The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.1 | June 2021

Hampshire Family Historian The

Volume 48 No.1 June 2021

Journal of the Hampshire Genealogical Society

Inside this Issue The Heighes family history • The Reading family and their postcards • The Sandys Family

PLUS: Around the groups • Book Reviews • Your Letters • Research Room

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND TRUSTEES: Stuart Attrill John Bowman Margaret Bowman Elaine Boyes Chris Pavey Paul Pinhorne Fiona Ranger Ann-Marie Shearer Keith Turner Angela Winteridge Phil Brown Kay Lovell Gwen Newland

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Hampshire Family Historian The

Contents

Editorial

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by Stephen Pomeroy Chairman’s Report

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June 2021

Research Centre Report

Vol 48 No.1 • ISSN 0306-6843

HGS News

Feedback

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Farewell

Searchers

Back a bit further

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by John Heighes Members’ Surnames Interest 12 The Reading family and their postcards 18 by Jane Hurst Surnames appearing in this issue 21 The Sandys Family of Hampshire 22 and Surrey by Nick Alexander Book Review 27

Deadline Material for possible inclusion in the September 2021 Family Historian should be received strictly by 23rd July All contributions are, however, appreciated as early as possible. The deadline applies to regular features only. Disclaimer The Hampshire Family Historian is the official publication of the Hampshire Genealogical Society. Material is copyright of the Society and may not be reproduced without written permission. The Hampshire Genealogical Society does not accept responsibility for personal views expressed in this publication, or in any articles. Submission of material The editor welcomes articles, feedback, letters or searchers requests for the journal. Text should be typed in black, with illustrations if appropriate. Send to the HGS Office at the address on the inside front cover marked for the attention of the editor. Please enclose a SAE for return of any photos or other items. Items can also be sent by e-mail to editor@hgs-online.org.uk as Word documents. In this case please send any photos or illustrations as separate image files rather than embedded in the document. You can have them in the document to indicate where they should appear or use placeholders. Images degrade when they are imported and resized when embedded. HGS reserves the right to reproduce submissions in publicity materials and on the society website. Please ALWAYS include a telephone contact — and if a member your membership number. To comply with data protection requirements please state what contact details you want printed in the journal or website, e.g telephone number and/or e-mail and/or address.

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Editorial

Thanks Geoff Palmer has been our main proof reader for many years, his details were passed to me when I took on the role of editor. I do not know when Geoff started as our proof readers work in the background, uncredited. However, Geoff has decided the time has come for him to stand down. Geoff could always be relied on to do a good job of reviewing material for the journal often at short notice as we were laying out the journal and something came in late or we needed another article to fill space. Thanks for all your efforts over the years. Why the deadline? In order to produce the quarterly journal on the contents page you will find the deadline for the next quarter. The date is for the regular items, group reports, news, officer’s reports. These are then proofed before being added to the journal. The first draft of the journal is produced which can mean finding some short filler items so we fill the groups of four pages. Fortunately, Roy Montgomery as well as putting items on the website and producing the village booklets sends in some ‘snippets’ that we can use. The draft journal is then proof read to ensure page headings, cross references and any other missed mistakes in content and style are found. A second draft is produced and checked for the issues found in first proof. The journal is then converted to the version for the website and sent to the printer for the paper copies. When the paper copies are ready, they are sent to despatch for packing and mailing. Message from the editor

On 1st of the month of the quarter the

website version is live and the paper copies should come through the letter box. The process takes about 5 weeks

from the last regular items. If you want to contribute an article it can be sent when you have it ready and will be checked for style and to correct or query any mistakes or clarification then added to the stock ready for the journal. If you wait until the deadline your article will probably not be in the journal until at least the next quarter depending how many are in hand. Unless time related it would be good to have a stock in hand so we know we can keep the journal going. As with articles, items for the searchers should be sent when you have them ready to avoid being delayed until the next quarter. The articles in this issue include: Jane Hurst telling of the research that can be done with the help of messages on the back of postcards. John Heighes writing of his early family in the 1500-1600s. Nick Alexander goes back even further, as far as the 1100s, with the history of the Sandys family. Finally, Julie Martin writes about her ancestors in Netley in 1800-1900s. Stephen Pomeroy Editor

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Message from the Chairman

In the UK we are close to further relaxation of the lockdown guidance, but of course we cannot guarantee that we will be back to normal soon. Currently it looks as if restrictions on numbers meeting inside are still being considered. I am glad we made the decision at the beginning of 2021 to hold a ‘virtual’ AGM this year again. Details are provided on the HGS website and also on the back cover of this edition of the Historian should you wish to join the event. The date and venue of the 2022 AGM has already been decided. We shall follow the same format as in 2019 with guest speakers giving talks throughout the day. The local Hampshire Groups have not reconvened though most are continuing with a ‘virtual’ meeting using Zoom. Of course nothing will replace the opportunity to meet with fellow researchers and have a good old chinwag. We still have a number of members that are unable to join these meetings as they do not have the necessary computer or broadband, so they have missed the opportunity to meet up with fellow members for over 15 months. I am pleased that the International Group appears to be a success with Fiona and Kay receiving many complimentary emails. As you can imagine it is difficult to hold these meetings at a time suitable for all overseas members, but we are trying to compromise. I am hopeful an Out of County Group will start at some time in the future. The using of video- conferencing will not go away; it will continue to be an added benefit to the HGS. Many members will know that for 10 years we have had a Research Centre and Office in Cosham. This year the lease expires on the

property and the pandemic has given the Executive Committee opportunity to consider how we should move forward. A sub- committee was set up to consider several options; should HGS remain in

Portsmouth or perhaps move to a venue more central to our membership; in the future will we require the size of premises we currently have; how can we utilise IT to allow us to provide a service that is more beneficial to all our members; and how can we reduce our financial liability and many more. I am extremely pleased to announce that subject to Licence agreement, the HGS will develop a partnership with Hampshire Archives and Local Studies in Winchester and relocate the Research Centre in the Hampshire Record Office. HGS will be able to promote itself to a larger number of people who are researching their family history. When visiting the new Research Centre you will have ready access to far more Hampshire records and documents to aid your research. I would like to thank all our past and current volunteers based in Cosham and hope they will feel comfortable to relocate to Winchester. Keep and eye on our Website for further details in the next few weeks. Well enjoy reading the June Journal and ‘Good Hunting’ Paul Pinhorne Chairman

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HGS News

Front cover picture

The four- masted ship

'Port Jackson'. See Searchers on page 8 for more details. Research Centre Report As you will have read in our Chairman’s letter, HGS is on the move to Hampshire Record Office (HRO) in Winchester. All our Research Centre material, books, maps indexes etc, plus all our office administration must now be packed and moved to our new premises. During the course of the move for next few months we are unable to accept any further donated material, so please hold on to this until later this year. Thank you. We are currently identifying what we need to keep, what can be scanned, what should be stored and what we may be able to dispose of. These will be items not directly relevant to Hampshire research such as books on counties that do not directly adjoin Hampshire. These books, and other items such as some CDs, will be offered freely and firstly to HGS members, although the cost of any postage will need to be paid. The ‘out of county’ books etc we are offering are for: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, East Anglia, Devon, Essex, London,

Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Yorkshire. We also have books on Australia, Channel Islands, Germany, Scotland and South Africa. All the books can be found on our Research Centre Catalogue on the website. Please contact the Research Centre on researchmanager@hgs- online.org.uk if you are interested in any of the offers. When we move to Winchester, we will be welcoming some of our usual, as well as new, volunteers to our new premises. Some of our volunteers will also be continuing by working remotely from home. However, we also sadly know that some of our volunteers will not be able to join us at Winchester or work from home. We would like to thank everyone for all their commitment and very hard work at Cosham office (and previously at Drayton office) and we hope to see many of you at Winchester either as a regular or new volunteer Chris Pavey HGS Research Centre Manager

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In the news 100 years ago

Jane Hurst, of the Alton group found the following: A Reading newspaper of 1821 has an article on their census which took place 200 years ago. ‘Population - By the Act 1. Geo. 4. C. 94. S. 2. the Overseers with the assistance of the Churchwardens, &c. of every parish and place in England, are bound, on the 28th of this month, (May) to take an account of the number of persons therein, and inform themselves by going from house to house of certain particulars, and prepare answers to questions according to the form of certain schedules annexed to the Act. And the better to enable the Overseers, &c. to make such answers and returns, they and the persons assisting them, are authorised to ask such questions of the persons within the parish, &c. respecting themselves and the number and quality of the persons constituting their respective families as shall be necessary for stating the particulars required to be stated, concerning them in the said answers and returns. For every person refusing to answer or wilfully giving a false answer to such questions, or any of them, for every such refusal or false answer, forfeit not exceeding £5 nor less than 40s.’ A farm labourer earned about 4s (20p) a day so a 40s fine was about 10 day’s pay or 10 days without food or rent. The £5 fine was

about 25 day’s pay which would have caused serious hardship for a worker and his family. The third census of Great Britain (i.e. England, Scotland and Wales) was taken on Monday 28th May 1821. The returns gave a population of 14.4 million people, an increase of 1.8 million over 1811. The details recorded for each parish, township, or place were: • Number of inhabited houses, occupied by how many families • Number of houses being built • Number of uninhabited houses • How many persons, how many male, how many female • How many households are chiefly employed in agriculture; how many in trade, manufactures, or handicraft; and how many in neither • The number of persons broken down into age ranges, male and female. Details of individuals and their names were not recorded. This census was the first to try and measure the age range of the population in age range bands of 5 years up to 20 years, otherwise in 10 year bands. Approximately 50% of the population was under 20 (in contrast to about 25% today).

With the unpredictable situation surrounding Coronavirus, the society took the decision to close the Research Centre when the first lockdown was announced, until further notice. HGS Research Centre 52 Northern Road, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3DB

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The HGS Bookshop

At Hampshire Genealogical Society we have a huge range of products to help you research your family history and add context to your ancestor’s lives. Our most popular products are our Parish Register CD’s which cover over 500 years of Hampshire records. But have you considered how Monumental Inscriptions might help your research? Available in either CD or download format they are a useful way to connect familial relationships. We also stock books produced by the WEA which provide oral histories of various areas around Portsmouth. Alongside our collection of Alan Godfrey

your Hampshire ancestors. https://www.hgs-familyhistory.com/shop

maps and Eve McLaughlin guides we have everything you need to research

Feedback In our efforts to comply with GDPR we were a bit over zealous in the March Journal In the Searchers Section there was an item on Thomas Compton but we did not include any contact details, these should have been:

Veronica Munday, member No. #15386 The Forge Lyburn Road Hamptworth SP5 2DP ronjoan.munday@btinternet.com Telephone 07526 715924

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Do You Follow the HGS Facebook Page?

If your answer is, “No,” you don’t know what you’re missing! Every day, at least one new ‘post’ appears comprising any of the following: • information about HGS meetings and events • news of genealogical or social history events in Hampshire • details of national and international family history/genealogical events

research or acquire ideas for approaching problems differently. You can post your own questions or message us at HGS with queries and comments. You may even make contact with someone else researching the same Hampshire people or places that you are. It’s definitely worth it so why not go to https://www.facebook.com/HGSfamilyhistory and give it a try? Kay Lovell

• tips to help with your research • comments from like-minded ‘followers’ of the page • photographs of places and people of Hampshire • a few snippets of humour and thoughts to ponder By checking it out regularly, you’ll keep up-to-date with what’s going on. Not only that, you’ll pick up hints to improve your

Records Offices

As you will be aware these are closed again. So once the government restrictions

lift you will need to look at the websites or ring to find out the situation.

FAREWELL

If you would like your loved ones to be remembered here, please email: editor@hgs-online.org.uk

Member #6877 Member #6698 Member #12686

Mrs Brenda Atkinson from Southampton

Delphine Sillence from Romsey

Yvonne Jone s from Marouba, New South Wales, Australia

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Searchers

If you would like your request to be included in this section, please submit a brief, but specific, email or letter of enquiry or send a 'Word' based article with relevant names (and particularly your own name and address) detailed in BLOCK CAPITALS to Editor, Hampshire Genealogical Society, 52 Northern Road, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3DP. Please advise what contact details you want printed in the journal along with your query – email, telephone number, postal address, or via HGS Office, research@hgs-online.org.uk Please be patient as acknowledgement or reply will not be made except through this journal. Searche

Photographs and illustrations are gladly accepted: – 300 dpi resolution jpegs by email attachment or on CD are welcome or laser colour photocopies (never ordinary ones) or black and white original pictures. All can be returned if you request it and supply an SAE. If sending original photographs through the post, please use a protective board envelope. EMAIL: searchers@hgs-online.org.uk and please always quote a full postal address for those without computers. If this is not done, your request may well be disregarded.

Abbreviations used: b = born, bap = baptised, bd = buried, c. = circa, C = Century, d. = died, mrd = married. Members are reminded that these pages are compiled from letters etc. that may have been written months beforehand, so postal addresses should always be checked for up to date changes.

John Hoar (Member #6419) john.e.n.hoar@gmail.com

Peter Callaghan

I would be grateful for research suggestions to discover what happened to Peter, who disappeared from records in 1907, at the age of 53, having sailed as master on the tanker 'Terek'. On 6 September 1907 he was relieved as master in Hamburg, in what appears to have been a routine change, after which no record of him can be found.

Peter was born on 7th January 1854 in Hardway, Gosport to Peter and Sylvestry (nee BARNETT ) CALLAGHAN , the youngest of six children. The family had moved to Under Shore, Clarence Square, Gosport at the time of the 1861 Census. In 1870 Peter went to sea as a 'boy' with the War Department Fleet, supplying ships of the Royal Navy with armaments and equipment. By the time of the 1871 Census, the

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family was now living in Spring Street, Portsea, albeit a smaller family since most of his older siblings left home. In 1878 he obtained his Second Mates Certificate of Competency and embarked on a career in sailing ships, mostly to Australia. His first ship as Third Mate was the three-masted iron hull square-rig ship 'Old

The ship's Agreement and Account of Crew ('Crew List') records his last voyage as master on the 'Terek' on 4 June 1907 from London, giving his home address as Luton Road, Chatham. The 'Terek' made a round voyage to Kustendje (Constanta, Romania), returning to Hamburg on 31 August, when he was relieved by Captain Davies on 6th September in what was recorded as a routine handover.

Kensington' to Melbourne. Over the next twenty years he rose to become mate and master on square rig sailing ships, including the 'Mermerus' (to Melbourne in 1880) and 'Star of Russia' (to San Francisco, via Cape Horn in 1887). His last ship was the four-masted ship 'Port Jackson' to Australia in 1898. Although there is no evidence of them ever meeting, Peter was a contemporary of Joseph Conrad, who was at sea on sailing ships during the same period. By the turn of the century, the transition of merchant shipping from sail to steam power was well under way and Peter moved to bulk oil tankers, first as mate, then master. His first tanker was the 'Caucasian' , managed by Lane and MacAndrew. During the next seven years he served with the same company on voyages to the Black Sea and the USA, where refineries were producing kerosene from local oil fields. In March 1906 he joined the tanker 'Terek' first as mate, then master for a series of round

Unfortunately, that is where Peter's record ends. Presumably he returned home to Chatham, near where his married brother Charles Callaghan also lived and who was a master with the War Department Fleet. At the age of 53, presumably Peter had a few years of sea service left. Having been with the same company for 7 years, there would have been little incentive for him to change company or career. There is no record of him ever marrying, nor a death certificate. However, there was a seemingly unrelated event - his brother Charles, now retired, tragically committed suicide at home a few months later on 22 May 1908.

Terek

voyages to Batoum (Russia), Port Arthur and Philadelphia (USA).

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Member’s article

Back a bit further One of the advantages of belonging to a family history society is that if you are able to contribute in some way – writing a note for this journal, (especially if you live outside of the county and cannot get to meetings), or giving a talk at a meeting, other members get to know your needs and send information from sources which might have been missed. Much of the early records I have in my own family history, have been sent to me by other members and friends. The HEIGHES family history, obtained mainly from the parish records of East Worldham and Selborne goes back to Edward, whose will was made in 1684 and who died in 1689 and although no information has been found which allows a tree to be extended any further back than this, other information has given a strong indication of what the earlier tree might be, together with links with other branches of the family with no male heirs, which died out in the 17th and 18th centuries. The readable parish records for East Worldham go back to 1690, but I once gave a talk to a ladies group in the village, when one of the members, who said that her husband had been Churchwarden, gave me a list of Churchwardens he had compiled, which showed members of the Heighes family too had been Churchwardens during the period 1627 to 1785, a valuable confirmation of which members of the family were living in East Worldham at a particular time. A most remarkable piece of research was provided by Jane Hurst, Group Leader of the Alton Group, who had found many references to the Heighes family in documents held in the

Curtis Museum in Alton. The earliest with the same spelling (there were earlier “might be’s”), was dated 1228, when “Commission of the farm in the vill of Aulton” contained the name of Laurence de Heighes. A document of 1268 concerns John de Heighes and his wife Agnes. Simon de Heighes, a son of Simon de Heighes was born in 1338 and in 1427, John de Heyghes died, his son and heir being John de Heyghes. A tree for the continuation of this line in Bindsted, can be constructed from the bequests made in wills. The earliest will we have is that of Henry, of Hay Place, Binsted, dated 1530. Bequests are made to send to school, “Harry, my brother’s son and Harry CLIFTON my sister’s son.” Also are revealed Henry’s two brothers, Edmund and Richard. The will states that Henry expects his brother Edmund would live at Hay Place. (In the wills, the house is always referred to as Hay Place, not Heigh Place as in the Victoria County Histories) It is probable that the Harry whose schooling benefitted from this will, is the Henry Heighes of Benstede, whose will is dated January 1559, stating that he made his will “at my going to Spain” This mentions his mother-in- law but no wife or children. Bequests were made to his brothers, Myles and Thomas and his sisters Elizabeth and Jone, who was likely to marry Robert LAKE . He then names the children of his brother Richard, the principal beneficiary being Henry. It was a cousin with whom I share a 3 X great- grandfather, Paul Kite, who discovered in The History of Parliament, The Commons, that Henry Heighes of Binsted (will of 1559), had

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been elected as one of two members for Midhurst, in 1555 and 1559. He is stated to be the son of Edmund Heighes and the servant of Anthony Browne, 1st. Viscount Montagu, The record states that Viscount Montagu and Sir Thomas Chamberlain were appointed as Ambassadors to King Phillip of Spain; the party left Plymouth at the end of February, reaching Toledo on 18 March, starting their return journey at the end of June. The report concludes that, “Heighes died shortly after his return, his will being proved in March 1561”.

We have found no will for Henry, his heir. He and his family are fitted into the family tree through a memorial plaque dated 18 November 1595, in the bay of the north window of the chancel of Binsted church and a record published by The Harleian Society, of the Visitation to Hampshire made in 1575, naming three sons. The plaque confirms that Henry was the son of Richard Heighes, gentleman and husband of Thomasina, daughter of Geoffrey UPTON , knight and that they had nine sons, “of whom Nicholas, Edward and John are living” and six daughters. Although Henry had nine sons, no evidence has been found that any of the sons gave him surviving grand-sons. This seems to be confirmed by the will of Henry’s son, Edward, who left his property to his “sister’s, daughter’s eldest son”, Samuel WOODFORD , great grandfather of Parson Woodforde the

Memorial in Binstead Church

diarist. Reference to A Short History and Description of the Town of Alton, by William Curtis, reveals that Edward was a J.P., particularly active during the Commonwealth. He conducted marriages and on 1 October 1653, Robert Bushell was sworn in by Edward as the Register (sic). Of the six daughters of Henry, we may have the names of three of them; Susanah who married Robert HAUNCH , the grandmother of Samuel Woodford, the principle beneficiary of Edward’s will of 1652, Mary, the wife of Laurence GALE of Alton and Thomasine who married John KITCHENER of Binsted.

Continued on page 31

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Members’ Surname Interests Database

Members’ Surname Interests Database

Please continue to check the members’ interests webpage at http://www.hgs- familyhistory.com/research-resources/me mbers-interests/ for latest details and service updates that will be announced there first. Members’ interests are published quarterly in this journal. There is a restriction in each journal of publishing a maximum of 15 entries per person to keep the journal to a manageable size. Such a constraint does not apply to the database, however, so it is possible to add further interests - within reason! Updates to your surname interests can be made online by following the examples on the page or by post. It is also possible to remove redundant entries, and this is encouraged - deletions are not notified in the journal; they simply won't remain in the database. Updates should be BLOCK printed and submitted in the format used in the following section or as shown on the form on members’ interests webpage. The county Chapman Codes are published at least once in any yearly HFH volume and should be used when submitting interests, e.g. HAM for Hampshire etc. Please note that addresses published in this section refer only to members who have submitted their interests. All enquiries and queries concerning this section should be sent by post to the Research Centre at the HGS Office (address on inside front cover), or go to www.hgs-familyhistory.com/members- interests-signup, or by email to membersinterests@hgs-online.org.uk.

N. B. Changes to email addresses will no longer be noted in the journal as many are already obsolete when published. Please contact the HGS Office for a member's current details if you encounter problems But please remember to inform the Membership Secretary (membership@hgs-online.org.uk) of any changes to either your current email or home address. In the following table the interests are in groups with the members details after the names they are interested in. Notes (‘1900’ given as example of ‘date’):

1900 + = after that date; pre 1900 = before that date; c 1900 = circa (about) that date (+/- 5 yrs); C 20 = xx th. Century; parish a = area around parish

Remember that your addresses are your contact point, so keep them up to date. If communicating by post remember that an SAE is essential these days, as not everyone has email. Please note that HGS cannot guarantee a response to any enquiry made of a member. If you are able to help other members with their research please contact Membership Interests via e-mail at membersinterests@hgs-online.org.uk , your details will then be passed onto the other member so you can discuss the family.

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If you do not have access to e-mail then send your details to the society office at the address inside the front cover, marked for Members Interests, and your details will be passed on. Finally if you add your members interest

online via the website please make sure you include the surname of interest, there have ben several instances in the quarterly update for the journal which have all the areas and dates, your name but not who you are researching!”

Abraham Surname Annetts Anstey Arlett Arnold Attrill Baker BALFRY Barfoot Barnard Barry Bavage Bayman beagley Belsham Bennett

County

Parish

Date span Researcher

Member #

HAM Gosport, Portsea, 1680-1950 Birch, Lisa

15429

Portsmouth

HAM All

Blackman, Phillip Lawrie, Jacquie

15470 15486 14178 15440 15496 15440 14141 15440 15475 15455 15490 15423 15449 13952 15440 15387 15446 15407 15427 15470 15486 15396 15440 15185 15399 15423 14141 13952 15470 15468 14758 15473 15389 15484 15486 14522 15456 15456 15456 14053 15140 15378

All

All

HAM Elvetham

1650-1800 Wood, Angela

All

All

Smith, Zoe Terry, Allison Smith, Zoe

HAM Portsea

All All All

All All All

1815+ Britton, Christopher

Smith, Zoe

HAM Crondall

1650-1847 Butcher, Shayne

All

All

Reeves, Sarah Turner, Rob Mitchell, James

HAM All

HAM Newtown

-1850

HAM All LND MDX All

1700+ Turner, Vivien 1800-1900 Buckle, Derek

All

All

Smith, Zoe Kelcher, Jean

Bennett or BennetAll

Milford

Bezant

WIL

All All

1800+ Upton, Jenny

BILLIMORE

All

Dennett, Linda Fox, Rachel Blackman, Phillip Lawrie, Jacquie

Birch

HAM Warnford

Blackman Blackman

HAM All

All

All

Boyles

HAM & SSX Warblington, Pagham 1700-1900 Field, Joyce

and Bosham

Bramley Brewer Brider BRITTON Buckle Budd Bunch Bunn Burnett Burrill CARR Bright

All All All

All All All

Smith, Zoe Sandy, George

1750-1860 Davies, Ewart

HAM Newtown

-1850

Mitchell, James Britton, Christopher Blackman, Phillip Bunch, Grace Hedges, Jonathan

All

All

HAM SSX All HAM All HAM All

1700-1900 Buckle, Derek

-1870

All

All

HAM Isle of wight HAM All HAM WIDLEY

1779-1850 Burnett, Gerald

Evans, Dorothy

1940-1975 Dack, Karen

Carr

All

All

Lawrie, Jacquie

Carter

HAM St Peter and St Paul, 1740-1870 Firth, Margaret

Hambledon

Carter

HAM All HAM All HAM All

1890-1970 Thompson, Jo 1750-1900 Thompson, Jo 1750-1900 Thompson, Jo

Cavander Cavender Chalcraft Churcher

HAM Alton/Alresford 1790-1930 Chalcraft, John

HAM All

1690-2020 Foxall, Alan

Clark

All

All

Bidder, Diane

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Surname Interest County

Parish

Date span Researcher

Member #

Cobden COLE Collins

All All

All All

-1850

Barnes, Gary

14517 14141 15396 15354 15403 15140 15438 15427 15423 14758 15438 15280 15456 15396 15429 15407 15395 14768 14702 15461 15389 14378 15420 6319 15486 15427 15456 15352 14247 15371 15391 15140 15140 15396 6319 15388 15389 15295 8481 7838 15460 14378 14378 15401 15401 14781 15481 15456 14869 15389

1700+ Britton, Christopher 1750-1900 Field, Joyce

SSX

Funtington and Westbourne

Cook

HAM Basingstoke

1900+ Weller, Ryan 1600-1900 Corney, Chris

Corney Costar

All All

All All

Foxall, Alan Kreloff, Stuart Fox, Rachel Mitchell, James Hedges, Jonathan

Coulthard Couzens

HAM All

HAM Titchfield

Cox Cox

HAM Burghclere/Newtown

All

All

Cross

OXF

Gt Haseley

1700+ Kreloff, Stuart 1750-1930 Wood Ashton, April 1790-1870 Thompson, Jo 1700-1800 Field, Joyce

Cruttenden Cummins Dawkins Dear/Deer DENNETT

SSX KEN

All

HAM All

SSX

Funtington

HAM Gosport

1700-1850 Birch, Lisa

All All All All

All All All All

Dennett, Linda

Dodd Doolan Drant Dutch Eames

Cox, Gill

HAM Gosport

1900-1970 Wallin, Malcolm 1850+ Reed, Ann B 1800-2022 Dutch, Andrew 1640+ Evans, Dorothy 1700-1850 Edwards, Nettie 1500-2000 Gardiner, Mary E 1800-1900 Thompson, Jo 1600-1900 Fielder, Greg 1815-1870 Firmin, John 1800-1950 Weston, Dave 1940-1999 Pain, Pippa 1790-2020 Foxall, Alan 1800-1790 Foxall, Alan 1750-1850 Field, Joyce Jones, Mike Lawrie, Jacquie Fox, Rachel

HAM All HAM All

Eastman ECKETT ELSWOOD Everett Faithfull Ferguson Fielder Firmin Foster Fowler Foxall Franklin Freeborn

HAM BRAMLEY

All All

All All

HAM Shedfield

GSY

All

HAM All

HAM Southampton

All

All

HAM All HAM All

All

All

HAM Warblington

FRY

SOM West Chinnock and 1600-2000 Gardiner, Mary E

surrounding parishes

Futcher Futcher

All

All

Futcher, Edward

HAM Durley/Alvington 1720+ Evans, Dorothy

Gale

HAM All

Gale, Kevin

Gandy Gates

All

All

Budgen, Martin K Maynard, Christine H

SRY

Woking

-1860

Germain Glasbey Glasby Glasspole Godding

HAM alverstoke

1700-1850 Langford, Claire

All All

All All

Jones, Mike Jones, Mike

HAM St. Marys

1600-2020 Bywater, Anne Rowena

HAM St. Marys Portsea 1600-2020 Bywater, Anne Rowena

Gould Green

HAM Boldre HAM All HAM All HAM & DEV All

1774-1853 Monaghan, Sandra 1840+ JenkinsRobinson, Claire

Gregory Griffin

1750-1950 Thompson, Jo 1910+ Atrill, Sue

Guy

HAM Bishop Waltham/ 1720+ Evans, Dorothy

Owslebury/East Meon/Candovers

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Surname Interest County

Parish

Date span Researcher

Member #

GUYATT Haines Hannam Harding Hawkins Hawkins HAYES Haynes HAYTER Hellyer Hinxman Hiscock Hiscock Hiscot Hiscott Holland Holland Holloway Holloway Holman Homan Honey Horner Hughes Hill

All

Weyhill

Guyett, Jeffery Armstrong, Janet

15441 15443 15456 15396 14726 14728 15440 6319 15443 15452 15396 15423 15421 15387 14882 15387 15387 14942 15437 15423 15438 14094 14094 15438 15458 15492 15438 15438 15420 15414 15185 15396 14573 14573 14573 13569 14571 15433 15445 15405 14136 15429 15427 14430 14416 15396 15461 15418

HAM All HAM Portsea HAM Warblington HAM All HAM Hursley

1750-1900 Thompson, Jo 1700-1850 Field, Joyce 1700-1900 Wakeham, Peter 1849-1900 Heaney, Melita

Hannington

All

All

Smith, Zoe

HAM Hursley,

1600-1900 Gardiner, Mary E

Otterbourne, North/South Stoneham

HAM All

Armstrong, Janet Hayter, Kenneth

HAM Ringwood HAM Portsea and HAM Newtown HAM Hale Porchester

1700-1900 Field, Joyce

-1840

Mitchell, James Downard, Paula Kelcher, Jean Kelcher, Jean Kelcher, Jean Arnett, Katie Holland, Peter Mitchell, James Kreloff, Stuart

All

All

HAM Portsmouth/Botley 1750-1850 Bradford, Margaret

All All

All All All

LDN

HAM Brockenhurst HAM Burghclere SOM Crewkerne SOM Crewkerne DEV All

-1850

1700-1890 Mitchell, Maeve 1700-1890 Mitchell, Maeve 1880-2000 Kreloff, Stuart 1750-1830 Horner, Charles

HAM All

All

All

HAM All

Hughes, Kirsty Kreloff, Stuart Kreloff, Stuart Edwards, Nettie

Ilett Ilott

OXF OXF

All All

ILSLEY

HAM STRATFIELDSAYE/ -1900

BRAMLEY

Ilsley Ings

HAM All

1700-1850 Dixon, Sasha

All

All All

Sandy, George

Isemonger Jarman Jarman Jermaine

SSX

1650-1900 Field, Joyce 1770+ McHale, Sue 1740+ McHale, Sue 1740+ McHale, Sue 1800-1860 Hart, Brian C 1801-2001 Boutayre, Ken 1850-2010 Keeping, Paul

HAM All HAM All HAM All

Jervis Joyce

All

Marshall, Rosanna

HAM Longstock

Keeping Keeping

All

All

HAM All

Kent

HAM Andover, Winchester 1600-1900 Low, Annette

and Swanmore areas

Kimber

HAM All HAM Gosport HAM Titchfield HAM Hordle HAM Basingstoke HAM & SSX Warblington,

Tolley, Emma

Kind King King

1710-1850 Birch, Lisa

Fox, Rachel

1765+ Warner, Sally 1816-1900 Gregory, Genni 1750-1900 Field, Joyce 1800-2022 Dutch, Andrew 1869-1890 Lewis, Brett

Lambden Leggett

Emsworth; Littlehampton

Levy Lewis

All

All

HAM Hannington

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Surname Interest County

Parish

Date span Researcher

Member #

Linden

HAM Winchester and

1700-1850 Field, Joyce

15396

Southampton

Linington

HAM All HAM All

1700-1850 Monopolis, Jennifer 1800-1900 Thompson, Jo

15109 15456 15469 15469 15429 15429 15362 12768 15396 15409 15389 15438 15467 14378 15467 15467 15461 15396 15438 14061 15427 15440 9681 15436 15491 15438 15280 15436 13952 13952 13952 15362 15388 15420 15388 15086 15453 15109 14416 14571 15438 15420 15440 14205 15396 13694 6319 15427 15429 15389

Loe

Loftin Lofting

All All

All All

Lofting, Phil Lofting, Phil

Lovingham HAM Gosport Luffingham HAM Gosport

1680-1900 Birch, Lisa 1680-1900 Birch, Lisa 1860-1999 Polling, Vanessa 1800-2020 Martin, Julie 1700-1800 Field, Joyce 1918-1923 Fargher, June

Lytton

HAM All DBY HAM All

MARSHALL

Martin

HAM Southampton

Mary Jackson HAM calshot

Mayhew

HAM All

Evans, Dorothy

Mills

HAM Southampton HAM Wherwell HAM Chilbolton HAM Chilbolton HAM All

1700-1900 Kreloff, Stuart

Monday Moody Munday Mundy Murphy Norgate

Mundy, Andy Jones, Mike Mundy, Andy Mundy, Andy

All

All

1800-2022 Dutch, Andrew

SSX

Westhampnett and 1700-1800 Field, Joyce

Funtington

Norgate

HAM All HAM All

1700-2000 Kreloff, Stuart 1886+ Harrison, Deborah

Pain

Paskins Phillips Phillips Picton Pilcher Pocock Postans Poston Postons Potter Prichard Purkis PURLE Rastrick Rawlins Raynham Rodaway ROGERS Rogers Rogers Pincombe Pine Pritchard

HAM St Mary Extra

Fox, Rachel Smith, Zoe

All

All

HAM Longstock

1776+ Bradley, Desni 1750+ Stewart, Peter

IOW All HAM All

Hartley, Carolyn Kreloff, Stuart

All

All

HAM Farnborough

1915-1925 Wood Ashton, April 1750+ Stewart, Peter 1780-1850 Buckle, Derek 1780-1850 Buckle, Derek 1780-1850 Buckle, Derek 1800-1999 Polling, Vanessa

IOW All HEF SAL All HEF SAL All HEF SAL All HAM All

All

All

Futcher, Edward Edwards, Nettie Futcher, Edward Purkis, Rowan

PRIOR/PRYOR HAM Dummer/Tadley -1820

All

All

HAM Portsea

All

All

Purle, Janet

HAM All HAM Overton HAM Stockbridge

1800-1940 Monopolis, Jennifer 1780-1841 Gregory, Genni 1880-1900 Hart, Brian C 1700-2000 Kreloff, Stuart 1750-1850 Gaulton, David 1700-1750 Field, Joyce 1700-1850 Ricketts, Elisabeth 1600-1900 Gardiner, Mary E Smith, Zoe

All

All

HAM STRATIFIELDSAYE 1700-1850 Edwards, Nettie

All All

All All

ROY

SSX HAM NFK

Pagham Bighton

Ruffell

SAMPSON

Kings Lynn and NW Norfolk

Samways

HAM Droxford HAM Gosport

Fox, Rachel

Sandercomb(e)

1750-1920 Birch, Lisa 1650+ Evans, Dorothy

Savage

HAM All

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Surname Interest County

Parish

Date span Researcher

Member #

Savage Sayce Scarvill Shawyer Silsbury Simpson

All

All

Lawrie, Jacquie

15486 15481 15396 15427 15409 15389 15438 15389 14726 14702 14136 15395 15396 14571 15436 15436 14061 15455 15387 15387 15387 13694 15415 15387 15440 15443 15443 15433 15415 14094 15461 14522 15290 15428 13694 14942 12627 15438 15476 15423 15354 15420 15470 15270 15486 15425 15484 6319

HAM All

1834+ JenkinsRobinson, Claire

SSX

Lyminster and Littlehampton

1700-1900 Field, Joyce

HAM Droxford HAM southampton HAM Old Alresford/

Fox, Rachel

1900-1925 Fargher, June 1730+ Evans, Dorothy

Winchester/Basingstoke/Candovers/Wiel

Slade Smith South

HAM All

1800-2000 Kreloff, Stuart

HAM Widley & Wymering 1750+ Evans, Dorothy

HAM All

1700-1900 Wakeham, Peter 1800+ Reed, Ann B

Spencer Stallard Stanbrook Stevens

MIddx

All

HAM Portsea HAM East woodhay

Tolley, Emma

Cox, Gill

SSX

Funtington and Westbourne

1700-1850 Field, Joyce

Stevens Steward Stewart

HAM Longstock

1820-1890 Hart, Brian C 1750+ Stewart, Peter 1750+ Stewart, Peter 1837+ Harrison, Deborah

IOW All IOW All

Stone

HAM Isle of white

Stotesbury Stratten

All All All

All All All

Reeves, Sarah Kelcher, Jean Kelcher, Jean Kelcher, Jean

Strattin

Stratton or Stratten or Strattin All

All

Stride Suter Thorn Tickner Tillen Tilling Towers Trout Tucker Turton

HAM HAM

Eling

1700-1900 Ricketts, Elisabeth

All All All

Cusack, Georgina Suter

All All

Kelcher, Jean Smith, Zoe

HAM All HAM All

Armstrong, Janet Armstrong, Janet

All

All

1892-1950 Boutayre, Ken 1750-1820 Cusack, Georgina Suter 1700-1890 Mitchell, Maeve 1800-2022 Dutch, Andrew

HAM All

DOR

Chard

All

All

Tyre

HAM St Peter and St Paul, 1740-1870 Firth, Margaret

Hambledon

Vare

HAM All

1700+ Hooper, Elaine

Vaughan

HAM South Stoneham 1700+ Munday, Sarah

Webb Welch Wells

HAM Fawley London All HAM Selborne

1700-1850 Ricketts, Elisabeth

Arnett, Katie

1620+ Wells, Ray D

Wheavil Wheeler White Whiting WILMOTT Wisdom Woolfe Woolford

All All

All All

Kreloff, Stuart Wickham, Martin Mitchell, James

HAM Burghclere/Newtown HAM Portsmouth,

1950+ Weller, Ryan

Fareham

HAM DUMMER/TADLEY -1800

Edwards, Nettie Blackman, Phillip Oldfield, Adrian Lawrie, Jacquie

HAM All HAM All

All

All

Wyatt Wyatt

HAM Dibden HAM Portsmouth

1750+ Wyatt, Mike

Dack, Karen

Young & variants HAM Ringwood, Burley

1600-2000 Gardiner, Mary E

and surrounding parishes

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The Reading family and their postcards When helping with the research for an article on the history of ‘Normandy Street School, Alton’ (for ‘Alton Papers no.20’), found in the school attic was a document which showed that Laura READING was An agreement dated early 1888 between the Managers of the Girls’ British School and Laura and her father provides for her to be engaged as a pupil-teacher under a certified teacher. Interestingly, no mention of Laura has been found so far in the log books of the

apprenticed as a pupil-teacher at the school. This led to some research into Laura’s background. Laura Reading’s grandfather, George, was born in Mattingley in Hampshire but was living in Alton by 1842. He was a wheelwright and he and his wife Sarah moved to Holybourne for a while before returning to Alton. The 1851 census shows that the children of the family were Eliza (10), George (7), James (4) and Mary Ann (5 months) and that they were living near Spicer’s Paper Mill. George READING junior became a gardener and went to work for Frederick CROWLEY on his new estate at Ashdell in Alton. Stretching from near Kings Pond to Windmill Hill, the grounds were landscaped and a new house built in the early 1870s. George and his wife, Jane Susannah, settled in one of the Ashdell Cottages, which were in the grounds and accessed from Windmill Hill. The area included a kitchen garden, stabling, and model farm. The other cottage was occupied by the coachman. George and Jane had daughters Jane Ann, Laura Elizabeth and Alice Helena and then a son George Frederick. Sadly, daughter, Jane died in 1889 aged only 17 and was buried in Alton Cemetery. By the 1891 census, George was still a gardener at Ashdell, while Laura was a schoolmistress and Alice was a dressmaker. George aged 14 was still at school.

school where the Headteacher was E M Worth and the other staff named were Agnes Wilson, H? Merrett, Kate Carpenter and Ethel Hockley. In 1910, Frederick CROWLEY died aged 84 and the Ashdell estate was then sold to Mr Guy FERRAND . George READING senior moved to 3 [Old] Acre Road in 1913; and two years later, in 1915, his son George Frederick aged 38, a carpenter, died in January. His wife Jane Susanna aged 77 in March. George stayed on in Old Acre Road, dying himself in July 1931 aged 87. The family are buried in After the publication of the Normandy Street School article in 2016, I forgot about Laura and her family until some old postcards of the Alton area were acquired:- When researching Normandy Street School, we had not found out where Laura Reading went to teach but, on looking at the messages on the back of the cards, something sounded familiar. The surname and the address of a couple of senders – ‘3 Acre Road, Alton’. Here are the cards in date order: ––––––––––––––––––––––– ‘21 Sep. 1904. Miss Reading, ‘Grassmere’, Mildmay Road, Chelmsford Dear Siss Many thanks for postcard. I hope you have not already got one like this. Hope you are settling adjacent plots in Alton Cemetery. Laura never married and died in the Portsmouth district in 1970.

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down into harness alright again. With love Ethel.’ [Was this Ethel Hockley who taught at Normandy Street School?] ––––––––––––––––––––––– ‘5 Mar 1909. Miss Reading, Lynn House, Park Road, Chelmsford Dear Sissie Pater thanks you for Pilgrims of the night he is thankful we do not have them this cold weather how are you do you like this weather I do not it is much too cold & is lasting such a long time, good Friday will soon be here so don’t forget.’ [From brother George?] Was this note referring to ‘The ––––––––––––––––––––––– ‘18 Mar 1909 . Miss Reading, Lynn House, 16 Park Road, Chelmsford, Essex Dear Siss, we are glad to hear you are quite well, we are all very well & would be better if the weather got warmer. It as [sic] been very cold & last Saturday was a dreadful day it was like going through a pond. I will write on Sunday, with love Alice.’ [From Sister Alice] Pilgrims of the Night’ by Frederick William Faber?

Kingsley

Bentley Post Office card

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‘8 Jan. 1912 . Miss Reading, 29 Hill Road, Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex Dear S, Your Box was sent off today let us know if you get it alright. Sharp Frost this morning & now it is raining quite hard hope you got home safely love from us all. I am yours G.R.’ [From her brother George?] ––––––––––––––––––––––– ‘2 May 1912 . Miss Reading, 29 Hill Road, Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex Dear S, 3 Acre Rd. Many thanks for smokes which came to hand quite safe. They are quite alright. I am pleased to say we are going on about the same & keeping as well as usual, spring cleaning has commenced if you know what that means I am not used to it yet but I think I shall survive the storm nice weather here goodbye with love from all G.B.’ [The first surviving card with the address 3 Acre Road]. ––––––––––––––––––––––– ‘1 Oct 1917 . Miss Reading, 28 Broomfield Rd., Chelmsford, Essex. Dear S. 3 Acre Rd., Alton I received the Parcel quite safe hope you are quite well through all this dreadful times, we are

Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital and College, Alton

Ashdell Bridge, Alton

Crown Hill in the centre of Alton

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