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

Editorial

Message from the editor Welcome to our September issue of the Historian. This issue includes some notes on the Conference Day and AGM and new appointments; so those like me who were unable to attend can read what the day involved. The society has managed to fill the essential positions on the committee. However, you may notice the New Milton, Christchurch, Portsmouth and Romsey Groups no longer appear in the journal. Sadly no one has stepped forward to take these on. Hopefully in time they will restart like the Winchester Group which was absent for a while. Articles on this issue include: Richard Backhouse’s researches into the Hatcher family which started as a ‘lockdown’ project to investigate Alfred and Rosina Hatcher and shows the various records which can be used to trace the family. This year

further information has come to light with

connections to Australia! Regular contributor James Dewey has researched his house painter relations who lived in Portsmouth with connections to Liverpool and Cornwall; and then Canada and the USA. Finally David Lindsell writes about the Eagles family who moved from Portsmouth to Liss in 1941 returning later and asks whether anyone

can help fill in the gaps. Stephen Pomeroy Editor

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