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

News from the Hampshire Archives

Events We will soon be launching our 2023 events programme, and details will be available on our website at https://www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchive s/archives/events . We will continue to offer a mixture of online and onsite events. As well as continuing our successful Behind the Scenes Tours of the Record Office, our online talks next year will include special presentations about Highclere Castle and Florence Nightingale, as well as expert sessions on using archives such as how to get started in local history. Highlights from the extensive Wessex film archive will be shown at onsite screenings, covering Fashion on Film and Romsey Life, so do join us for some nostalgia in our cinema. Following the probate records, the Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials for Hampshire parishes in Winchester Diocese, from the 16th century up to c1921 will be made available on Ancestry’s site during the course of 2023, so an Ancestry subscription would make an ideal Christmas present! Look out for events and publicity about the registers…

High Wycombe Film Society: cinefilms (16mm), made and collected by the High Wycombe Film Society, including Wycombe World, 1986-2008; Wycombe related documentary films, including Wycombe Jubilee, 1935 and Chilton Bodgers, 1935, Silver Jubilee, 1977; creative films made by the High Wycombe Film Society; Broomwade Films and miscellaneous films (AV1664) Hayling Island holiday film: cinefilm (16mm) - footage of family holidays at grandparents’ house on Hayling Island, 1952 1962 (AV1665)

Portsea Epitaph

Source :-Hampshire Telegraph 7 June 1873 and Roy M.

An epitaph reported as being on stones in Mile End Cemetery were recorded in the local paper. Unfortunately the paper didn’t report the names of the deceased so they cannot be confirmed. Three lovely babes lie sleeping here,

Life is like a winter’s day - Some Breakfast here and then away. Others to dinner stop, and are full fed; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed.

Hannah, my dear, your grandmother is near. When we three meet we never shall part any more; My little Jemmy, too, that I loved so dear.

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