The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 51 No.1 | June 2024

News from the Hampshire Archives

Hampshire Record Office News

The public service is open Tuesdays to Thursdays, 9.30am to 4.00pm with document ordering available from 9.30am to 12 and 1pm to 3pm each day. Our Saturday openings in 2024 are 4 March, 22 June, and 5 October. For the most up to date details of our public service check our website at: www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/a rchives/visit-us . Updated fees and charges came into effect from 1 April 2024, see a preview at: www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/a rchives/services/fees . Changes will include free self-service photography of material available in the public search room (excludes documents from strongrooms). Ancestry update: by the time you read this we expect Bishops’ transcripts, c1780 to 1921, to be available online. These records cover baptisms, marriages and burials for the whole Methodist register entries are also likely to be available in the early part of 2024. For latest news see: www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/a rchives/services/online-sources . Accessions Hampshire Archives. Recent additions include: Personal, family and estate records North Hampshire/West Surrey estate agents sales and lettings book: volume containing detailed descriptions of properties and land for sale and rent in Farnborough and elsewhere in north Hampshire and also in west of Hampshire, including Southampton, Portsmouth and Isle of Wight parishes.

Surrey, 1912-38, believed to be from Knight Frank and Rutley, Estate Agents (18A24) Alton deeds: deeds relating to properties in Alton, 1573-1595 (19A24) CROWLEY family of Alton: watercolour albums of Elizabeth Crowley (nee Curtis), containing watercolour sketches of scenes in Hampshire and elsewhere in the UK and Germany, 1835-83 (4 vols); photograph album of Elizabeth Crowley,1860s-90s; Abraham Crowley of Alton, family photos, mid-late 19th century; photographs of Crowley homes in Alton, 1870-1909; album of Warner family photographs, c1870s-90s; correspondence of Alfred and Catherine Crowley, 1832-70s; childhood diary of Emma, Catherine and Ellen Crowley, 1861-6; photographs of the children of Alfred and Catherine Crowley, 1860s-1950s; letters of Catherine Crowley of Croydon, 1860s-1900s; Crowley and Curtis family letters, 1840s-1954; letters from Crowley family members when travelling and travel diaries, 1840s-80s; copies of photos and documents about the sale of Alton brewery to Crowley and Ashby; executors account of Emma Sophia Crowley, 1938; typescript account of family houses in Alton by Dorothy Brown nee Crowley; typescript memories of Crowley aunts and uncles by John C Crowley [1992] (21A24 awaiting cataloguing) SILLENCE and PINK families: photographs and papers of Julius Sillence, of Winchester, Deputy Chief Constable for Hampshire and Isle of Wight, c1900s; photographs and papers of Edith Pink, nee Sillence, and her husband James Pink of Basingstoke and their daughters, Muriel and Edith, 1930s-50s; photographs of pupils at Victoria Preparatory

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