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

Local Group Programmes

inserts and envelopes. However, be aware there are a lot of forgeries. A most interesting talk – I am off to search my postcard collection as I write. Forthcoming Meetings:

Sons of the Soil: Researching our agricultural labouring ancestors Janet Few - via Zoom

9th June

Contact: John Heighes, 7 Wharncliffe Rd, Highcliffe on Sea, Christchurch Dorset BH23 5DA Tel: 01425 275800 Email: J.Heighes@btinternet.com

Meetings are normally held in the Library of St. Mark’s Church, Highcliffe, on the second Friday of each month at 7.30 p.m. The church is about 100 yards off Lymington Road on Hinton Wood Avenue, the turning opposite The Oaks. New Milton & Christchurch

Meetings will resume later in the year Forthcoming Meetings

Members’ Evening - Recent Family History Finds

9th July

Update us with what you have discovered during Lockdown. 13th August The Long Road To Universal Suffrage From the Barons to Votes for Women. 10th September WWII Names On Highcliffe War Memorial

John Heighes

Audrey Brinsford

Portsmouth

Contact: Fiona Ranger, 56 Fishery Lane, Hayling Island Tel: 07747 580217 Email: Portsmouth@hgs-online.org.uk

Meetings are normally held on the first Monday of each month (except January and August Bank Holidays) at 7 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. in the Baptist Church Hall, Havant Road, Cosham. (February) Victorian Occupations – Kirsty Gray

Kirsty gave her talk in her well known enthusiastic manner, full of details and highly illustrated. Her guidance took us through unusual occupations, or ones that have died out or have been renamed or just quirky. We had the ‘Knock Nobbler’ a person who expelled unruly dogs from church. A ‘Wonkey- scooper’ a Victorian form of JCB come digger, not machine but a man and a horse using a mechanical scoop to remove dirt on a farm. The term ‘Rapper’ had a different meaning in

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