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

Local Group Programmes

Basingstoke Meetings normally commence at 7. 30 p.m. and are held on the fourth Wednesday every month (except August and December) at St Michael’s Church Cottage Hall, Church Street. Contact: Email:

basingstoke@hgs-online.org.uk

No reports received Forthcoming Meetings:

Victorian Crime, Police and Criminals

September 28th

Antony Marr Antony Marr

What Makes a Marriage? - Rules and Records:

October 26th

(Hybrid Meeting)

Christmas Festivities

November 23th December 28th

No Meeting

Contact: Keith Turner Email: fairoak@hgs-online.org.uk

Fair Oak

Meetings are normally held at 8pm on the second Tuesday monthly at St Thomas’ Church Hall (attached to the church) Mortimers Lane. Doors open approx 7.30pm (May) The Lady in the Yellow Caravan – Jane Glennie

No nothing to do with Alan Bennett's 'The Lady in the Van'. Jane Glennie undertakes costumed theatrical presentations with a historical theme. These do not lend themselves to Zoom talks and so it was a pleasure to welcome her back to Fair Oak after 3 years. Jane became the lady in the van, Alice Gillington (1864-1934), a clergyman's daughter, who was a poet, author and painter. Alice’s sister Mary married into the Byron family and was known as a poet and children’s author. After moving from the Isle of Wight Alice was influenced by the gypsy settlement at Bitterne which was then a small village on the edge of the River Itchen. In 1912 she dropped out of mainstream life with her brother, John, to live in two gypsy caravans in the New Forest. She remained close to the gypsies for the rest of her life producing poems, books and articles on their way of life. Alice also wrote about local characters such as Purkiss, the New Forest charcoal burner. She was a strong supporter of the suffragettes and

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