Hampshire Family Historian Is the Official Publication Email: Ken Smallbone by Ken Smallbone 42 of the Hampshire Genealogical Society

Family Celebrating our Historian 40th year Volume 40 No.1 June 2013 Volume 40 No.1

Winchester School of Art sketching class (see page 48)

Inside this Issue New technology and an old headstone • My Brown family • Historical hogs – John Arlott PLUS: Around the groups • Book Reviews • Your Letters • Members Interests • Research Room

Journal of the Hampshire Genealogical Society Hampshire The Genealogical Society Registered Charity 284744 Contents Hampshire HGS OFFICE, 52 Northern Road, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3DP Editorial – Ken Smallbone 2 Telephone: 023 9238 7000 Email: [email protected] Family Websites: www.hgs-online.org.uk and www.hgs-familyhistory.com Feature article – The new website 3 Searchers compiled by Lesley Bull 4 Historian Finders compiled by Lesley Bull 7 June 2013 Surnames appearing in this issue 8 PRESIDENT Miss Judy Kimber Local history group websites 9 Memories of 40 years ago CHAIRMAN PROJECTS by Mary Talbot 11 Dolina Clarke Eileen Davies, 22 Portobello Grove, Email: [email protected] In days of yore – Census – Part 3 Portchester, Fareham, by Ken Smallbone 12 Hants PO16 8HU BOOKSTALL Book reviews 16 Tel: (023) 9237 3925 Chris Pavey New technology and an old headstone Email: Email: [email protected] by Tracy Dunne 20 [email protected] Which is the right Ann Dimes? MEMBERS’ INTERESTS by Wendy Cope 22 SECRETARY Pam Thacker Dear Editor – Your Letters 24 Mrs Sheila Brine Email: [email protected] 25 Willowside, Lovedean, My Brown family by Ken Smallbone 27 Waterlooville, Hants PO8 9AQ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND TRUSTEES: Page 54 Tel: (023) 9257 0642 Sheila Brine HGS News 30 Email: Dolina Clarke Diary dates out of county 33 Deadline [email protected] Gordon Clem William Inwood Material for possible inclusion in the September 2013 by Jane Hurst 34 Family Historian should be received strictly by 5 July TREASURER Eileen Davies We are the chosen 2013. All contributions are, however, appreciated as early Ann-Marie Shearer Jim Duncan by Peter Elliot 37 as possible. 64 Sovereign Crescent Chris Pavey Members’ surname interests 38 Fareham, Paul Pinhorne Disclaimer Hants PO14 4LU Ann-Marie Shearer Historical hogs – John Arlott The Hampshire Family Historian is the official publication Email: Ken Smallbone by Ken Smallbone 42 of the Hampshire Genealogical Society. [email protected] Keith Turner Page 42 Material is copyright of the Society and may not be Angela Winteridge reproduced without written permission. The Hampshire Genealogical Society does not accept responsibility for MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY – See Group Reports Pages personal views expressed in this publication, or in any Gordon Clem GROUP ORGANISERS articles. 52 Northern Road, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3DP Submission of material Tel: (023) 9238 7000 The editor welcomes articles, family trees (typed in black, Email: SUBSCRIPTION RATES: A4 with 1” margins) letters, items, comments, and [email protected] especially family photographs or illustrations to ALL MEMBERS £15 accompany them. Please enclose SAE for photo return. Members may now pay by Credit Card News from Record Offices/Libraries 46 Items can be submitted by e-mail to EDITOR [email protected] with your Surname and “New at our website. Southampton Quaker burial grounds Ken Smallbone HFH Article” on the subject line or by post (letter or CD in by Ben Cowdrey 54 Word format). The HGS reserve the right to reproduce 110 St Peter’s Road, Local Group Programmes 55 submissions in publicity materials and on the society Basingstoke, Hants RG22 6TG This journal is designed and laid out by My ancestor came from Hampshire website. Tel: (01256) 355590 Email: Acadia PR & Design Southampton by Sue Dennis 72 Please, ALWAYS include a telephone contact — [email protected] Telephone 023 8052 8254 Email: [email protected] Important matters 74 (it will not be printed if you clearly state this) and your HGS Publications/Postal price increases 75 membership number PLUS full postal home address - particularly when sending Emails.

1 Editorial Feature article Welcome… The New Website

With this coming year, 2013-14, Our IT team had worked all hours to bring occasional training meetings - as well as Hampshire Genealogical Society (HGS) will this complex task to fruition for HGS in assistance from people at the end of the be celebrating its 40th year. The South time to launch at Who Do You Think You phone/email, etc. East Hampshire Genealogical Society was Are (Live). There is certainly no way we Alongside the website, work on other aspects formed back in 1973-74, and you can read could have contemplated this task of the project has also been progressing. We Mary Talbot’s remarkably detailed without their knowledge, expertise, and have a new logo. Opinions vary, but the memories of its early days on p 10. In generously giving freely their time. majority seemed to favour keeping the rose, 1977 it was transformed into the county- The site is now 'work-in-progress' as we strive but updating its image. We have retained the wide HGS, and in the following year I to add more informative and interesting HGS name. The new address www.hgs- became a member (left in 1991 and content, as well as consolidate and update familyhistory.com will run rejoined in 2004). current pages and fix 'bugs' as needed. As alongside www.hgs-online.org.uk for a few Throughout the coming year I hope to be able with any new website, there have been months, and then replace it. Our tag-line to include the memories of other original technical difficulties, but our IT team is is 'Helping you explore and research your members to complement Mary’s very working hard to put them right as soon as family history'. Even if you google 'Hampshire interesting account of the early days. To round they can. We have added forms to enable Family History', the HGS site should appear off this eventful year, we shall be celebrating family of Brown’s Farm, Baughurst, appears people to contact us online, as well as to join near the top of the first page. the 40th anniversary at our AGM in May 2014. on pp 27-29; Ben Cowdrey’s account of the HGS or renew their membership. Visitors can We will also be working towards making an e- It will be a special occasion, and we hope it Friends’ Burial Ground in Southampton is on p also buy HGS products online and access journal available through the website for those will be very well attended. 54; Jane Hurst mentions that the Inwoods downloads. In addition, there are pages for who want it. New HGS members will now each local group to make their own automatically receive an e-journal, unless As if to enhance this special anniversary still were early Quakers on p 34. contributions. The content reflects the hard there are compelling reasons for them not further, we have had the good fortune to be Problems concerning identification are the work of many contributors, although not all to. The paper journal will continue as normal able to introduce our new website, which was themes for two articles (pp 22-23 and 34-36), the information provided is currently on the for current members, and they can also opt-in launched at Who Do You Think You Are (Live)? while there is a tribute to family historians in site, but will be added as we progress. to have an e-journal at any time, if they so at Olympia, London, in February. This is general on p 37. A lecture on Hampshire It is essential to have a strategy within HGS to wish. The Members’ Area is also being discussed on pp 3 and 73, along with the new ancestors is discussed on p 72. The article on run and maintain the website to a high developed. logo, which you can see dotted around censuses is continued on p 12, while John standard, to keep it vibrant and regularly As already mentioned, there is still work to throughout this current journal. Please read Arlott the cricket commentator is our present updated. We are therefore asking for more these articles, for they explain the situation “Historical Hog”. There must be plenty here do, and much more to come on the website, volunteers to become involved with these with changes, corrections and fixes on-going. more fully. for most members to find something of essential tasks. We urgently need:- interest to entertain them. As always, we are pleased to receive Another modern technological advancement is Volunteers with some technical IT knowledge constructive comments and ideas. Your also revealed in Tracy Dunne’s article on p 20. I wish to thank everybody who has contributed to help and support our webmaster in voluntary help in implementing these and our It makes interesting reading, and may provide something to this current journal and for administering and maintaining the site other works will always be welcomed. Our a helpful idea for some of our members to material that has not yet been included to date Content writers to write for the website eventual aim is to ensure that the website is adopt. because of lack of space. Have a joyful Editorial team to work on the submitted the flagship of HGS, as it continues to be a Another theme - although not so modern - summer. articles, proof-reading, editing and posting vibrant and outward-looking family history running through this current journal is Ken Smallbone onto the site society, offering worthwhile and interesting Quakerism. A brief summary of my Brown Editor Training and support will be given for all the benefits to its members. above tasks, with the use of guidance notes, Chris Pavey and The Way Forward Project some distance learning, and (where relevant) Team

2 3 Searchers Searchers

Thomas's parents were Charles Cook b 1807 sent in her query she gave the bare minimum who married Lydia PARVIN. They also lived in of details about the family. This is sometimes Compiled by Lesley Bull Curdridge Lane and Charles was a hawker. the case with queries received and I try to Searche They had 6 children: Ann b 1831, William b contact the sender for more information. It is 1834, Sarah b 1841, John b 1843, Thomas b easier for HGS members to identify a family If you would like your request to be included in reply will not be made except through this 1851. they may be able to help with if as many this section, please submit a brief, but journal. Photographs and illustrations are names and dates are given as are known and specific, email or letter of enquiry or send a gladly accepted: - (300 dpi resolution jpegs by LB: HGS member Betty, is helping her cousin Margaret to research the Cook and Arton the enquirer usually gets a better response. 'Word' based article with relevant names (and email attachment or on CD are welcome) or families. Margaret’s address is 32 Andrews Please send in as much as you know about a particularly your own name and address) laser colour photocopies (never ordinary ones) Walk, Woodhall Spa, Lincs, LN10 6PF. Her e- family you are looking for, within reason! If it’s detailed in BLOCK CAPITALS to Mrs L. Bull, or black and white original pictures. All can too much I can always edit it to fit the space be returned if you request it and supply an mail is [email protected]. Please 'Wychwynd', Cove Road, Fleet, Hampshire, contact either Betty or Margaret if you can available. Remember that a photograph always GU51 2RT. SAE. If sending original photographs through makes the query more interesting. the post, please use a protective board help them with their research. When Betty first Kindly always advise a telephone number envelope. EMAIL: for any possible contact, and unless you state [email protected] and please clearly that you object, any e-mail or always quote a full postal address for those Lost PHARO and STACEY ancestors Heather Stanberry (8135) telephone number given will be printed. without computers. If this is not done, your Please be patient as acknowledgement or request may well be disregarded. I am looking for any STACEY/STACY/STACIE John Stacie/Mary SMYTH 1655 – 1715 in ancestors in the Bourne, Wrecclesham and Froyle, Alton. Abbreviations used: b = born, bap = baptised, bd = buried, c. = circa, C = Century, Farnham areas of Surrey and the Binsted, William Stacy/Elizabeth ARCHER 1625 – d. = died, mrd = married. Bentley, Holybourne, Froyle, Alton, South 1690 in Froyle, Alton, South Warnborough. Warnborough, East Tisted and Odiham areas Members are reminded that these pages are compiled from letters etc. that may have been written I am also looking for any PHARO ancestors in of Hampshire. the Farnham, Hale and Wandsworth areas of months beforehand, so postal addresses should always be checked for up to date changes. My direct line is as follows: Surrey and the Aldershot or Portsmouth areas Edward Stacey/Pansy MOCKETT 1906 – 1995 of Hampshire. Many went abroad to USA, in Wrecclesham, Bourne, Farnham. South Africa and Australia. John Stacey/Fanny MANSEY 1869 – 1939 in William James Pharo was born in Hale, Wrecclesham, Alton, Farnham. Farnham, and married Hannah HEALY. I William Stacey/Hannah NASH 1837 – 1893 in believe he was a constable in Portsmouth, COOK family: Wrecclesham, Farnham. possibly connected to Navy, but I am unable to Market gardeners at Curdridge Betty Hiscock (Member 8378) John Stacey/Anne POULTER 1791 – 1864 in find him there. Binsted, Wrecclesham. Does anyone know of a John Pharo and his Elsie COOK married John Henry ARTON 15 Elsie's parents were Thomas Cook, born 24 Thomas Stacey/Sarah HOOPER 1763 – 1823 wife Mary? John was born about 1739 in May 1920. They lived in Swanmore, moved to December 1851, and Harriet HOUGHTON. in East Tisted, Binsted. Hampshire or Surrey, married Mary about 1 Northcote Villas, Forest Road, Waltham They lived in Curdridge Lane and were Market John Stacey/Lydia NORMAN 1737 – 1799 in 1759, possibly in Wandsworth, and died 1781 Chase, and moved again in the 1960s to Gardeners. Thomas and Harriet had 8 Holybourne, East Tisted. in Hale, Surrey. I have an article saying that he Shedfield. Their son, Margaret's father, also children: Emily b 1872, Frederick b 1875, Robert Stacey/Anne 1706 – 1790 in did his apprenticeship as a John Henry Arton, was born 12 October 1920. Henry b 1879, Leonard born 1881, Lily b 1885, Holybourne. carpenter/wheelwright in Farnham then went He was in the Royal Navy for many years. Edward b 1888, Elsie b 1891 and Annie b William Stacie/Saraye KNIGHT 1671 – 1762 to Wandsworth where he met and married 1894. in Froyle, Holybourne. Mary. They fell on hard times after John

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worked for a carpenter in Wandsworth who sent this response to Robert Toomer’s died and they were removed to Farnham in Searchers enquiry about the Dolphin Hotel Finders November 1763 to the poor house in Church (HFH Vol 39, No 3, Page 166):- Lane. Their children were Susannah, possibly s The Dolphin Hotel, Southampton, is a premier Finders searching for keepers born in Wandsworth, who died in Farnham as hotel situated in the High Street below the Occasionally, members have in their Searching for Keepers’ is part of the young child from smallpox; Thomas born in Bargate. It is greatly renowned for the fact possession items that have no connection to ‘Searchers’ section, so please send in material Wandsworth, died in Farnham; Mary born in that Jane Austen, Hampshire lass and their own family history, but might be of for inclusion in the same way, as per the poorhouse 1763/64 Farnham. Thomas had a somewhat famous author, danced in the interest to another researcher. ‘Finders instructions on the ‘Searchers’ title page. family living on Hale Common/Hoghatch area ballroom there when she resided in the town and a David Pharo was born there, a relative before moving elsewhere. of this Thomas. I can’t find him, as he doesn’t Looking at the hotel website, modern seem to be the one mentioned above who Portswood School photographs show a beautifully refurbished married Hannah Healy. John Littlefield interior - a great improvement on the place Photographs My direct line is as follows: compared to my last visit there a few years Mary Ann Pharo/Elias Gaines PARRATT 1854 ago for dinner. However, one thing that can be John has sent two photographs of members. If anyone would like a copy of either – 1925 in Selborne, Hale, Farnham. seen clearly is apparently the same fireplace in schoolchildren attending Portswood schools in photo please contact John. Samuel Pharo/Ann WHITE 1825 – 1899 in existence there today; certainly one would the 1930s that may be of interest to other Hale, Farnham. expect an original feature like that to be Thomas Pharo/Charlotte STOVOLD 1796 – retained from 1936 provided it survived the 1869 in Hoghatch, Hale. destructive WW2 Blitz, so perhaps it is a James Thomas Pharo/Mary GIBBS 1771 – replacement copy? 1836 in Hale, Farnham. I don't know which area of Hampshire Mr Thomas Pharo /Bethia LONGHURST 1740 – Toomer most associates with his surname, but 1799 in Farnham, Aldershot for me 'Toomers Sports House Ltd', a sports Who are Thomas’s parents and siblings? I shop at 19 London Road I always walked past have other lines that I am unable to connect. I in the 1960s is immediately brought to mind. need to fit in - but am hitting a brick wall - My 1968 Kelly's Directory also records 14 John Pharo, Mary and the family mentioned Southampton private residents so named. above. I have an article which links them to Wendy Hobbs of Southampton researches Samuel and Thomas 1796 but then I’m stuck! Toomers, I believe. If anyone has information about the Stacey or LB: Rachael Hellberg (see the letters pages Pharo families, or places, or any branch lines I ‘Dear Editor’ this issue) had great success would like to hear from you. Other Stacey following the publication in the September families were in Binsted at same time as those 2012 Hampshire Family Historian of her above but I haven’t been able to connect them. surname interests and her query in Searchers. Any help would be appreciated. It really does work: members are very LB: HGS Member Sandra Naish, who is very generous with their time and expertise, so A class photograph from Portswood Infants School, Southampton, c1931. My father Ken Littlefield, knowledgeable about the Southampton area, please keep the queries coming. now aged 87, is pictured third from right, second row down beneath the window.

6 7 Finders Local history group websites

Hampshire family & local history groups

Background information on the area in which an ancestor lived is always useful, particularly when writing up the family history. Contact with a local group will often be advantageous. Let them know you are a member of HGS, and you could persuade them that you may both be helpful to each other. Important Hampshire groups are:- Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society http://www.fieldclub.hants.org.uk/ Hampshire Genealogical Society http://www.hgs-online.org.uk/ Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society http://www.hias.org.uk/ Hampshire Mills Group http://www.hampshiremills.org/ Alresford Historical & Literary Society http://www.histandlit.alresford.org/ Andover History & Archaeology Society http://www.andover-history.org.uk Basingstoke Archaeological & Historical Society http://www.bahsoc.org.uk/ Bitterne Local History Society http://www.bitterne.net/ City of Winchester Trust http://www.cwt.hampshire.org.uk/ Emsworth Maritime & Historical Trust http://www.emsworthmuseum.co.uk/ Fareham Local History Group http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/hants.html Fleet & Crookham LH Group http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/hants.html A class photograph from Portswood Boys School Annexe c1934 which was located at the bottom of Friends of Curtis Museum & Allen Gallery http://www.altonpapers.org.uk/ Sirdar Road, Portswood, Southampton. Ken Littlefield is pictured seated on extreme left of picture Friends of Royal Naval Museum & HMS Victory http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/hants.html wearing a striped tie and a big grin! Gosport Society http://www.thegosportsociety.com/ Gosport St Vincent Local History Club http://www.gosport.info/History/history Headley Society http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/headsoc/ Some of the surnames featured in this issue Historical Association, Portsmouth Branch http://www.history.org.uk/resources/ Lower Test Valley Archaeological Studies http://www.romseynet.org.uk/ltvas.htm ARCHER GRAY McINTYRE RICHARDS TAYLOR North East Hants Historical & Archaeological Soc. http://www.hants.org.uk/nehhas/ ARTON HARRISON MILES ROGERS Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust http://www.portsmouthdockyard.org.uk/ THOMAS Somborne & District Society http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/somsoc/ BROWN HEALY MOCKETT ROPER Southampton Local History Forum http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/southamptonlocalhistoryforum/ BURRETT HOAR NASH RUFFELL THOMPSON Tadley & District History Society http://www.tadshistory.com/ COOK HOBBS NEWNHAM SILLENCE STOVOLD Titchfield History Society http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/ths/ COWARD HOOPER NORMAN SMALLBONE West End Local History Society http://www.westendlhs.hampshire.org.uk/ DIMES HOUGHTON PARK SMOKER WADDLETONS Winchester Archaeological Rescue Group http://www.warg.hampshire.org.uk/ EMBREE INWOOD PARRATT SMYTH Woolmer Forest Heritage Society http://www.woolmerforest.org.uk/ WHITE EMMS KNIGHT PARVIN STACEY Yateley Society http://yateleylocalhistory.pbworks.com/ FAITHFUL LEAVER PIERCE STACIE WILLIAMS Other local history groups (those without websites) can be viewed on http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/hants.html FARROW LONGHURST PHARO STACY WINDEBANK FREEMAN MANSEY POTTER STINGEMAN And don’t forget the HGS groups at Alton, Andover, Basingstoke, Computer Group, Fair Oak, Fareham, Fleet & Farnborough, Gosport, New Forest, New Milton & Christchurch, Portsmouth, Ringwood, Romsey, GIBBS MAYNARD POULTER TAPLIN WITT Southampton, and Waltham Chase. A great deal of local information can be gleaned from the group members.

8 9 Member’s article Member’s article Memories of 40 years ago

We have noted that next year marks the We attended the inaugural meeting of the very long, as he moved away from 40th anniversary of the Society, and Society in the Friends’ Meeting House, Hilsea, Portsmouth, but the Society continued to thought you might be interested in our Portsmouth, in January 1974. There must flourish. recollections as founder members have been over 50 founder members because Other members I remember from this time because they also demonstrate how the our membership numbers were 47 and 48, were Jon and Joyce Baker, who administered Society has changed in the last 40 years. and they were given out alphabetically. George the IGI from their home, and Joy Hobbs. Clive Mike and I met in August 1973, whilst on Wakelin became the Chairman, Betty Edwards Colpus was Director of Fieldwork, and we holiday in Yugoslavia. I was a primary school the Secretary, and Fred Edwards the helped him to record MIs both in Portsmouth teacher, originally from Nottinghamshire, but Treasurer. Other founder members I recall and in Gosport. were Frank and Mollie Tazwell, Peter Christie, living in London, and Mike was a butcher, Mike became the Publicity Officer, and we living with his parents in Gosport. Our Clive Colpus and Muriel Allen. Sadly, some of them are no longer with us. travelled around Hampshire and the Isle of romance was a whirlwind one, and by the end Wight, putting on displays, mainly in libraries, of October we were engaged, planning a Mike and I duly filled in our forms to join the but also in building society windows. One wedding for the following April, and looking Society, and thought it would be easier to both display in Portsmouth Central Library in the for a house to buy. I had also obtained a give the same address. One Saturday summer of 1977 caused an uproar. We had deputy headship in Gosport, starting in afternoon while Mike was at work, I was used a photo of my great-grandparents, who January 1974. called to the phone in his parents’ house - had lived in Lyndhurst, and a very irate lady Mike had a long-time interest in family history, Michael Walcot was calling. Before I could had demanded to know why there was a photo Wedding day, 15 April 1974 and was a member of the Society of speak to him, the doorbell rang and I had to of HER grandparents on display. She turned Genealogists. Around that time, Michael ask him to hang on whilst a bed was being out to be a long-lost cousin of my mother. bemoaned the fact that she found it very delivered. Returning to the phone, I apologised difficult to attend the Portsmouth meetings. Walcot - with a group of like-minded friends in About this time there was an explosion of and explained the cause of the delay, Mike suggested she start a Gosport group, Portsmouth, including George Wakelin, and interest in family history, and county societies whereupon a rather embarrassed Michael which she did - initially in her living room! Fred and Betty Edwards - was looking to were being formed all over the country. It was found the South East Hampshire Genealogical queried whether we had made a mistake by putting down the same address!! In those days realised that, if we didn't move quickly, Mike and I have remained members for the Society, and in the autumn of 1973 contacted someone else might decide to form a entire 40 years, and we have a full run of all Mike to ask if he would join the proposed new living together before marriage was definitely frowned on. Hampshire society - so the South East the journals. These days we are not very society. Hampshire Genealogical Society became the active members, although we do attend the I moved to Gosport on New Year's Day, 1974. We married on 15 April 1974 (Holy Trinity, Hampshire Genealogical Society. Members Gosport meetings occasionally. But we have We had bought a house, and our original plan Bulcote, Nottinghamshire), and must surely be from Southampton took over some of the enjoyed a fascinating hobby, which has given was that I should live in it, but it needed such the only members to have received a wedding administration, and for several months there us numerous amazing experiences and taught a lot of work that my father made Mike congratulations telegram from the Society. were no meetings in Portsmouth. When Betty us a great deal about history and life in the promise I wouldn't live there until it had all The birth of our son in May 1975 was noted in Haughey offered to organise the Portsmouth past. Perhaps the most amazing discovery of been completed. So, instead, it was arranged the journal as a new twig on our tree! Group I became her assistant - a post I all was that in the 17th century we both had that I would lodge with Mike's next-door The first journal in A4 format was produced continued for several years until I returned to ancestors living in Minstead in the New Forest, neighbour, who had recently been widowed. on a hand-operated duplicator. We saved large full-time teaching. even though I was born and brought up in Nottinghamshire and Mike in Gosport. Mike's However, in practice I ate my meals and spent envelopes to put the journals in, and as many Mike was also instrumental in the formation of ancestors were gamekeepers and mine were most of my time with Mike and his parents. as possible were delivered by hand. We the Gosport Group. He was working as the poachers! Every spare minute was spent working on the continued to meet at the Friends’ Meeting butchery manager of a Co-op shop in Gosport house, and we began to acquire furniture. House. Michael Walcot was not involved for when one of his customers, Fran Powis, Mary Talbot (Member # 47)

10 11 In days of yore In days of yore Census – Part 3, 1851-1901

For the family historian – and also for the by the district registrar - and confirmed by the local historian and sociologist – the superintendent registrar - before being sent to censuses from the middle of the 19th the General Register Office in London. There century are extremely valuable tools. they were again checked, and (with few Although the first census to record names exceptions) the householders’ schedules were was in 1841, its failure to document destroyed. accurate ages and places or parishes of Certain questions were asked about the birth has often caused it to be neglected occupants in the schedules. In 1851 they by many – the main reason, of course, comprised: name, relationship to the being that it is quite difficult to identify householder, condition (married, unmarried, one from another person of the same widowed), exact age (if known) and sex, name without more vital data. A fairly occupation (if any), place and county of birth correct age and birthplace would make all (or country only if born outside where the difference in such a case. currently settled). It was also asked whether We must remember, though, that census the person was deaf, dumb or blind. A more records were not created for the benefit of the accurate current address was included, if general public at all, but merely to contain possible. Uninhabited dwellings, however, factors to be used as statistics by local and were not counted, although included in the national government for planning and policy, previous census. In terms of personal Example from 1871 Census etc. It was obviously not considered in the information to be later extracted by family early days that researching ancestors would historians, it was a vast improvement upon ages, when their strength begins to decline ... the censuses progressed, although ages become such a popular pastime as it now is the 1841 Census. Tailors die in considerable numbers at the possibly became less accurate as the person among the general populace. Covering the night of 30/31 March 1851, the younger ages (25–45) ... Labourers’ mortality grew older. Forms or “schedules”, with written census that year stood as the template for all is as nearly the same rate as that of the whole There had been 2,943,787 inhabited houses in instructions, were delivered to each household subsequent censuses, often with additional population, except in the very advanced ages, England and Wales in 1841, and in 1851 these before census night, to be filled in by the questions. Occupations were recorded in more when the Poor Law apparently affords had increased to 3,281,024. Residents of householder or a literate occupant, friend or detail, with even master craftsmen, being inadequate relief to the worn-out workman”. institutions, such as workhouses and neighbour – anybody who could basically read acknowledged as such, having to provide Occasionally, it was revealed that there were hospitals, and crews of river, canal and sea- and write. Special forms were supplied for numbers of employees, as did farmers. discrepancies in birthplaces that would be going vessels were included in the population asylums, hospitals, schools and similar Schoolchildren were denoted as “scholars”, as corrected in later censuses. A person’s count of 1851. In addition to the secular institutions with over 100 occupants. The a kind of occupation. birthplace could have differed from where he census that year, the separate “religious census enumerator returned after census The additional information on ages and or she was baptised; the subject might have census” recorded worshippers congregated in night to collect the forms. He checked the occupations permitted considerable analyses believed that they were born in the same church and chapel throughout the realm. This, however, was not repeated for later censuses. contents for discrepancies and clarified of census data for England and Wales. Not place where currently living; the informant anything he did not understand, or even only were 332 different occupations analysed could have even assumed incorrectly where During the 1970s and 1980s several family helped the householder to complete the by age group, but they were also correlated an occupant was born. Such could explain why history societies, including HGS, began to schedule. Once all the householders’ with death records from civil registration, information on later censuses differed in transcribe the 1851 Census, so as to provide schedules were collected, the enumerator allowing statisticians to determine the places of origin, probably due to the subject books of indexes for their individual counties, then entered the particulars into his census influence of employment on health and life. It now being asked personal questions that normally produced parish by parish. Such data enumerator’s book (CEB). Both CEB and generally included names, ages and was concluded that “Miners die in undue inspired further investigation. Birthplaces schedules were then submitted for checking birthplaces in order to assist proportions, particularly at the advanced would sometimes become more accurate as

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researchers, plus references to the relevant suffered extreme damage, thus some of the Records Act, 1958. This non-statutory rule returns from Ireland exist. Those of 1861 and census book, but little more. information is missing. There were was applied retrospectively. 1871 were not retained; those of 1881 and The 1861 Census took place on the night of 32,000,000 people and 6,000,000 houses in The first census to contain an explicit promise 1891 were accidentally pulped before being 7/8 April. The questions asked were the same England and Wales at that time. of closure for 100 years was that of 1981. transferred into books. Thus, the 1901 Census as in 1851, but with additional ones on aliens Following the success of the LDS’s venture However, in exceptional circumstances, the is the first complete surviving Irish and naturalised subjects. Uninhabited with the 1881 Census, the census data for Registrar General for England and Wales will census, having been open to the public since buildings were again indicated. 1901 was published online in 2003 on a site release specific information from 70-, 80-, or 1960, and now available online. In 1871 the census was prepared for the night run by The National Archives, wherein users 90-year-old closed censuses. Following the Ken Smallbone (Editor) had to pay per view to access the data. release of the 1871 and 1881 censuses, if one of 2/3 April. The information required References: repeated that of 1861, but in addition there Although the original census schedules were was able to provide an exact address for a confirmed direct ancestor, there was a fee- Souces include: Terrick FitzHugh, The was a question regarding an “imbecile or destroyed many years ago, the CEBs were paying option that allowed information on that Dictionary of Genealogy (5th Edition, revised idiot” or a “lunatic” or more within the kept by the Registrar General, and eventually person to be extracted from the following by Susan Lumas, A & C Black, London, 1998), household. moved to the Public Record Office (now The National Archives, Kew). The CEBs were census. This option was subsequently pp 60-64; John Richardson, The Local The 1881 Census covered the night of 3/4 filmed in 1970 to prevent increased usage withdrawn. Historian’s Encyclopedia (2nd Edition, April, and was similar to that of 1871. This from destroying these fragile records. Since The 1851 and later censuses for Scotland are Historical Publications, New Barnet, 1986), p was the first UK census to be made available then they have been made available on available at the General Register Office for 72; online. Initially, it was transcribed by commercial CD-ROMs and also, by licence, on Scotland, and those up to and including 1891 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_ volunteers for The Church of Jesus Christ of various family history websites. were available for public inspection after 50 Census ; http://www.1851census.com ; Latter-Day Saints, and first made available on The 1851 Census for England and Wales was to 80 years. An 1851 Census was taken in http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk ; CD-ROM. Free access to the online index is Ireland, but most of the records have been http://www.familytreeresources.co.uk ; available from several sources. opened for public inspection as early as in 1912. None of the Victorian censuses gave any destroyed; those that remain are held by the http://www.historyhouse.co.uk ; In 1891 the census took place on 5/6 April. In assurance to the general public that such Public Record Office of Northern Ireland or the http://www.1911census.org.uk/1921.htm ; addition to the questions of 1881, the information they had provided would not be National Archives of Ireland. Unfortunately, http://www.royalgenes.biz/soc.genealogy.brita householder was also required to state revealed publicly during their lifetimes. The none of the remaining 19th-century census in/ whether an occupant was an employer or first census to include an assurance of employed. The number of occupied rooms, if confidentiality was that of 1911. Yet, an less than five, was now added to the schedule, implied guarantee of privacy would not appear A selection of genealogical websites as was also the language spoken in Welsh until in the Census Act of 1920, where Section households. HGS has produced a CD-ROM, 8 listed penalty clauses for early disclosure of More and more online genealogical services are being posted on the internet week comprising an index of individuals on the census data. by week and month by month. Here is just a small selection to try out if you have not already done so.. None are listed through recommendation, but merely Hampshire 1891 Census, along with their The 1920 Act is still in force, albeit expanded because they exist. They are listed in alphabetical order. ages, birthplaces and corresponding entries. with later provisions. Yet, it was not until 46 The census returns for 1901 were dated 31 years afterwards that an actually defined www.ancestry.co.uk (or .com) www.genesreunited.co.uk March/1 April. Similar questions to that of limitation period was granted whereby such www.archives.com www.genuki.org.uk 1891 were asked, although now “idiot” had personal data should remain undisclosed. www.cyndislist.com www.hgs-online.org.uk been withdrawn and replaced with “feeble- Public access to individual census returns in www.familysearch.org www.myfamily.com minded”. Instead of “employer or employed”, England and Wales is now normally restricted www.findmypast.co.uk www.myheritage.com the question was rephrased to give “employer, under the terms of “the 100-year closure rule” www.forces-war-records.co.uk www.thegenealogist.co.uk worker or on one’s own account”. – the Lord Chancellor’s Instrument # 12, http://freebmd.rootsweb.com www.ukcensusonline.com Unfortunately, certain parts of the census had issued in 1966 under S.5 (1) of the Public

14 15 Book review Book review Bound for Australia My ancestor was a …. bastard A Guide to the Records of Transported Ruth Paley (Society of Genealogists Convicts and Early Settlers Enterprises, 2004) David T. Hawkings Available through the National The History Press 978-0-7524-6018-5 Archives and Amazon, Paperback £20.00 priced £7.99. From the departure of the First Fleet from This soft covered book is part of the “My Portsmouth in 1787 to the end of Ancester Was A …..” series of (at the last transportation in 1868, a staggering count) 20 books in the same vein, but 165,000 criminals were sent to Australia each written by a different author. It is for a range of crimes. Alongside those subtitled “A Guide to sources for transported, hundreds of thousands of illegitimacy in England and Wales”. free people emigrated from Britain and Ireland to the Australian colonies. The book is divided into four parts, each part Because of the vast distance, few being divided into numbered sections. For immense returned. instance, Part I covers ‘Illegitimacy in volume. For example, Context’. Section 2 of this part covers Marking the 225th anniversary of the sailing between 1 October and 4 December 1790 ‘Illegitimacy and Inheritance’, and Section 11 of these eleven vessels from Portsmouth, eight convicts died on board the hulk Ceres in Bound For Australia traces those ancestors in deals with ‘Child Maintenance – the Poor Law Langstone Harbour, namely, John Haggar, before 1834’. In all parts, with whatever the most in-depth and comprehensive way to William Green, Richard Goodwin, William date, utilising new research from The National subject under discussion, where the Poor Law Norley, Richard Clemson, Benjamin Penn. John before 1834 is mentioned, the number of the Archives. By directing the reader straight to Morris and John Porter. the relevant files, and providing a case study section containing that information [11] will “If a man’s chains were hard to rattle he was covering to follow the stages necessary to research be given. Hence, you don’t have to endlessly flogged and if he muffled them to prevent Affiliation Orders; Bastardy Returns; Criminal Antipodean relatives, David Hawkings makes search for what that subject is all about when noise he was likewise flogged for disobedience and Census Records; Emigration Schemes and locating Australian ancestors more achievable you come across it. of orders. After the 17th April they were not Adoption Societies; Divorce and Wills. than ever before. allowed knives to cut their meat with and A sentence early on in the book reminds us Having browsed through this book, it even that a good number of illegitimate children The book does not just concern itself with some of the convicts broke off the tin handles illegitimacy. It talks of the laws and how they makes one wish that they actually had of their mugs to use as knives for this they were not baptised, and , search as we might, Australian roots, so that they could physically we won’t find them; and also that a changed over the years, and covers social were flogged” … “I hereby declare that I history and details what was acceptable, even undertake research of the numerous records consider the conduct of the Captain, his disproportionate number of illegitimate encouraged, before marriage! in the sources quoted in this extremely Officers and the Surgeon Superintendent and children died as very young babies. illuminating book. We are taken through many of the crew, inhuman, barbarous and Part 1 discusses inheritance; marriage; 89 pages, 9 illustrations, index and a full criminal registers and court proceedings, cruel beyond all reason …” (p 148) listing of synonyms for bastardy, such as, prisons and prison hulks, petitions, becoming an unmarried mother; abortion and A must for those with Australian ancestors “misbegotten” and “son of no certain man”. It transportation, crew lists and ships’ details, infanticide; foundlings; baby farming and and good reading for those without them. also includes Guides to Records and Research, the voyages, guards and regiments, military adoption. Part 2 (headed ‘Preparing for a Published by and available from The History a Select List of Useful Websites and a convicts, early settlers and pardoned convicts, Search’) asks how can you be sure that your Press, The Mill, Brinscombe Port, Stroud GL5 simplified Research Plan. free passage for families, and numerous other ancestor was a bastard? It does make you 2QG (01453 883300; facets of this history, providing us with question what you know and what you have A good, in-depth and wide study of the subject www.thehistorypress.co.uk) detailed examples along the way. There are assumed! Section 3 on ‘Finding and Using the with a great deal of helpful information. even medical and death records in this Review by the Editor Sources’ has, for instance, information Review by Lin Penny

16 17 Book review Book review The Southampton Book of Days The spy beside the sea

Dr Mary L. South Adrian Searle Published by The History Press, Stroud GL5 2QG The History Press, 2012: ISBN 978 0 7524 6534 0; Priced £9.99 (hardback) ISBN 978 0 7524 7963 7 www.thehistorypress.co.uk I came to this book with no idea what to The two examples also show the width of Soft covered, with photos, notes expect, as I had not read any of the other items covered from the day-to-day & bibliography, £12.99 similarly titled books for other cities. I misdemeanours to the historically important. was therefore disappointed to open the The book also mentions Southampton’s links A seemingly ordinary, reserved woman, book to be faced with January the first, with many famous people, including royalty, Dorothy O’Grady moved to the Isle of and to find no introduction. and the more mundane subjects like the Wight and led a quiet, respectable life at The book is a snapshot of random happenings plague and drains. Taken as a whole, it gives a pretty good snapshot of social history. It is Sandown until 1940, when her peculiar that were recorded at some time in behaviour and repeated confrontations Southampton’s history on the calendar date well researched and written and Mary South gives all of her sources, which is not only a with the Army led to her arrest and chosen. It does not in any way read as a conviction as a spy - and the sentence of history through time. reminder that our local archives are larger than we think, but could be very useful, as death by hanging. For example the May 13 entry is from 1228, well. The mention of The Piepowder Courts This well researched book not only when Nicholas of the Manor of Shirley was intrigued me! ‘persuaded’ to sell the Common to chronicles subsequent events, but sets the Southampton , but the May 15 entry is dated A fascinating book to dip into, but do not scene as a jittery nation is embroiled in war, 1576, when a Robert Crewe was fined for expect a reference book with chronological and the island’s defences become crucial to throwing a dead horse into a water pit on the history and an index. the safety of Britain, detailing many of the Saltmarsh. Review by Mike Lawrence installations erected by the military to defend the area. Dorothy’s bizarre behaviour before, during and after her trial has led to a difference of Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 opinion as to her guilt, or innocence, and documents which might have clarified With effect from 6 April 2013 new regulations brought into effect the outstanding matters and which recently became provisions of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003. declassified, have disturbingly been ‘lost’ from Dorothy O’Grady is uniquely placed in the various Government archives. Research into It has been recognised for several years that a mass of information has been published in annals of espionage. She was the first Briton her background has brought much to light that formats other than the printed word in books. These regulations allow for the first time the condemned to death under the Treachery Act dispels any idea of her being the Deposit Libraries in the UK and Ireland to archive UK and Irish websites, along with e- of 1940 after frequently being spotted on the unremarkable, if slightly odd, middle-aged outskirts of Sandown (a prohibited area), journals, e-books and other digital formats, including blogs and offline (or handheld ) seaside landlady that her neighbours had insisting time and again that her dog had formats like CD-ROMs. The trawl over the web will now start and obviously take many thought her to be. strayed. Had her appeal not saved her from years. However, it is intended that by the end of the year tens of thousands of e-journal The author has made up his mind about the gallows, she would have become the only articles, e-books and other materials will be available for online searching in reading Dorothy’s culpability, but the reader may well woman to suffer death under that Act during rooms provided at the Deposit Libraries for the purpose. disagree! the Second World War. Following her appeal she served nine years in prison for her Review by Ann Long wartime crimes.

18 19 Member’s article Member’s article New technology and an old headstone

I have recently had the exciting vandals struck in Southampton Old Cemetery, QR code on a family opportunity to mix new technology with and the plaque to Harry was removed and headstone can not an old grave, in the form of discarded. So, in time for the only provide a great a QR Code (quick official commemoration, I had deal of information response). This is a small a replacement steel plaque via its web page, but square made up of little engraved and added to a can also offer the dots, which works in a granite flower vase to be option of reaching similar way to a barcode, placed on the burial plot, other people who are and is the latest in new rather than have it reattached researching the same technology, as far as to the original kerbstones, as family, simply by headstones are concerned. they are quite fragile now. adding contact When the code is scanned by The QR code was provided by details to the web a mobile telephone, it will link Chester-Pearce, funeral page, etc. The person up with a web page that gives directors of Poole, Dorset. It commissioning the further details. These codes is around two inches square QR code will have are used in all manners of businesses - for and is engraved onto a small steel plaque. It is full control of their advertising, extended information, etc - and quite discrete, but when scanned it takes you own page, amending can be seen every day on the High Street and to a web page providing further information the information as in national and local newspapers. Just look for on Henry’s life and ultimate death on Titanic. they see fit. They a small black and white square with dots Obviously, with a whole page dedicated to his could, for example, inside it! Anyone with a modern mobile phone life, there is potential here to give so much provide not only In memory of Henry Dennis Witt can download a free “app” to scan the codes more information than is possible to fit on to a information on the technology has helped me to do this in the and link up to the associated web page. gravestone or plaque, and the scope for family deceased, but perhaps a family tree, old photos, etc, as well. most modern of ways! I have had the code fitted to a simple granite historians to give and to gain lots of PS. The code will also work from the flower vase on the family grave of the WITT information is infinite! I am excited to be a part of helping the photograph if anyone fancies trying it out! and WHITE families of Southampton, I thought readers may be interested in such memory of an otherwise forgotten Titanic Hampshire. The grave contains the bodies of possibilities that may occur by having one of victim to remain alive, and this new Tracy Dunne (Mrs) (Member # 12751) Ellen WITT (née SILLENCE), died 1911, and these codes fitted to a loved one’s headstone. one of her daughters – Nellie Elizabeth Mary It can be fitted either as a tiny plaque or WHITE (née WITT), died 1929 - and Nellie’s engraved directly onto the headstone and husband James Albert WHITE, died 1928. On could, of course, be used for an ancestral the original kerbstones the family had also burial plot without harm or damage to the Thank you, Tracy, for your very interesting article. placed a small steel plaque to commemorate headstone itself. It may equally form part of a If members have a smart phone and would like to try connecting the loss of Ellen’s son Henry (“Harry”) Dennis new burial stone or marker for a more recent to the HGS website using the QR Code pictured here they will WITT on RMS Titanic. He was a crew member, bereavement. It can also be fitted to a grave just need to install a 'QR Code Reader/scanner'. a fireman/stoker, and his body was never even where no headstone exists - in the form Various versions of these can be found as free downloads at recovered after the vessel sank on 15 April of a small plaque on a grave plot marker peg, Apple's App Store, Google Play or Windows Phone. 1912. etc. Some time before the centennial in 2012, In terms of family history research, finding a

20 21 Member’s article Member’s article Which is the right Ann Dimes?

On 19 March 1760 Ann, daughter of married Thomas TAPLIN of Dogmersfield, an to pay off Bartholomew’s bill’. 5s 6d per week document records her age as 68, changing to Nathaniel DIMES and his wife Elizabeth adjoining parish, in February 1803, at the was deducted from her money until the 69 between April and July. This would make (née FAITHFUL), was baptised in Crondall same time as he enrolled in the North beginning of November, when Ann was her born in 1769, but was that her true church. Then on 31 August that year an Hampshire militia. removed to Dogmersfield from Crondall under age? In 1841 the census shows that she was infant of that name was buried. In 1763 In March 1803 Taplin was questioned by the a settlement order. In the winter of 1809/10 living with William and Jane and their six Nathaniel’s brother John and his wife Crondall Overseers about his parish of Dogmersfield allowed her 3s 6d per week, and children at Bayley’s Bridge, Dogmersfield. Ten Sarah (née MAYNARD) also had a daughter settlement, as the family of a man sent for in February she received ‘a quarter hundred of years later the family were at the same named Ann, who was baptised on 8 July at militia duty from his parish could expect bavins’, sticks for the fire. With the arrival of address and the census enumerator noted that Crondall. Although one of these children maintenance from that parish, this being at spring, her allowance returned to 3s per Ann had formerly been employed in a silk died, there were later two of that name in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Thomas was week. Between 1810 and 1814 she manufactory, but was now a pauper - recorded the parish and both could lay claim to about to be posted elsewhere, and Crondall occasionally got an extra 1s when ill. In 1816 as being 85 (born 1766?). In 1861 she was still being Ann, daughter of John, baptised in needed to be sure that he was of there is the first mention in the Dogmersfield living with her son-in-law, but her daughter 1763. Dogmersfield. Ann continued to live in records of daughter Jane - ‘21st July, Ann had died. She was cared for by her eldest One of these married John HOAR on Crondall, and in April she received her first Taplin and child 2s 6d’. granddaughter, another Jane, and her age was 97 (born 1764?). Ann died in March 1865, and 27 February 1783 at Crondall. The Hoars were maintenance payment. From May 1804 to Ann was widowed at some time between 1810 has a fine tombstone just inside the gate of also a Crondall family, and this couple stayed September 1806 she received 6s per and 1820. The first mention of Widow Taplin in the parish and raised six boys. Ann Hoar month. In August 1806 she gave birth to their Dogmersfield churchyard that states she died was in July 1810, but it is not clear whether died in 1831, and her burial entry in May gives only child, a daughter Jane. In that year it is in her 102nd year and had been baptised in this refers to Ann or to her mother-in-law, her age as 67, which would be correct for clear that her money came from July 1763 at Crondall. Elizabeth Taplin. In 1820 they are referred to John’s Ann. I think she is more likely to be the Dogmersfield. In April 1807, when she was ill, Was this true or did her daughter, born in as Widow Taplin and Old Widow Taplin, and in right one, but the other Ann’s claim was she had two extra payments of 2s 6d and 3s. Crondall, assume her mother was also born 1822 as ‘Widow Taplin and girl 4s per week’ interestingly staked on her tombstone. there - and did the grandchildren ask to see In September 1807 Thomas transferred from and ‘Widow E. Taplin 3s per week’. In the the Crondall parish register? Who knows? The second Ann was recorded as coming to the militia to the 77th Regiment of Foot. He following year Ann’s regular allowance was Crondall in May 1792, bringing with her a was a substitute for a man from Bentley, stopped and she was given 1s 6d a week if I have to thank Eileen and Graham Davies for certificate from the parish of Greywell, stating another neighbouring parish. That parish paid there was no work available, a state of affairs the information generated by Hartley Wintney Union, as they kindly looked it up for that it to be her parish of settlement. If John’s Ann £4 13s each year for the next two which lasted from October to March, but she daughter Ann had been working at Greywell years. At the same time she was getting 3s a me after a mention of the list in a Hampshire was given 2s 6d for a pair of shoes in for over a year then her settlement parish week from Dogmersfield, although still living Record Office report in the Hampshire Family February. In June 1824 Jane, then 18, married could have changed. This Ann seemed to have in Crondall and getting her rent paid. The Historian. This information has made me William FREEMAN at Dogmersfield. had a more colourful life than the other. She Dogmersfield Overseers recorded ‘Paid Mr believe even more strongly that Ann Hoar is was the mother of two illegitimate boys: John Snuggs of Crondal for forty weeks rent for The next mention of Ann was after the Poor the sister of my 3x great-grandfather. Other Godfrey, born July 1792, and Thomas, born Sarah [sic] Taplin from 11th July last. Paid at Law Reform Act. It is on a list of paupers from information was gathered by me from the 1798, but nothing more is known about 9d per week £1 10s’. In 1809 Ann was not the parish of Dogmersfield relieved by the registers and parish chest documents of them. She also had banns of marriage called managing on her allowance, and on August Hartley Wintney Union in 1837. She was given Crondall and Dogmersfield many years ago. outdoor relief of roughly £1 12s a quarter, of in 1795, with William PIERCE named as the 19 they recorded ‘Paid Taplin’s wife two weeks Wendy Cope (Member # 1933) groom, but no marriage followed. She finally pay at 2s 6d per week, per order of Mr Salmon which about a half was in goods. This

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Dear Ken Dear Editor… Following the publication of our Interests and an appeal for help in the Searchers section of the September 2012 Journal, I thought that it was high time that I wrote to tell you that the response was great. Dear Ken One member spotted the names LOOSE and RINGSTEAD and wrote to say she I notice that most of the family history takes place pre 1900, but I thought that there might be some thing of interest in had been researching these names for many years, it being her husband's family post war history. My point is that when I was submitting line, and we were able to make a connection. Another lady contacted us and items to the Trident paper in the Dockyard that nowhere was assisted me with the BURT problem which was much appreciated. And I have there any lists of Dockyard apprentices within my own recently met a third lady, (who only lives six miles away from us here), who has Department. very extensively researched the HORNs but we did not find any common ground. I started to compile such a list and placed them on line at This excellent response has now inspired me to advertise my Interests with www.medfactory.webs.com. Unfortunately I was not able to several other Societies.Best wishes locate many years worth, but those listed may help some one Rachael Hellberg (Member # 13433) looking for more recent ancestors. At the same time I also put online a history of Portsdown Archery Club compiled by the late Bill Gilbert and myself, this can be found at www.pachistory.webs.com. Hoping this will help someone Yours Ronald Brett (Member # 2399) Dear Ken Not wishing to confuse matters more, but I feel I should comment about the letter from Linda Atkins on page 269 of the March 2013 journal. Dear HGS, Having been born in Portsmouth and lived in the area all my life, I wish to point You are no doubt aware that the Family History Centre run by the Church of Jesus out the difference between "The Hard" in Portsmouth and "Hardway" in Gosport. As Christ of Latter-day Saints and located opposite the police station in Kingston Linda quite rightly mentions "The Hard" in Portsmouth is the triangle between the Crescent, North End, Portsmouth PO2 8AQ, temporarily closed down about two Dockyard wall, Harbour Station and the road along the front up to the Dockyard years ago. We are pleased to advise you that the FHC has now reopened: opening gates, I can't really comment on the original Mudlarks, other than I believe this to hours are Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10am-1pm. be true, but possibly much earlier than the 50s and 60s Mudlarks as witnessed There is at present no need to book to use the Centre, which is as always free of personally by my husband. charge to the public. The Centre's telephone number is 02392-696243, and outside Hardway in Gosport, which is the other side of Portsmouth Harbour, is the area opening hours there is an ansaphone for messages. We can provide free access to covering Priory Road, St Thomas's Road, Chapel Street, Green Lane and Quay Lane the Library Editions of Ancestry and FindMyPast, although our 4 computers are approximately, where in the 1950s they used wooden boards to go out onto the not of the fastest. We have 6 microfilm/fiche viewers: patrons wishing to order films mud flats for bait digging etc., this type of wooden board having been used by now need to do so themselves online, paying by card (currently £7.50 for 3 previous generations of Hardway people, as described in Ken Grubb's article page months, via the Catalogue and Film Ordering sections of www.familysearch.org). A 200 December 2012 HGS journal. map and directions to the Centre can also be found in the FamilySearch Centers section of the same website. Patrons coming by car should use the car park Also just for added interest, I would like to mention that anybody born within the (labelled "Biscoes") to the rear of the building, where the intercom door to the FHC few roads of Hardway, Gosport, as described above were known locally as "Hardway is located. We look forward to seeing HGS members at the FHC. Kingers". Best wishes, Best Wishes, Francine (FHC Director) and Andy Andrew (HGS member # 8000) Sue Johnson (Member # 1535)

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Dear Tony [sic]. Peartree church (St. Mary's Extra), My Brown Family Bitterne, Southampton, has been left as a legacy part of the house of Arthur John COWARD and his wife My paternal grandmother was the last the Hants & Berks Gazette announcing the Marjorie Isabel (nee THOMAS). We Brown to have been born at Brown’s Farm auction of the farming stock at Brown’s Farm. have had to clear the house and in Baughurst. The Brown family initially moved to the New there is a lot of memorabilia, Mary BROWN was born on Wednesday 11 Forest, but had returned to Baughurst by photos, paintings, postcards and April 1883, the youngest of the six children of 1901. Mary married Henry George letters. There is no immediate Thomas and Maria Thirza Brown. Her father SMALLBONE, a crippled ex-soldier, in the family so the church will keep these was the farmer, and his ancestors had been register office at Basingstoke in 1910. things for a while but then will living and farming at that same property for (1) Mary’s father Thomas BROWN was born dispose of them. As a genealogist I am sure there is some extended well over 300 years when his youngest child on 15 January 1843 at 1 Putney Hill, family out there that would be so arrived on the scene. Unfortunately, nine years Roehampton, Surrey. His father (Thomas grateful for all this information afterwards the link was permanently broken Brown senior) inherited the tenure of Brown’s about their family and it would be when the family was forced to leave their Farm, Baughurst, in 1865, and father and son such a shame to destroy them. ancestral home. jointly farmed it. Thomas junior married Maria Arthur John (known as John) and Brown’s Farm was copyhold premises of the Thirza RICHARDS, a Londoner, in St Giles’s Marjorie Isabel Thomas were Manor of Manydown, belonging to the church, Reading, in 1867, and, after his married in Southampton in 1936. Ecclesiastical Commissioners, formerly the father’s death in 1872, he became the sole John was in Kuala Lumpar during property of the Dean and Chapter of farmer at Brown’s, remaining there for twenty World War 2 (1945) and there are Winchester Cathedral. On 12 December 1891 years. His wife died at Charter Alley, Monk sketches of him by J. Davies. the Reverend Edward Hutton Hensley, who Sherborne, in 1915, but Thomas’s death has Marjorie was born in Southampton had purchased Baughurst House in 1888, thus not been located because of his common about 1906. She passed many becoming the Browns’ nearest neighbour, name. He was known to be living in 1921. music exams in her teens at the Unfortunately, this author had failed to ask his Trinity School of Music and wrote to the Commissioners on Thomas grandmother, who died in 1970, about her belonged to the Underwood School of Brown’s behalf to say that the latter was Shorthand and Typing at Bridge St, Southampton. desirous to purchase the freehold of his farm. family. Following a survey of the estate, it was (2) Thomas’s father, Thomas BROWN senior, I am enclosing a painting we believe is of Marjorie and maybe someone will reported that “owing to the ill health and was born at Putney in 1804. He married Mercy recognise it. Hoping you can help. impecunious state of Mr Thomas Brown the MILES in St Mary’s church, Marylebone, Jean Inglis (former member # 7527) copyholder and occupier, both the land and Middlesex (now London), in 1836, and the premises were in a very bad condition …” The couple had five children. They initially lived at Commissioners offered Mr Brown a price for Putney, and then Roehampton, where Thomas the reversionary interests in the premises was employed as a carman – his elder brother amounting to £914, which included the value John had a farm there. By 1855 Thomas was Need help with your research? of timber. This was naturally beyond the farming at Roehampton for his brother, but by farmer’s means. Instead, Mr Hensley bought 1861 the family were living at Padworth, All requests for research assistance to the HGS Research Room. the enfranchisement of the farm for £950, Berkshire, where Thomas was a labourer on Tel: 023 9238 7000 intending to allow Mr Brown to remain in his brother’s farm. Mercy died there in 1862. or Email: [email protected] occupation as his own tenant at a nominal Thomas inherited Brown’s Farm on his rent. brother’s death in 1865, and died of heart Unfortunately, Brown’s ill health continued, disease in the fields there on 22 July 1872. and in September 1892 an advert appeared in (3) Thomas’s father, John BROWN, was

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born at Brown’s Farm in 1774. Having no Quaker at Whitchurch in 1674. He was a however, he and fellow townspeople were now prospects of inheriting the farm, he left home labourer and lived in Basingstoke. He married permitted to open up their own meeting and eventually ended up in Putney, employed Mary POTTER in her father’s farmhouse – the houses in Basingstoke. John married again in as a gardener to Mr Andrew Drummond of Quaker meeting house – at Baughurst in 1697. 1699 at the Friends’ meeting house in Gifford House. By 1801 he was married to The couple had two sons, of whom only one Hampton Wick, Surrey, Elizabeth PARK, a Sarah, whose name is not known, and the survived. They continued to live in widow, but had no further issue. John Brown couple had eight children. It was likely that Basingstoke. Mary died in 1741, and was died in 1722, and was buried at Norn Hill, they had married at some place before even buried in the Friends’ burial ground at Norn Basingstoke. settling down in Putney. Sarah died in 1831, Hill in that town. Her husband continued to (8) John’s father, John BROWN, is an obscure and John in 1832, both being buried in the Old represent Baughurst at the Alton Monthly figure. His name only appears in the Burial Ground in Richmond Road. Meeting and Hampshire Quarterly Meeting, Basingstoke parish register twice, on the (4) John’s father, John BROWN senior, was and was last recorded in 1744. There is no occasions of the baptisms of his two sons. born at Baughurst in 1737 as a Quaker. at Wantage, Berkshire, in 1736. The couple record of his death, and it is assumed that he I am eternally grateful to my grandmother for However, by the time that he married, by had a son and daughter. In 1742 Richard was was buried at Brown’s Farm, known then as bringing such an extremely interesting family “Potter’s garden” – which, by this time, was no licence, in St Stephen’s church, Baughurst, in the miller at Baughurst. In 1747 he inherited into my pedigree, despite them having a very longer in use as the official Quaker community 1771, he had probably converted to the the tenure of the premises that afterwards common surname. I am extremely lucky that cemetery, being now reserved for family Anglican religion. His wife was Mary TAYLOR, became known as Brown’s Farm, following the many of them were Quakers and also tenants members only. who was possibly related to the former rector death of his uncle Richard Potter *. Jane, of the Manor of Manydown, for these records John Taylor. The couple had six children. The Richard Brown’s wife, died in 1770, and, as an (7) John’s father, John BROWN senior, was are exemplary for sorting “the wheat from the senior Quaker families in Baughurst were Anglican, was buried in St Stephen’s born at Basingstoke in 1646, and was chaff” and ensuring that I have travelled down converting to Anglicanism in the early 1770s, churchyard. Although her children were christened in St Michael’s church there. He the right road to their origins. The information probably to remove severe limitations because recorded as Quakers, obviously her influence was a labourer, and in 1673 married Mary above is merely a summary of the history of of their adherence to a dissenting faith. John eventually caused their conversions by 1771. BURRETT in All Hallows’ church, Whitchurch. this family. There are enough records of them Soon afterwards the couple converted to succeeded to Brown’s Farm on his father’s Richard, nevertheless, remained a Quaker to in my possession to be able to fill a book. Quakerism, and spent several years moving death in 1779. He died in 1801, and his wife the end, and was buried in the Friends’ old Indeed, they have already formed parts of a back and forth between Basingstoke and followed in 1822. The farm then passed to burial ground in his garden in 1779. few books. Whitchurch, so as to avoid persecution from their eldest son, Richard, who was a bachelor. * The Potters had held this farm since before Ken Smallbone, Editor the Anglican authorities, especially after Richard purchased the rights to Loveday’s 1582, and were the original Quakers there, References include: nonconformity had been outlawed in the Farm nearby in 1828, and thus farmed both with their farmhouse becoming the first boroughs through the Five-Mile and Certificates of birth, marriage & death; parish lands together. He died at Silchester in 1849. Friends’ meeting house in the district. The Conventicle Acts. The couple had seven registers; tithe maps & apportionments; Dean Two of his nieces were bequeathed Loveday’s Baughurst Meeting was actually the second children. Mary died in 1695, and was buried at & Chapter Court Books & Court Rolls, 1582- and the house at Silchester, while his next of largest Quaker meeting in Hampshire during Norn Hill. Her husband was a firm friend and 1863; Manydown records (Church of England kin – John, son of his brother John of Putney – the severe oppression of nonconformists known associate of the Potters of Baughurst, whose Records Centre); Quaker records. Most of the inherited Brown’s Farm. as “The Clarendon Code”, 1661-89, and the meetings he constantly attended, while the documents consulted here are in the (5) John senior’s father, Richard BROWN, was Potters were at the head of such “rebellion”, boroughs were out of limits for dissenting Hampshire Record Office. More data can be born at Basingstoke in 1703. He was a Quaker with James Potter as the Clerk and Treasurer worship. He was very active, and attended found in Ken Smallbone, James Potter, Quaker, for life. However, against their principles (and of the Hampshire Quarterly Meeting and the meetings at Andover, Basingstoke and A History of Dissent in the 17th & 18th obviously unknown to the majority of Friends), leading advocate for Friends at the Assizes. Whitchurch, and also suffered imprisonment Centuries (Sessions Book Trust, York, he married Jane LEAVER in the parish church (6) Richard’s father, John BROWN, was born a for his beliefs. After the Toleration Act 1689, 1992: ISBN 1 85072 097 5).

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John Manning (1949-2013) Credit Card Membership

It was with great sadness that we learned year. He also introduced the HGS Family Payments Numbers Reminder of the death of John Manning on 26 History Training Days in Portsmouth two years February 2013. ago. Although he had to cancel the courses GENfair and PayPal John had been a member of the Society for last year, he was yet able to hand over to Tony and Subscriptions several years, and had been involved as one of Trice, who will be running them this year. In order to clarify the situation concerning credit card payments, particularly online, it is our volunteers at the HGS Research Centre for John was well liked by those who came into a considerable length of time. He then took noted here for your information that HGS at Renewal contact with him, and will be sadly missed. over the role of Portsmouth Group Organiser present supports two facilities for such Our condolences go to his wife Betty and their in 2010. He proved to be a popular leader and, payments: GENfair and PayPal. Although Is your Membership Number between family. despite increasing ill health, he continued PayPal is generally the more popular option, it 13,253 and 13,291, inclusive, or between looking after that group until January this Dolina Clarke has been found that some people would still 13,446 and 13,471, inclusive? prefer to use GENfair. If so, then you need to be aware that at some GENfair has been HGS’s long-term agent for time between June 1 and August 31 this year accepting credit card payments from overseas The New chairman members - and from October 2012 this facility your membership will expire - unless you was also extended to UK members. However, renew your subscription before the due date of the anniversary when you joined HGS. It is At the AGM, 26 May 2013, Ken Smallbone Dolina Clarke has now taken over that post to such usage carries with it a 50p up to you to discover when your subscription stood down as Chairman of HGS, after become our current Chairman. Ken remains administrative fee. Please note this surcharge. According to the new HGS website, one can renewal will be imminent by contacting the having served in this capacity for a year, as Editor of the HFH journal for the time still use GENfair for online card payments at in which time he had overseen several being, and Dolina continues to serve as the Membership Secretary (contact details are on that site. Yet, if you have difficulty in accessing changes. Manager of the HGS Research Centre. the inside of both covers). If it expires then the relevant page, then please visit you will no longer receive the benefits that www.genfair.co.uk instead and enter membership provides, which is now much “hampshire genealogical society” for more valuable due to advent of our new subscriptions, etc, or merely “hampshire” for website. AGM and Open Day 2013-14 publications. PayPal is the main facility adopted on our new This year’s AGM was held at Winchester interesting items for family history website, and is relatively easy to use for credit Discovery Centre on Sunday 22 May 2013. enthusiasts, along with research help facilities card payments. No separate account is As this event took place after the date and bookstall. For further details visit the HGS required. You are taken to a secure page when this current journal went to print website (see inside front cover) or email where you can make payments for subscriptions, publications or any other New Trustees then further details of the AGM will be [email protected]. found in the next (September 2013) issue. services or products supplied by HGS. PayPal Next year’s AGM (2014) will be a very special Hampshire Genealogical Society’s Open Day is used universally. It is accepted as one of the From the date of the AGM, Colin Daniels had will take place at Horndean Technology College event, as it will be celebrating HGS’s 40th most popular, secure, and reliable methods of resigned as Trustee, and Gordon Clem and (its venue for many years) on Sunday 29 anniversary. Therefore, it is hoped that it will online payments. Currency exchange is also Keith Turner have joined the Executive September (Michaelmas Day) 2013 from 10 be very well attended, and that members will made easier and much cheaper than through Committee as new Trustees. am to 4 pm. Admission is free. There will be come up with helpful ideas to make it stand one’s own bank. several stands available, containing a range of out. A new venue is being sought.

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Who Do You Think You Are? (Live) Diary Dates out of County Devon FHS, Summer Special Olympia, 22-24 February 2013 Bideford College, Abbotsham Road, Bideford EX39 3AR Saturday 15 June 2013 – 10.00 am to 4.00 We had a very successful event, the successful. We were able to demonstrate our pm takings were £1,875 in cash and cheques. new website. This was well received and £7 / £13 Booking essential: We also had new members join us - about prompted many questions and enquiries, and www.devonfhs.org.uk/summerspecial 7 or 8 using the paper method, about the we were able to help quite a few people with Wiltshire FHS, Southern FH Day same using the new online facility via the their 'brickwalls' via the look-ups. Friday and Wilton Community Centre, Wilton SP2 0DG website. We also made some sales via the Saturday were manic days and we were all Saturday 15 June 2013 – 10.00 am to 3.30 website and PayPal. stretched; Sunday was quieter. pm (free) So, we probably took about £2,000 in all, and Many people said that our stand was the most HGS Research Centre Reading FH Centre Open Day in the following week we had £700-worth of helpful, professional, knowledgeable and 280 The Meadway, Tilehurst, Reading RG30 orders through website and PayPal, as well as friendly of all the stands they visited. There 52 Northern Road, Cosham, 4PE more new members’ sign-ups. In addition to was also a lot of interest from other exhibitors Portsmouth PO6 3DB Saturday 6 July 2013 – 9.30 am to 6.30 pm sales, we must not forget that a large part of as to what we were doing with our website (free) our time was spent talking to attendees and and the items we have on it. Everyone Open Tuesdays & Thursdays Jewish Genealogical Society, First FH helping them with their queries. We know that contributed to this with their willingness to 9.30 a.m. - 12.30 & 1.30 - 4.30 p.m. Fair De Vere Village Urban Resort, Elstree WD6 actual contact like this with our members is of help and talk, etc, so such comments are very Booking in advance is essential - the utmost importance, so thanks to everyone well deserved for everyone who had taken 3SB who helped out at the event, and also for all part. So, thanks once again to you all. Maximum of 4 people per session Sunday 7 July 2013 – [email protected] for details their knowledge and expertise in answering Chris Pavey, HGS Bookstall Manager Please telephone Dolina Clarke, questions. Buckinghamshire FHS Open Day & Fair Manager on 02392.387000 (Tuesday Grange School, Wendover Way, Aylesbury Thanks also to the technical team, who not or Thursday) For more details see the HP21 7NH only got the website up and running in time for Bookstall Dates HGS website www.hgs-online.org.uk Saturday 27 July 2013 – 10.00 am to 4.00 WDYTYA, but also for being there, as well, pm (free) fielding the hundreds of questions that were 15 June Wiltshire FHS Southern FH Day, asked and constant requests for help, while Wilton keeping the website up and running 1 July Portsmouth HGS Meeting, throughout the whole show. That is certainly Cosham something no-one else could have done! 20 July Portsmouth Central Library The 'tech corner' of our stand, with its large TV FAREWELL 29 Sept HGS Open Day, Horndean screen displaying the website, and the With the deepest regret we wish to inform readers of the deaths computer area for 'look-ups' were extremely of the following HGS members:- Mr Peter C. Gawn (Member # 5951), PO Box 1572, Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada Mr John Manning (Member # 11995), 14 Widley Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, YOUR stories and features to: Hampshire, who passed away on 26 February 2013: See Obituary [email protected] Mr Robert J. Thomas (Member # 5382), 50 Falcon Road, Guildford, Surrey

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William Inwood – one problem solved but more questions left!

It is a very fortunate family historian who indication in the registers as to the name of never comes across a ‘brickwall’ in their the father. work. By this time Charlotte’s grandfather had died One such block has long been known in the and her father had acquired the cottages. history of the three illegitimate children of James built some small dwellings at the back Charlotte INWOOD, who emigrated to New of his property, and Charlotte moved into one Zealand, arriving at Nelson in 1842. Who were of them. Then, at the age of about 29, she the fathers of these children? married! Charlotte was the daughter of James Inwood, The groom was John WINDEBANK, who was carpenter, of Alton, Hampshire. The Inwood six years younger than his bride. Many family had come from Surrey to the Binsted versions of the family history appearing on the area in the 1500s, and settled in Neatham by web state that John was the father of the early 1600s. They became yeoman- Charlotte’s three babies - but there is no proof farmers and leased Neatham Manor Farm for found of this. In fact, John was only 15 when several generations. Interestingly, although William was baptised and, although not farm and manor were owned by Roman impossible, it seems very unlikely that he was Catholics, the Inwoods became Quakers in the the father. If he had been - then why did they early days of the movement around Alton, not wed: the legal ages for marriage, with some remaining Friends for about 100 years. consent, were 12 years for girls and 14 for One branch of the Inwoods moved to boys? So here is the ‘brickwall’ - who could Lansdowne House Holybourne, and a few descendants emigrated William’s father have been? - some to America - and one, Daniel, to Whenever one meets such a problem, then upkeep of their illegitimate offspring. Most of ‘I’ve a pain in my head Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1850. Another looking for other sources is always the next the other men given were paying 1s 6d or 2s a Said the suffering Beckford, Daniel Inwood was a wealthy farmer and left best move – yet, many are not on the internet week for their children, but William To her Doctor so dread, money to Alton’s hospital on the and probably never will be. Not all survive for NEWNHAM was paying a lump sum that understanding that it was named after him – a particular place or period, but, in this case, would probably have been invested to give a Oh! What shall I take for’t? hence, Inwood Cottage Hospital. the accounts of the Overseers of the Poor for similar regular amount. For a wealthy family, Said her Doctor so dread the parish prove most interesting. One of the other lines came from Thomas this would have met their obligation without Whose name it was Newnham Inwood (c1746-1821), who moved into Alton The account book has been badly damaged by the need for weekly or monthly contact with For this pain in your head itself and acquired four cottages on the edge damp and can only be viewed on film at the the Overseers. of the town. Here he settled and his sons, Hampshire Archives in Winchester or at any So who was William Newnham? This is where Ah! What can you do Ma’am? Thomas and James, married and produced Family History Centre (it may have to be knowledge of the local history of an area can Said Miss Beckford, suppose large families. James had two wives and, in ordered first). In it is a list of the payments be a great help. I had already come across one If you think there’s no risk, December 1808, his daughter Charlotte was being made to the Overseers including:- of the Newnham family when writing a book I take a good Dose baptised. Her mother had two other daughters ‘William Newnham on account of bastard child about Jane Austen and Alton. In February Of calomel brisk. to look after, as well as four stepchildren! by Charlotte Inwood’. 1811 Jane visited Mr.Newnham, an Alton apothecary and surgeon, with Miss Beckford What a praiseworthy notion, When she was aged about 21, Charlotte The date appears to have been 1830, so this (sister-in-law of Mr.Middleton, who had a 5- Inwood, spinster, gave birth to a boy who was could only have been for baby William Inwood, Replied Mr. Newnham. year lease on Chawton House). Jane turned baptised William. In 1832 a baby girl, and it is apparent from the other entries that You shall have such a potion the conversation into verse (‘Lines to Maria Elizabeth, was baptised, and three years later this was a list of fathers paying towards the a boy named Henry. In each case there is no Beckford’):- And so will I too Ma’am.’

34 35 Member’s article Member’s article We are the chosen

"We are the chosen. In each family there is accomplish. How they contributed to what we one who seems called to find the are today. It goes to respecting their hardships ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and and losses, their never giving in or giving up, make them live again. To tell the family their resoluteness to go on and build a life for story and to feel that somehow they know their family. It goes to deep pride that the and approve. fathers fought, and some died, to make and Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and facts but, instead, breathing life into all who immense understanding that they were doing have gone before. We are the story tellers of it for us. the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been It is of equal pride and love that our mothers called, as it were, by our genes. Those who struggled to give us birth, without them we have gone before cry out to us: "Tell our could not exist, and so we love each one, as story". So, we do. far back as we can reach. That we might be In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. born who we are. That we might remember How many graves have I stood before now and them. So we do. With love and caring and cried? I have lost count. How many times have scribing each fact of their existence, because I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful we are they and they are the sum of who we family; you would be proud of us." How many are. Swarthmore times have I walked up to a grave and felt So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my somehow there was love there for me? I family. It is up to that one called in the next Interestingly, Jane did not use him as her in service here? Did they meet at one of the cannot say. generation to answer the call and take my doctor when she was ill - she used Dr.Curtis! Alton fairs? We shall probably never know. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes place in the long line of family storytellers. This Mr Newnham was called Charles, but he And what happened to William Henry to who am I and why do I do the things I do. It That is why I do my family genealogy, and that had a son William Henry, who was baptised in Newnham? He was still unmarried and at goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost is what calls those young and old to step up Alton on 27 September 1805 - so the latter home at the 1841 census. While Charlotte was forever to weeds and indifference and saying I and restore the memory or greet those who would have been about 24 when baby William in her cottage with her children waiting to set can't let this happen. The bones here are we had never known before." Inwood was born. Was it a coincidence that off and join her husband John in New Zealand, bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It Author: Unknown his son was named after him? William was recorded as a surgeon living with goes to doing something about it. It goes to William Henry’s father and family came to his parents and sister Agnes in Alton High pride in what our ancestors were able to Contributed by Peter Elliott Alton from the nearby town of Odiham, and Street. By the next census, he was married, took out a lease on a large house called had children Georgiana and William Henry, Swarthmore in the High Street. In about 1801 and was living at Southwark, Surrey - south of the family moved across the road to the River Thames. Lansdowne House, a very impressive One is left with more questions than answers. Have your Query published Georgian building. This was where William Did William Inwood ever know who his father Henry Newnham was born. was? Did his father know what happened to in the journal? What is not recorded is how William Henry him? Who were the fathers of Charlotte’s and Charlotte met. They lived at opposite ends other two illegitimate children? Send to [email protected] of the town and social scale - so was Charlotte Jane Hurst (Member # 6392)

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Attwooll Dor Portland pre1840 13557 Lewis Hrt Batchworth C19 13387 Members’ Surname Baker Sfk Hitchin C19 13387 Lewis MdxIsleworth C19 13387 Barnesby HamBishopstoke pre1710 13557 Lillens HamMichelmarsh a Any 13558 Interests Database Best Lnd Clerkenwell c1830 13573 Lillens HamNursling Any 13558 Boswell HamDroxford 1825-185413564 Lillens HamRomsey Any 13558 Progress has been made for placing Boswell HamDroxford pre1825 13564 Maynard HamFareham 1810+ 13557 members’ interests on the HGS website. Broadley Yks Halifax 1740+ 13573 Maynard HamGosport 1890+ 13557 See p40 for further details of the new service being provided. Bulbeck Ssx East Dean 1700+ 13557 Maynard Ssx New Shoreham 1850+ 13557 Members’ interests and updates to the Canning Ess Saffron Walden pre1841 13573 Miles HamCrondall pre1792 13564 catalogue are published quarterly in the Carter HamSouthwick 1750+ 13557 Paice HamDroxford 1840-186013564 Society's journal. There is a restriction of a Maintained by Pam Thacker Email: Cawte HamBishopstoke pre1799 13564 Paice HamPortsmouth 1824-184013564 maximum of 15 entries per person whenever [email protected] Cheater HamAny 1800+ 13177 Paice HamPortsmouth pre1824 13564 submitting interests (new or updates), so Telephone: 023 9238 7000 (HGS Office) required to keep entries published quarterly in Clascey HamEversley pre1809 13564 Paice HamUpham 1871 13564 the journal to a manageable size. Such Colborne HamRingwood 1800+ 13177 Perfect Lnd any C19 13387 constraint does not apply to the database, N. B. Changes to Email will no longer be noted Crocker HamNately Scures pre1802 13564 Pigott MdxIslington pre1851 13573 however, so it is possible to add further in the journal as many are already obsolete interests quarterly - within reason! It is also when published. Please contact the HGS Office Crutch Oxf Watlington C19 13387 Prior Sry Southwark pre1840 13573 possible to remove redundant entries, and this for a member's current details if you encounter Daniel Ssx New Shoreham 1700-180013557 Rednap MdxTwickenham C19 13387 is encouraged - deletions are not notified in problems. De La Roche Dev Barnstaple Any 13558 Rendell HamAlton Any 13558 the journal; they simply won't appear in the But please inform the Membership De La Roche HamAlton Any 13558 Rendell HamHolybourne Any 13558 database. Updates should be BLOCK printed secretary (membership@hgs- and submitted in the format used in the online.org.uk) of your current address. De La Roche HamSouthampton Any 13558 Rendell HamNursling Any 13558 following section. The county Chapman Codes The section on the following pages is arranged De La Roche HamWinchester Any 13558 Rendell HamSouthampton Any 13558 are published at least once in any yearly HFH alphabetically by surname, then area and Dimes HamCrondall 1784+ 13564 Rendell HamWinchester Any 13558 volume and should be used when submitting place name. Once you have located an entry in Dimes HamHartley Witney 1850+ 13564 Stockwell HamPorchester 1750+ 13557 interests, e.g. HAM for Hampshire etc. which you are interested, note the number on the right hand side of the column and turn to Please note that addresses published in this England HamAny 1868+ 13177 Street HamGosport 1865+ 13557 the end of the section. section refer only to members who have England Ken Sheerness 1800+ 13177 Strugnell HamFareham a pre1740 13557 Look up the number, which will give the name submitted their interests. Data held on the and address of the person who submitted the England Mal Any 1872+ 13177 Timbury HamPortsmouth 1865-192013557 database can be amended, added to, deleted information. George Ken Dover C19 13387 Toogood Dor Bourton C19 13387 etc. at any time by contacting Pam Thacker (see above). All queries concerning this Glanville Irl Dublin C19 13387 Toogood Wil Stourton C19 13387 Notes: section should also be sent to her. Please note Harbor MdxTwickenham C19 13387 Way Dor Portland pre1840 13557 date+ = post that date; that this HFH article has to be with the editor Hayles Sfk Bury St Edmundspre1860 13573 West MdxIslington a pre1920 13573 by the deadline noted on the first page, so predate = before that date; Healey Sry Any c1816 13573 Westerman HamAny 1870+ 13177 please don't leave it until the last minute to cdate = circa (about) that date; submit a change. The Society reserves the Cxx = xx th. Century; Higgins Irl Any c1821 13573 Wilkins HamWickham 1790-184013557 right to restrict the number of entries parish a = area around parish Hill Irl Dublin C19 13387 Wilkinson MdxLimehouse c1830 13573 submitted to (or retained on) the database by Hill Lnd Ealing C19 13387 Yetman Dev Plymouth C19 13387 any member if these are considered excessive Remember that your addresses are your Horn HamFareham a 1810-184013557 Yetman Dor Bourton C19 13387 and would have an impact on any publication. contact point, so keep them up to date.

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The famous, not-so-famous & downright John Arlott (1914-1991) – our Celebrated Cricket Commentator infamous - Hampshire Celebrities of Yesteryear

Leslie Thomas John Arlott was level, but would spend most of his was a short step to broadcasting on not only a journalist, free summer time following the various radio programmes until, in author and cricket Hampshire County Cricket the summer of 1945, he was commentator for the Club team both at home and selected for the post of literary BBC, but also a poet away. As a result of his programme producer in BBC’s and wine connoisseur. regular support, this led overseas service. One of his last With his poetic to his one and only brief engagements for the police was to phraseology, he was playing exposure to the represent the force in the broadcast an iconic first class game, when Tribute to the King on VE Day. commentator noted he was co-opted as a From September 1945 to January for his “wonderful substitute to play 1951 Arlott’s production career gift for evoking against Worcestershire was based on the series Book of cricketing in 1938. The game Verse, ranging widely from 17th- moments”. fizzled out into a tame century ditties, through Rosetti, Arlott was born on draw, with Arlott being translations from Chinese, and Wednesday 25 February recorded as “Harlott” in Shakespeare, to modern runes. It Cemetery Lodge, Birthplace of John Arlott O.B.E. 1914 at Cemetery the Western Daily News. enabled him to engage with people Lodge, Chapel Hill, On 18 May 1940 he like Dylan Thomas and Cecil Day- voice of cricket broadcasting, and the longest- Basingstoke, the only son married Dawn Rees, a Lewis. In 1951 he moved to another serving commentator on Test Match Special, of William John and Nellie hospital nurse, and they had department within the corporation as an 1957-1980. Arlott. His father was the two sons: James Andrew instructor in the staff training unit, a position He brought his distinctive Hampshire burr to cemetery registrar. Young John (1944) and Timothy Mark (1950). he held for two years. Meanwhile, in 1952 - the microphone, and it became his passport to was educated at Fairfields Primary In 1940 Arlott also discovered his with great difficulty - he wrote his last poem, immediate recognition. Allied to acute powers School and Queen Mary’s Grammar School love for poetic verse, and, encouraged by The Master, in honour of Jack Hobbs, his of observation, finely honed during his time in in the town, and expressed an early interest in John Betjeman and Andrew Young, began to cricketing idol. Arlott’s output had amounted the police, and a gift for striking metaphorical local cricket matches. In 1926 he write his own poetry, finding an outlet in to between 40 and 50 poems. phraseology, was also an innate sense of watched England and Australia play at The several literary magazines. A collection of his In 1946, however, he had been asked to timing: his silences complemented his speech. Oval. work first appeared in book form in 1944, Of commentate on the warm-up games of the Moreover, he had the art of encapsulating the Having left school of his own volition after a Period and Place. During the war years he was India cricket team’s tour of England, which spirit of a cricket match, for here was a dispute with his headmaster, Arlott worked for corresponding constantly with significant commentary “went down very well in India”. natural broadcaster who was never more ‘at a while at the local town-planning office writers, poets and artists, such as T.S. Eliot, Thus, he was invited to commentate on home’ with his audience than when having to before spending three and a half years as a Osbert Lancaster and Vita Sackville-West, further matches, including the Test, thereby fill in time while rain stopped play. He also diet clerk, calculating food allocations, at Park which stimulated an enthusiasm for collecting initiating a 34-year career for the BBC. undertook some BBC television cricket Prewett Mental Hospital. In August 1934 he and the building of an enviable library. Initially, he encountered some resentment commentaries in the 1970s. His aphorisms joined Southampton County Borough Police Pursuing other interests, Arlott also gave from colleagues in the commentary box, but were legion and his character judgements Force (which became part of Hampshire lectures in Russian history up to the Bolshevik he soon rapidly established his own particular pithy. His wit was outstanding. On England’s Constabulary in 1939), and, during the next Revolution to service officers and Workers’ niche. From 1946 until he retired in 1980, 1948–49 tour to South Africa, the England eleven years, progressed from being on the Educational Association classes. Yet, it was John Arlott covered every single home Test captain George Mann was bowled by his beat to screening aliens with Special Branch Betjeman who recommended the young match, and went on three overseas England namesake Tufty Mann - Arlott memorably during the Second World War. detective’s poetry to Geoffrey Grigson, a BBC tours (South Africa, 1948-49; Australia, 1954- described it as “a case of Mann's west of England producer, and from there it While a policeman, he played cricket at club 55 and 1977), becoming the quintessential inhumanity to Mann”.

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Arlott commentated, as well, on football, His final Test commentary was on the several calls for him to return to commentary, although not with such great success, and also Centenary Test between England and Australia although, wisely, he refrained from doing so. broadcast frequently in fields other than sport. at Lord’s in 1980. “The decision was freely John Arlott died in his sleep at his home, The As a journalist, he had a column in the taken; and although it was not easy to go, was Vines, Longis Road, Alderney, in the early Evening News and, at different times during a better choice than, one day, being told to morning on Saturday 14 December 1991, aged the 1950s and 1960s, wrote for the Daily Mail, go”. The game stopped while players and 77. Essentially, he was what could be termed News Chronicle, The Observer, The Times and public gave him an ovation, an overt The Guardian. Most of his output in books demonstration of the affection in which he ‘a people person’ and the most human of concentrated on cricket—the game's history, was held. At the end of the match he came human beings. The inscription on his studies of play and players, and accounts of onto the Lord’s balcony to present the Man of gravestone in St Ann’s churchyard, Alderney, tours. He had many books published over the the Match award. The crowd again burst into a is a quotation from his poem to Andrew years, and was considered to be a stylish spontaneous ovation that lasted for several Young: “So clear you see these timeless things, writer. Arguably, his most compelling work minutes before he was finally able to speak That, like a bird, the vision sings”. was a biography of Freddie Trueman (1971). and make the presentation. Ken Smallbone, Editor Arlott espoused strong liberal and Having sold the bulk of his cricket collection, References: humanitarian political views, and stood as the Arlott moved from New Alresford to Alderney Liberal Party candidate for Epping in the 1955 in the Channel Islands with his wife, Beryl [David Rayvern Allen, Arlott, (Leslie Thomas) and 1959 general elections, coming third in Patricia Hoare, whom he had married on 6 John (Oxford Dictionary of National both years. He appeared frequently on the April 1977. His health was fragile, now Biography) (OUP, Oxford, 2004); Leslie Thomas radio programme Any Questions. suffering from chronic bronchitis, as he was a John Arlott, OBE (en.wikipedia.org/ His first marriage ended in divorce in 1958. heavy smoker. In Alderney he continued to wiki/John_Arlott); The Cambridge John Arlott married again in 1959 to Valerie write, notably his autobiography Basingstoke Biographical Encyclopedia, ed. David Crystal France (who died in 1976), and the couple had Boy (1990). Since retiring there were even (2nd Edition, CUP, Cambridge, 1998), p 42] a son named Robert (1963). Tragically, his eldest son Jim was killed in a car accident on however, was to be elected as the inaugural New Year’s Eve 1965, driving home late at President of the Cricketers’ Association in night from Southampton in a sports car that 1967, a position he held until his death. Yet, Credit card payments his father had helped him acquire. This the deed that gave him the most fulfilment tragedy led to Arlott always wearing a black was to be instrumental with John Kay in HGS now accepts credit card payments for all transactions tie in remembrance of his dead son and in finding an opening in England for Basil penance for his own role in the tragedy. D’Oliveira, a designated ‘Cape coloured’ under (PayPal, GENfair). John Arlott was appointed OBE in 1970 and South Africa’s race laws. In 1970 Arlott was You can renew your membership and purchase CDs or other received honorary doctorates of the University vocal in his support of that player in what publications online with your credit card. of Southampton and the Open University in came to be known as ‘the D’Oliveira affair’, 1973 and 1981, respectively. He was also and refused to commentate on the Visit our website at “Sports Journalist of the Year” at the British forthcoming South African tour, which was www.hgs-online.org.uk / www.hgs-familyhistory.com press awards in 1979 and “Sports Presenter later cancelled. This probably reminded him of Please note that there will be an administration charge of 50p per of the Year” chosen by the Television and when he was asked to mark his race (“white, Radio Industries’ Club in 1981. Furthermore, Indian, coloured, black”) on an immigration item when using this facility via GENfair. he was made a life member of the Marylebone form to enter South Africa back in 1948. Arlott Cricket Club in 1980. His greatest honour, wrote “human”.

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Sussex Street, Winchester, New opening hours are:- The National Archives Hampshire SO23 8TH Monday to Wednesday, 9am-5pm Bourne Ave, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 Telephone: (01962) 846154 Thursday, 9am-7pm 4DU. Fax: (01962) 878681 Tel: +44 (0) 20 8876 3444. Email: [email protected] Friday, 9am-5pm http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk www.hants.gov.uk/archives Saturday, 9am-4pm Opening Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 9am to 7pm Wednesday/Friday/Saturday 9am to 5pm Records offices surrounding Hampshire Free parking

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Forthcoming events group – an archive film presentation Exhibitions Family History for Beginners The Foyer, Hampshire Record Office £10 per person each session. Booking essential (01962 846154) Maddhat Shamuha: the Nepalese people of Hampshire, 6 June – 27 July Practical advice and help in starting your family history research. Tuesday 11 June, The Showpeople of Hampshire, 8 October – 6-8 pm 12 December Local and family history The Foyer and Top Floor Gallery, Hampshire workshops Record Office £10 per person each session. Booking essential Wellow then & now, 3 August – 3 October. (01962 846154) Victorian times to the present day (presented by Wellow History Society), together with a Tuesday 4 June (2-4 pm). House History for display of artwork from pupils of Wellow beginners Primary School, inspired by the 1840s Wellow Tuesday 18 June (10 am-12 noon). Title deeds Album as a source for local and family history: how Mainly in Top Floor Gallery, Hampshire Record to read and understand them Office Tuesday 9 July (2-4 pm). Paupers and 200 Years of Pride & Prejudice, 6 June – 27 workhouses: explore records that reveal the July. Presented by Jane Austen’s House hardships faced by past generations, and find Museum out the background to documents, such as settlement certificates and removal orders Lunchtime lectures (Note: the cost of this session is £12) (Free, but donations in the region of £2 welcomed; no need to book) An evening with the Barings The green lane to Farmer Maury's - George Russell's cottage - from the 1840s Wellow album. HRO 124A11/1 Last Thursday of each month, 1.15-1.45pm. Did you miss our over-subscribed event marking the 250th anniversary of Barings www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/whatson-hro or the child of the ‘eldest son of a peer’, while 27 June. Jane Austen’s Hampshire, the county Bank and celebrating Hampshire’s links with ring 01962 846154 the third entry, for Eliza Light, has the more background of the author of Pride and the Baring family, at Stratton Park, typical father’s occupation of ‘labourer’. Prejudice – by Louise West, Jane Austen’s Recent additions to the Northington Grange and Norman Court? We holdings Basket-making at Houghton House Museum are repeating it on Monday 23 September, 25 July. Improving Herriard House: George 5.00 for 5.30 pm. Once again, this will include At the font One of the earliest Women’s Institutes in Hampshire, Houghton, has recently deposited and Eliza Jervoise’s public image, 1794-1821 talks by Lara Webb on The Barings at Work A welcome early register of baptisms from records including minute books from 1918 – by Nicola Pink and by Stuart Bridges on The Barings at home Upham, 1862-2008, has recently been onwards (74A12). The first year’s activities 29 August. The early Victorian Wellow Album and abroad, plus a special display of original received (74M78/PR14). The second page of Baring family archives, and light included talks or demonstrations about ‘What and its artist: finding clues in the drawings – the register catches the eye, for the three to do in the Garden in March’, bread-making by Professor Michael Sleigh refreshments. Booking essential; please ring baptisms that all took place on 19th July for details. and boot-mending, and competitions for ‘the 26 September. Woodfidley: 40 years of a folk 1863: both Geraldine Mary O’Brien and best dish made from potatoes’ and ‘the For more information about events, visit Leonard Holmes a Court were listed as being

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welfare grants and day rooms - a natural Suatt could learn midwifery, and also about progression from its traditional provision of policy, such as a decision in 1824 that 12 boys almshouses, apprenticeships, etc. We have would be provided with a jacket and also received a copy of Four Centuries of the waistcoat, and taught to read, in lieu of Earl of Southampton Trust, written by a distributing coals. former Clerk to the Trustees, David G Smith; There is also material relating to various this includes a schedule of the records, which Titchfield properties associated with the has formed the basis of our online catalogue charities, perhaps most interestingly a 1960s entries. The book was published in 1997, the file about Titchfield Market Hall and Cage, also 100th anniversary of the amalgamation of the referred to as Titchfield Prison and Titchfield charity founded by the 3rd Earl of Old Gaol or Jail, and its transfer to the Weald Southampton in 1620 with two other local and Downland Museum in West Sussex where charities, and also the 400th anniversary of it is now a prominent exhibit. the establishment of Robert Godfrey’s Charity, Local Studies Collection: the oldest of the constituent charities. some new books and pamphlets The archive contains original documents from Some particularly interesting local the mid-18th century onwards, with copies of publications about natural history have been earlier items. Of particular interest are the transferred from the library service, to which minutes and accounts of the Charity of the they had been bequeathed by the Revd J E Earl of Southampton from 1752 onwards and Kelsall, co-author of ‘Birds of Hampshire and of Robert Godfrey’s Charity from 1830 the Isle of Wight’ (1905). Among them are onwards. The accounts include the names of bound volumes of The Sussex and Hants A Winchester School of Art sketching class on a visit to The Malms, Shawford, in June 1899: HRO 4M94/C17 those who received grants from the former Naturalist for 1893-94, including articles charity, often indicating the cause (such as ‘in best and most economical cake’. Basket- containing photographs, cuttings and notes of about birds of the Test Valley, insects of north- great distress’, ‘wife and children now in the east Hampshire, and a natural history ramble making afternoons held in the coach house at events hosted by Mr Bowker, ranging from smallpox’, ‘to enable him/her to carry on the at Weyhill, with articles about birds and Houghton Lodge were successful despite ‘the large receptions and parties to small ‘At trade of a…’, ‘to buy fishing nets’), and also mammals of Hampshire by Kelsall himself difficulty of taming osiers’, and a jam-making Homes’. Among the photographs are views of refer to expenditure on the charity’s property. (590.5), and A Supplement to Frederick group produced over 600 lbs. A social meeting a garden party which he hosted for Winchester In 1752-55 they give details of expenditure on Townsend’s Flora of Hampshire and the Isle of was hosted by the President, Mrs Mansel- schoolchildren on 25th May 1897 for Queen arrangements for the establishment of the Wight (the original of which appears in the Jones of Bossington House; an entertainment Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, one of the trade of spinning and weaving worsted at Victoria County History) by J F Rayner, 1929 in the schools raised funds for poorer Winchester School of Art sketching class on a Titchfield, first by William Milligan of Alton, (581.94227), with numerous manuscript institutes; and needlecraft items were sent to visit in June 1899, and the 1898 Winchester and then by John Greenvill or Grenville of annotations, presumably by Kelsall). a fete in Winchester. Corporation staff outing of 1898. Alton; from June 1764 Mary Hart was to Other older books transferred from the library At home in Shawford Spinning and fishing at Titchfield receive three shillings a week for teaching service include Memoranda of the Parishes of poor children to spin and knit worsted and Some additional papers of the Bowker Family We have received the archive of the Earl of Hursley and North Baddesley by John Marsh, yarn. The memoranda and minutes include (4M94) include visitors’ books for The Malms, Southampton Trust (152A12), a Titchfield 1808 (942.2732) and The English Village: decisions about specific cases, such as a Sketches of Local History by T Press, Shawford, the home of Alfred Bowker, charity that continues to provide housing, payment of 10 guineas in 1757 so that a Mrs

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1938-39 (942.27) which gives short histories moving with them when they bought Penton landholding, and the history of rural and urban repackaging programme involving volunteers – of various properties on the Hampshire-Surrey Lodge, to be dairyman there. The Sutton buildings. a vitally important task so these unique borders, such as Chiltlee and Greatham family is also mentioned, as Lionel Tatton The grant means that the catalogue – the records are kept safe for future generations. Manors, with contemporary comments on the Sutton, a lance corporal in the Grenadier researcher’s key to using the collection – can Adrienne Allen, one of the long-serving houses and their owners, including Dr Herbert Guards, survived the crash of a plane that he be upgraded. More descriptive and contextual archivists at HRO (and my predecessor in Godwin of Greatham Moor, a former army had built at Penton, and being gassed in detail will be added to help users of the online contributing these updates) has been surgeon, and the racehorse owner Edward France, only to die in an accident in 1920. Mrs catalogue worldwide. Fascinating series, such seconded to undertake the cataloguing project. Mason of Pophole Farm, Liss. Whitby’s Locket: The story of Captain John as the court papers, giving vivid accounts of We will keep you informed of Adrienne’s Books about railways feature prominently Whitby – England’s youngest ever naval misdemeanours such as dumping waste in the progress once work is under way. among recent local titles, including Treacle captain – and his redoubtable wife by Barry streets and allowing animals to roam, and David Rymill Mines, Tragedies and Triumph: The Building of Jolly (Milford-on-Sea Historical Record including many lists of tenants’ names, will Contact details: Hampshire Record Office, Society, 2011) tells the intriguing story of how the Bournemouth Direct Line by Jude James also be described more fully. Sussex Street, Winchester, Hants SO23 8TH the Newlands estate at Milford passed from (Natula Publications, 2012), the substantial The archive has had many homes over the Telephone: (01962) 846154; Fax: (01962) Admiral Sir William Cornwallis to the and well-illustrated The Longmoor Military centuries, and some records are covered in 878681 descendants of Captain Whitby and of his wife Railway: A New History: Vol 1: 1903-1939 by soot and grime from previous poor storage, so Email: [email protected] Theresa Symonds. Col David Ronald and Mike Christensen, and the project will also include a cleaning and www.hants.gov.uk/archives Marie Panter’s Hampshire’s Lost Railways ‘A Serche in Oure Evidences’: cataloguing (Stenlake Publishing, 2005), which includes the Winchester bishopric archives photographs of long-closed stations ranging It will soon be much easier to trace ancestors Just a word… or three from Fullerton Junction to Hayling Island. who are named in one of the largest and most One of Hampshire’s more famous residents of significant collections in our care, thanks to Farmer, Husbandman, Yeoman the 16th century is featured in Tudor Survivor: grant funding that we have secured to Farmer, A renter who cultivates fields; An agriculturist; A husbandman. It came from The Life and Times of William Paulet by catalogue the estate archive of the Bishopric Anglo-Saxon feormian, ‘to supply with food’ (farma, fearm, feorm = ‘food, meal, supper’), and the meaning of ‘farm’ arose from the original practice of letting lands on condition that Margaret Scard (The History Press, 2011), of Winchester, opening up these under-used the tenant should supply his lord’s household with so many nights’ entertainment. It was which combines biography, historical context records to researchers of all kinds. The project constantly mentioned as such in Domesday Book (as Late Latin firma), later developing into and imaginative reconstruction. Some less will be funded through the National a lease on rent reserved. Also, the term was applied to one appointed to collect taxes, well-known names are introduced in Penton’s Cataloguing Grants programme, and customs, excise, or other duties for a certain rate per cent. Heroes: The Story of a Hampshire Village in Hampshire Archives Trust is also making a Husbandman, A tenant farmer; A cultivator or tiller of the ground; One engaged in the Great War, written and published by Rod donation towards the project. The estate at its agriculture (from Anglo-Saxon hûsbonda, ‘master of the house, householder’). A Eggington (2010), which covers Penton height comprised 60 manors across seven husbandman would have farmed the lord of the manor’s demesne lands. Mewsey and Penton Grafton. As well as giving southern counties. The archive comprises 515 Yeoman, A free tenant; A man of small estate in land, not ranking as one of the gentry, but information about their time in uniform, this boxes and 16 metres of volumes, from the whose status was above that of most other copyhold tenants; An owner-occupier; A shows how they had fitted into the local 13th to the 20th century, as well as the gentleman-farmer; A person living in the country between the rank of gentleman and hind community. Many were connected with the celebrated Pipe Rolls recently recognised by or labourer (from Old English yeman, yoman, a word of unknown meaning, possibly ‘a Penton Lodge Estate: Charles Soule, for UNESCO. It has long been seen as a rich villager’ or ‘protector’). A yeoman might have also rented lands belonging to others, thus instance, who was killed at Ypres in 1917, was resource for economic and social history: the becoming a yeoman-farmer. He normally served on juries. the son of John Soule, who had came from records contain a wealth of names, and have [Based on John Olgilvie, LL.D, The Imperial Dictionary, 1850-83 (New Edition, Blackie & Coates in Gloucestershire and had probably informed studies of medieval agriculture, Son, London, 1883, edited by Charles Annandale, MA)] worked for the Sutton family there before demography, labour, wages, peasant

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Southampton Quaker Burial Ground HGS Groups 2013

On Saturday 29 September 2012 my wife and I visited the Quaker Burial Ground, situated on the western side of the Inner 7 Avenue in Southampton. This was an Open 3 Day organised by the Southampton Friends to mark the 350th anniversary of 2 its purchase. As expected, we received a very warm 1 welcome from the friendly group who had arranged the day, and were informed of the interesting history connected with the Ground. To give you some background: in 1662 when and some plots had to be used more than 4 George Fox, the founder of the Quaker once. The population of Southampton was movement, visited Southampton, 22 local 13 growing, and cholera epidemics were taking 5 Quakers were languishing in prison for holding their toll. In 1841 the Quakers bought an illegal assemblies and for refusing to take the 15 additional plot of land to the west, thereby Oath of Abjuration. Failing to doff their hats to doubling the size of the Burial Ground. 14 those in authority (another offence) was punishable by a hefty fine. The Quakers Burials have continued up to the present day, 6 11 (Society of Friends) were dissenters from the and some of the inscriptions on the footstones 12 Established Church religion, and consequently maintain the old Quaker custom of referring to 8 declined an Anglican burial. Thus, Captain the months and days of the week by numbers 9 to avoid reference to pagan gods and George EMBREE bought “a plot of pasture 10 land alongside the road from Southton to emperors. Nowadays, many Friends choose to Winton” to be a burying place for Friends. be cremated and have their ashes interred or scattered here. Embree died in 1678 and was buried here, but his grave and those of about sixty other 17th- This Burial Ground is so peaceful and quiet, and 18th-century Quakers were not marked and the Quakers are anxious to preserve it with stones. In the 19th century headstones that way. It is now part of a conservation area (or rather footstones) began to be permitted. and is frequented by birds and other animals The earliest one visible marks the grave of that take advantage of the many trees and Anna THOMPSON, who died in 1817. All the shrubs. There are no urns or vases of flowers 1. Alton 9. New Forest (Brockenhurst) stones are similar in size and shape, and are on the graves, but some have primroses or 2. Andover (Weyhill) 10. New Milton & Christchurch simply inscribed with name, age and date of snowdrops growing in the grass. Native plants 3. Basingstoke (Highcliffe) death. This exemplifies the principles of are grown wherever possible, thus enhancing 4. Computer Group (Twyford) 11. Portsmouth (Cosham) equality and simplicity that are part of Quaker the environment and encouraging biodiversity. 5. Fair Oak 12. Ringwood beliefs. We left the Ground in a very peaceful state of mind - an enjoyable experience. 6. Fareham 13. Romsey During the early part of the 19th century the 7. Fleet & Farnborough (Fleet) 14. Southampton (Bitterne) Ben Cowdrey (Member # 11708) Burial Ground was becoming overcrowded 8. Gosport 15. Waltham Chase

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Contact: Contact: Alton Jane Hurst – 82, The Butts, Andover Jim Duncan , Alton, Hants GU34 1RD 14 Witan Close Andover Meetings are held monthly on the second Monday at Tel 01420 86701 Meetings are held on the second Thursday, Hampshire, SP10 5NL. 7.30 p.m. in All Saints Church Hall, Queens Road, Email: [email protected] September to July, commencing 7.30p.m. at The Tel 01264 356238, Email: Alton. If anyone attending our evenings wishes to take Fairground Hall, Weyhill, Andover SP11 0QN [email protected] advantage of the fully operational hearing loop installed in the hall would they let Jane Hurst Jim Duncan reports:- know beforehand so that it can be switched on. (January) Open Forum / Members’ research & displays. “What do we know about each other?” “What areas are you researching?” “Where did your ancestors live?” Marilyn Rix reports:- A family myth was dispelled: ‘they came from Cambridge and the Fenlands – no, they came (January) Members’ Evening: Come & share your problems & successes. Various from Thatcham’. One member assisted in finding a missing cousin for another member’s websites and institutions were offered to assist research. We also reviewed some local Scottish husband. What happened to Leonard Webber, RN, HMS Repulse, holder of both the newspapers. Of great interest was a demonstration of a battery mobile scanner (Flip Pal): Atlantic and Pacific Stars, after Singapore fell? These and many other matters were equipment consists of scanner, SD card, memory stick and software. The scanner is small discussed. and lightweight, about A5 in size. It is very good for scanning ordinary sized photographs, and (February) Gordon Young – Maps an aid to family historians. Gordon was part of the very useful for even larger photos and documents by making overlapping scans. When team at Ordnance Survey (OS). He took us back in time to see how maps had developed uploading to the computer via the memory stick the software stitches the overlapped scans from their military use. After the Battle of Culloden (1746), the Duke of Cumberland made note together to form one complete image. A nice piece of kit to take to a relative’s home to copy in his report: “The army had found themselves greatly embarrassed for want of a proper precious family photos that they will not let out of their sight - just make sure you have spare survey of the country”. William Roy, an excellent surveyor and map maker, was given the task batteries. of mapping Scotland, and later, during the Seven Years’ War (1757-63), the success of British victories was due in part to his maps. He had even proposed a national survey at one inch to (March) Les Mitchinson - Tracing nonconformist ancestors. The February meeting was a mile. cancelled due to inclement weather. Les introduced himself as a Northern lad, former long- The first one-inch map covered part of Sussex, and the first county to be completed was Kent serving in the Royal Navy, who had retrained to become a qualified genealogist, teacher and in 1801. In 1841 a survey of parish boundaries in the UK was carried out, and finally published lecturer. The talk covered the historical timeline, various Acts of Parliament and detailed as OS maps. Maps of 25 inches to a mile came in 1858. The First World War saw the need to groups of all aspects of religious nonconformity. Some records can be found at The National produce more mapping for the military. The Davidson Committee reviewed mapping Archives in the RG1-9 range of documents, and there are also transcripts of the 1851 religious procedures with the aim to complete a new national survey by 1980, with the result of the census locally in Petersfield Library and The Curtis Museum, Alton. This was a very detailed country being divided into kilometre squares. This is the current system. talk with handouts at the end. (March) Open Forum / Discussion on asylums. Prior to 1828 only eight public asylums April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- were available to cater for the growing numbers of people categorised as “insane”, and six others followed the introduction of the Act. In the early days, because of a lack of understanding, various types of mechanical restraints were widely used to control the patients. They were treated like animals, and became a source of entertainment: charging 10 June Members’ Evening: Looking at 17th century documents together visitors to look at inmates at play was common at Bethlehem (Bedlam) in London. It was not until the mid-19th century that it came under government inspection and saw vast changes to 8 July Members’ Evening: Problems & successes the way it cared for its patients. Criminal patients were removed to Broadmoor in 1864. The 10 September TBA – See website for details presentation was concluded by looking at rapid advancements in diagnoses and treatment. April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:-

13 June Adoption & fostering 1850-1930 Louise Taylor 11 July Open Forum / Discussion on rural ancestors 12 September London labyrinth (London records) Kathy Chater

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Contact: April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- Basingstoke Lin Penny, 39 Barn Lane, Oakley RG23 7HT Meetings commence at 7. 30 p.m. and are held on the Telephone: 01256 780947 26 June Members’ Evening: Our ancestors in the workhouse fourth Wednesday every month (except August and e-mail: 24 July Inebriate women in Victorian Britain Jane Fox December) at St Michael’s Church Cottage Hall, [email protected] -- Au Church Street. gust An outside event (to be decided) 25 September Members’ Evening: Having another bash at our brick walls Peter McNulty reports:- (January) Members’ Evening: Death certificates, inquests, post mortems & burial records. Members giving 10-minute talks on their own researches make a very popular Contact evening. It’s an opportunity for them to show their own findings, on nominated subjects, while Computer Group Colin Daniels often bringing a different slant on family history. Jane Hussey illustrated a case of sudden Email: Meetings are held in the Gilbert Room of the Twyford [email protected] death with a photograph of the deceased and the related memoriam card. Memorial cards Parish Hall (car park and entrance off Hazeley Road) can contain vital statistics: dates of birth and death and/or age. Jane followed with a on Mondays of alternate months (not Bank Holidays). newspaper item reporting the death, funeral and the grave – all excellent sources to discover Doors are open for 7.30 p.m. start. Meetings are open to all members, with or without or confirm data. computers. New members & visitors are welcome. Judy Melluish talked about common causes of death. She pointed out that the lady present at Rod Clayburn reports:- the start of life - the midwife - was also of service at the end, often being responsible for the laying-out of the corpse. She also listed unusual causes of death in North Waltham, including (January) Colin Daniels - London online resources. It is said that every family history will have, at some time, a person living in London. Colin has compiled a listing of many sources the deceased shot himself; burned to death; chalk fell on him; dead drunk. that cover records on London available for family historians to view or download. Of course, Peter McNulty told a cautionary tale beginning with the story of a young cousin losing his life the old favourites (Ancestry, Find My Past, The Genealogist, Origins) head the table. But then after a road accident in 1938. Newspaper reports, death certificate, the headstone of the we arrived at a few more that are not so well known: Historic Hospital Admission Records grave and a photo of the modern family were used as examples to show the investigation of Project (HHARP), The British Postal Museum and Archive, Charles Booth Online Archive, the story. Columbia University Archives. Using one of his low frequency names, Colin explained how he Malcolm Bottrill illustrated his talk with examples of unusual deaths in the family, including a could trace the location of a person through the ages. He has a list of URLs used in this talk and, if you ask him nicely, he may send you a copy of his PowerPoint display as well. suspicious suicide in a Middlesex river. Another suicide was documented by Lucy Hamilton with certificates, newspaper report and photographs of the family home and gravesite. An The March meeting was cancelled because of ill health. There are no further Computer unusual list showed the low survival rate of children in her family between 1841 and 1864: Group meetings until November. over 55% died aged under 12 weeks. Contact: (February) Ken Smallbone – Original documents. Ken gave an overview of original Fair Oak documents available to the family historian, with the recommendation to visit the archives so Keith Turner, 13 Archers Rd, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 9AQ. as to derive the benefit from them. They included a variety of interesting and unusual Meetings are held at 8pm on the second Tuesday documents, and he gave information about, and sources for, each one. This was a monthly at St Thomas’ Church Hall (attached to the Tel 02380 327314 comprehensive look at some documents that would hopefully help even experienced family church) Mortimers Lane. Doors open approx 7.30pm email: [email protected] historians in their various types of research. Sandra Naish reports:- (March) John B Hurley – The oldest profession (The history & records of prostitution). John explained that prostitution was one of the oldest professions, quoting the Old Testament January) Mike Hobbs – Crimea to Korea: A family at war. Mike’s great-great-grandfather, as proof. 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1860 at Taku Forts and Peking, China. His son served in World War I, and then Mike’s father (Reginald Albert Hobbs) was a World War II RNVR petty officer, who took part in the Contact: Fareham Keith Hayward, 25 Middleton evacuation of Tobruk, being called up for the Korean War whilst in the Royal Naval Emergency Close, Fareham, Hants Reserve, 1949-55. Mike has also extensively researched Jersey WW2 civilians taken to Meetings are normally held from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 PO14 1QN Germany who died as prisoners-of-war, and British ships hit by German U-boats. p.m. on the second Thursday of each month at the Tel 01329 284471 (February) Members’ Evening: A favourite ancestor. Sandra talked about her Wiltshire Wallington Village Hall, Broadcut, Fareham. Email: [email protected] farm labourer ancestor, Thomas STINGEMAN of Tisbury, who, with exceptional bravery, took part in the Battle of Pythouse during the November 1830 Swing Riots, having incurred severe Carol Russell reports:- head wounds fighting desperately against five Yeomanry Cavalrymen. He avoided (January) Members’ Evening: A problem shared. Problems included one from a member transportation (see Jill Chambers’ Wiltshire Machine Breakers books). Maureen brought a trying to help an elderly friend find her birth mother, while three other members had come to 1909 photo of her Lancaster-born grandmother, Sarah ROPER, which had always hung over an impasse trying to decide which of the same named people, in the same location, was her bed as a child. The lady had been a mill-worker who produced eight children. Mike Hobbs actually the one related to them. Another was trying to trace an ancestor with such a common brought an account of the 1894 suicide of Charles RICHARDS, an Essex mariner, whose surname as WILLIAMS, when families tended to use the same Christian names repeatedly: death on the railway line was recorded in gruesome detail in the local newspaper under the which is the correct Thomas/William/Mary Williams born in the same year in the same heading ‘Yacht Captain Decapitated’. Peter Gardener related how a Shoreham, Sussex, parish? Children born in France with British parents were puzzling another member, who was ancestor was a shipwright who progressed to being a prosperous timber merchant. unable to discover a birth or death of a great-great-grandmother, because the family were (March) Steve Rogers – The War Graves Photographic Project. Steve served in the Royal often on the move - and it was difficult to choose between a birth in Boulogne or one in Lille Navy, and, while on trips abroad, visited war cemeteries, and this led to the restoration of War two years later. Two members had great difficulty tracing movements in the years after the Graves. He returned home one year from a family trip via the Somme, and came up with his 1911 census. idea to photograph each grave on behalf of relatives who had never been able to visit. A Joan Dickson reports:- grave located on one trip for B. J. ROGERS of the Hants Regiment turned up a previously unknown relative. In 2007, with a group of like-minded recruits, he set out to record in (February) Dennis Bill – A royal tale. We were all intrigued to know which king or queen was photographs all the Commonwealth graves across the world with permission from the going to be the subject of Dennis’s talk. It wasn’t until we were some way into the talk that we Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Steve’s website (www.twgpp.org) contains realised it was actually a place in Wiltshire called Tollard Royal, which was named after a king 1,759,722 searchable names (For £3.50 one can order a digital photo, or £5.50 for a 7 x 5 who once had a house there. Whilst tracing his family, Dennis also found himself researching glossy photo). The 900 dedicated volunteers take their holidays across the world just to the history of the 8th Lord Wardour and his spectacular bankruptcy, and Lt-General Augustus photograph distant graves, the majority of which are in peaceful, beautiful, well-maintained Lane Pitt Rivers and his obsession with the past. Eventually, in the estate records Dennis cemeteries - although some illustrations show unkempt, damaged graves in obscure places. found his ancestors living at Higher Farm, Tollard Royal, which General Pitt Rivers later discovered was King John’s House. April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- (March) Jane Fox – Dating old photographs. We learned how women’s costumes play a large role in dating a photograph, but that female fashions were likely not to be so up-to-date 11 June A guided walk of Fair Oak Eric Reed in rural areas. Men’s styles didn’t change as frequently, and are not such a good indicator. However, the presence or absence of facial hair on a man could place the photo quite 9 July Pubs, inns, taverns & their signs Tony Cross accurately in a time frame. The same applies to the presence or absence of rounded corners 13 August The Great Plague of 1665 Anne Baxendall (introduced when photo albums became popular as it made it easier to insert the photos into the album). We were encouraged to look at the back of photos, as the design can also place 10 September Members’ Evening a photo between certain years. 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April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- life expectancy was shorter than today, it was necessary for a working man to remarry as soon as possible after his wife’s death, so that his children would be cared for, and for women to marry again if they were widowed so that she and her children would have financial support. John mentioned a few cases of wife-selling; one man was prosecuted for selling his wife for 2/6 (now 12 ½p)! 13 June Visit to the Hampshire Record Office (7 pm start) (March) John Owen Smith – Flora Thompson: Beyond Candleford Green. This excellent 11 July Upstairs, downstairs Ian Waller talk has been given to several HGS groups and reviewed before, so I will just say here that it was much enjoyed by us all. 8 August Members’ Evening: Letters in the family April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- 12 September (Topic to be announced) Colin Chapman 13 June Aldershot Camp in 1910 Paul Vickers 11 July Diseases of English town & country Heather Sheeley Contact: 8 August Social Event: Behind the scenes, Hampshire Record Office Fleet & Farnborough David Broomfield, I Burghead Close, College Town, Sandhurst, 12 September Members’ Evening: Ask the Panel The group meets at the United Reform Church Hall, Berks GU47 0XL Tel: 01344 Kings Rd, Fleet GU51 3AF second Thursday of every 761375. Email david.c.broomfield month except August at 7.30pm. @btinternet.com Gosport Contact: Lesley Bull reports:- Graham Annells, 18 Abbey Road, Fareham PO15 5HJ. (January) Adrian Bunting – Finding Granddad. This was a personal story of Adrian’s Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each grandfather, Arthur Bunting, a coach painter who lived at Ardwick, Manchester. He became Tel 01329 843828. Email month in the Parish Centre, Green Road, Alverstoke, [email protected] batman to Captain Charles May of the 22nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment, during World Gosport at 7.30pm. War One. Captain May was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, and was previously a journalist and writer of short stories. After he enlisted, May kept a fascinating and Pauline Powell reports:- evocative diary. The transcriptions of his well-written diaries, 7 November 1915 to 1 July 1916, (February) David Maber – The death of Flying Officer J A Clandillon. David stepped into recording his service, are now deposited in the Regimental Museum. His last entry was written the breach to replace the advertised speaker, who was ill. He recalled the day (18 February just before he died. On 17 June 1916 he wrote a final letter to his wife: “I do not want to die … 1943), when, aged 12, he saw a plane on fire en route to the Grange wartime airfield. He later If it be that I am to go, I am ready. But the thought that I may never see you or our darling found out that it had landed safely, but another crashed there at 10 pm and the pilot was baby again turns my bowels to water. I cannot think of it with even the semblance of killed, while his navigator had baled out and survived. David and a friend went along to the equanimity”. Arthur Bunting was taken prisoner and held in Kleipeda, Lithuania, but did not site. survive the war - he died, aged 33, of Spanish flu, and is the only British soldier buried in Vittener Cemetery. He left behind a wife, Effie. Adrian told Arthur’s story, inextricably linked to In 1995 David decided to pay tribute to the crew of the Beaufighter, and put a wreath at the Captain May’s, using historical documents and artefacts to illustrate his on-screen crash site. He then decided to research the incident. The crew members were pilot James presentation. Albert Clandillon and navigator Anthony Griffiths. The pilot had married in 1941, and his widow had remarried. Both she and Mr Griffiths provided David with photographs and other valuable (February) John B Hurley – Happily ever after. John’s Valentine’s Day talk concerned information - in particular, the dead pilot’s war grave in Littlehampton. David put it all together interesting facts and customs to do with marriage, and had been researched and prepared by with details from the archives and produced a limited edition booklet about the tragedy. He his late wife Beryl. Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753 put a stop to irregular and also arranged for a permanent memorial to be made. A ceremony on 18 February 1996 was clandestine marriages. John told us of some customs that remain, and those that have since performed to dedicate the memorial, and was attended by the pilot’s widow and Anthony died out, for example, a woman being married wearing just a simple shift meant that she Griffiths in the presence of the Mayor of Gosport and Gosport air cadets. A video made of the came into the marriage free of debt. Bells are often still rung to keep evil spirits away. When ceremony concluded David’s presentation. The memorial at Fort Brockhurst has been registered by the War Graves Commission.

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(March) Len Ruffell – Hooked on family history. Len told us that he had been “hooked” on (March) Members’ Evening: What I have discovered lately. Members were able to family history for 40 years, and then proceeded to regale us with tales of why that was. He told discuss recent information they had discovered in their research. It was satisfying that some us about the many fascinating things he had discovered in his research that kept him visitors were also present as prospective members, and help was given to them on where to interested and dedicated to the family tree. Having heard various family tales of where the find suitable websites, archives and libraries to start them on their search for information. Ruffells originated, he discovered that they were not all from Suffolk, Hampshire or France, April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- and they were not Huguenots, after all. For starters, his father was a policeman in Dorset, his grandfather – a fellmonger treating animal hides - was born in Sussex, and his grandmother in London. There were also a chauffeur and cordwainers (top of the range shoemakers). A black 5 June New Forest remembers: Do you? Gareth Owen sheep in the family is always interesting, and Len found his: George RUFFELL, who was in the 3 July Salt, sea & smugglers (A visit & walk around Lymington) Army around 1900. His medical records proved particularly interesting. Len’s many anecdotes were extremely interesting. 12 July Walk to Lyndhurst church - with New Milton & Christchurch Group (to be confirmed) April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- 4 September ‘The Flying Enterprise’ & the Tug ‘Turmoil’ John Avery

12 June St Mark’s, Alverstoke – cemetery renovation Roy Harris 10 July Waterboatmen on the Thames Pat Hilbert Contact: 11 September Portsmouth’s World War 1 heroes James Daly New Milton & Christchurch John Heighes, 7 Wharncliffe Rd, Highcliffe on Meetings are held in the Library of St. Mark’s Church, Sea, Christchurch Highcliffe, on the second Friday of each month at 7.30 Dorset BH23 5DA Contact: p.m. The church is about 100 yards off Lymington Tel 01425 275800 Email: [email protected] New Forest Mike Hobbs, 124, Winchester Rd, Road on Hinton Wood Avenue, the turning opposite Southampton The Galleon Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the SO16 6US month in the Oak Room of the Brockenhurst Village Tel: 023 8032 7952 Daphne Austin reports:- Hall, Highwood Road, Brockenhurst and commence Email: (January) Members’ Evening: Between more lines. This was a continuation of an earlier at 7.30 p.m. [email protected] meeting in January 2012, when members were asked to talk about interpretations of their Allison Shelley reports:- family history that were hidden or probable, but unproven. We heard about the marriage of a (February) Elizabeth Green – Mortality & morbidity. Fellow member Elizabeth had widow who claimed to be single, although left with six daughters; a man who married his researched her Yorkshire family, with particular interest in burial records. She explained that deceased wife’s sister in 1874 in New Zealand; a death certificate with an address in morbidity was the cause of death and mortality was all about the numbers. There were many Winchester that turned out to be the workhouse; about Petters of Yeovil, the oil engine- certificates to see, with interesting details and accompanying stories. Elizabeth talked about makers that went into aircraft production in WW1, which developed into Westland Aircraft - the the first years of registration and of the history of parish records. Mention was made of the speaker’s connection being that his father is believed to have built a model of the first poor law system, of body snatchers, and baby farming, and how the first attempts were made passenger aircraft produced by the company; a maiden aunt who became nanny to a of counting the population in the parish - the forerunner of the census. A paper, entitled Bill of grandson of Henry Ford; and a 19th-century Hampshire man who somehow managed to play Mortality, dated August 1665, showed some interesting and rather puzzling references to cricket for Lancashire. 'Diseases or Afflictions', such as 'griping in the guts' (74 died), 'stopping of the stomach' (16 (February) Daphne Austin – Milford-on-Sea & the East India Company. Daphne’s succumbed), and 'teeth' (13 deaths), while 'wormes' claimed another 18, and 'rising of the research into the large houses of Milford and the intermarrying of their wealthy occupants kept lights' 19. These descriptions were used on papers written after death, thus early death throwing up connections with Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, and also with the East India certificates. In the times when Richard HARRISON the registrar made a 7-mile journey on Company. This came about because Yarmouth in the days of sail was the departure port for horseback, and the joiner had arrived to measure up for the coffin, the first thing the spice ships to the Far East. Milford, just across The Solent, was where those merchants, who registrar would announce on arrival would be the terrible punishments for supplying false were making very considerable profits, enjoyed their wealth and watched for their returning information - imprisonment with hard labour and even transportation amongst them. ships. It was the coming of steam that produced ships too large for Yarmouth, hence their

64 65 Local Group Programmes Local Group Programmes move to Southampton, while railways also opened up the option of using ports further west. April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- (March) Alan Brown – The life & times of William Stanley Prince. William Stanley Prince was born in Clovelly, and came from a well-established family of seamen from that village. He joined the navy as a boy, and signed on for 12 years, but actually served a longer period of 3 June Historical navy / army uniforms Roger Glancefield time due to the Great War. This was the story of his service, told via postcards and photos that 1 July How the HGS Research Centre & Bookstall can help you had come down through the family. They included pictures of battleships and cruisers on which he served. As well as being connected to the sea, family members were also keen 2 September Sources for family history at the Hampshire Record Office Sarah Farley photographers and there are surviving pictures of relatives born just after 1800. The men served in the Merchant Navy, as well as the Royal Navy, some were fishermen, and there were often crew members of the local RNLI, using rowing boats in the early days. Contact: April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- Ringwood Paul Pinhorne, 84 Fontmell Road Broadstone BH18 8NP We meet at 7.30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every Tel: 01202 383736 14 June Titanic’s people John Avery month at Greyfriars Community Centre, Christchurch Email: 12 July Visit to St Michael & All Angels’ church, Lyndhurst Angela Trend Road, Ringwood. Visitors and new members are most [email protected] 9 August Members’ Evening: A book that aided my family history welcome. 13 September Peterson’s Sway Tower: The use of concrete Paul Freeland Paul Pinhorne reports:- (January) Members’ Evening: Which great- or great-great-grandfather would you most like to meet & why? Paul Pinhorne’s great-grandfather was Lewis FLINT, aka Albert WARD. Contact: According to family legend, Lewis had deserted from the Army and then rejoined. After Portsmouth Sue Decicco. searching for over 25 years, it was only in the last couple that Flint’s original army record Tel. became available. Although year and place of birth did not tie up with family stories, it was Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month Email: portsmouth@ definitely him - as his marriage, child and addresses could be confirmed with other records. (except January and August Bank Holidays) at 7 p.m. hgs-online.org.uk He had changed his name to Albert Ward, although his original name was shown on his for 7.30 p.m. in the Baptist Church Hall, Havant Road, marriage certificate, and that of his daughter’s birth. He had an impeccable long service Cosham. record, being pensioned after 21 years. His original military record confirmed where we thought he was born. However, the record was poor - with “confined to barracks” a frequent Dolina Clarke reports:- entry. Legend suggests he punched an officer or his horse, and went missing afterwards. As many of you now know, the Portsmouth Group leader for the past few years, John Finding the entry ‘Deserted at Dover’ was brilliant. But what caused him to desert the Royal Manning, died suddenly in February. Although he had been very ill, he continued to run the Artillery after three years, then rejoin the Royal Garrison Artillery four months later with a group, but in January he informed the Secretary that he could no longer continue. John had completely different conduct record? already arranged the talks for 2013, and so in February Sheila Brine and myself ran the pre- Pat Hilbert’s soldier ancestor EMMS could not be found in the 1841 census, although in arranged meeting. At the end of the talk I asked for any volunteers to take over the group subsequent ones. Angela Kimber’s Emanuel POTTER was living in Cumbria in 1741. She leader position, and we were fortunate to have Sue Decicco step forward and offer her used the will of Mary Potter to prove a connection between Cumbria and Newcastle, and a services. She will be picking up the reins from the April meeting. number of her ancestors were vicars or married professional people. Val George’s Margaret (February) Steve Rogers – The War Graves Photographic Project. We had a very McINTYRE was thought to have gone to Melbourne, Australia, in 1851, at a time when people interesting talk by Steve on the project with which he is very much involved. He has given the were paid to leave Scotland. In 1859 she returned with three sons and a daughter. talk to other groups, so I will not go into details here except to say we found it most Pat Hodges’s William FARROW was a coal merchant in 1900. Why did he become estranged informative. from his father? Why did he come south and start a business in Stroud? George Hilbert’s (March) Jane Fox – Tracing your London ancestors. This was an informative general talk Sophia WADDLETONS was in Downham in 1841. Was she a Baptist? John Dymott spoke of on how to pursue London ancestors, being illustrated by Jane’s own experiences with her William SMOKER from Kent, a schoolmaster, who married about three times. Sheila Williams family.

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mentioned her daughter’s school project about her great-grandfather, a miner who always sat Gradually, chimneys were developed, but fire was always a hazard in these buildings. Photos quietly minding his business when all those around were talking. Her father said he would included some houses in Overton and Mapledurwell. Most were from the 16th and 17th pick up comments and say ‘I can mind the time’. centuries, with the earliest dated back to the 15th. Stan explained that the house frames were held together with intricate joints and pegs, the panels infilled with wattle and daub. The roofs (February) Len Ruffell – Brotherly love. I was not present, but understand the talk was up to would have been thatched, usually with straw, sometimes with reeds, and the windows had Len’s usual brilliant standard. shutters, but no glass. Oak, in its green state, was the principal timber used. (March) Geoff Green – Wartime in the Forest. Geoff spent 42 years working for the (March) Vicky Green – Enumerators of Southampton. Censuses provide us with a useful Forestry Commission, plus another 15 in the New Forest Museum. The talk derived from a aid in tracing our ancestors. Vicky gave us an insight into how, and by whom, census project, created for Minstead Local History Group, about memories of people who were information was collated. Through her work at Southampton Central Library and the children during the war. associated Family History Club, Vicky became the co-ordinator of a project to index We were fortunate to have a visitor with first-hand experience of Ashley Walk, which was used Southampton censuses. A total of 158 enumerators were identified, covering the years 1871, as a bombing range. Frank Myerscough was part of Churchill’s committee designing bombs. 1881 and 1891. He was actually Barnes Wallis’s boss, and involved in the development of Grand Slam and Seven or eight months before each census an Act of Parliament would set the census date - Tall Boy, the largest bombs ever built. He mentioned how the RAF would not drop the bomb, in March/April - and the questions to be asked. Enumerators would then be recruited who yet he said he would do it. It caused quite a chuckle when he described aiming the bomb and ‘would be aged between 18 and 65, able to read and write well and have a knowledge of releasing it over Fordingbridge. arithmetic, not of weak health and to be orderly and respectable’. Letter carriers and sorters April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- from the Post Office made ideal recruits, as they would be familiar with Southampton addresses. Other ideal occupations included schoolmasters, workers from the Ordnance Survey and Gas Board, and a variety of clerks. 19 June Wills & administrations Mary, Lady Teviot A ‘kit’ was issued to each enumerator, containing schedule, enumerator’s book, instruction 17 July Letters across the Atlantic Mary Baldwin book and a memorandum book for notes. The enumerator would leave a schedule at each (at Ringwood Meeting House) dwelling, for completion by the occupants. When completed the schedules would be 21 August Skittles Evening collected and the information copied into the enumerator’s books. The enumerator would sign a declaration that all was correct, and the books would be handed back to the Registrar, 18 September Enumerators Tale Meryl Catty & Audrey Gillett finally being sent to London. There was much scope for error in the completion of the enumerator’s books, due to poor handwriting and misheard names; many householders were illiterate and would need to get someone else to complete the schedule for them. In Southampton there was often confusion over the number of houses to be visited; poor Contact: numbering of houses in some roads, a lot of new buildings, and many alleyways and Romsey Kay Lovell passages that were easily missed. The job of enumerator was not paid well and few did it for E-mail [email protected] more than one census. Meetings take place on the first Monday of the month Telephone 07905 798136 at Crosfield Hall, Romsey, at 7.30 pm. Newcomers April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- are welcome. Val Dawe reports:- 3 June Romsey Workhouse Phoebe Merrick 2 July Two VCs from Capstone Road, Bournemouth Roger Coleman (February) Stan Waight – Timber-framed houses, dendrochronology & great rebuilding. Stan showed drawings and photos of different types of timber-framed houses, 2 September Using newspapers for family history Jane Hurst which included open-hall houses that had a fire in the centre of the house, but no chimney.

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Contact: Contact: Southampton Mike Lawrence, 84 Missenden Waltham Chase Chris Pavey, Acres, Hedge End, Southampton E-Mail: Monthly meetings are held on the third Monday of SO30 2RE. Tel 01489 790505. Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of the month [email protected] each month EXCEPT BANK HOLIDAYS at the Roman Email southampton@ at Waltham Chase Village Hall, Winchester Road, Catholic Church Hall, Commercial Street, Bitterne, hgs-online.org.uk Waltham Chase, and commence at 7.30 p.m. Southampton, at 7.30 p.m. Car park is adjacent. Car parking at the Hall. Newcomers welcome. Anne Lawrence reports:- Iris Forsdyke reports:- (February) Gerald Ponting – Among my mother’s souvenirs. January’s meeting was (February) Members’ Evening. Because of unsettled weather our speakers were unable to cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. When his mother died, Gerald had to clear the attend the January meeting. Members brought forth many interesting aspects of the way they family home at Breamore. He found many photographs and objects capturing all aspects of a investigate and create their family trees. Some examples were of handwritten records in vanished way of life in rural Dorset. His mother was a great hoarder, and many of the objects history books and photograph albums. One member even recorded her family history in a and photos dated back over 180 years. She had worked as a lady’s maid in the ‘20s and ‘30s, Canadian magazine. On a light-hearted note, one lady mentioned her carrier bag system kept and then, after her marriage, she shared the work of running a smallholding and milk round in a chest of drawers, and containing various items of literature that she intends to sort out with her husband. She loved growing flowers, and her husband grew many vegetables which and develop in due course. A table was displayed with various pamphlets, etc. they sold. They both won many competitions for the best flowers and vegetables. (March) Meryl Catty – ‘To coin a phrase’. Meryl explained the origins and meanings of well- (March) Ken Smallbone – The Manor, its records & your ancestors. Ken started by giving known phrases and sayings covering several various subjects. For example, from naval and the historical background to the manorial system. From Norman times the King assumed title military records and other sources at the time of sail in the early 19th century, she gave some to all the land in England. He then divided it up between his followers, who became tenants- very interesting descriptions, such as: How men were punished by being pulled under the in-chief. The land was then subdivided into smaller units, becoming the basis of manors. The keel of a ship, and if there was insufficient water, they were “between the Devil and the deep lord of the manor then let out his land. At each level the tenant owed service or rent, or both, blue sea”; When feigning illness, a man was simply “not pulling his weight”; With insufficient to the person above him. The land was held either by freehold, leasehold or, at the bottom water beneath the keel, a plumb line was used “to plumb the depths”. level, copyhold. The affairs were usually dealt with at manorial level under Courts Leet and/or The list was practically endless, with far too many interesting examples to be related here. Courts Baron. The former dealt with the monarch’s interests and the latter the local affairs of Master cabinet-makers in the City of London Livery Company would produce miniature the manor. The court rolls for the court baron are of most interest to us, as they show changes furniture, being exquisite and brilliant pieces of work known as “master-pieces”. In market of use of land, fines paid, etc, and name many of the local inhabitants. Manorial records – towns, sometimes a pig could be substituted for a cat, hence the phrases “A pig in a poke” where they survive - can be traced through various means, including an index at Kew, at local and “Let the cat out of the bag”. “A cock and bull story” developed from two stagecoach record offices or elsewhere. Manors should not be confused with parishes, as they are drivers who had a dispute over two taverns with similar names. And so on … frequently not coterminous. April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:- April & May meetings to be reported in the next journal. Future dates are:-

25 June Heir hunters Beverley Walker 17 June Probate records Beverley Walker 23 July World War I Marc Thompson 16 July Outside visit or Members’ Meeting 27 August Members’ Evening: My most exciting family history find 19 August Winchester: Castles, civil war, history Don Robertson 24 September Using manorial records for family history Ken Smallbone 15 September T.B.C.

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Executive Committee and Development Forum Meetings The new website and logo Executive Meetings are held at the HGS Office in Cosham on the last Wednesday of alternate months, beginning at 7.15 pm. See also Feature Article on page 3. Unfortunately, there is a very tiny minority Development Forum Meetings are held in the Gilbert Room at Twyford Village Hall three The new website is undoubtedly a vast who tend to criticise destructively, even to the times a year on Sunday at 2.30 pm. improvement on the old one, but there is still point of being quite hostile and abusive. Such should not be tolerated, particularly as the Attendees must inform the secretary if they are unable to attend. a long way to go in order to make it more or less ‘perfect’ or, at least, how most of us workforce gives their time freely to try to They are however able to send a substitute on their behalf. would want to envisage it to be. As stated, it accommodate members’ wishes. Absolute is “work in progress”, and would naturally rudeness offends, and merely antagonises the Dates for 2012 Committee Meetings: improve bit by bit as time goes by. Therefore, recipient, leading understandably to non- 9 June Development Forum 25 September Executive Meeting some patience is required on the part of the cooperation. A more subtle conciliatory approach should normally reap positive 24 July Executive Meeting 29 September Open Day (Horndean) member/visitor, as it must be remembered that those who are actively creating and results. It must be remembered – at all times adding to it are volunteers, with other lives to – to treat our volunteers with respect, lead, as well as providing a service to HGS courtesy and friendliness, as fellow human members. beings, or otherwise there will eventually be My Ancestor Came From Hampshire Crucially, we require many more hands to no volunteers at all. It seems to be a sorry make the load lighter, and, in particular, state of affairs in which it is necessary to have Notes from a lecture that I attended at the be located in Hampshire. Other items under those with sufficient valuable IT expertise to point this out. Society of Genealogists (SOG):- discussion were internet sources, probate and/or experience to be able to assist our The prospective e-journal – a possible I have been researching my family history for records and wills, and court and Assize overworked webmaster in his many tasks to misconception about lack of choice about 12 years, and have, of course, managed records. be achieved within his limited free time. Unfortunately, it has been brought to my to do a lot online, with verification from GRO The venues themselves came under the Because this is website work, most of it can notice that there has been a popular surely be achieved from a distance. So, even misconception going the rounds concerning certificates and copies of parish records. I spotlight next. Details were given of the our overseas members can participate in the the new website and the proposed electronic have also visited the Winchester and holdings, opening times, and making visits to exciting world of the HGS website. Indeed, we journal (e-journal), despite all the assurances Portsmouth record offices on a number of the Hampshire Record Office, Southampton occasions, and once ventured into the maze now have the facilities to interact with our being given to the contrary. The proposed e- Record Office and Portsmouth History Centre. worldwide fraternity in much better ways than journal will not supplant the current printed that is the National Archives at Kew. Most of There were very useful tips on planning a visit the attendees at this lecture seem to have had ever before. So, let’s develop this new version of the journal (hard-copy) for existing and making the most of one’s time at these a similar level of experience. capability still further. Let’s create a members – unless a member specifically record centres. We also learned why some worldwide HGS community that helps and requests it. However, for a new member the We were encouraged to join a family history Hampshire records may even be found outside supports one another, both academically and opposite will be offered: an e-journal unless society - HGS was given sound endorsement! the county. actively. there is a specific request for the hard-copy There was a brief history of the county - as version. late as 1959 Hampshire was referred to as the The lecture had cost £17.50 to non-members Since the launch of the website many County of Southampton. of SOG, and lasted for three hours. I would comments have naturally been made about it. The whole concept of ‘The Way Forward’ is to recommend it, as it was very good value. The Several have thankfully expressed provide options for the member – to offer a We were told about reference books for county constructive suggestions, and these have been choice where there had previously been no maps, parish boundaries and local history. lecturer was helpful, and covered both basic implemented as far as possible. Some have choice. There is no insistence at all that a Available sources were mentioned for that and more advanced topics. It would be made complaints that have now been member has to go in a certain direction. It is “brick wall” - that is, as alternatives to the particularly useful for family historians who do rectified, wherever possible. The website accepted that some may not even have a main GRO indices. Concerning parish registers not live within easy reach of Hampshire, but who can more easily get to London. provides a form for such complaints or for computer, so an e-journal for them is simply and parish records, it was detailed what might ideas that ought to be considered. Please use out of the question and visiting a website an be included and where these documents can Sue Dennis (Member # 11113) this. impossible task.

72 73 Important matters HGS Publications postal charges Increased postal charges for publications

Yet, we need to recruit new members, and we the Great Hall in Winchester, believed to have Despite the extraordinarily huge increase Bookstall at fairs, while the postage for must be able to appeal to all kinds and to offer originally been the golden rose of Henry III in postal charges imposed by Royal Mail microfiche has not suffered any increase. various attractions, which are more readily (who was born in the Castle there). Such in April 2012, HGS had nevertheless Thus, you see that such a change would only made available online. Above all, we need to debates will persist because there is nothing refrained from passing this on for mail affect prices for CDs/DVDs and books. Please be able to appeal to the younger generations, at all to disprove them, in the same way that orders of our publications during the year. refer back to Hampshire Family Historian Vol for they will continue from where we have left the evidence to substantiate the rose’s origin Unfortunately, though, we cannot possibly 39 No 3 (December 2012) for the prices of the off. So, although we are generally dealing with does not exist. sustain such a loss any longer, and regret that the past, we are here in the present with a Other devices were even put forward as the a small increase has to be applied to some of various publications before postage or visit wary eye on the future. We have to move on, Society’s new logo, but it appears that the our products being ordered by post. There is our website (address is on the inside front and in so doing, need to provide the necessary rose emblem won the day. However, as the no extra charge for those items collected cover). The following prices indicate mailed options for all who may come after us, as well new website’s “figurehead”, it had to be personally from the HGS office or from the orders only:- as attempting to safeguard the ideals of our modified to give the impression of a new current supporters. beginning. Reference Title Post UK Post Overseas The new logo – My decision as editor of (£) (£) representative of the this journal is to retain CDs / DVDs society? the old design and To enhance the status display it alongside the HCD 002 1891 Census Isle of Wight 5.50 6.80 of a new “beginning” of new one for this HCD 003 1891 Census Hampshire 7.50 8.80 sorts, a new logo has volume, denoting our HCD 004 Baptisms 1813-1841 (£10 when Collected) 12.00 13.00 been created and 40th anniversary, in a HCD 005 Marriages 1813-1837 9.00 10.80 adopted for the new sense of continuity HCD 007 Marriages 1754-1837 22.50 23.30 website. Naturally, it between the past and HCD 009 Marriages 1660-1753 17.50 18.30 has attracted its critics, the future – the old and HCD 011 Burials 1400-1841 27.50 28.30 as new ventures would, the new – because that for it is quite is what we are actually HCD 012, Baptisms 1752-1812; 25.50 26.30 impossible to please trying to do. This may 014, 015 1660-1751; 1537-1659 everybody at the same be a kind of symbolism, HCD 013 Marriages 1538-1659 25.50 26.30 time. However, given and perhaps for a few HFH 01 Hampshire Family Historian 1974-84 9.00 10.80 time the issue may there is something HMI series Monumental Inscriptions on CD probably settle down quite reassuring about (01, 07, 08, 10, 15, 22, 26, 28, 37, 39, 51) 6.50 7.80 peacefully one way or it – in the same way Books another. that the Round Table, 1851 Census Surnames Indexes / 1851 Census Index 2.50 4.30 Another version of the rose emblem was stretching back about 900 years, was adopted for obvious reasons: this flower has renovated in the 16th century, but not Hampshire Village Series 2.50 4.50 replaced, merely given a lick of new paint and been regarded as the badge of Hampshire for WEA Publications almost the last 500 years, at least. change of device, thus still remaining what it Unfortunately, its origin is unknown, and there originally was and what it stood for. In other As the prices of these books vary considerably, please refer back to HFH Vol 39/3, and have been numerous theories put forward: words, it showed that it had changed, add the following to the “Collect in Person” price:- Tudor rose, Lancastrian red rose, and also the although in reality it hadn’t. 50p for UK postage, and £1.30 for postage to addresses overseas rose device in the centre of the Round Table in Ken Smallbone, Editor The prices of all other items in the HGS Publications Catalogue are not affected.

74 75 HGS Publications HGS News Renewal Instructions All members £15. Renewal by credit card on our website may carry an extra administrative fee of 50p. Payment by Sterling Cash, British Bank Cheque, Foreign Bank Cheque in Sterling, CAF Cheque or Postal Order, please send your payment, with membership number on reverse of cheque, to the Membership Secretary at the HGS office address (see below). If you wish to change to payment by Direct Debit, please download the Direct Debit form from the Hampshire Genealogical Society website (see inside front cover). This form should be completed by the person making the payment if it is not the member HGS Publications themselves. The reference number is your membership number with leading zeroes added. The Direct Debit form should be returned to The Membership Secretary at A full list of currently available HGS Publications was featured in the December 2012 HGS office address, and NOT to Eazipay. Please cancel previous method of payment by and March 2013 Hampshire Family Historian journals (Vol 39, Nos 3 & 4). any other method as HGS cannot do it for you. Your membership will be recorded as paid on receipt of the form by the Membership Secretary. Direct Debit until cancelled To view a full current list please visit www.hgs-online.org.uk / www.hgs-familyhistory.com, and will ensure continuing membership without action from you. you can now purchase such items online. You can also refer back to your back copies of HFH All members may now find it easier to renew on-line with a credit card via our website 39/3-4, and note the following amendments:- www.hgs-online.org.uk or www.hgs-familyhistory.com, where they can pay by PayPal (no account is required for payment), or, alternatively, visit www.genfair.co.uk and type in “hampshire genealogical society”. Additions Hampshire Village Series (Roy Montgomery): Chalton (58); Ibsley (59) If you are a UK income tax payer and wish to gift aid your payment, please download the Gift Aid form from the Hampshire Genealogical Society website. – £2 (collected); £3.00 (post, UK); £4.50 (post, overseas). Gift Aid helps the Society’s funds, with no extra cost to you. Deletions If you are unable to download any form you require, please contact the Membership HCD 010: Hampshire Burial Index 1838-1841 Secretary by e-mail, post or telephone at the HGS office, and the relevant form will be sent to you. Limited Stock (enquire for availability) WEA Publications: Highbury Memories Please include your membership number in all communications. – £2 (collected); £3.20 (post, UK): £5.50 (post, overseas)

New publication Address to:- The Membership Secretary, (Launched at ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Live exhibition) Hampshire Genealogical Society HCD 015: Hampshire Baptism Index 1537-1659 52 Northern Road, Cosham, Searchable index to Anglican (Church of England) baptisms in mainland Hampshire for the Portsmouth, period 1537 to 1659. Excludes the Isle of Wight. Requires Windows XP or later. Includes PDF Hampshire version for Mac users or for earlier versions of Windows. PO6 3DP UK Cost of each CD: Collect in Person £23 By Post: UK, £25.50; Overseas, £26.30

76 Volume 39 (2012-2013) No. 1 (June) The future of the HFH journal (Ken Smallbone) ...... 3 Great granddad’s diary Part 2 (Ian Shepherd)...... 6 In days of yore –Last will & testament: 5 (Ken Smallbone) ...... 14 Postcard puzzle (Jane Hurst)...... 17 Jewish records project (Terry Bridger) ...... 31 George Parsons of Bursledon, shipbuilder (Frank Wagstaff) ...... 35 Flora Thompson in Hampshire (John Owen Smith) ...... 22 Historical Hogs – Donald Osborn Finlay (Jeff White) ...... 40 Stranger than fiction (Becca Kinneison)...... 43 Railway fatality at Landport (Brenda Horwill) ...... 53 Peter Wells of Selborne – born where? (Ray Wells)...... 55 New Zealand bound (Neville Andrews)...... 77 No. 2 (September) The future of the HFH journal (continued) (Ken Smallbone)...... 83 Trooper Thomas Cole (Rosemary Temple)...... 88 In days of yore –Last will & testament: 6 (Ken Smallbone) ...... 92 The book is now closed(Ken Smallbone)...... 94 Portsmouth Naval Dockyard (Frank Wagstaff) ...... 98 Greetings from ‘Down Under’ (Rev Neil Harvey) ...... 119 Historical Hogs – William of Wykeham (John Heighes) ...... 120 In honour of our ancestors (Ken Smallbone)...... 123 Southampton Workhouse scandal (Roy Montgomery)...... 135 Lovesey sisters (Len Ruffell) ...... 157 Hopes and aspirations (Ken Smallbone)...... 158 No. 3 (December) The Way Forward (Ken Smallbone) ...... 163 From the Titanic to a negro slave (Allison Shelley) ...... 169 In days of yore – Census, Part 1 (Ken Smallbone)...... 172 Trooper Thomas Cole, Part 2 (Rosemary Temple)...... 174 Family history: My plans for the future (John Smith)...... 181 George Parsons: His Hamble built ships (Frank Wagstaff)...... 186 Christmas in the trenches, 1914 (Ken Smallbone)...... 188 Original Mudlarks (Ken Grubb)...... 200 Christmas family get-togethers (Ken Smallbone)...... 201 Historical Hogs – King Henry III Ken Smallbone ...... 202 Smith & Terliven (Mrs C Voller)...... 204 One of Nelson’s best ship masters (James Tilmouth) ...... 232 No. 4 (March) The Way Forward (Chris Pavey)...... 247 Some Puzzling Graffiti Revisited (Tim Wilson) ...... 252 In days of yore – Census Part 2 (Ken Smallbone) ...... 256 Hide or Pocock? (Peggy Radford) ...... 265 Ahead of her time? (Deborah Patterson) ...... 271 Fair Oak Group Celebration (Sandra Naish)...... 272 Murder or not? (Roy Montgomery)...... 280 Historical Hogs – Lord Denning (Ken Smallbone)...... 286

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