The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 49 No.4 | March 2023

News from the Hampshire Archives

The Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Accessions Hampshire Record Office – some recent additions to the archives for Hampshire Archives and Local Studies and Wessex Film and Sound Archive. Personal, family and estate records Aldershot area photographs and documents: photographs of the military area of Aldershot, including the various barracks, Prince Consort Library, Wellington statue, Cambridge Military Hospital, troops including an early Aldershot group of NCOs and the First Aldershot Commander, General Sir William Knollys, c1860s-1920s; also churches in Aldershot, the May family, and photographs of Farnborough including Farnborough Abbey and churches; newspapers including Aldershot Military Gazette, 8 Jun 1900, copies of The Illustrated London News, 1860s-70s; papers, photos and correspondence of Major William James May, c1915-1920s, and photographs and papers of his wedding, 6 Jun 1906; typescript and handwritten drafts of a history of Aldershot; various menus and programmes, including some for masonic lodges, c1918 20s; abstract of title to 43 and 45 High Street, Aldershot, 1907; minute book of The Camberley and Yorktown Laundry Co Ltd, 1898-1900, minute book of The Farnborough and District Steam Laundry Company Limited, 1911-48, with Board Meeting minutes, 1910 27 (107A22, part listed) Blackman of Gosport, family papers: papers relating to the Blackman family of

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/archiv es. We will also be open for the following Saturdays in 2023: 4 March, 3 June, 14 October with the same service arrangements as for weekdays. Our programme to put Hampshire records online has taken a big step forward with Hampshire and Isle of Wight wills and other probate records, 1396 to 1858, now available on Ancestry. Note that access to Ancestry is free in Hampshire Libraries and Hampshire Record Office. Parish register entries up to 1921 have also been digitised. These are being indexed with the expectation that they will be available on Ancestry by mid-2023. Finally, there is more good news about digital access. From 1 February, the 1921 census on FindMyPast will also be available free in Hampshire Libraries and Hampshire Record Office. Two more great reasons to visit us in 2023!

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