 What an exciting month it has been!! In the last few days we have discovered quite a lot more about the village and its people. Some information came from visitors to our “Open Day” on June 20th (picture left) - apologies to those who missed the date due to the local paper not publishing the article advertising it until after the event - and some from callers and emails that intrigued us. Where do I start?
We had a visit from some descendants of the Miller family, and the documents they gave us have provided much food for thought - especially when one photograph we have always thought to be Froyle Place turns out to be anothe ‘big house’ in Sussex! But, after their visit, I began a search to find out exactly where Sir Hubert Miller, the last Lord of the Manor, was buried. In parallel with this, we had been asked at the Open Day, by another families’ descendants, for details of the Monumental Inscriptions in our ‘new’ cemetery - I put new in quotes as the first burial there was in 1905, but that is quite new for a village that goes back over 1000 years.
A search in the safe at St Mary’s revealed a list of the inscriptions made at the same time as the main churchyard (1983), buried in some old papers. They have now been transcribed and are available to view in Church Records. Then, in our box of old newspaper clippings, I found a report of Sir Hubert Miller’s funeral in 1940 (now viewable in Clippings). And just to finish up, we had an email asking about “Hop Pickers Barracks” at Coldrey. We had never heard of them before, but David Bennett, who works down there, has tracked down their location - but these will have to wait until the next update when we can find out even more - there is talk of photographs......!
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