The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.3 | December 2021

Local Group Programmes

Also on Find My Past TNA – Research Guides. Royal Navy Reserve Records as a retainer was paid, training given. Crew Lists – before 1860 at TNA or National Maritime Museum. Also Maritime Canada, LMA some online records – 1881 MHA Certificates of Officers - Ancestry certificates of career Lloyds Captains Register LMA – has an index

Lloyds register of Shipping www.maritimearchives.co.uk Trouble-shooting Merchant Seamen - + mariner in census Forthcoming Meetings:

2022 – No details available

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

(August) Making the most of Lockdown. Our first meeting after Lockdown was a Member’s Evening, when we were invited to talk about any family or social history we had been working on. One member had got round to transferring his family history records on to his computer, but had also made contact with some fellow researchers. A member found a cousin in Suffolk who died in 1944, flying off H.M.S. Illustrious, who is remembered on a memorial in East Barnett. Another member was tracing the surname Rome, immigrants who had varied the spelling. Audrey Brinsford brought a folder she had produced, detailing the research she had done on the memorials in St. Following on from her research on the Highcliffe Church memorials, Audrey has researched all of the names on the War Memorial and this talk was about those who had died during WWII. (WWI had been reported in an earlier talk). Eleven served in the R.A.F., nine in the army, two in the Royal Navy, one in an overseas force, one Home Guard Captain and one serving as a civilian nurse, the only woman. Four of them have been selected for special mention. William Charles Brenton was Stoker on H.M.S. Cambletown, at the St.Nazaire Dry Dock attack. Charles Robert Gould died in one of the disastrous amphibious tanks at Studland, in the run up to D-Day. Ian Robert Saunders was awarded a Military Cross for his service against German Panzers in Italy. Olive Lees Mark’s Church, Highcliffe (where we meet), for use of visitors to the church. (September) WWII Names on Highcliffe War Memorial – Audrey Brinsford.

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