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

Member’s article

The Queen returning in 1954 from her Commonwealth Tour

right of the then Royal Bargemaster, Bert Barry. The photo on the right shows my great uncle Allan Hasted GREEN carrying the Royal Mace to Parliament in the 1930’s. Above is a photo of HM The Queen returning in 1954 from her Commonwealth Tour to a Waterman’s Guard of Honour at Westminster Pier with my father extreme right In the mid 1920’s my father had become estranged from

University Boat Race Course. There he had been apprenticed

as a boatbuilder and had become a member of the

Company of Watermen of the River Thames founded in 1514.. He was an accomplished oarsman having won Doggetts Coat and Badge in 1926. This is the oldest annually recurring event in the whole of the world’s sporting calendar having been rowed annually since 1715. I also knew something of his activities as a Royal Waterman. I was however totally surprised to find from

Alfred Alan Green

his Green family. So until I started on my family history in the 1990’s I knew virtually nothing about his ancestry. I

the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle that no less than 9 of my Green ancestors had been Royal Watermen with some 300 years of royal service They had been appointed

did know that his family had owned a boathouse on Duke’s Meadow on the

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