The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 51 No.4 | March 2025

Local Group Programmes

Ringwood We normally meet at 7.30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month at Ringwood Meeting House, 22 Meeting House Lane, Ringwood, BH24 1BY. Visitors and new members welcome. (January) Posted in the Past – Helen Baggott Helen researches the family stories and history behind a post card usually from around 1900. The first was Miss Ballantyre who turned out to be a skilled fisherman, Miss L Croucher who had connections back to Jamaica and the slave trade. Miss Audrey Harris was a great traveller and even wrote a book Eastern Visas. Our final family was Trevor Chadwick who went to Czechoslovakia in 1939 and was heavily involved in the Kindertransport but unfortunately died before he was recognised for his work. There is a statue of him with 2 children on the front at Swanage. A very interesting talk which involved a lot of family history research. Forthcoming meetings in the Meeting House unless stated otherwise: Contact: Alison Davis or 07806 985671 Email: ringwood@hgs-online.org.uk

2 Wars, 2 Wives Jackie Depelle - via Zoom A case study including 1st and 2nd World war years through research into the life and experience of a British civilian internee in Germany. Everything you wanted to know about Heraldry but were afraid to ask Chris Broom via Zoom

March 19th

April 16th

We landed by moonlight – OE missions in WW2

May 14th

Henry Goodall

Friends of New Forest Airfields

Behind the scenes tour of the Hampshire Record Office Please contact the group organiser if you wish to attend

June 23rd 2pm-3pm

Contact: Tony Sinclair Tel: 07518 183211 winchester@hgs-online.org.uk

Winchester

Meetings are normally at 7:15pm on 3rd Thursdays in the Littleton Millennium Hall. (November) Tracing your House History – Gill Blanchard

Gill is a professional genealogist and specialises in the history of houses. She gave an overview of Resources, the majority of which are held in County Record Offices as well as some at the National Archives and Online sources too. She explained that the National Land Registry began in 1862 with registration of properties in England and Wales becoming Compulsory in 1990. The documents held in these places is important for settling Rights of Way conflicts. The Deeds and Estate Records and other Land Records are a valuable way of finding more about the land owners and tenants with Returns of Owners of Land Recording owners of more than one acre compiled from local rate books.

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