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

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. HGS volunteer expertise is also available to the public during these times. Saturday dates in 2025 are 8 March, 14 June and 20 September. For the most up to date details of our public service, including any last minute changes, check our website at https://www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandar chives/archives/visit-us The cemetery registers and additional parish registers digitised by Ancestry in September 2024 are due to go online in mid-2025. These will be a great addition to our nearly 8 million records already available online. Do you have access to Ancestry but cannot find the entry you seek by typing in a name? If you have a fair idea of when and where your ancestor was baptised/married/buried, why not try scrolling through individual parish registers using the Browse this Collection function? This appears in each dataset on the right-hand side of the search page. Choose Parish Registers in the Type field then pick your parish and register dates in the Register field and off you go! Accessions Hampshire Archives. Recent additions include: Personal, family and estate records Blundell Family of Michelmersh: Michelmersh poor rate books, 1845-51 (3 vols); Michelmersh vestry minute book, 1863 990; deeds, papers and correspondence relating to Blundell and other families of

Michelmersh, Awbridge and surrounding areas, c1800-1955 (104A24) Moule of Damerham: diaries of the Revd Henry William Moule [born 1871; Vicar of Damerham, 1922-48; died 1953], Dec 1895 Jan 1897 (1 vol); Aug 1903-Apr 1905 (1 vol); Sep 1912-Sep 1913 (1 vol); Aug 1919-Jan 1924 (3 vols); Aug 1925-Dec 1940 (10 volumes), Aug 1942-Apr 1946 (2 vols), and May 1949-Sep 1952 (2 vols), some of the diaries having letters, newscuttings, etc enclosed; loose letters and other papers, including correspondence with family, friends, academic contacts and others, with a few photographs, 1891-1950. (114A24) St Mary Bourne deed: mortgage of two messuages in Swampton, St Mary Bourne, from John Rickett to Thomas Robinson, 16 Nov 1723 (9A25) Clubs and Societies Rotary Club of Romsey Test: Club bulletins/newsletters, 1990-2022; press cuttings files, 2009-18; published pamphlet of photographs 'The Rotary Club of Romsey Test, The First 25 Years', 2015 (105A24) Romsey Local History Society (LTVAS Group) : deed for property called Rangers, Minstead, 1697; Michelmersh Court book, 1764-1836; appointment of John Smith to the Rectory of Dean, 1805; deeds relating to Trunk Mead, Timsbury, 1839-61; will of Henry Sainsbury of Romsey, physician, 1885; deed to property formerly The Lamb, Romsey, 1886; ledger for Stares (butcher's), Romsey, 1940s; ledger, probably Pearce's (baker's), Romsey, 1962-4 (97A14) The Gosport Society: Executive committee

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