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Vol 8 Issue 10 April–June 2005 Also in this issue... • Researching 21st century sources • Close-up on a one-name study The world’s leading publication for one-namers • Maps and Directories Seminar report GUILD OFFICERS CHAIRMAN Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings Ken Toll Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA 20 North Road E-mail: [email protected] Three Bridges Website: www.one-name.org W Sussex RH10 1JX Registered as a charity in England 01293 404986 and Wales No. 802048 [email protected] Guild information Sales VICE-CHAIRMAN Peter Walker AS well as Guild publications, the 24 Bacons Drive Sales Manager has a supply of Jour- Cuffley nal folders, ties, lapel badges and President Hertfordshire back issues of the Journal. The Derek A Palgrave MA FRHistS FSG EN6 4DU address is: 01707 873778 Vice-Presidents [email protected] Howard Benbrook Peter Goodall 7 Amber Hill Ernest Hamley SECRETARY Camberley John Hebden Kirsty Maunder Surrey Peter Towey 11 Brendon Close GU15 1EB Tilehurst, Reading England Guild Committee Berkshire RG30 6EA E-mail enquiries to: The Committee consists of the 0118 9414833 [email protected] Officers, plus the following: [email protected] Rob Alexander Forum Howard Benbrook REGISTRAR THIS online discussion forum is Jeanne Bunting FSG Roger Goacher open to any member with access to Rod Clayburn Springwood e-mail. You can join the list by John Hanson Furzefield Road sending a message with your mem- Barbara Harvey East Grinstead bership number to: Cliff Kemball W Sussex RH19 2EF [email protected] Paul Millington 01342 326663 To e-mail a message to the forum, Roy Rayment [email protected] send it to: [email protected] Librarian TREASURER Sandra Turner Vacant Regional Representatives Regional Reps Co-ordinator 2 St Annes Close Barbara Harvey Winchester A LIST of Regional Representatives Bookstall & Sales Manager Hants SO22 4LQ of the Guild in a number of UK counties and overseas can be found Howard Benbrook 01962 840388 [email protected] on the inside back cover of this Forum Manager Journal. If you are interested in Sharon Symons EDITOR becoming a Regional Rep, please Website Manager Roy Stockdill contact the Regional Representa- Paul Millington 6 First Avenue tives Coordinator, Barbara Harvey Publicity Manager Garston, Watford (address and phone number on the Roy Rayment Herts WD25 9PZ inside back cover). Data Processing Manager 01923 893735 John Hanson [email protected] The Journal of One-Name Studies is published quarterly by the Guild of SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMEN One-Name Studies and printed by Executive Ken Toll Flexpress Ltd, 5 Saxby St, Leicester Publications Ken Toll ISSN 0262-4842 Seminars Jeanne Bunting FSG © Journal of One-Name Studies Vol 8 Issue 10 April–June 2005 MAIN ARTICLES 6 The making of the Guild Marriage Index – COVER STORY PETER ALEFOUNDER describes how members can use the Index to discover where marriages took place 9 Six million WWI medal index cards are to be destroyed by the MoD 10 Researching 21st century contemporary sources for your one-name study JEFFREY KNAGGS gives a rundown on finding living people with your Guild name 11 Did the Surdival surname get to Ireland from France? ELLEN MAKI searches for the source of her registered surname in Normandy 14 Webwatch – UKBMD is a wonderful resource for one-namers – COVER STORY The growing online, county-based indexes are described by JOHN HANSON GUILD REPORTS • NEWS • EVENTS 18 Successful joint seminar on maps and directories with Essex SFH 20 Seminars update – Computer Seminar at Bletchley Park and Occupations Seminar in Sunderland 21 Marketing the Guild’s profile • Website aliases for members REGULARS 4 Chairman’s Notes KEN TOLL 5 Just My Opinion ROY STOCKDILL 22 A View From The Bookstall HOWARD BENBROOK 23 Registrar’s Notes ROGER GOACHER 24 Reviews – “Receipt book” of a 17th century Delia Smith 25 Letters – your views on issues in the one-name world ARTICLES, letters and other contributions are welcomed from members, especially accompanied by illustrations, and should be sent to the Editor. Publication dates will normally be the first day of January, April, July and October. Copyright of material is to the Editor and Publishers of the Journal of One- Name Studies and the author. No material may be reproduced in part or in whole without the prior permission of the publishers. The views expressed in the Journal are those of individual contributors and are not necessarily those of the Committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies. 3 Handing over office after somewhat of a roller coaster ride FTER TWO years in the more data is entered, so keep as an area in which we need to role, this is my last sending in and updating your provide further investment, sup- column as Chairman. I marriage information. port and encouragement. have, however, decided After a slow initial take-up, Last year we sent copies of to put my name forward to stay the Guild Online Data Archive is the 2004 Register of One-Name on as a Committee Member and also a success, enabling mem- Studies to about 80 public take on a lesser role or two. bers to preserve their data away libraries in the UK to improve This will enable me to ensure from their home PC, which is the publicity given to your there is a smooth handover to critical these days. I have heard studies. This year we plan to your next Chairman (to be of several members who have widen the net and include appointed after the AGM) and either had a disc crash or com- record offices and LDS FH Cen- continue to help where plete computer failure in the tres. The Marketing Sub-Com- required. I will at last have some past month alone. I understand mittee continues to pursue ways time for my own one-name members can elect whether to of increasing the profile of the study, which has been sadly share their data with everyone Guild and its members’ studies. neglected these past four years. or just Guild members. I shall My term in office has been investigate the facility further in Constitution somewhat of a roller-coaster my anticipated spare time. I have continued to work on ride, with many ups and downs. Seminars continue to be very revising the Guild’s Constitution, On balance I have thoroughly successful and our 2005 Confer- and will continue to do so if the enjoyed it, but there have been ence and AGM looks as if it will next Committee wish me to. episodes I’d rather wish we be every bit as popular as One of the changes I am plan- could all have avoided. previous ones. Planning is ning is to increase the term of already well under way for the Trustees on the Committee, who Achieved 2006 Conference. currently stand down every 12 We have achieved much dur- The Guild is in a very healthy months and, if re-appointed to ing the past year or so. The financial state and we are in a the Committee, can stand for a problems with Journal distribu- good position to take on new further term. This can (and has) tion have virtually been elimi- projects. What the Committee lead to difficulties in forward nated since handing the whole needs now are volunteers who planning. process over to our printers, are prepared to identify pro- I hope to propose a three- Flexpress. It took a little while to jects, gain Committee approval, year term for Trustees, which is bed down but the previous and manage the projects suc- more in keeping with the Char- problems have not recurred. We cessfully. I know there is a lot of ity Commissioners’ guidance. I are, however, still at the mercy talent out there, so let’s have envisage that one-third of the of the mainland and interna- some really good ideas. Still in Trustees will stand down each tional postal systems and the the pipeline is a potential pro- year, and the Committee will be odd Journal still goes astray. ject to investigate getting online assured of the continuity of ser- Thanks to the work of Mary access to data for members. I am vice of the remainder, unless Rix and Peter Alefounder, the still awaiting a decision from the they decide to stand down. Guild Marriage Index has now Charity Commission on the use I would like to end by thank- become a really useful tool – not of our funds in this way. Pro- ing your Committee, the Guild only for finding other Guild gress has been very, very slow. Trustees, who do so much to members interested in the same Apart from the Journal and keep the Guild moving forward. couple, but also for finding the seminars, our next main point of Without their efforts, much of parish identity for a post-1837 contact with members is what you have come to expect GRO marriage reference. It will through our Regional Represen- as part of your membership just become progressively better as tatives. This has been identified would not happen. ❍ 4 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2005 RIP “Harold Crooks-Faker”, the charlatan of genealogy ID MANY Guild Brooks-Baker became involved plaining about the fact that his members read, I with Burke’s Peerage, and the newspaper kept on quoting wonder, the recent edition published in 1999. By that Brooks-Baker. I got a note back obituaries of Harold time, the title and rights to the that said: “Harold is an old rogue Brooks-Baker, the self-styled and book had been sold to another but he talks a good game!” oft-quoted “royal expert”, who company with which Brooks- According to the Mail on presented himself unashamedly Baker had no connection.