Brighton origins (pt.2)

In 1988, my grandfather, Daniel, was born in a house at 4 Park Crescent, Portslade, which is west of Brighton and Hove. Father, William, had married a Hannah Goacher and they had seven children, of which Daniel was the youngest son. The children were as follows: Edward (b.1876), Ann (b.1878), Sarah (b.1880), Fanny (b.1883), James (b.1884), Daniel and Eliza (b.1890).

Number 4 (RHS)

Park Crescent; 5-terrace (nos 2-10), 2012 

Edward married Edith Mullard from Witley. Her father was a builder and his workshop now stands in the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton. Fortunately my best mate's widow, Jean Aslett, volunteers here so complimentary passes are available for us.

Mullard's Witley carpenters' workshop (2012)

I remember them with fond affection as they brought up my father and uncle after the death of their mother in 1927.

Edward (Ted) & Edith (Edie) - 50th wedding anniversary in 1949 with all ten children and before their marriage (1898)

My grandfather was the postmaster for Ewhurst and served as a volunteer in WW1, first in the Post Office Rifles (1/8th Bn Middlesex Regt.) before being transferred to Princess Louise's Kensingtons (1/13th Bn London Regt.) and fighting on the Somme. He was invalided out and later died of his wounds and complications (TB) on 1 June 1919. He is buried in Hove (old) Cemetery in the WW1 monument plot.

Grandfather's headstone, Hove

GF's headstone is the last on the right, in the row of headstones either side of the memorial under the hedge/bank.

His memory is also commemorated at the War Memorial in Ewhurst, which just happens to be outside "The Old Post Office" (now a private house), as well as the church, and, believe it or not, opposite my very first bit of civil engineering "design and build", the lay-by outside the village school!

Ewhurst War Memorial - contains other family (cousins, in-laws) war dead.

"The Old Post Office"