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

Local Group Programmes

Forthcoming Meetings: All meetings at 7:30pm

September 12th Quarantine & Social Distancing in Tudor Southampton Cheryl Butler October 10th Members’ Evening November 14th The Experimental Housekeeping of Jane Austen’s Good Friend Martha Lloyd Jane Glennie December 12th Christmas Festivities

Contact: Jane Painter Email: fareham@hgs-online.org.uk

Fareham Evening Group Meetings are normally held from 7.15 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Wallington Village Hall, Broadcut, Fareham.

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Contact: Email: fleetandfarnborough @hgs-online.org.uk

The group normally meets at the United Reform Church Hall, Kings Rd, Fleet GU51 3AF second Thursday of every month except August at 7.30pm. Fleet & Farnborough

Reports by Carol Gomm (April) Rosario, The Story of a House & its Family – Katherine Rusbridge

This talk came out of a u3a house project with Katherine deciding to research her dental surgery in Fleet. Luckily its original name can be seen in the stained glass above the front door and this was the clue she needed to uncover its past. Built for Lambeth ironmonger Samuel Frewer, he was here in the 1901 census but as the house was under construction at the time it seems he was living in a ‘shed’ on site with his wife at the weekends to oversee progress. With lavish stained-glass windows and ornamental features over the doors inside and out, no expense was spared and it remained in the family until the death of his youngest daughter in 1974 aged 96. The name came from Samuel’s time in the navy aboard HMS Rosario but new owners nearly removed the sign. Had they done so she would not have uncovered the story. She was also able to speak to a great nephew and a 1980s occupant. They answered some of her questions, leaving the only mystery as how the son of a bankrupt

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