My Dad has researched it so will ask him - I know we are directly related to Martha Gunn (guess everyone probably is in some form!) Our family lived in the Northern Lights Pub I think.
It is irrelevant I agree - however I often get the impression they feel Brighton was somehow insignificant before they turned up - admittedly these people are all in the creative industries and are self absorbed by nature! I love my home town but it does seem to be changing in terms of its...
Silly to suggest you are not - original post is less to do with football and more to do with the high numbers of non Brightonians currently living here.
Its starting to get depressing the amount of people who express patronising surprise when I say I was born in Brighton (as were the pervious 7 or so generations on my Dads side). Does anyone else get this? Hopefully there are still a high number of Brighton Borns still able to live here!