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

Local Group Programmes

venereal disease and small pox. There was also the flu epidemic in 1558. All this led to Henry V111 sending out orders to control movement of the population. Bath was a place to aim for but you needed a passport to travel around the country. The better off would move out of cities. The causes of infection could be directed to poor sanitation as in 1576 Rob Crewe was fined for drowning a horse into a well, other evidence pointed to burying straw in the forest which infected children. Once the R number of deaths was under 30, theatres were allowed to re open and the situation changed from pandemic to endemic. The plague epidemic lasted from 1348 to the 17th century, malaria lasted until the 16th century and smallpox lasted until the early 19th century with the influence of these illnesses still lasting up to 1919. Forthcoming Meetings:

Railway Work: Life and Death

September 15th

Mike Esbester - via Zoom

Members' Evening – Tell us your Stories

October 20th

Parish Registers

November 17th

Colin Moretti

Contact: Organisers: Fiona Ranger and Kay Lovell Email: international@hgs-online.org.uk

All meetings are via Zoom and at various UK times to allow overseas members to join in, International Group

(April) An armed incident at Barton on Sea Nick Saunders This talk reveals what happened on the beach at Naish, Barton on Sea in 1825 when smugglers and Revenue men came into conflict. It gives an overview of smuggling on the Hampshire coast at that time. It looks at some of the men involved in the incident and what happened to them. It ends in Winchester Assizes where the details of the incident were reported in the newspapers of the time. Forthcoming Meetings:

Stuart Southampton

October 5th

Andy Skinner

The Mayflower, Civil War and Great Plague

The Burning Time: Witchcraft in the 17th century Janet Few

December 3rd

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