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

Local Group Programmes

Contact: Jane Painter and Chris Pavey Email: fareham@hgs-online.org.uk

Meetings on third Wednesday of month, currently suspended. Forthcoming Meetings: TBA Fareham Afternoon Group Fareham Evening Group Meetings are normally held from 7.15 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Wallington Village Hall, Broadcut, Fareham. The group had two meeting this year. January – Ratcatchers by David Cuffley. February – A Plague upon all your Houses by Janet Few. Forthcoming Meetings: March 24th 7:30 pm

Contact: Jane Painter Email: fareham@hgs-online.org.uk

Members’ Evening Our first in-person meeting for two years! The History and Mystery of Maps Tony Painter – In Person

April 28th 7:30 pm

Contact: Graham Mist Tel: 01252 661247. Email: fleetandfarnborough @hgs-online.org.uk

The group normally meets at the United Reform Church Hall, Kings Rd, Fleet GU51 3AF second Thursday of every month except August at 7.30pm. Fleet & Farnborough

Reports by Carol Gomm (October) – Member’s Evening

There were two talks for our member’s evening. The first from Mary had grown out of a U3A project and was about Odiham Prisoners of War. After giving us an overview of the wars that Britain had been involved in between 1701 to 1815, she focused on the Napoleonic War (1803-15). Though Odiham hosted prisoners from the War of 1812 with America, it was the French prisoners of the early 19th century that are most associated with the town when in 1803 about 189 prisoners were added to the population of 1,485. These prisoners were officers lodged under a parole agreement and Mary covered what their life would have been like and what would have happened to them if they broke the rules. Out of all the French prisoners that went through Odiham between 1803 and 1812, Mary decided to concentrate on

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