The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.49 No.2 | September 2022

Searchers

Searche If you would like your request to be included in this section, please submit a brief, but specific, email or letter of enquiry or send a 'Word' based article with relevant names (and particularly your own name and address) detailed in BLOCK CAPITALS to Editor, Hampshire Genealogical Society, Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester. SO23 8TH. Please advise what contact details you want printed in the journal along with your query – email, telephone number, postal address, or via HGS Office, research@hgs-online.org.uk Please be patient as acknowledgement or reply

will not be made except through this journal. Photographs and illustrations are gladly accepted: – 300 dpi resolution jpegs by email attachment or on CD are welcome or laser colour photocopies (never ordinary ones) or black and white original pictures. All can be returned if you request it and supply an SAE. If

sending original photographs through the post, please use a protective board envelope. EMAIL: searchers@hgs-online.org.uk and please always quote a full postal address for those without computers. If this is not done, your request may well be disregarded. Abbreviations used: b = born, bap = baptised, bd = buried, c. = circa, C = Century, d. = died, mrd = married. Members are reminded that these pages are compiled from letters etc. that may have been written months beforehand, so postal addresses should always be checked for up to date changes.

Joanna Hodgkin joannahines@btinternet.com (Member #15802)

Harold Hall

got to the bottom of why he changed his will, literally on his deathbed. It may be that some of your readers - or one of them! - might have some information - for instance, I’ve no idea if he arrived at the Bell Inn the day before he died or if he had been living there for some time. Why there?

I am researching the life of the writer Harold Fielding HALL who died in the Bell Inn Brook in May 1917. The day he died he changed his will, cutting out his wife and children in favour of the 4 year old daughter of a cousin (my mother). It’s an odd story, and no one has ever really

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