The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.1 | June 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 Shirrell Heath deeds: deeds relating to a tenement and land in Shirrell Heath and land known as Windmill Field, 1771-1908 (2A23) Hazeley Farm and Hazeley Down Camp, Twyford and Hampshire sale catalogues: account book for labouring/bricklaying, 1823 41; account book, including wages paid, 1854-93; ledger, 1933-50; farming lease for land at St Faith, Winchester, 1864; photograph of Hazeley Down Camp, 1914, with plan, 1915, and sale particulars of Hazeley Down Camp, 1920-1; misc sale catalogues, including catalogues of fleeces of English wool, c1910 30s; sale particulars of the Jethro Herd, property of Hazeley Estates, 1975; diary kept by Andrew Noyce of Whitewool Farm, East Meon, 1893-6 (presented to Sidney Best in 1940) (11A23) Bursledon and Catisfield deeds and Nursling Parish Hall receipts: deeds relating to land and tenement at Bursledon, 1800-64 (3 deeds); deed relating to cottage and land at Catisfield, 1874; receipts for Nursling Parish Hall, 1930s (15A23) Hampshire deeds: grant of lands in the vill of Ashley by Annis, widow of Thomas le Hore of Ashley, to her son Nicholas, 25 Nov 1307; letters of attornment and fealty concerning

Opening hours for Record Office visitors continue as Tuesdays to Thursdays, 9.30am to 4.00pm. However, there have been some changes to our service provision. We are no longer running a booking system, but researchers are welcome to order up to 10 documents in advance of their visit (at least 24 hours in advance, please). In addition, documents can now be ordered from 9.30am to 12 and 1pm to 3pm (5 documents at a time). Please check our website for the most up to date information at www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/archiv es. We are also open on Saturday 3 June and More Hampshire records are going live on Ancestry to add to wills and probate records, and we are planning how we highlight what’s available. A reminder that access to Ancestry and FindMyPast (including the 1921 census) is free in Hampshire County Council Libraries and at Hampshire Record Office. Our bishops’ transcripts and Methodist registers have also been digitised by Ancestry. These are now being indexed, so won’t be available online for some time. For the latest information and how to get free access see https://www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchive s/archives/services/online-sources . 14 October with the same service arrangements as for weekdays.

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