The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.49 No.3 | December 2022

News from the Hampshire Archives

The Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

News Opening hours for Record Office visitors continue to be Tuesdays to Thursdays, 9.30am to 4.00pm. Researchers can visit without appointment to see up to six documents before 12 noon but booking is essential for those wishing to see more than 6 documents per day. Please check our website for the most up to date information at www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/ar chives . We recently opened on 22 October for our first Saturday since lockdown and welcomed some enthusiastic visitors keen to take up this opportunity. We will be opening on occasional Saturdays during 2023 and advertising the dates on our website. The digitisation by Ancestry of Hampshire parish register entries to 1921 is nearing completion. Hampshire wills and other probate documents to 1858 were digitised earlier this year and indexing work on these is progressing well. Look out for publicity before the end of the year when wills go live on the Ancestry website. We have stocks of some older HRO publications to give away. These include all 30 Hampshire Papers (first series) and a variety of other publications and other items. Come along any time during our opening hours for a browse.

Accessions Some recent additions to the archives for Hampshire Archives and Local Studies and Wessex Film and Sound Archive follow. Personal, family and estate records Tomlinson and related families, of Four Marks and Alton area : correspondence, personal papers, postcards, etc., relating to the Tomlinson family, of Four Marks, and related families in Alton area, early-mid 20th century (100A21 uncatalogued) Longcroft family of Havant: correspondence and legal papers relating to the Longcroft family of Havant, c1813-50, in particular Charles Beare Longcroft, solicitor and trustee to the marriage settlement of his half-brother, Robert Godfrey Longcroft (d1834), following marriage to Lucy Gass Trodd in 1814, and reflecting the financial and social difficulties arising from debts accrued by R G Longcroft, including a possible case in Chancery against C B Longcroft as trustee; also includes a copy of 'The Longcrofts - 500 years of a British family' by James Phillips-Evans (a descendant of the family); related papers such as census extracts, family trees, copy certificates, extracts, printouts (6A22, uncatalogued) Russell of Basingstoke, probate memoranda : volume entitled 'Entries relative to the Affairs of Francis Russell, Esquire, Deceased', of Park Street, Westminster, and Goldings, Basingstoke, comprising memoranda concerning the will and codicils,

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