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

News from the Hampshire Archives

The Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Hampshire Record Office (HRO) continues to be open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10am to 4pm, for pre-booked appointments to view documents. In a recent change, no bookings are now necessary to view search room materials in print, on microform, or in digital format. Please check our website for latest opening hours/service change updates www.hants.gov.uk/ librariesandarchives/archives/visit In an historic move, Hampshire Genealogical Society (HGS) has now made Hampshire Record Office its new home. This is a very exciting development for HRO, with great potential to deliver an enhanced service alongside our HGS colleagues and to attract more visitors to a one-stop-shop of support for people researching their family history. Hampshire Archives and Local Studies events Details of our latest online events programme, with booking links, are available at https://lpda9f27a988.hana.ondemand.com/p/ Nh6Oc . To keep up-to-date on future events, including our planned palaeography classes and other on-site workshops and online talks, please sign up for our newsletter at https://www.hants.gov.uk/community/resident newslettersignup?newsletter-email=. Census 1961 and all that 1 January 2022 9:30am to 26 February 2022 4pm This exhibition was produced by Hampshire Archives and Local Studies in 2011 to mark that census year. The first ‘modern’ census in Britain, recording

the names of individuals, was taken in 1841 – purely numerical censuses having begun in 1801. After 100 years, census returns are made available for public consultation, becoming an excellent tool for anyone interested in family and social history. A census has been taken in every year ending in a 1 since 1801, except in 1941. In the early years all the data was extracted manually by clerks; 1961 marked the first year that computer analysis was used. The D-Day Lepe Heritage Group Exhibition Exhibition held Tuesday to Thursday 1 March 2022 9:30am to 14 April 2022 4pm The exhibition features a detailed look at the contribution made by Lepe and the surrounding areas of the New Forest to Operation Neptune, the seaborne element of Operation Overlord, the initial phase of the invasion of Normandy on D-Day 6th June 1944. Some recent additions to the archives Personal, family and estate records Hide of Whitchurch and Overton, local and family history items collected by the late Geoff Hide, relating mainly to the history of the Hide family, including James Hide, manager of Whitchurch Silk Mill, and to the history of Whitchurch and Overton, covering 18th-20th centuries (40A21 uncatalogued) Clowes, Vanderbyl and Warburton families of Winchester, including photograph albums of the Clowes family of Milnthorpe, Winchester and the Vanderbyl family of Northwood Park, Sparsholt, c1850s-1950s and correspondence received by Canon William Warburton, c1859- 1896 and correspondence received by his

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