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

Member’s Article

lease and release documents (now in the Record Office), the old rent book, the copies of wills, bundles of letters and the photograph albums. I now know who Edward Robert COX and John TAPLIN were; I know who my grandfather’s uncles were, and I’m close to understanding why ‘that land should belong to me’! Pat Staniforth (née Cox) HGS Member # 8797

father’s generation (though my mother could never have kept it to herself had she known!). When my father died, at the age of 96, my husband Alan and I spent five long days wading through the papers in that front bedroom, terrified that we’d miss something of interest to the family. Many of the documents and papers went to the store room of the Eastleigh Local History Society of which he’d been Chairman for many years, but I ‘rescued’ Edward Robert’s exercise book, the

HGS Local Groups 2022

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