Fenland Family History Society Journal No 1 July 2001 Contents Bridget’s Bit 1 Beginners’ Evening 2 Were your ancestors musical? 3 Littleport Society 4 Diary Dates 5 First General Meeting 5 Summary of the Society’s Constitution 6 Steering Committee 7 Wanted! 7 Help Wanted? 7 Information and Books 8 Poll Books 9 Historical Documents in Cambridgeshire 10 Wisbech & Fenland Museum’s Registers & Archives 11 Members Write 13 Towering above Wisbech 13 The Strangers who came to Thorney 14 Fenland Family History Society Journal No 2 Winter 2001 Contents Program 2002 2 Editorial 3 Chairman’s Chat Bridget Hunter 4 Chairman’s Report to the First Annual General Meeting 6 Treasurer’s Report Beverley Smith 7 Minutes of the First Annual General Meeting 8 ‘Great! I have a Pauper’ Sue Paul 8 The Good Old Days Allan Dobney 10 J W Eason – Diarist Ann Stocker 12 Map of Old Moulton C 1890 13 Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Norfolk Museums 14 Society Reference Library Stan Addison 14 A Stitch in Time Samphire Quilters 15 ‘Who We Are’ Beverley Smith 15 The Octagon Church Stan Addison 19 That Quiz! 20 St Anthony’s Fire in the Fens? 21 Lost and Found in the Fens Sue Paul 22 Lost a Wisbech Ancestor? Sue Paul 22 Members Write 23 Fenland Family History Society Journal No 3 Summer 2002 Contents Program 2002/2003 2 Chairman’s Chat Bridget Hunter 3 Computers in Family History February Meeting 3 FFHS Visit to Family Records Centre March Meeting 5 Life in the Fens 19th Century April Meeting 5 Finding your way around the Census May Meeting 6 George IV to George V 7 Who are the Fenlanders? 9 Projects Update 11 Members Write 12 Queens Bank, Cowbit 12 Anyone for the Workhouse? 14 Walsoken Victory Football Club 1893 16 Snippets from the Scottish OPR! 18 Extending your search 19 A Wisbech Photographer 20 Fenland BDM Announcements 1825 21 Cambridgeshire Family History Fair 2003 24 Fenland Family History Society Journal No 4 Winter 2002/3 Contents Program 2003 4 Editorial 5 Chairman’s Chat 6 AGM Report 8 Society Officers Reports 11 Society Meetings Sue Paul 13 Members Write! 15 Star in the East – BDM 18 Census 1821 Index Parson Drove 29 Fenland Family History Society Journal No 5 Spring 2003 Contents Program 2003 2 Editorial 3 Federation of Family History Societies News 4 Chairman’s Chat 5 An Old Family Bible 7 Meetings January & February 2003 9 Star in the East - Births, Deaths and Marriages 11 Members Write - Pictures from the Past 17 - St Ives Marriages 1841 19 Marshland People - The Walpoles in 1891 21 Members Queries 23 Coming Events 25 Fenland Family History Society Journal No 6 Summer 2003 Contents Program 2003/2004 2 Notice of Third Annual General Meeting 3 Editorial 4 Chairman 6 Recent Society Events & Meetings Witches & Ghosts of Cambridgeshire March 7 Drugs & Blue Paint April 7 Newspapers for Family Historians May 9 Outing to March June 10 Wisbech Rose Fair July 11 Fenland to the New World 12 The Marshland Apprentices & Journeymen 16 Last Page is Turned 18 Beckett’s Corner 18 Members Letters & Queries 20 People living in Marshland in 1891 The Terringtons 24 Star in the East BDM November 1839 28 Fenland Family History Society Journal No 7 Winter 2003 Contents Program 2004 2 Editorial 3 Chairman’s Chat 4 Recent Society Events & Meetings 5 Sep 2003 the Industrial Revolution in Coalbrookdale Oct 2003 Researching British Orders, Decorations and Medals Nov 2003 Society Social Evening Jan 2004 Samuel Smith & Victorian Wisbech Jan 2004 Upwell Baptist Church MI’s Annual General Meeting Report 8 What is a One Name Study 11 A Visitor to Wisbech & The Man who Missed The Titanic 13 A time of great change – Civil Regisgtration 1837 14 An Unknown Soldier 19 Maud MAUN of Bridgnorth 20 Murder at Mill House 21 Tinker Tailor 22 Reeve The Baker 23 100 Years Ago The Wisbech Standard 1903 24 Fenland Tax Commissioners 1806 26 The Star in the East December 1836 27 Crime and Punishment 1837 33 Wisbech Union Board of Guardians 1839 – 40 36 People of Marshland 1891 Walsoken 37 Miscellaneous News 39 The New Royal Mail – travel in style 40 Fenland Family History Society Journal No 8 2004 Contents Speaker & Program 2004/5 2 Editorial 4 Summer Chat – Chairman 5 Recent Society Meetings 7 Upwell History – Thomas Hiam 14 Baptist Church, Upwell, Wisbech 14 Law and Order 1904 17 Fenland Sportsmen 19 On the Cricket Pitches 20 Barton School Old Boys Cup 21 A Typical Fen Farmer 22 Information Source News 24 March and Whittlesea Wedding 29 Star in the East 32 A case of Smallpox at Wisbech 38 People living in Marshland 1891 OUTWELL 40 HelpLine 43 The Society Bookstall 44 Ag. Lab Chronicles 9 Contents Program 2005 2 Membership Renewal 2005 3 Minutes of the Fourth Annual General Meeting 2004 4 Chairman’s Winter Chat 9 MI Report 10 Recent Society Meetings Walsoken Church July 2004 11 History of the Wisbech Oddfellows Sept 2004 12 Gypsies and Travellers Oct 2004 13 Ringing the Changes Nov 2004 14 Windmills and Millwrights Jan 2005 15 Coming This June! Too Good to Miss!! 17 My Popeley Family 18 Society Library Report 19 BBC Family History Roadshow December 2004 20 Murder in the Fens 21 The Dog who shot a Farmer 21 Guyhirn Gibbet 25 Caxton Gibbet 26 Where have the Young Men Gone? 26 Members Write 29 People Living in Marshland 1891 Upwell 32 Message from The General Registry Office, London 35 Star in the East February 1837 37 Ag. Lab Chronicles 10 2005 Contents Program 2005 2 Notice of AGM 3 Chairman’s Summer Chat 4 Recent Society Meetings 6 Dating Victorian Photographs 6 Wisbech Castle 7 Jewels of Kew 9 Family History Day 10 Christianity in the Fens 10 Open Spaces and Enclosures 10 Victorian Clothes 11 Rose Fair 2005 13 Inheriting Memories 14 Exploring King’s College Estates Records CAMDEX The Cambridgeshire Index Project 21 Book Review – The Master Builders 23 Fenland FHS New Publications 25 All Saints Walsoken MIs 26 One-Stop-Shop for National Archives 27 Members Write 28 Karen’s Story 29 The Star in the East March 1837 30 People Living in Marshland in 1891 at West Walton 35 Good News – Canada 1911 Census 36 Ag. Lab Chronicles 11 2006 Contents Program 2006 2 Editorial 3 Stan Addison 4 Chairman’s Chat 5 Karen’s Quest 6 Society Balance Sheet for 2004/2005 7 Minutes of the Fifth Annual General Meeting 2005 8 Recent Society Meetings July 2005 Visit to St Peter’s Church, Upwell 12 August 2005 Visit to Leverington Road General Cemetary 13 September 2005 Boot and Shoe Makers Geoff Lee 15 October 2005 ‘Talking Junk’ Richard Barnwell 16 November 2005 Non Conformist Churches Wim Zwalf 17 Long distance genealogy Elizabeth Pugh 19 Discovery at Little Steeping Paul Brighton 26 My DNA solved a 100 year mystery Bryan Bradley 28 Numbers in a Family Bible Fred Smith 30 A Peek into the Past!! Bridget Hunter 32 Another Peek into the Past 32 Star in the East April 1837 35 Ten new cousins for Hayden Cox Hayden Cox 44 People who lived in Marshland 1891 Tilney 46 Wisbech Castle Girls School 1871 47 Ag. Lab Chronicles 12 Summer 2006 Contents Notice of The Sixth Annual General Meeting 2 Program 3 Chairman’s Chat 3 Members Write 1939 Evacuee to Upwell 5 Genealogy From Down Under 7 Picked by Fate 11 Maddy’s Brickwall 11 Melancholy occurrence near the Sluice 12 Schools in Walsoken 14 Recent Society Meetings Pubs and Inns of Wisbech – January 2006 16 ‘The Surprise Find’ – February 2006 17 Death Clouds – March 2006 18 Fenland Family Hiistory Day – April 2006 19 The History of Thorney – April 2006 24 Searching for Mama Rosa – May 2006 25 A visit to Leverington Church – June 2006 26 The Crime Page 28 Marriage 30 BMD – Star in the East June 1837 31 Five Soldier Brothers – A Guyhirn Record 38 A Census of Men in Leverington in 1798 39 Ag.Lab Chronicles 13 Contents Minutes of the AGM September 2006 3 A Peek into the Past Andrew Ingram 9 Balance Sheet 2005 – 2006 8 Chairman’s Chat 10 Visit to Walpole St Peter July 2006 12 Floral and Horticultural Society Prizes 1837 13 Bygone Days October 2006 14 Festive Meeting November 2006 17 Visit to Wisbech and Fenland Museum January 2007 18 The Abolition of Slavery 1807 – 2007 February 2007 19 Rockingham Castle March 2007 20 Show and Tell April 2007 21 Exploring History with Maps Derek Palgrave 22 Book Reviews 24 Serendipity Elizabeth Pugh 26 How do you Solve a Problem Sophia!! Judy Green 29 New Contacts! Rod Moorhouse 32 Girls School Old Market 33 Reading Registers Peter Hunter 34 Star in the East June 1837 BDM 38 Book Stall Catalogue 46 Chapman Codes 48 Ag.Lab Chronicles 14 Contents 2008 Programme 2 Bookstall Annual Report 3 Memorial Inscriptions 4 Lookups & Enquiries 4 Visit to West Walton 5 Looking for Blacksheep 6 September 2007 Meeting 7 October 2007 Meeting 8 November 2007 Meeting 10 A Diary 12 From Wisbech to Walkerville 15 1854 Holbeach Cholera Outbreak 20 The Sad Story of Joseph Curtis 23 R.I.P. Sophia 33 Ramdale to Ramsell 34 To Serve Them all the Day 37 Star in the East 43 Ag.Lab Chronicles 15 Contents Minutes of the AGM September 2007 3 Chairman’s Chat 9 Monumental Inscriptions and Registers 10 Can you transcribe the 1851 census 10 Eals, Punts and Poaching 12 Childhood Memories 13 Funny Blood 14 Life on the Lincolnshire Marshes 15 St Matthew’s Church, Sutton Bridge 16 Letters 18 A shortened history of the Fosters of Wisbech 20 Oxborough Hall Emneth 25 Dry Creek Wetlands 27 John Watton’s Story 32 In memory of Archie H Ogden 33 That brick wall 35 Death of the Borough Oldest Inhabitant 36 Bookstall 41 Ag.