Monday, 5 May 2025

Brickwall Query

I had a request today for a new brickwall entry to be added to the website which I have done.  


"Searching for a mystery man  who has links to Lily Winifred Cooper and Florence Bardin in the period july 1921 in Cuckfield. Both girls were servants."


Can you help?  If you can then you can reply to Guy and Iwona Jenner on the Brickwall Page here.

Thursday, 1 May 2025

A-Z Challenge 2025: Reflections

It was a case of “Once more unto the breach” and before I knew it I had planned to take part in the #AtoZChallenge for a second time.  Again, I decided to do it on my #OnePlaceStudy of Cuckfield, West Sussex, England.

Last year I chose topics for each day quite randomly but this year chose the Theme of People Connections with thanks to Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social , my #OnePlaceStudy buddy.  You can find her blog and One Place Study of Sudborne using this link. https://sudbourne.wordpress.com/list-of-posts/

I took onboard some of the ideas I reflected on last year and started scheduling posts earlier and having a spreadsheet of possible topics that I have unashamedly cribbed from other #AtoZChallenge bloggers or even just general reading of genealogy through magazines, social media and newsletters I subscribe to.  This year I have added Theme suggestions to the spreadsheet and will be thinking of those throughout the year.  It makes it sound like I have enjoyed doing it and have plans for next year; I certainly hope too.

The theme of People Connected to Cuckfield gave me a different range of topics I could blog about from buildings, organisations, census, occcupations to name a few.  In more detail they were:

A for anniversaries

B for baptisms

C for Cuckfield Parish Church Vicars

D for Death

E for Earning a Living

F for First World War

G for Gamekeepers

H for Hatchlands

I for Isaac Leeney

J for Journeymen

K for Kings Head

L for Literary Connections

M for Marriages

N for Nurse

O for Obituaries

P for Postmaster/Mistress

Q for Quassilarious

R for The Rose and Crown

S for Schooling

T for Tentercroft

U for Union Workhouse

V for Volunteers

W for The White Harte

X for X marks on documents

Y for ???

Z for zigzagging


Thank you to all those who have followed my journey during April and also to those who made comments.