water.

Snippets from Newspapers page updated

 Today sees the updating of the Snippets from Newspaper page with the snippets I found for the Unfortunate Incidents day in the A-Z blog Challenge earlier this year.

Do you have any Newspaper Snippets that you would like to share or ideas for ones you would find interesting?  Do contact me via the link on the Intro page 

Baptisms 1759 and 1760

 A few new baptisms added to the Baptisms 1700s page.  http://cuckfieldcompendium.co.uk/baptisms-1700s/

Are you searching for the surnames Juniper, Johnson, Copper and Taylor?  Check out these for 1759.

Are you searching for the surnames Kennard and Willet?  Look for these in 1760.

Baptisms 1700s

 

I have been adding a few more baptisms in the 1700s.  Family names include:  

Bristow
Uwins
Thomsett
Stedman

Stirley

Huggett

Avery

Eyres

Chatfield

Field

Kennard

Skinner

Wilder

Cheal

Chasemore

A to Z Reflections update: Alphabet

Reading other Reflections on their #AtoZChallenges2024 I saw that some people have listed their topics so I thought I would list them here although they do appear if you click the posts in April in the blog archive.

A = All Saints Mission

B = Brickwills

C = Cottage Homes

D = Dinosaurs

E = Education

F = Facts about Cuckfield

G = Ghosts

H = Hallowed Ground

I = Independent State of Cuckfield

J = Vicars with names beginning J

K = Charles Eamer Kempe

L = Little Domers

M = Macauley House

N = Nuclear War Bunker

O = Ockendon Manor

P = Population of Cuckfield

Q = Questions

R = Rapes of Sussex

S = Sussex Families

T = Twenty Sussex Puritan Names

U = Unfortunate Events

V = Vagrancy

W = Who and What on this Day

X = Xmas Tree Festival

Y = You Tube Videos of Cuckfield

Z = Zero Day

I created all the pages in Blogger in advance and had them scheduled to publish on the right day.

I have also created a spreadsheet with suggested topics for each letter of the Alphabet and as I saw other people's topics I then added them to the list as I read other AtoZChallenge posts.  Also I can add topics to it as whilst doing research throughout the year.