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Hi omega, yes zebulon is a nice name BUT the names I'd have been called would have been horrendous.

I've got several instances in bothe my fathers and mothers sides of the family where my direct ancestors and their siblings always called their children by the same christian name, in one instance there are five Rosa's all born within a two year span, that tokk a heck of a lot of resolving to sort out which set of parents were my ancestors.  My Rosa was always known as Rose presumably because of the confusion.  You'd think they'd think of names for themselves rather than copy what their siblings were doing.

I've been using the SFHG transcriptions for baptisms and burials off the web and their marriage CD.  Is your info differnet to that as I have found some people missing, OK possibly not baptised but as siblings were you'd think the missing child would have been also.

Hi there

Yes, the way i understand it is that it was tradition for seamen/fishermen to be at sea on census night so that they were never recorded on any government documents.  I have come across this on numerous occasions - it usually makes the fishermans wife look like a widow or Head of Household.

Chris

Crafty devils.  Wonder if I can do that when we have to do the 2011 census?      

Can anyone tell me when the cemetery first started to be used and if there is anywhere online that I can search for burial details.

I have an ancestor, Fanny White, whose death is registered in Q1 1875 84 years old but I can't at the moment find her burial in any of the Hastings or surrounding parish records as available on Sussex Family History Group's web site. Fanny (Frances) and her husband Zebulon lived in Hastings so I'm assuming she was buried there.  Zebulon is evading me at the moment, no record of his death is coming up anywhere at the moment so don't know if Fanny was buried with him or vice versa.

I'm not altogether sure, the 1911 census came as a complete surprise, a distant cousin and myself had thought that he'd simply been lost in the 1851 census but the 1911 info set us thinking.

If he was regular army then for the short period of service he'd be unlikely to get a pension unless he was invalided out similar for the militia we thought.  The other possibility is that like occurred in the navy a former seaman would sometimes be listed as navy pension when he didn't have such, just having served at one time, maybe Henry was the same.

We got some research done on the regular army for regiments local to his home and nothing came to light there.

I think the militia is the most likely as the local gentry were much involved, indeed the local main landowner family, Blagraves, had at least one member as the Colonel.  It's one of those intriguing things that whilst not important to the ancestry side of things would be nice to resolve.  On his death certificate as well as old age type thing he was also listed as having cancer of the foot which might have referred to an injury from his army time or a result of having spent the remainder of his working life as a stockman.