Now here's a thing.
I've in the past heard the rumours that the family my grandfather Sherwood married into in Eastbourne considered the Sherwood's "A Bad Lot". Something like the expression "pot calling the kettle black", or whatever it is, comes to mind perhaps here.
Now, having at last after very many years made contact with someone descended from this same Sherwood generation as my grandfather (surprisingly difficult considering he was one of nine consecutive sons, only one of whom died in WW1), I discover from her (my second cousin, of course) that the very same aspersions were made by the family of the wife HER grandfather married.
So, the Sherwood's moved to Eastbourne from at least as early as the 1881 Census from Brighton, and I was wondering whether, apart from trawling through the local papers, there might be some kind of criminal database that might back up this reported bad stain on the family character!
I expect other Rootschatters have come across this sort of thing from the in law element before. But quite interesting to get such a cross-reference as described above.
Very best wishes, Keith
