The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.3 | Dec 2023

News from the Hampshire Archives

Hampshire Record Office News

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. For Christmas/New Year arrangements and Saturdays when we will be open in 2024, check our website at www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/archiv es/visit-us . Ancestry update: our parish record datasets, comprising parish baptisms, marriages, and burials up to 1921, have recently been updated online to include registers that were digitised in a secondary batch, including registers for Christchurch and Wonston. Bishops’ transcripts and Methodist registers will become available in 2024. For the latest information and also how to get free access in libraries and HRO, see https://www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives /archives/services/online-sources . Accessions Some recent additions to the archives – Hampshire Archives and Local Studies Personal, family and estate records Jeffreys family of Lyndhurst and Verner family of Hartley Wintney (Verner-Jeffreys family): photographs of patrol submarine HMS Traveller and crew, after entering the Port of Alexandria, Egypt, 7 Nov 1942 (lost on active service a month later, with all crew including Lt Robert David Verner-Jeffreys); two photo albums of Robert D Verner-Jeffreys, showing family shots taken at Manor House, North Huish, Devon, and leisure trips, pets,

sports, etc., 1924; notes and correspondence with the late Dr David Chandler of Yateley (military historian and former head of war studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst), c1996-2004; further notes, extracts, articles, publications and correspondence on Verner and Jeffreys family history. (32A16 awaiting cataloguing) Durrant, High Sheriff's papers: newspaper cuttings, articles and photographs relating to Peggy Durrant (Assistant to Hampshire's High Sheriff), including award of an MBE in 1988, and retirement in 1989; papers and ephemera about High Sheriffs of Hampshire (73A23) Chenevix Trench family: executor's accounts for Frederick Trench of Woodlawn, Ireland, 1797-1803 (father of Richard Trench; 1774 1860); household accounts of Richard Trench of Bursledon (1774-1860), 1808-10; manuscript by Revd Francis Chenevix Trench (18051886, rector of Islip, son of Richard and Melesina Trench) (76A23) Sparks of Colebrook Street, Winchester: family papers including: baptism certificates of Ernest and Emily Sparks, 1892; family photographs, early-mid 20th century; school group photograph, 1912; album/scrapbook of photographs and papers relating to First World War army service of Ernest Sparks in the Hampshire Regiment at Basra and in India, 1916-18; rolled group photograph of repatriation records staff, Winchester, 1919; papers concerning installation of electricity at 21 Colebrook Street, 1919-39; papers relating to role of Mrs Jean Sparks as a midwife and registration of 21 Colebrook Street as a maternity home, 1927-37; papers concerning telephone installation at 21 Colebrook Street, 1927-56; County Architect's Department

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