The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.49 No.1 | June 2022

HGS News

Obituaries

John Heighes was an enthusiastic and long running Group Organiser and was the backbone of the Christchurch and New Milton Group for many years. Dennis Pearce was a very long serving member of HGS, joining the society in its early years. Working initially with George Wakelin, a founder member of the society and its first elected Chairman, between them they started the index that now consists of nearly 80,000 index cards and is known as our Britain’s Dying Overseas index. It subsequently became Dennis’s task for all the years of his

membership. The handwritten index cards, researched and completed in the days before computers, were still continued in the same way up to a few years ago. HGS is more than grateful to Dennis for his dedicated research and work in producing such a valuable source of information. This is now being digitised to be made fully available and will continue to be of immense benefit to HGS members both now and in the future. In recognition of Dennis’s work the index is to be named the Wakelin-Pearce index.

FAREWELL Rod Clayburn

With the deepest regret we wish to inform readers of the death of the following HGS members:-

Fareham

Member #6469 Member #5732 Member #7297 Member #9551

John Heighes

Highcliffe, Dorset Bexley Heath, Kent

Mrs Angela Merritt Mrs Jean Timns

Waterlooville

Eric Ward

Ledbury, Hertfordshire Member #10330

Jim Wingham

Saltburn, Yorkshire

Member #10979

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