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

Searchers

Searche If you would like your request to be included in this section, please submit a brief, but specific, email or letter of enquiry or send a 'Word' based article with relevant names (and particularly your own name and address) detailed in BLOCK CAPITALS to Editor, Hampshire Genealogical Society, Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester. SO23 8TH. Please advise what contact details you want printed in the journal along with your query – email, telephone number, postal address, or via HGS Office, research@hgs-online.org.uk Please be patient as acknowledgement or reply

will not be made except through this journal. Photographs and illustrations are gladly accepted: – 300 dpi resolution jpegs by email attachment or on CD are welcome or laser colour photocopies (never ordinary ones) or black and white original pictures. All can be returned if you request it and supply an SAE. If sending original photographs through the post, please use a protective board envelope. EMAIL: searchers@hgs-online.org.uk and please always quote a full postal address for those without computers. If this is not done, your request may well be disregarded.

Abbreviations used: b = born, bap = baptised, bd = buried, c. = circa, C = Century, d. = died, mrd = married. Members are reminded that these pages are compiled from letters etc. that may have been written months beforehand, so postal addresses should always be checked for up to date changes.

SOUTHERTON Jim McCourt, member #16045, would welcome any information about his ancestor – George Frederick SOUTHERTON and/or his family. George was baptised on 26th September 1819 at Portsea, married Sarah Emma Sincleair [sic] on 4th February 1839, and worked as a shoe maker and then as a “skilled labourer” at the

Royal Naval Dockyards from at least 1851. The census of 1881 states that he was “super annuated” at that time. The family spent many years at 3 Hamburgh Square in Portsea. Any details about the family, Hamburgh Square, or working conditions for a skilled dockyard labourer would be much appreciated.

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