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Volume 26, No.3 December 2012 President: Dr Hugh Kearsey Vice-Presidents: Mrs Joan Howard-Drake, Colin Harris, Dr Malcolm Graham President Emeritus: Jeremy Gibson FSA, FSG(Hon), FRHistS Hon Legal Advisor: Jeremy Geere OFHS Registered Charity Number 275891 Chairman: Dr Wendy Archer The Old Nursery, Pump Lane, MARLOW, SL7 3RD Tel: 01628 485013 Email: [email protected] Secretary: Mrs Julie Kennedy 19 Mavor Close, WOODSTOCK, OX20 1YL Tel: 01993 812258 Email: [email protected] Treasurer: Miss Linda Dore 3 The Square, Aynho, , OX17 3BL Tel: 01869 810069 Email: [email protected] Editor: Mrs Sue Honoré Meadow Barn, Old , , OX29 0RN Tel: 01993 778044 Email: [email protected] Executive Committee: Wendy Archer, Malcolm Austen, Linda Dore, Paul Gaskell, Sue Honoré, Julie Kennedy Derek Powles, Sheila Tree Acting Editor this issue: Wendy Archer

The Society’s website can be found at: www.ofhs.org.uk

Front cover: A section of Smith’s Map of The County of 1801, reproduced by courtesy of MAPCO: Map And Plan Collection Online www.mapco.net. This section shows Bampton and surrounds. It illustrates the area covered by the recently published : Oxfordshire XVII – Broadwell, Langford and , as mentioned in the article ‘News from the Victoria County History’ by the County Editor, Simon Townley, on page 153. It also shows Bampton and Weald, which feature in the article ‘The SEARY Yeomen of Weald’, by Bill Seary, on page 188.

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The Journal of the Oxfordshire Family History Society Vol. 26 No. 3 ISSN 0309-2275 December 2012

CONTENTS From the Chairman and Acting Editor...... 147 From the Membership Secretary...... 147 OFHS News ...... 148 Scene Around...... 153 Fact Stranger than Fiction: the RYMILL name ...... Julian Rogers 161 Using ‘A Vision of Britain through Time’ to investigate an Oxfordshire Village...... Paula Aucott and Humphrey Southall 165 Some Early Oxford Coffee House Proprietors...... Norma Aubertin-Potter 173 Occupation Codes used in the 1911 Census...... 177 William TAYLER’s Diary...... Dorothy Wise 178 Oxford Cemeteries Grave Register Transcription Project...... Wendy Archer 180 Regent’s Park College and the Baptist Archives in Angus Library ...... Revd Emma Walsh 182 Nothing can be said to be Certain, Except Death and Taxes...... Julie Kennedy 185 Long-lived Oxfordshire Residents ...... 187 The SEARY Yeomen of Weald ...... Bill Seary 188 Romany Travellers in Oxfordshire Prior to 1750...... Keith Chandler 192 It Began with the Bells...... Alan Simpson 196 It Goes to Show that you Cannot Trust Original Records ...... Alex McGahey 197 Meeting Reports...... 198 Change of Guest Speaker, 28th January 2013...... 203 Oxfordshire FHS Booksales...... Paul Gaskell 204 A Title from ‘The Eureka Partnership’ ...... 208 Other Book Reviews ...... 209 Members’ Interests...... 212 PAINTIN Research ...... 213 Useful Addresses...... 214 Who’s Who...... 215 Diary Dates ...... 216 Meetings at Exeter Hall...... Inside back cover 145 ISSN 0309 2275 Oxfordshire Family Historian Vol 26 No 3 December 2012

SOCIETY OBJECTIVES 1. to advance public education in family history and genealogy primarily within the county of Oxford 2. to collect, index, co-ordinate, publish and make accessible in the interests of genealogy any documents or records relating to the county 3. to promote the preservation of such documents or records 4. to encourage the study of genealogy 5. to assist educationally by lectures or otherwise in record research 6. to co-operate with Family History and other Societies with similar interests. The Constitution of the Society is lodged with the Charity Commissioners and a copy is available from the Society’s web site or, upon receipt of a stamped addressed envelope, from the Secretary. OFHS Registered Charity Number 275891

Subscriptions are renewable annually on 1 January except that those joining during Oct, Nov, Dec have their membership carried forward through the following year. Membership renewal forms are distributed with the December journal. UK members: Individual £9.00, Family £10.00 Overseas members (incl. postage) £12.00 Cheques drawn in sterling and made out to Oxfordshire Family History Society should be sent to the Membership Secretary (see the Who’s Who at the back of this Journal). Australian members may pay via the Society’s agent (member 2202) Mrs Barbara Geeves, 8 Sailing Lane, Mornington, Victoria 3931, Australia Email: [email protected] Membership details are kept on computer and are used for Society activities only.

Contributions to Future Editions The Oxfordshire Family Historian is published three times each year with cover dates of April, August and December. Items for consideration should be submitted to the editor. The earlier an item is received, the greater the chance of inclusion in the next issue. The deadline for the April 2013 issue is 15th January 2013. Urgent short items may be submitted up to 1st February 2013. The Editor reserves the right to edit, abridge, reject, or defer to a future date, all material submitted for publication. It is the contributor’s responsibility to ensure that material submitted does not breach copyright laws. Contributions remain the copyright of OFHS and the authors jointly. The observations and opinions expressed in the articles and notices in the journal are those of their authors and not necessarily those of the Society.

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From the Chairman and Acting Editor

The Society being ‘between Editors’, I the Oxford area, and an email helpdesk am Acting Editor for this issue. Sue and phone help are also available. Our Honoré will be taking the editorial reins transcribers, such as those featured in henceforth and I wish her well. the Oxford City Grave Register A frequent comment on the feedback transcription project on page 181 have forms from our recent Open Day was of mentioned wanting to ‘give back’ within the helpfulness and friendly atmosphere the Society, as well as greatly enjoying at the event. One said ‘Can’t tear myself being involved. If you would like to away’, and another ‘Really helpful volunteer to help the society do get in people put us in the right direction’. we touch and many thanks to all our hope that helpfulness is a word which existing helpers in their varying roles! guides our activities. We have several Wendy Archer teams of advisors offering help within CHAIRMAN, AND ACTING EDITOR From the Membership Secretary It’s that time of year again, and, in the continues to have a strong membership centre of this volume of the Oxfordshire base. The society recruited over 70 new Family Historian, you will find the members in the first nine months of Membership Renewal Form. In response 2012 and we are some 1,790 in all, with to requests, the form again includes the 8% of you located overseas. facility to set up a Bank Standing Order. Talking of overseas members, Subscription renewal is due on 1 members in Australia can still pay their January 2013. Prompt renewal helps to renewal subscriptions to our local agent, keep down Society costs and Barbara Geeves – see the reverse of the administration, meaning we can renewal form for details. However, with maintain the subscription rates. These that exception, all renewals are again held at £9.00 for individuals, subscriptions must be paid in sterling. If £10.00 for families and £12.00 for this causes difficulties, please contact overseas members. me for assistance. As usual, the subscription reminder Your society is here to help you in does not apply to those of you who many ways, so please try to renew your either pay by Bank Standing Order or membership as soon as possible. Please paid in advance for 2013. Nor does it remember to notify me of any changes apply to those new members who joined to your contact details: address, email, the society on or after the 1 October this phone number, etc. throughout the year year. If anyone is unsure whether they fit so that you will continue to receive the into one of these categories or have to Oxfordshire Family Historian and any pay for 2013, please contact me. other communications without delay. I am pleased to report that the society Denise Lambkin MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY 147 ISSN 0309 2275 Oxfordshire Family Historian Vol 26 No 3 December 2012

OFHS News From the Executive Committee Table by Wendy Archer Some of the matters discussed by the Holford Centre Executive Committee in June to September 2012 are reported below. Our advisors at the Holford Centre continue to enjoy helping visitors, Committee changes whether with their Oxfordshire ancestry or with research further afield. At our AGM, Sue Honoré joined the executive committee as Editor, Project to scan the parish succeeding Tony Hadland. registers Finance The project started in June, with about A donation was made to the War 160 registers, of all dates, having been Memorials Trust. scanned every fortnight since. The quality of the scans is excellent. The Open Day second stage of the project is that they should be available at the Oxfordshire We spent time considering the plans for History Centre and on the internet. our well-established Open Day at Woodstock, which was a successful and Liaison with Oxfordshire friendly, well attended event. History Centre (OHC) and Meetings and Fairs Westgate Library staff Alan Simpson gave a talk on our We have kept in close touch with staff programme of photographically at OHC and Westgate Library, and have recording MIs at Oxfordshire Past 2012. been told of the imminent retirement of We attended the Buckinghamshire History Services Manager, Carl Family History Society and the Avon Boardman, after 25 years’ service. We Family History Society open days. wish him well in his retirement and are grateful for all he has done for family Projects history within the county. Progress in transcribing of MIs is Outreach reported opposite. Register transcription and rekeying of old transcripts We now have advisors who are able to progresses. A project to transcribe offer help at both the Oxfordshire grave registers of the four Oxford City History Centre at Cowley and at the Cemeteries continues well. A DNA Westgate library in Central Oxford project for Oxfordshire has been several days a week. approved with details, including how Wendy Archer you may participate, in the next journal. CHAIRMAN

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OFHS News News from the Churchyards by Alan Simpson In May, when I wrote my report for the complete the most overgrown section of last issue of the journal, the sun was the churchyard and the whole of the shining and we were looking forward to village cemetery, so we will not be another season of pleasant monumental finished there until next spring. The inscription transcribing sessions in the picture is much the same at Cowley and Oxfordshire churchyards. As those at , despite sterling efforts by readers living in the UK will know, the respective teams. You will find an nature had other ideas! We are told we article from Sheila Tree describing have had the second wettest summer on progress at Cowley below. The net result record, and the wettest for 100 years. As is that it is unlikely that CDs for either of a result we have lost more transcribing these churchyards will be ready before days to bad weather than in any previous early 2013. year, and our optimistic plans have We ran an on-site training session for suffered a setback. the local group and they are Appleton will definitely be released now under way recording, albeit having by the end of the year and I hope may be to contend with the same weather as the available by the time you read this. If rest of us. Let’s hope for a dry sunny not, keep your eye on the society’s web 2013! site where it will be announced as soon Alan Simpson as it is ready. MI CO-ORDINATOR At we have still to [email protected] Recording Memorial Inscriptions at St James Church, Cowley by Sheila Tree As previously reported by Alan I became interested in the Simpson, we have started recording the churchyard’s Commonwealth war memorials at St James Church in graves and then found the military iron Cowley. We are a fresh team, of both crosses hidden in the old part. A experienced volunteers and novices, and member of the church was interested too it’s a new venture for me especially as I and suggested that more could be done have been designated leader. The and so I was hooked. I am definitely not intention is to preserve the details of the an expert but I know a man who is! memorial stones in this lovely old For several years The Oxfordshire churchyard and produce in time a CD of Family History Society has been photographs and inscriptions. transcribing memorial stones and has

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OFHS News produced CDs of their work in various of a garden kneeler, but slightly more churchyards in Oxfordshire. While the difficult to get up from anything further. established team is fully occupied with Still as leader I cannot ask the team to its planned programme Alan Simpson do too much that I can’t do can I? The has offered me lots of help and advice, interior of the church has also proved to some of the experienced members have be quite a challenge. St James’s was the offered their help, and I have several garrison church of the Oxford and Bucks volunteers from the church helping too. Light Infantry, who were stationed at the First I was introduced to the nearby Cowley Barracks and as such mysteries of how to measure and plot holds many brass memorials, honouring the stones using tape measures, maps fallen soldiers. Lots of descriptions and and involving a bit of muttering. The names to decipher and to put into the whole churchyard is now plotted, special programme, but we have made a accomplished with the help of Alan good start with the recording of them. Simpson and Erma Clarke (Erma is a These will need checking later and I am volunteer from the church) and we are going to rely on some of the members of now working from these plans. Every the church who have specialised grave stone has been marked on the plan knowledge to help me with the (well nearly all). I believed the project to descriptions. I have been given lots of be within our capabilities little knowing quotes and descriptions from various what was involved. It came as quite a sources which I shall check and try to shock to find ground level meant flat out find where they are in the church or even trying to decipher worn stones. Hands if they have survived. There are also and knees I can cope with, with the help about 20 plaques in the bell tower, some

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OFHS News readable, some inaccessible, but with memorials and their inscriptions. Alan’s expertise in photography I am Sheila Tree sure we will master most of them. 148 Campbell Road It is very interesting and although the Cowley weather has not been kind we are OXFORD making good progress. The ultimate goal OX4 3NR is publishing a CD with pictures of the [email protected] Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2013 The Society has booked to have a stand at Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2013. This is a three-day event, held in the National Hall at Olympia on Friday– Sunday, 22–24 February 2013. We will take our range of CDs, a selection of books, and computers holding our resources, including our county-wide databases – the Search Services, plus a daily team of advisors to help visitors. There is usually a large variety of family history societies present in the Society of Genealogists’ Family History Show area, plus other areas such as a military pavilion and a are links to podcasts of a few of last DNA workshop. The event website year’s talks on the Show website, and www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.com/ handouts for most of the presentations will give details of tickets – but keep an and Workshops for 2012 are at eye on our website also, as we may be www.sog.org.uk/events/2012show- aware of discounted ticket offers. There handouts.shtml Do You Enjoy Transcribing? Many of our CDs of parish register this is a project that you can participate transcripts have scans of the transcripts in wherever you live. There are also that were originally typed onto paper in parishes where we would like to extend the 1900s. These are not computer our transcripts, and now we have searchable, or of the quality we would scanned the registers, this is feasible like, and we are keen to rekey them. from home. Please email Do you have a favourite parish, a [email protected] for more spreadsheet program and a little time? If information. so, please consider joining our team - 151 ISSN 0309 2275 Oxfordshire Family Historian Vol 26 No 3 December 2012

OFHS News Guild Award for Jack Blencowe

At the Guild of One-Name Studies AGM in April, OFHS member Jack Blencowe was amongst those awarded the Guild Award of Excellence. This was the first year of the award, which was issued retrospectively to the previous winners of Guild Publications competitions. Jack had won second prize in 2009 for his book The BLENCOWE Families. Guild Regional Representative for Oxfordshire, Wendy Archer, presented Jack with his award in Oxford and was shown Jack’s copy, No.1, of the thousand copies published. Right: Jack Blencowe with his award Help in Oxford for Family History Researchers We have a team of much-valued Oxfordshire History Centre, advisors, keen and willing to offer help Cowley to researchers. We have extended our days when help is on offer at Central Tuesdays 10:00–16:00 Library at Westgate, but would Thursdays 10:00–16:00 appreciate more advisors coming Some Saturdays forward to join the team, particularly at Oxfordshire History Centre. Central Library, Westgate Tuesdays 13:30–16:00 When and where are our Wednesdays 10:30–16:00 advisors available? Thursdays 10:30–13:00 Fridays 10:30–16:00 Holford Centre, Stanton St For more details, and that of our John email and telephone help, see page 214. First and third Tuesdays of each month 10:00–16:00

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Scene Around News from the Victoria County History A damp day in September saw the account for every one of the county’s launch of the 17th volume of the towns and villages. Victoria County , In the meantime, the work already covering the Kelmscott area close to the done is increasingly accessible online as and (pre-1974) well as in libraries. The first 15 boundary. Some account was Oxfordshire volumes are among the given in the last issue of the area’s numerous county sets available at character and prominent families, and a British History Online (address below), review will appear in the next issue. where they and a growing body of Suffice it to say here that the volume primary and secondary source material covers the nine villages of Broadwell, can be searched for surnames, place , , Grafton, names, and other key words. Our two Holwell, Kelmscott, Langford, Little most recent volumes will follow in due , and Radcot, adjoining west course, and unpublished work in Oxfordshire parishes being covered in progress is routinely mounted on the several other recent volumes. local Oxfordshire site as downloadable This brings coverage of the whole pdfs. For more intensive reading, books county that much closer, and with that in are still sometimes easier, especially as view work is continuing apace on other the modern VCH combines areas. Volume 18 (due for completion in encyclopaedic fact-based information 2015–16) looks at the very different with more discursive discussion and landscape of Hundred in the analysis. All of the Oxfordshire volumes Oxfordshire Chilterns, stretching from are currently available on open shelves Benson and Ewelme up onto the wooded in Oxfordshire History Centre and uplands around Nuffield and . Oxford Central Library, and many Several draft parish histories from the branch libraries have reference and volume are already available free of lending copies. Even if your ancestors charge on the VCH Oxfordshire website are not named in a particular volume, the (address below), with more to follow. VCH will provide a context for their Plans are also now afoot for Volume 19, lives and a host of detailed source- which will cover the Forest references to follow up. area of . That is still All this is only possible, of course, some way ahead, although funding providing the funding remains in place permitting it should be possible to start to see our various projects through to some preliminary work within the next completion. Support from Oxfordshire couple of years. With those projects County Council and Oxford University completed, just four volumes would be remains invaluable, but with our core needed to finish off the remaining areas funding now coming from the of west and , independent VCH Oxfordshire Trust, we providing a comprehensive VCH are more reliant than ever on

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Useful Addresses OFHS Research Centre: Berkshire Record Office The Holford Centre, School Lane 9 Coley Avenue, READING, RG1 6AF Stanton St John, OXFORD, OX33 1ET Open 09:00–17:00 Tue, Wed Tel: 01865 358151 09:00–21:00 Thu See www.ofhs.org.uk for opening details 09:00–16:30 Fri Helpline: 01628 485013 Tel: 0118 937 5132 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk Oxfordshire Central Library: Westgate, OXFORD, OX1 1DJ Society of Genealogists (SoG): Open 09:00–19:00 Mon, Tue, Wed 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, Thu; 09:00–17:30 Fri, Sat. , EC1M 7BA Closed Sun and Public Holidays Open 10:00–18:00 Tue, Wed, Sat Web: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ 10:00–20:00 Thu oxfordcentrallibrary Tel: 020 7251 8799 Tel: 01865 815509 Web: www.sog.org.uk Provides a self-service selection of local and family history books, and access to a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day range of computer-based resources. Saints Family History Centre: 280 The Meadway, Tilehurst, READING, Local Studies Centres at other RG30 4PE Libraries: Tel: 0118 941 0211 Abingdon 01235 520374 Web: www.rfhc.org.uk Banbury 01295 262282 01235 813103 The National Archives (TNA): Henley 01491 575278 Ruskin Avenue, Kew, RICHMOND, TW9 01235 762291 4DU Witney 01993 703659 Open 09:00–19:00 Tue, Thu Web: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/libraries 09.00–17:00 Wed, Fri & Sat Tel: 020 8876 3444 Oxfordshire History Centre: Web: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk St Luke’s Church, Temple Road, Cowley, OXFORD, OX4 2HT Federation of Family History Societies Tel: 01865 398200 (FFHS): Email: [email protected] PO Box 8857, LUTTERWORTH, Web: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ LE17 9BJ oxfordshirehistory Tel: 01455 203133 Open 10:00–17:00 Tue, Email: [email protected] 09:00–17:00 Wed–Sat Web: www.ffhs.org.uk Closed Mon, Sun, Public Holidays and Guild of One-Name Studies: Bank Holiday weekends c/o Hon Sec, Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, LONDON, Telephone numbers are shown for EC1M 7BA, Tel: 0800 011 2182 UK callers. From elsewhere replace Web: www.one-name.org the initial 0 by +44 Email: [email protected]

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Who’s Who in Oxfordshire FHS

Baptism Index Co-ordinator: Link and Photo Link Secretary: Dr Wendy Archer, see inside front cover Task shared by volunteers at the Holford Centre. – [email protected] Members’ Interests & Membership Secretary: Birth Brief Index: Denise Lambkin Ian Costar 56 Arncliffe, BRACKNELL, RG12 7SB The Old Post Office, The Green, LUDGERSHALL, – 01344 425826 HP18 9NZ – [email protected] – [email protected] Minutes Secretary: Book Reviews: Mrs Sheila Tree Books (or other items) for review should be sent to 148 Campbell Road, OXFORD, OX4 3NR the editor – see inside front cover – 01865 433266 – [email protected] Monumental Inscriptions: Bookstall Co-ordinator: Dr Alan Simpson – see Computer Group organising c/o Research Centre – see below panel – [email protected] – [email protected] CD and Microfiche Sales – by post: Open Day Organiser: Miss Wildsmith Mrs Jenny Lee, 213 Whitecross, ABINGDON, OX13 85 Downside Road, Headington, OXFORD, OX3 8JJ 6BW – 01235 799374 CD and Microfiche Sales – email enquiries: – [email protected] – [email protected], [email protected] Programme Co-ordinator: Computer Group organising panel: Paul Gaskell – see Publicity Officer Wendy Archer, Malcolm Austen, Alex McGahey, Alan Simpson, Angie Trueman. Project Co-ordinator and Parish Register Contact the panel via Alan Simpson: Transcription Project: Forest Farmhouse, Old Road, Hill, Dr Hugh Kearsey, Windmill Place, Windmill Road, Headington, OXFORD, OX3 8TA Minchinhampton, STROUD, GL6 9EE – [email protected] – 01453 887446 – [email protected] Helpline: Wendy Archer Publicity Officer: – 01628 485013 Paul Gaskell, – [email protected] 28 Bulan Road, Headington, OXFORD, OX3 7HT – [email protected] Holford Centre: (see OFHS News for opening times) Research Centre: (see Holford Centre) The Holford Centre, School Lane, Search Services: Stanton St John, OXFORD, OX33 1ET Dr Alan Simpson, Forest Farmhouse, Old Road, – 01865 358151 Shotover Hill, Headington, OXFORD, OX3 8TA – [email protected] Journal Editor: Sue Honoré – see inside front cover Strays Co-ordinator: – [email protected] Mrs Jennifer Tombs, 60 Selwood Road, OLD WOKING, GU22 9HT Journal layout: – [email protected] Rosemary Bailey War Memorials Co-ordinator: Journal Distribution: John Blakeman, Denise Lambkin – see Membership Secretary 24 Newland Close, , WITNEY, OX29 4LE Librarian (books): – 01865 880792 John Blakeman – see War Memorials Co-ordinator Website Manager: – [email protected] Malcolm Austen, Librarian (exchange journals): 11 Corn Avill Close, ABINGDON, OX14 2ND Mrs Sheila Tree – 01235 533626 148 Campbell Road, OXFORD, OX4 3NR – [email protected] – 01865 433266 Wills Library Co-ordinator: – [email protected] Dave Beames, 162 Black Road, MACCLESFIELD, SK11 7LF – [email protected] 215 ISSN 0309 2275 Oxfordshire Family Historian Vol 26 No 3 December 2012 Diary Dates

For more, especially the many events hosted by the Society of Genealogists in London, see the joint GENUKI/FFHS event calendar at www.geneva.weald.org.uk. Events shown emboldened will have an OFHS stand. January 2013 March 2013 Jan 27 Bracknell, BRK Mar 16 Harrogate, NYK Family History Fair North Yorkshire County February 2013 Record Office: Local and Feb 9 Cheltenham, GLS Family History Day Guild of One Name April 2013 Studies DNA Seminar Apr 5-7 Cardiff, GLA Feb 16 Northwich, CHS 34th Guild Conference and Family History Society of AGM Cheshire Annual Fair Apr 13 York, YKS Feb 22-24 Olympia, LND The City of York Family Who Do You Think You History Fair Are? Live 2013 Apr 13 Haywards Heath, SSX Conference and Annual General Meeting

Jenny Lee, Open Day organiser, third from the left, and Norma Aubertin-Potter, fourth from left, enjoying a chat at the OFHS Open Day

Derek Powles far left, Howard Fuller far right, with two Open Day visitors 216 Oxfordshire Family Historian ISSN 0309 2275 December 2012 Vol 26 No 3 Meetings at Exeter Hall, Kidlington General meetings take place in the large hall. Library, bookstall and computer advice from 19:15. Talks start at 20:00. Computer meetings(*) usually take place in the small hall. Doors open at 19:15. Talks start at 19:30.

28 January 2013 The Journals of William Jones, Hannah Jones 4 February 2013* Cloud Computing – one Family Researcher’s Perspective Graham Walker 25 February 2013 Ringing True – The Bells of Trummery and Beyond – 350 Years of an Irish Quaker Family Bill Jackson 25 March 2013 The Green Room John Frearson 1 April 2013* The Camera Never Lies … or does it? A light hearted approach for April 1st Alan Simpson 22 April 2013 London Ancestors Howard Benbrook 20 May 2013 (Third Monday) The Duke and the Miner’s Daughter: the fascinating truth behind a Forest of Dean family myth Tony Hadland

Back cover:

A section of Smith’s Map of the County of Oxford 1801, reproduced by courtesy of MAPCO: Map And Plan Collection Online www.mapco.net. This section shows the area. In the north of the maps is Great , the village used to illustrate the article ‘Vision of Britain’ on page 164. North of Chipping Norton is , from the records of which the tax assessment shown on page 185 was photographed. Volume 26, No.3 Oxfordshire Family Historian December 2012