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- Category: 1 Drafts in Progress
- Category: 17th Century 1600-1699
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- Category: 19th Century 1800-1899
- Hardship Cases in a Portsmouth Court – Correction
- MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION CORRECTIONS
- Odiham School Teacher
- Inquest verdict of Visitation of God
- Harmony Hall later Queenwood College
- Uncle Tom of Portsmouth
- Fordingbridge Rabies Death
- Help from Memorial Inscriptions
- Death Notices in Old Hampshire Newspapers
- West Meon Infanticide 1830
- Greywell Remarriage in 1855
- Hampshire Murder in Swanwick, 1899
- 1855 Portsea Hospital Bed Shortage
- Portsmouth Police Gas Explosion in 1855
- Who was Sweet Fanny Adams?
- Hardship Cases in a Portsmouth Court
- Solent Tragedy of Gosport Men 1810
- Italian Immigrants in 1861 Hampshire
- Early Cremation of a Portsmouth Man 1900
- Destitute Woman Transported by Portsmouth Court – 1810
- Portsmouth Bigamy Intrigue
- English man dies in Newburgh New York – 1850
- Punishment in Hampshire Quarter Session Courts – 1800
- Portsmouth Couple Married in India – 1899
- Quarter Sessions Court Report 1817
- National Archives Immigration Records Online
- A Hampshire Divorce in 1890
- Tithe Maps at the National Archives
- A Hampshire History of Immigration and Emigration
- Railway Records
- Jane Austen’s 200th Anniversary
- Useful Research Source Material: Auction Sale Notices
- Palmerston’s Folly – The Story of Portsmouth’s Forts
- Victorian Baby Farming
- Category: 20th Century 1900-1999
- Category: ABOUT
- Category: Alton
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- Category: Archives Records and Collections
- Windows 8 CD Solutions
- Using DNA as a Tool in Family History
- Winchester’s Military Museums
- National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth
- Aldershot Army Museum
- Wills and How to Find Them
- Commonly Used Family History Abbreviations
- Parishes in 1851 Census Hampshire and IOW Listed by Parish / Place
- Parishes in 1851 Census Hampshire and IOW by Volume
- Category: Baptism Indexes
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Events
- HGS Bookstall at the HGS Open Day 2017
- Carlton Crescent & Rockstone Place - Jake Simpkin
- The Tragic Life of Ellen Wren - Andy Skinner
- Open Evening at The Meeting House
- Open Mornings at The Meeting House: Monday July 10th - Saturday 22nd July
- HGS at Andover Library
- Christmas Evening
- A Journey in Search of Convict Ancestors - Judy Davies
- Twentieth Century Research - Ian Waller
- Members’ Evening: A focus on 2017
- Pilgrim Fathers - Dennis Boylen
- A festive themed talk following by Christmas fare!
- "The Butler's Christmas" followed by an American Supper
- Members' only visit to the 'HMS Hear My Story Gallery' at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth Dockyard
- *** Please note that there will be NO MEETING on 8th June as the hall is being used as a polling station ***
- Members’ Evening: “Are we related?"- my search in US records - Gordon Young
- Members' Social Event - Winchester Military Museums
- Open Mornings at The Meeting House: Monday July 10th through Saturday 22nd July
- The Quaker Businesses in Britain - John Avery
- History & Development of the Fire Service – Alan House
- Members' Evening - Genealogy Problem Solving
- HGS Bookstall at the Wiltshire Family History Day
- Members' Evening – ‘Computer evening - Learning and Sharing of the Internet’
- Members’ Evening - What my relative did during the War
- 'The brickwall of missing deaths' - Simon Wills
- Members' Evening - Finding what your ancestors did for a living, and what this means today.
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti
- Members’ Presentations: WW2 – Britain at Home
- Members’ Presentations: My Immigrant / Emigrant Ancestor
- Dating Old Photos: a short talk followed by a workshop activity - Jane Fox
- AGM & Members' Talk by Dominic Harper *** NB This is the FIRST Thursday of the month (not the usual second)
- Southampton: Water, Slaughter & Trade - Andrew Negus
- Vaccination - Benjamin Jesty & the Dorset Dairy Maids - Helen Jesty
- Manorial Records – Les Mitchinson **Please note this is the 3rd Friday***
- A Brief Introduction to Heraldry – Malcolm Heathcote
- Southwick Priory - Harvey Griffiths
- Members’ Presentations: What did you find in the 1939 Register?
- Harlots, Dung and Glory: part 3 of the history of Portsmouth - Andrew Negus
- Members' Evening - Family Heirlooms - a chance to show or talk about an item that's precious to you.
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Fair Oak meeting
- HGS Bookstall will be at the West Surrey FHS Open Day Woking Leisure Centre, Surrey
- Members’ Evening plus HGS Bookstall
- Napoleonic Prisoner of War Work: some Hampshire connections - Tony Cross, former Curator of the Curtis Museum, Alton
- Speaker to be announced - please check back!
- Members' Evening - Genealogy Problem Solving
- ‘Read All About It!’ Using Newspapers for Family History Research – Jane Fox
- Women Artists of the Great War – Jane Fox
- Napoleonic Prisoner of War Work: some Hampshire connections - Tony Cross, former Curator of the Curtis Museum, Alton
- British Home Children - Margaret Bowman, HGS Andover Group
- Members' Evening - Family Secrets
- Harlots, Dung & Glory - Andrew Negus, Historian and Blue Badge Guide
- British Relatives Overseas - Else Churchill, Society of Genealogy (SoG)
- Writing Your Family History - Chris Lightfoot, founder of iScribbles
- LIFE AS A DEPORTEE FROM GUERNSEY TO GERMANY DURING WWII - Mike Martel
- Tales from the Register Office - Lucinda Thursfield, a retired Superintendent Registrar for Hampshire
- Christmas Party
- HMS Hear My Story: The Last 100 Years - Jo Valentine
- Members' Evening - Christmas Festivities
- Verwood Heathland Heritage Pictures Presentation – Pam Reeks
- Riots, Randies and women not their wives – Chris and Judy Rouse
- History of the Royal Marines – G A Gelder, Lt Col Royal Marines (Ret'd)
- Skittles Night – Members only
- The GRO Index – Just How Accurate Is It? - Celia Heritage ***Please note this is Tuesday due to the Bank Holiday
- The Story of the Africa Queen - Kevin Patience
- Southampton & Risborough: train ferry history - John Fish
- What’s in a name...? - Cheryl Butler
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- Christmas Social
- Harry Tate’s Navy – Tony Betts
- *** No meeting
- Gosport Masonic Roll of Honour – Steve Frost
- Ancestors from Victorian London – Geoff and Jane Piper
- Members’ Evening
- 'Taking the Flounce' – Jane Austen & Southampton - Cheryl Butler
- Christmas Social
- Don’t Believe Everything You’re Told! - Jane Fox
- Guided Walk of West End - Eric Reed
- A History of Hampshire Through Ten Objects - Tony Cross
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti
- Sold, Separated or Divorced - Ian Waller
- Our Christmas Function
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Members’ Show & Tell: My Heirloom
- The Parish Chest - Ann McKenzie
- War Horse & Other Animals- Tony Babb
- Christmas Get Together
- Lifting the lid of the Parish Chest – Ann Mckenzie
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- *** No meeting ***
- What the Butler Saw! – John Pitman
- There is one in every family - Black Sheep! - Colin Moretti
- "Don't throw that out!": the delights of ephemera - Dr Jane Howells
- Pompey PALS Project - Chris Pennycook
- Pompey PALS Project - Chris Pennycook *** CANCELLED *** due to the weather warnings
- Searching for Surnames: Challenges, Pitfalls and the Downright Ridiculous - Kirsty Gray
- Hidden Mormon Ancestors - Maggie Eltham
- Members’ Evening: Sharing ideas for the way ahead
- Members’ Evening
- Writing your Family History - Chris Lightfoot
- *** No meeting ***
- Members’ Presentations: My Immigrant / Emigrant Ancestor
- Members’ Presentations: My Ancestor told fibs!
- WW2 POW Camps: Basingstoke - Geoff Palmer
- Toll Roads, Turnpikes and the A30 - Jane Hussey
- Members’ Presentations: What did you find in the 1939 Register?
- Where there’s a will, there’s a way - Ken Smallbone
- Members’ Presentations: WW2 – Britain at Home
- The Cowboy, the Revolutionary and the Novelist – Graham Spiller
- Deaf Robert, Lame Basil and Blind Peter - Cheryl Butler
- Members’ Evening: What did you find in the newspapers?
- Fireman in WW2 – Alan House
- Curiouser and curiouser – Geoff Watts
- Life in the fairground – Kay Townsend
- ** No meeting in January **
- Members’ Evening: including a talk by Gordon Young on his family history & the start of the oil industry
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- The HGS Web Site - Gwen Newland
- Members’ Evening: Annual Review + ‘This has helped me with my Research’
- Members’ Evening: Have you found anything in the Parish Chest?
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- *** We do not meet in January and February - meetings will resume in March - check back for programme details.
- *** We do not meet in January and February - meetings will resume in March - check back for programme details.
- Christmas Tea Party - Join us for Christmas nibbles!
- ‘Turn Left at the Hippos' - Lucinda Thursfield
- Restoring Old Photographs - David Tipper
- The Tichbourne Case – John Avery
- *** No meeting as it is Easter Monday ***
- Carlton Crescent and Rockstone Place - Jake Simpkin
- Writing your family history - Chris Lightfoot
- Members’ Evening
- The Tichbourne Case – John Avery
- Gosport slide show – Bob Harrop
- Romsey Prisoner of War Camp - Phoebe Merrick
- The Cholera Years - John Avery ***Please note - First Friday to avoid Good Friday.
- A Walk Through the History of New Milton - Nick Saunders
- Westover Hall alias The Beach House - Daphne Austin
- Members' Evening - My Lucky Break
- Members' Evening
- Harlots, Dung & Glory: Part 3 - Andrew Negus
- ‘Read All About It!’ Using Newspapers for Family History Research – Jane Fox
- Frank Norman Fox - Jane Fox
- Members’ Evening
- Winchester - Andrew Negus
- HGS Resources - Dolina Clarke, Chairman, HGS
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- LOCAL HISTORY DAY at ALTON Assembly Rooms
- Members' Afternoon - Introduction to the HGS Website plus "A murderer and a felon transported to Australia"
- The Rise of the Railway: Part 1 - Chris Humby
- The Fire Services During World War II - Alan House
- Alton’s Early Photographers - Jane Hurst [NB Change to programme]
- 'Publish and Be Thanked' or how to turn your research into a book - Barrie Lees
- Members’ Evening: Share a Mince Pie and a Family Secret.
- Railway Ancestors - George Yalden
- Christmas Party
- Lost in the Fall of Singapore: My search for Leonard Webber - John Bowman
- Causes of Death – Dr Simon Wills
- Maritime Ancestors - Dr Simon Wills
- Members’ Evening: Learning and Sharing
- Open Day at Fleet Library
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Basingstoke Local & Family History Day
- "Victorian Humour" A Magic Lantern Show - Alan Brindle
- Members’ Evening
- Heir Hunters - Beverley Walker
- The Census - George Yalden
- Stories from the Wickham Memorial Project – Jane Painter
- Tracing your London Ancestors - Jane Fox
- Don't Believe Everything You're Told – Jane Fox
- The Role of Women in WW1 - Charles Haskell, Director, World War 1 Remembrance Centre, Fort Widley, Portsmouth
- The Quaker Businesses in Britain - John Avery, presenter of heritage talks
- The Life and Times of Charles Delafaye, an 18th Century Huguenot and Freemason - Graham Mist
- HGS Bookstall will be at the West Surrey FHS Open Day Woking Leisure Centre, Surrey
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- Lest We Forget - Geoff Watts
- Harlots, Dung and Glory: Part 1 - Andrew Negus
- Conscientious Objectors - Jane Hussey
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Latest News
Hardship Cases in a Portsmouth Court – Correction
HGS member David Hall has kindly pointed out an error in the original post I added to the website in October 2014. I had incorrectly stated that William Jeremiah ATRILL married Elizabeth GRIFFITHS on 2 July 1808. These details are correct but the William in the court case was a labourer who married Elizabeth THOMPSON in Alverstoke […]
Latest Village Booklet – No 92 Bramdean – is available now
Bramdean (VB092) is a comprehensive study of the history of this rural Hampshire village and the parish of St Simon and St Jude, along with the tin church on Bramdean Common originally built for the travelling community. It is located nine miles east of Winchester and four miles south-east of Alresford on the A272. A […]
Were you a Beverley Babe?
Beverley Babes The Royal Naval and Royal Marine Maternity Home As Britain prepared for the possibility of going to war with Germany, the Southsea based Royal Naval and Royal Marine Maternity Home, known as Bowland, made plans to evacuate their premises, with patients and staff to be taken to Beverley House, Wickham. On the 1st […]
MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION CORRECTIONS
MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION CORRECTIONS Two errors in the HGS Memorial Inscriptions for Longparish and Southampton Hill Lane Cemetery have recently been found. The one in Longparish is on a memorial inside the church, number 162 in our index, where it gives the dates for William Arthur DURNFORD as being 1653 – 1940. William was obviously not […]
Will of John Biggnall of Kingston
Can an early will help with family trees John Biggnall The early registers for both Portsmouth parishes have disappeared. Later 17 Century registers are not always complete. Trying to trace early families on Portsea Island can be difficult but early wills may help. John BIGGNALL of Kingston wrote his will on 8 February 1684/5 and […]