Findmypast in partnership with the British Library is digitizing historic newspapers. Over the next 10 years they plan to scan 40 million pages covering 1710 to 1950 including many local newspapers from England, Wales and Scotland.A browse of some Sussex newspapers found the following entries:
On the 24th May 1879 the Hastings and St Leonards Observer reported the death of Peter William Caffyn in South Africa. Peter was a son of James Caffyn; until I found this notice I had had no idea what had happened to Peter. He was born in Robertsbridge in 1853 and followed his father into trade, in 1871 he was working as a drapery assistant in Gravesend. Between then and his death in 1879 he joined the Frontier Light Horse and had gone out as part of the Zulu campaign.
On the 23rd May 1837 the Brighton Patriot included a notice requesting anyone with a claim on the estate of Benjamin Caffyn, a grocer of Preston Street, to make themselves known. Benjamin had died on the 31st March aged 37 years.
Alfred Caffyn of Ticehurst was fined 5 shillings and 6d for keeping a sheep dog without a licence. It was reported in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer on the 10th April 1909 that Alfred was entitled to an exemption to paying for a licence but had forgotten to apply. This is another son of James Caffyn; he was farming at Cottenden Farm in Ticehurst.
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