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

Local Group Programmes

New Milton & Christchurch

Group currently suspended

Meetings are normally held in the Library of St. Mark’s Church, Highcliffe, on the second Friday of each month at 7.30 p.m. The church is about 100 yards off Lymington Road on Hinton Wood Avenue, the turning opposite The Oaks.

Currently not meeting, please check our website for any update.

Portsmouth

Group currently suspended

Meetings are normally held on the first Monday of ]each month (except January and August Bank Holidays) at 7 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. in the Baptist Church Hall, Havant Road, Cosham. Currently not meeting, please check our website for any update.

Ringwood We normally meet at 7.30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month at Ringwood Meeting House, 22 Meeting House Lane, Ringwood, BH24 1BY. Visitors and new members welcome. (September) 21st Members’ evening Our September meeting was held in Ringwood Meeting House. Alison our group leader was on holiday so Paul, our chairman, kindly stood in for her. We discussed what we had found during lockdown, what we found in the 1921 census. Paul talked about the HGS move to the This talk is all about the amount of information that can be found out from the back of a postcard. At the turn of the century the post was collected 6/7times a day, so a post card could be sent in the morning and an answer received in the afternoon. Helen`s research had started with a postcard her father bought at a car boot sale because it had an American stamp on it. The postcard was sent to Private Gilbert Freeman from his brother in the USA. Gilbert was killed on the Somme and has no known grave but is recorded on Thiepval Memorial as well as three war memorials. Helen explained about all the different resources she used to build a picture of Gilbert and his family. It was very surprising the amount of information that can be found from the back of a postcard with the help of the census and the internet. I`m sure most of us have family postcards and will now be reading the backs as well. A very enjoyable talk.. Forthcoming meetings in the Meeting House unless stated otherwise: Contact: Alison Davis or 07806 985671 Email: ringwood@hgs-online.org.uk Record Office and where the HGS is going. (October) Posted in the Past – Helen Baggott

December 21st Christmas quiz and festivities in the afternoon

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