Friends of Hastings Cemetery

NEW:

• Boase, Frederic - lawyer and biographer, (Modern English Biography, in 6 volumes) died in St Leonards.
• Slade, William & Mary Ann - lived many years in Hastings.  Mary Ann formed the Bourne Mission for Fishermen and was a schoolteacher.

Updated:

• Yeates, Victor Maslin - author of 'Winged Victory', died in Fairlight Sanitorium of an illness due to World War One, (WW1).

Recent:

• Gant, Major John Castle - Solicitor, lived locally, died Chiddingly, buried with his aunt in Hastings Cemetery; lived to 100.
• Gant, William John & Family - Architect & Surveyor; appointed by the Town Council to make a survey of the built up areas of the town. Appointed Borough Surveyor.
• White, John Ebenezer & Family - local dairyman, Devonshire Dairy of Queens Road ………

Hastings Herring Fair – October 31st – Nov. 1st

Three Castle’s and an Ironmaster’s House – New Book

by David Clarke

£9.99 (postage extra) – available from Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street

New Book! The Hastings Omnibus by David Padgham

Available from Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street

£12 (Postage extra)

1066 Harold's Way - Talk by David Clarke

Events Leading up to October 14th 1066

Friday October 16th - 5.30PM
Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street
Tickets £3 including refreshments
Tickets can be reserved.

Hastings History House - 11th October, 4 PM

Napoleon and the Fishwives

Presented by Rattlebag Players

A musical play told by three saucy fishwives.

Donations to OHPS and Hastings Week

FoHC - latest

NEW:

• Slade, Robert & Family  - shown as visitors in 1891 census; Robert was William’s uncle.  He and his son were corn merchants.
• Slade, William the younger - Local music dealer. Born at Leeds in 1854. Came to Hastings 1862.

• Strickland Family - Corn merchants, actually an update but included here because of close relationship (including inter-marriage) with Slades.

Updated:

• The Bowerman Family, William, Edith (later Chibnall) & Elsie - Edith and Elsie, who survived the Titanic disaster, were strong in the suffragette movement.
• Alfred Hassam - a portrait painter and stained glass designer who worked mainly in Birmingham
• Arthur Foord Hughes - son of Arthur Hughes, painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, Arthur junior was a painter in the same mould and lived for many years in the area.Lindridge, George  -organist at St Mary in the Castle, Professor of Music, composer, Owner - pianoforte, harmonium & music warehouse, no.44 Robertson St.
• Lindridge, George  - organist at St Mary in the Castle, Professor of Music, composer, Owner -