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The Hampshire Family Now in Historian our 41st year September 2014 Volume 41 No.2 Group of snipers, France, c1916 (page 84) Inside this Issue Local WW1 commemorations • Marriages Legislation & Registration • 30-year-old mystery solved PLUS: Around the groups • Book Reviews • Your Letters • Members Interests • Research Room Journal of the Hampshire Genealogical Society Hampshire Genealogical Society Registered Charity 284744 HGS OFFICE , 52 Northern Road, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3DP Telephone: 023 9238 7000 Email: [email protected] Websites: www.hgs-online.org.uk or http://www.hgs-familyhistory.com PRESIDENT Miss Judy Kimber CHAIRMAN PROJECTS Dolina Clarke Eileen Davies, 22 Portobello Grove, Email: [email protected] Portchester, Fareham, Hants PO16 8HU BOOKSTALL Tel: (023) 9237 3925 Chris Pavey Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected] MEMBERS’ INTERESTS SECRETARY Email: [email protected] Mrs Sheila Brine 25 Willowside, Lovedean, WEBMASTER Waterlooville, Hants PO8 9AQ John Collyer, Tel: ( 023) 9257 0642 Email: [email protected] Email: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND TRUSTEES: [email protected] Sheila Brine TREASURER Dolina Clarke Ann-Marie Shearer Eileen Davies 64 Sovereign Crescent Gwen Newland Fareham, Chris Pavey Hants PO14 4LU Lin Penny Email: Paul Pinhorne [email protected] Ann-Marie Shearer Ken Smallbone MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Keith Turner Gwen Newland Angela Winteridge 52 Northern Road, Cosham, GROUP ORGANISERS – See Group Reports Pages Portsmouth PO6 3DP Tel: (023) 9238 7000 Email: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ALL MEMBERS £15 EDITOR Members may now pay by Credit Card Ken Smallbone at our website. 110 St Peter’s Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG22 6TG This journal is designed and laid out by Tel: (01256) 355590 Email: Acadia PR & Design Southampton [email protected] Telephone 023 8052 8254 Email: [email protected] The Contents Hampshire Editorial – Ken Smallbone 78 Family Feature article – “Lest we forget” 79 Searchers compiled by Lesley Bull 80 Historian Local WW1 commemorations 82 September 2014 A Canadian Soldier in Hampshire by Roy Montgomery 84 Page 84 Civil Registration Part 4: Marriages Legislation & Registration by Ken Smallbone 88 Hampshire Parishes and their Page 130 Registration Districts – Part 4 93 Book reviews 96 Deadline A 30-year-old mystery solved Material for possible inclusion in the December 2014 by Ken Smallbone 98 Family Historian should be received strictly by 10 October 2014. All contributions are, however, Dear Editor – Your Letters 100 appreciated as early as possible. Surnames appearing in this issue 102 Letters feedback 103 Disclaimer HGS News 105 The Hampshire Family Historian is the official publication of the Hampshire Genealogical Society. The Loneys of Portsmouth by Julia Robson 114 Material is copyright of the Society and may not be reproduced without written permission. The Hampshire Members’ surname interests 116 Genealogical Society does not accept responsibility for Historical hogs – Frederick Luke, VC personal views expressed in this publication, or in any by Ken Smallbone 120 articles. Page 120 Submission of material The editor welcomes articles, family trees (typed in black, A4 with 1” margins) letters, items, comments, and especially family photographs or illustrations to accompany them. Please enclose SAE for photo return. Items can be submitted by e-mail to [email protected] with your Surname and “New HFH Article” on the subject line or by post (letter or CD in Word format). The HGS reserve the right to reproduce Daniel Saint 1738-1814 submissions in publicity materials and on the society by Richard Backhouse 123 website. News from Record Offices/Libraries 126 Please, ALWAYS include a telephone contact — Local Group Programmes 136 (it will not be printed if you clearly state this) and your Forthcoming events 152 membership number PLUS full postal home address - particularly when sending Emails. 77 Editorial Welcome… As Britain had declared war on Germany that on Tuesday 4 August 1914, the official commemoration of the centenary of the beginning of the First World War is now well underway – the media has ensured that we know about it! It would be rather remiss of me not to mark this event even in a small way: so, there are a few items here - Feature article (p 79), local war commemorations (p 83), Scott Montgomery’s wartime experiences (p 84), while Historical Hogs features Frederick Luke, the first Hampshire-born VC of the war (p 120). More tales of the Great War will undoubtedly unfold in the journal covered a variety of different topics (divorces, over the next few years! Mormon pioneers, chimney sweeps, World This current journal also provides family War 1, heraldry, deaths, female activists), so I histories (Loney, p 114; Saint, p 123) and the was quite convinced that various discussions solution of a 30-year mystery (p 98). There are were bound to come forth to add to this several HGS activities mentioned, including current journal. However, I was very wrong. AGM, a 20th anniversary and a group’s open The item that solely brought a spate of day (pp 105-13), while there is also a communication was based on my confession reminder that HGS’s Annual Open Day this that I had never seen a so-called “short” year will be held at Basingstoke (see insert). certificate - in answer to a letter in a previous Marriages are covered in In Days of Yore (p journal. I have now seen numerous copies, by 88). The regular items - Searchers, Members’ courtesy of my correspondents! You can read Interests, Hampshire Record Office report and my further comments to this topic on pp 103- Group Reports - continue to flourish. I wish to 04. Thank you to all who had responded and thank all those who had contributed. sent me copies of their family certificates. I I was pleased to receive several shall have to be careful not to admit to certain complimentary messages once again, and, in failings in the future, for fear of being particular, one from Don H, whose fairly long inundated with mail. Nevertheless, it does e-mail included a sincere “thank you” for the show that people do read the journal, for time and effort I had imparted upon the last which I am extremely grateful. So, thank you, journal. I was extremely happy with that one and all. publication because – with the help of Ken Smallbone contributors – I was able to produce a journal Editor 78 Feature article “Lest we forget” If you had been visiting another planet 1914. Yet, history is not really about “what throughout the past year or so, then you ifs” – it is essentially about what really could be forgiven for not realising that we happened. Franz Ferdinand was murdered; are currently in the throes of Austria-Hungary sought revenge; alliances had commemorating the centenary of the start already been formed; Belgium, a neutral of the First World War (alias “The Great country, was invaded; Britain entered the war. War”). At the end of it, it was estimated that there Shots initially fired in the streets of Sarajevo - were 16,000,000 deaths and 20,000,000 thousands of miles from Britain - on 28 June wounded, ranking it among the deadliest 1914 would echo around the world within a conflicts in human history. It was supposed to couple of months and plummet Europe and have been “the war to end all wars”, while much of the rest of the planet into a costly, Britain would be “a land fit for heroes”. Such disastrous war, in which millions died for became purely political spin. As we look back reasons that were often fully beyond their over the past century, we realise that a wholly understanding. This was a war that was peaceful world seems unlikely. There are too fought not only by career servicemen, but many vested interests involved in keeping the mostly by volunteers and by civilians arms industries going, plus the inevitable conscripted in droves to fill the dwindling mass unemployment – and thus unrest - if ranks of those who had gone before them. universal peace became a fact. Many died for “King and Country”, leaving This year we also remember D-Day and behind them millions who grieved their Arnhem, both 70 years ago. Although both departure. comprised horrendous losses of lives - the 100 years onwards and military historians still latter being “a bridge too far” – 1944 was yet debate or argue reasons for the hostilities, another beginning: the beginning of the end of with many posing theories and “what ifs” - a war, which anniversary can actually be such as that the Great War would have been celebrated next year, albeit amidst the inevitable even if Franz Ferdinand had not continuous commemoration of the Great War. been assassinated on that fateful day in June “Lest we forget”. New Constitution The Executive Committee have proposed changes to the Society’s Constitution. These will have to be ratified at a Special General Meeting that will take place at the Open Day on 12 October 2014. A copy of the new Constitution is enclosed with the journal. Should any member require a copy of the present Constitution, please contact the HGS Office and a copy will be sent electronically or by post, however requested. Dolina Clarke, Chairman HGS 79 Searchers Searche Compiled by Lesley Bull If you would like your request to be included in reply will not be made except through this this section, please submit a brief, but journal. Photographs and illustrations are specific, email or letter of enquiry or send a gladly accepted: - (300 dpi resolution jpegs by 'Word' based article with relevant names (and email attachment or on CD are welcome) or particularly your own name and address) laser colour photocopies (never ordinary ones) detailed in BLOCK CAPITALS to Mrs L.