The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.1 | June 2023

Local Group Programmes

(April) What Happened After Titanic Sank? – Ian Porter. There was good attendance at Crosfield Hall for Ian’s talk which ‘starts where most stories finish’ as he put it. He is a practised speaker, and his account was brim-full of facts, many of which were startling. We heard about the temperature of the sea being minus 2˚C with a maximum survival rate of twenty-five minutes immersion in water and about the number of survivors versus the number of passengers. Ian recounted the events with pathos and humour and circulated various images from the time amongst the audience. On board Titanic, he said, were the richest in the world at the time, and unsurprisingly, the highest number of passengers to survive were men in 1st class while the lowest number were men in 2nd class and women in 3rd class; they were locked in steerage until pretty much the last minute. To cap it all, we were told that the White Star line invoiced the crew for their return trip to Southampton while one of the richest women on board was paid an eye-watering amount of compensation for the loss of her vast quantity of luggage, requisite apparently, for a trip of just seven days. Forthcoming Meetings:

The Timsbury Triangle

June 5th

Richard Backhouse

Members’ Meeting – [Main Hall, not Annexe]–The pros & cons of online subscription websites and the merits/demerits of using online trees.

July 3rd

August 7th No meeting September 4th The Experimental Housekeeping of Jane Austen’s good friend Martha Lloyd Jane Glennie

Contact: Tony Sinclair Tel: 07518 183211 winchester@hgs-online.org.uk

Winchester

Meetings are normally at 7:15pm on 3rd Thursdays in the Littleton Millennium Hall.

(January) Members’ Meeting, using zoom. This proved to be one of the best for a long time, with 23 attending from all over the world. We have made good links with members in New Zealand, America, Australia as well as many parts of the UK. It leads to some very interesting discussions and sometimes we are able to help too with more local research for those living many thousands of miles away. One member was looking for a Great-Great Aunt and eventually found a burial certificate for her Grandmother They couldn’t validate the information but found that someone with the family name was listed as being an inmate at Broadmoor. On checking old newspapers at the

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