The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.2 | Sept 2023

News from the Hampshire Archives

The Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

The public service continues its opening hours of Tuesdays to Thursdays, 9.30am to 4.00pm and document ordering available from 9.30am to 12 and 1pm to 3pm each day (5 documents at a time). You can also order up to 10 documents 24 hours in advance of a visit. We are also open on Saturday 14 October with the same service arrangements as for weekdays. Check our website for the most up to date information at www.hants.gov.uk/ librariesandarchives/archives. Our parish records up to 1921 and probate records up to 1858 are now available on Ancestry. A few additional parish registers which were digitised at a slightly later stage than the main group, and including those for Christchurch and Wonston, will be uploaded in the autumn to relevant sections, and at the same time there will be some updates to the probate collection. Bishops’ transcripts and Methodist registers will be available in 2024. For the latest information and also how to get free access in libraries and HRO, see https://www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchive s/archives/services/online-sources . Accessions Some recent additions to the archives – Hampshire Archives and Local Studie s Personal, family and estate records Councillor Allan Mitchell of Winchester : papers of Winchester City Councillor Allan

Mitchell, including photographs, Liberal Democrat Focus Newsletters, election leaflets and publicity for Councillor Mitchell, newspapers and newscuttings, c1970s-2000s (58A23) West Tytherley lease: lease of house and land in West Tytherley from Richard Whithed to William Ireland, 15 May 1660 (61A23) Parsons of Bursledon: agreement for valuing timber at Durley purchased by George Parsons from William Peachey, 8 Oct 1799; probate copy of the will of George Parsons of Bursledon, shipbuilder, 1812; photocopy of two postcards of memorial to George Parsons in Bursledon Church, one annotated by his grandson John Denham Parsons (64A23) Ray of Otterbourne: Exercise book of Bessie Ray containing a copy of the poem 'Marmion', copied in by Charlotte Yonge, c1900; photograph of Elderfield, Otterbourne (71A23) Clubs and Societies Hordle Women’s Institute: committee minute books, 1947-2006, committee meeting minutes, 2006-2015; Monthly meeting record books, 1935-1991 and minutes, 1997-2016; financial statements, 1987-1999 (40A23) Houghton Women’s Institute: Committee meeting minutes, monthly meeting minutes and newsletters, 2011-20 (10 folders); annual meeting minutes and reports, 2012-20; folder of letters and cuttings, 1978-2006;

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