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

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.

Fred SPIER and family?

Dear little Fred SPIER? and family. Some time ago, I was given a set of 26 cartes de visite which had been found together in the Alton area. Some of the photographers were local men including Thomas Wells and George Frost while others were from Southampton, London and a couple from Hartford in Connecticut, USA. The only inscription is ‘Dear little Fred died Jan 8[?] 1893 aged 5 years’ and, having searched, I think that this was Frederick Spier whose

family lived in Binsted and Froyle near Alton in the 1800s and 1900s. If you have any knowledge of these people – I would love to hear from you and, perhaps, we could put names to some of the faces? Eventually I will deposit the photographs in the Hampshire Record Office but it would be lovely to add a story to go with them – and to share them with any living family. Jane Hurst janehurst1@gmail.com.

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