The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.4 | March 2022

Local Group Programmes

Meetings Some groups are having their meetings online, to join these please email the group leader for details. As restrictions have eased some groups are resuming face to face meeting at their normal venue if you are able, please check the HGS Website for latest details of where / how the meetings will take place. This may need to change at short notice if there is an amendment to restrictions. Some groups are not reporting meetings so there are some ‘gaps’.

Contact: Jane Hurst – 82, The Butts, Alton, Hants GU34 1RD Tel: 01420 86701 Email: janehurst1@gmail.com

Alton Meetings are normally held monthly on the second Monday at 7:30 p.m. in All Saints Church Hall, Queens Road, Alton.

Over the last few months, the group have been meeting as normal at All Saints Church Hall. As we are a small group, we have been able to distance and it has been refreshing to share our problems and successes. Topics covered have been maps, manorial records and family postcards. Forthcoming Meetings:

No details available

Contact: Ann McKenzie, Tel: 07733 112975, E-mail: andover@hgs-online.org.uk

Andover Meetings are normally held on the second Thursday, September to July, commencing 7.30p.m. at The Fairground Hall, Weyhill, Andover SP11 0QN Reports by Richard Backhouse (November) ‘Seafaring ancestors’ Kay Lovell

Kay is the HGS Romsey group organiser. With our published speaker unable to appear, Kay stepped in to the breach. Thank you! Kay is Southampton born and bred and comes from a long line of seafaring ancestors. She was told many tales throughout her life and she has since compiled these into a series of ‘Family Legends’ talks. The first was a grim tale of a young lad Richard Parker, who, in 1884 at the age of just 17, was the victim of cannibalism! Whilst on a crossing from Southampton to Australia, his boat was holed. He threw supplies into the sea for later use on their life raft – but the goods sank. So, along with three others, he battled to survive but he drank seawater and became ill. The

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