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WILTSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY JOURNAL

APRIL 2007 ISSUE 105

Society News and Information 2 More Obscure Marriages 26 Diary Dates 5 Record Office News 28 Branch Programmes 6 Book Reviews 30 Chairman’s Notes 8 WFHS Publications News 31 April Profile – Rodney Whale 10 Useful Web Sites 32 Link with the Bristol Slave Trade 11 Meeting Reports 32 Peacock Newsagent 16 Help Wanted and Offered 36 Ladies’ Benevolent Society 18 Letters to the Editor 44 Records of Broadmoor Asylum 20 Members’ Interests 46 A Funeral Long Remembered 24

CONTRIBUTIONS, articles, letters, comments, photographs, illustrations, and other items are welcomed. Please submit by e-mail or on disc if possible. Address all communications for the journal, except enquiries about non-receipt of journal, to The Editor, Dr Bethanie Afton, Yerbury Almshouses, 17 Roundstone Street, Trowbridge, Wilts, BA14 8DL or editor@wiltshirefhs.co.uk.

DEADLINE FOR ISSUE 106, July 2007 is 15 May 2007. Please get material in on time and before that date if possible. CHANGES TO PERSONAL DETAILS Members are reminded of the need to advise the Membership Secretary of any changes to their name or address. This will ensure that the membership record is kept up to date and avoid correspondence and journals being sent to the wrong address.

The journal is the official publication of Wiltshire Family History Society. All articles are the copyright of their authors and the Society and must not be reproduced in any form without written permission. The Society does not accept responsibility for personal views expressed in the articles.

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SOCIETY NEWS and INFORMATION THE NEW WILTSHIRE AND SWINDON HISTORY CENTRE The existing Record Office in Trowbridge will be closed to visitors and users from 30 Apr 2007. The archives will then be moved to the History Centre in Chippenham. Other heritage services including archaeology, conservation, local studies library, the museums service and Wiltshire buildings record will also be moved. The aim is to open the new Centre to the public on 31 Oct 2007. There will be a reduced service for microfiche readers available in Trowbridge reference library during the summer of 2007, and the Record Office will continue to answer e-mail, telephone and postal enquiries from 30 April to 30 Oct 2007 MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES MONTH is taking place during May when museums and galleries are being asked to stage family history workshops. Keep a look out; there may be one near you. BBC RADIO 4 is producing a new genealogy show, which will include interesting tales that have been unearthed by those researching their genealogy, plus they are looking to produce packages which offer practical advice for someone whoʹs interested in becoming more involved in the practice of genealogy. One to watch out for. RESOURCE CENTRE The Resource Centre is open at any suitable time by prior arrangement, but remember pre-booking with good notice is essential. Enquiries to Barbara Fuller, 1 Estcourt Villas, Estcourt Crescent, Devizes, SN10 1LS. Please note that requests for research should be addressed to the Research Co-ordinator at the Wilts FHS Resource Centre, 10 Castle Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1HJ or e-mail society@wiltshirefhs.co.uk. PAY PER VIEW and 1901 CENSUS VOUCHERS The Federation of Family History Societies website www.familyhistoryonline.net has over 64 million records from databases of societies and other organisations for England and Wales, with further records being added on a regular basis. £5 and £10 vouchers, to access information from the site, are available from WFHS. The 10% discount will be passed on to members and the vouchers will therefore cost £4.50 and £9.00, the same prices as the vouchers for the 1901 census. Orders for both types of voucher, together with a cheque payable to Wiltshire FHS and enclosing a SAE should be sent to David

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Weaver at the Resource Centre. It would help if you would quote your membership number. IF YOU EXPECT AN ANSWER to any correspondence, remember to enclose a SAE (except on orders for which a charge is made). If you correspond by e-mail, always include a postal address. E-mails MUST clearly state the subject, and, if possible, include your membership number so that they are answered rather than deleted. MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL Members are reminded that the new membership year starts on 1 April 2007. If you do not renew your subscription, no further copies of the Society Journal will be sent to you. Unless you pay your subscription by Standing Order or have already paid for 2007/8, the renewal form sent to all members earlier this year should be completed and returned with your payment to the Membership Secretary. For those paying by Standing Order please ensure that you have revised your mandate to show the new subscription rate of £12. DONATIONS TO THE PREMISES FUND AND THE SPECIAL FUND The Society gratefully acknowledges receipt of the generous donations sent by members. All have been allocated in accordance with individual wishes. CHANGES TO MEMBERS' DETAILS The Executive Committee has decided that Changes to Membersʹ Details, which have appeared regularly in the Journal, will be discontinued from this issue to allow further space for articles of more general interest to all members. Members should continue to send changes to personal details to the Membership Secretary. AWAY DAYS – COACH TRIPS FOR 2007

5 May Who Do You Think You Are? Live & SOG Family History Show at Olympia

9 Jun The Family Records Centre & the London Metropolitan Archives

14 Jul SWAG Family History Fair, Weston-Super-Mare – details will be announced at branch meetings

1 Sep The National Archives, Kew 8 Dec The Family Records Centre & the London

Metropolitan Archives The cost per visit will be £12.50 per person payable at the time of booking. Cheques to be made payable to ‘Wiltshire FHS’. The coach will depart

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from Morrison’s Car Park Chippenham at 07.00 and from Swindon at 07.20 (for details of the Swindon pick up, please phone Brian Hook).

Booking application with payment from members of branches other than Swindon Branch should be sent to Cy Cutler, 18 Anglesey Mead, Chippenham, SN15 3UB 01249 655469, or journal-exchange@wiltshirefhs .co.uk. Members of Swindon Branch should send their application and payment to Brian Hook, 30 Cabot Drive, Swindon SN5 6HG, 01793 639722, or brian.hook@ntlworld.com. Policy on Refunds: A policy on the refund of monies in the event of a cancellation of a coach trip or of a booking has been agreed by the Society’s Executive Committee. Details of this policy will be printed on the reverse side of the receipt.

WILTSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Registered Charity 290284

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting of Wiltshire Family History Society will be held on Saturday 16th June at City Hall, Salisbury commencing at 4.15pm.

The business of the meeting will be to: receive the annual report of the Executive Committee as Trustees; to receive and approve the accounts of the Society for 2006/2007; to elect the officers and members of the Executive Committee, other than Branch Representatives, for the ensuing year; to re-elect or elect where necessary the President and Vice-Presidents of the Society for terms of six years; to transact any other business on the agenda to be circulated at the meeting.

The posts other than Branch representatives making up the Executive Committee, and the present holders, are as follows: Chairman (Jerry King), Vice-Chairman (Jim Renahan), General Secretary (Diana Grout), Membership Secretary (Bill Wright) and two members to represent out of county and overseas members (Persis Wiltshire and Rodney Whale). Diana Grout has completed her term of office and is not eligible to stand; Jim Renahan and Bill Wright are not standing for re-election for the posts mentioned above. The remaining members are eligible to stand for election to the Committee. Nominations should be signed by the proposer, the seconder, and the nominee and be submitted to the General Secretary by Saturday 2nd June 2007.

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DIARY OF EVENTS - 2007 21 Apr Gloucestershire FH Open Day, Crypt School, Gloucester* 21 Apr Codford & and Wider World – Book Launch & Local History Fair,

Codford Sports & Social Club, Codford, Wiltshire* 5-7 May The National History Show, Olympia, London* 28 May Family History Open Day at Lackham, nr Chippenham (in

conjunction with the Wiltshire Museums and Galleries Month) * 9 Jun Gwent FHS Open Day, County Hall, Cwmbran* 16 Jun WILTSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY OPEN DAY, Salisbury

City Hall, Salisbury* 14 Jul South West Area Group Fair, Wintergardens, Weston super Mare* 26-28 Jul West Wilts Show, Trowbridge* 28 Jul Buckinghamshire FHS, The Grange School, Aylesbury* 25 Aug NW Group of Family History Societies 14th Annual Family History

Fair, Floral Hall, Southport 15 Sep WFHS Seminar, ‘Aspects of Victorian Life’, Bromham Village Hall* 22 Sep Glamorgan FHS Open Day, The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl# 22 Sep Oxfordshire FHS Open Day, Kidlington# 30 Sep Hampshire Genealogical Society Open Day, Horndean Technology

College# 6 Oct Wiltshire Local History Forum Autumn Open Day, ‘Stately Homes

Revisited’, Bromham* 3 Nov West Surry Family History Society Open Day, Woking Leisure

Centre# *Wiltshire Family History Society will attend # Wiltshire Family History Society hopes to attend

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY WILTSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

will hold a

SEMINAR ON ‘ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN LIFE’

BROMHAM VILLAGE HALL 15TH SEPTEMBER 2007 10am - 4pm

Full details will be included in the July Journal

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BRANCH PROGRAMMES CHIPPENHAM/CALNE Chippenham Museum, Market Place (entry from car park at back of the Museum), second Tuesday each month, 7.15pm 10 Apr Victorian Health Dirt, death, stink, and disease - Barbara

Fuller May 8 Songs stories and singers from the music hall - Steve Jordan Jun 12 Heraldry can be understood - Colin Chapman July 10 Genetics and heraldry for the family historian - Heather

Sheeley CONTACT – Mary Tucker, Tel. 01249 446076

DEVIZES The Canal Centre, Couch Lane, first and third Tuesdays each month, 7.30pm 3 Apr Registers of St Marks, The Railway Church - Julia Hunt 17 Apr Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre – Tom Craig 1 May Members Interests evening 15 May Ladies through the Ages – Peter Donovan 5 Jun Diaries and Letters 19 Jun 1000 years in one area, can it be proved? - Martin Whittock 3 Jul Old books and printed ephemera 17 Jul Visit to Chippenham Museum (booking essential) CONTACT – Mrs Barbara Fuller 01380 724379

MALMESBURY Malmesbury Primary School, Tetbury Hill (behind the Cartmell between Somerfield Supermarket and the Cemetery), fourth Wednesday each month, 7.00pm

CONTACT – Sheila Clemett, 01666 510216

25 Apr Family History from the Internet - Rodney Whale 23 May Monumental Inscriptions – Douglas Jackson 27 Jun Walkabout - Chippenham Museum 25 Jul The Resource Centre Library – Mike Langtree

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SALISBURY Wilton Community Hall, third Wednesday each month, 7.45pm 18 Apr TBA 16 May TBA 20 Jun TBA 18 Jul TBA CONTACT – Robert Hambling, 01722 710716

SWINDON Gorse Hill Community Centre, Chapel Street, alternate Thursdays, 7.15 pm 12 Apr A Railway Family - Richard Moore 26 Apr Flags in Britain - Cdr Bruce Nicolls 10 May Anniversary dinner 24 May Johann Christian Bach - Paul Barnfield 7 Jun Tell them of us - remembering Swindonʹs sons of the Great War-

Mark Sutton 21 Jun Village walk around Great Bedwyn 5 Jul The records of St Markʹs Church - Julie Hunt CONTACT – Mr & Mrs J Scott, 01793 823632

TROWBRIDGE Bridge House (side door off car park), Stallard Street, second Wednesday each month, 7.30pm 11 Apr AGM; BDM for Trowbridge and Chippenham registration

districts 1837-2006 - A free internet tool - Chris Penny 9 May Colletts Farthing Newspaper - Rex Sawyer 13 Jun The Year of the Conquest – Kim Seddorn 11 Jul Walk About - Dilton Marsh, meet at the church at 7pm CONTACT – Mrs Veronica Cantello, 01225 702331

WESTBURY The Methodist Church, Station Road, Westbury, fourth Thursday each month, 7:15pm 26 Apr Members’ Night 24 May Life in Nelsonʹs Navy - Anthony Coutts-Britton, 28 Jun Railway Staff Records - David Colcomb 26 Jul The 1820 Settlers - Sue Mackay CONTACT - Christine Mitchell, 01373 300716

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CHAIRMAN’S NOTES by Jerry King It was a pleasure to receive my new-style January Journal and to hear such favourable comments from other members. Congratulations go to Bethanie, the Editor, whose initiatives the changes were. She has other promising ideas that have been given a fair wind by the Executive Committee. I look forward to the results.

Another note of appreciation goes to Hilary Rogers, who for some years as Members’ Interests Secretary has contributed so much to one of the most popular parts of our Journal. It is a time-consuming and painstaking task. Thanks go from all of us, and to Jane Syckelmoore who has offered to take on the role from July.

An important notice in January was of our £2 subscription increase. That has brought encouragingly supportive comments in the recognition that we must have the funds to continue in existence as costs rise. In passing, on our doormat the other day was a letter to Sue and me inviting us to renew membership as Friends of the local amateur operatic society – at far more than the cost of WFHS membership! We subscribed to support that society’s contribution to the arts in Central Wiltshire, although the tangible benefits to us are fewer than those offered by WFHS. That led me to thinking that if your own research in this county seems complete and that you might move on, why not also continue as a member here, stay in touch, and be a “Friend” to the future of Wiltshire family history?

Looking ahead, Jim Renahan and his team will have a strong selection of family history societies and traders at our Open Day on 16th June in the heart of ancient Salisbury. Come along, and perhaps also join us for the Annual Dinner that evening. Jim is also masterminding our Seminar at Bromham on 15th September. With respected speakers, a popular theme and lunch at modest cost, it will be another excellent day. Talking of days out, with Brian Hook running sell-out coach trips to London archives from the north of the county, the idea of a south Wilts coach is also proving popular. There is also some interest in one to the large family history Fair at Weston-super-Mare on 14th July. With WFHS represented at other events, including Olympia for May Bank Holiday, it will be quite a summer.

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APRIL’S PROFILE - Rodney Whale Rodney was born at Southampton and has lived in Andover, Hampshire, since 1968. In 1982, he retired from Hampshire Police and now works for a local firm of solicitors. He is married with two sons, neither of whom is interested in family history. Both Rodney and his wife, Beryl, have been family historians since 1989. They are members of Wiltshire Family History Society, as well as the Hampshire, Somerset and Dorset, Berkshire and Kent Societies. Rodney is also a member of The International Haskell Family Society which has an annual reunion at Cranborne in Dorset. When he attended his first meeting, he found he was related to the chairman, treasurer, and secretary. Rodney considers he is probably one of the world’s luckiest family historians because in all his research he has only found one direct ancestor, a great-great-grandmother from Lambeth, who was born further away than Cann near Shaftesbury in Dorset. He feels sorry for people who live many miles from the places lived in by their ancestors because it is quite a hindrance to doing research. The earliest ancestor on his Whale line lived at Upton, only six miles north of Andover, in 1660s. In Cann, he has Whitmarsh ancestry that extends back to mid 1500s. One of his Whitmarsh great-grandmothers, born in the 1840s, moved from Cann with her parents and siblings to Romsey in Hampshire in about 1860. His Wiltshire ancestry is around Stapleford, The Langfords, Chute, and Netheravon. Since he purchased his first computer in 2000, Rodney has developed a good knowledge of genealogical facilities that are available on the Internet and he has a niche for that subject in this journal. He also compiles the reports for the Devizes Group meetings. Rodney has also given several talks to this Society’s Group Meetings as well as to similar ones in Hampshire, one of his favourites dealing with his wife’s ancestry. In 2006, he was elected to the Executive Committee and was surprised at the amount of work done by that committee to ensure the Society operates so smoothly and efficiently.

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A NEWSPAPER SNIPPET UNCOVERS AN ANCESTRAL

LINK WITH THE BRISTOL SLAVE TRADE

Ian Hunt (4258)

‘Mrs Hunt, wife of the celebrated Mr Hunt, with her daughter, resides at Chudleigh (Devon), where they are much respected.’ (Salisbury and Winchester Journal, April 1820)

Written around the time of Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt’s trial for his part in the disastrous ‘Peterloo’ meeting at Manchester in 1819, this one-line snippet provides a vital clue in search into the private life of this Wiltshire farmer turned radical reformer. It led to revelations not only about his wife, from whom he was estranged, but also, eventually, to details about his son-in-law, plantation owner James McGhie. These revelations are particularly topical in spring 2007 - two hundred years after Britain began abolition of slavery by prohibiting its ships from transporting African slaves to the West Indies.

Although Hunt wrote and spoke volumes about electoral reform, he offered little information about his personal circumstances. Information about his family was particularly difficult to find. The Letters published from Ilchester gaol occasionally gave hints. In December 1820 he’d received a flying visit from his daughter. Her maid was carrying Henry’s granddaughter but, because only family were admitted, his

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daughter had to carry the infant to his cell herself. There was a scene, witnessed by another visitor, who referred to her merely as Mrs McGhie. Henry added that she then lived in the ‘furthest part of Devon.’

Another find came in an issue of The Greenwood Tree featuring folk from Somerset and Dorset with connections in Jersey. Among a list of marriages in St Helier 1797-1837 was: James McGhie Lt RN Somerset m Charlotte Moore 19 Nov 1832. Was this a second marriage? The lieutenant’s naval career should be traceable. Portsmouth Library provided his naval record during Napoleonic times, nothing very distinguished, but he subsequently transferred to coastguard duty.

James McGhie died of apoplexy in a Dorset coastal village and was buried in the churchyard at Langton Herring. His will from 1836 referred to his residence in

Jersey and a former address in Bath, and confirmed two marriages. Extensive searches of Bath marriage registers found that he had married Anne Hunt, Orator Hunt’s daughter, at St Mary’s Chapel, Queen’s Square, in October 1818. Further searches in Devon showed McGhie as tenant of a property in Chudleigh in the 1820s.

James McGhie, the Orator’s son-in-law, lies buried at Langton Herring, Dorset

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The vicar who had baptised their only child Janette - later wife to a French watchmaker and jeweller in St Malo - in Chudleigh in 1819, was a local magistrate there.

Most intriguingly, James McGhie’s will mentions his estates in Jamaica. One has to remember that, although Britain banned ships from transporting slaves in 1807, another thirty years elapsed before slavery in British dominions was finally abolished. ‘Orator’ Hunt, despite his verbosity, and his love of liberty and fraternity, only occasionally referred to slavery. In his Memoirs he recalled an incident in the 1790s when, as a twenty-

year-old, he ran away from his Wiltshire home after a row with his father, a wealthy farmer. Henry hot-headedly rode to Bristol with the notion of joining a slave ship. But John Gresley, one of his father’s landlords, whose family around Bristol had prospered from the ‘triangular trade’, sent him home with a flea in his ear. Henry observed how he deplored slavery, it being ‘a cruel, unjust, unchristian, murderous traffic.’ Perhaps this is why, a quarter of a century later, he was loath to identify his daughter’s husband.

Further searches at Somerset Record Office show that McGhie’s

Rose Hall - an example of a plantation ‘great house’ in the West Indies (photograph courtesy of Jamaica Tourist Board)

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parents were tenants of Upcott House, Bishop’s Hull, nr Taunton, between about 1794 and 1810. But the best find was an indenture lying among files deposited by a firm of Taunton solicitors. It was one of many relating to the bankruptcy of a family called Brickdale. They were also deeply involved in the slave trade, even having a ship named after them. Although some Brickdales had lived at Upcott House, they, the Willoughbys, Gresleys, and Hobhouses - all rich from slavery - were mostly associated with the opulent houses in Queen’s Square, Bristol.*

The indenture and its attachment related to financial and legal transactions between the late eighteenth century and about 1820. The McGhies, so far as their Jamaican estates were concerned, were always in debt. And they were seemingly not above borrowing huge sums of money without telling lenders that the plantations were already incumbered. They borrowed £10,000 from Robert Willoughby, a gentleman with an estate at Wick,

* Slavery Obscured, The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port by Madge Dresser (London: Continuum, 2001) is a good source for this.

nr Brislington, on the Bath-side of Bristol, with the promise to repay him in kind - nearly three million pounds weight of sugar - over seven years. Eight years later when Willoughby died, he had not received a single grain. In the interim, the McGhies, who were spasmodically resident in Jamaica, had borrowed £20,000 from London merchants with a view to repaying some of their earlier debts. Later they borrowed from the Brickdales to do likewise.

By the 1790s, there was talk of abolition of slavery. That made collateral against loans risky. What would a plantation be worth if it lost its workforce? Again in 1807, when the shipping ban was introduced, lending money to slave owners was a gamble. Banks were tentative; individuals perhaps continued to speculate. Such speculation contributed to the financial ruin of the Brickdales. Amazingly, in 1836, when James McGhie wrote his will, despite all the debts, his Jamaican estates were still his to bequeath.

A bonus from the indenture is that the location of the Jamaican estates is given – being in the parish of Trelawney, Co. Cornwall, near the Martha Brae River, the other counties being Middlesex and Surrey - there are lists of buildings

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– including boiling houses, distilleries and windmills - and animals – horses, horned cattle and mules. Sadly, however, the list of slaves ‘herewith appended’ was not attached.

Although a TNA leaflet said they hold few records of plantations, they note that Court of Chancery files contained records of the West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission, 1770-1893. Details of estates overburdened by

mortgages included sales of over two hundred properties, many of them in Jamaica and Antigua. Failing this, The National Archive (TNA) suggested trying archives in the former colonies or seeking family papers in local record offices. Some families, of course, may still be holding on to their now ‘dubious’ histories.

3 Fairways, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 8BA

ian.f.hunt@tesco.net

A British Cartoon published by Macklew, Nov 4 1784 that illustrates the declining profitability of the slave trade. ‘A well-dressed, smiling West Indian couple contrasts with a depressed plantation owner who is finding it difficult to get funding. He is reading a notice saying ‘No more credit given by…’’ (Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C LC-USZ62-132989)

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PEACOCK NEWSAGENT AND TOBACCONIST

57 Princes Street, Swindon Freda Birleson (4633)

Mr. and Mrs. Reginald

Peacock took over this tobacconist and

newsagent following their marriage on 1st June 1936.

Reginald married Edith Ethel Mary Morse at Broad Street Chapel, Swindon.

Reginald was a motor body maker and Edith a hospital nurse, both were living at the Morse

Peacock’s Newsagent and Tobacconist shop at 57 Princes Street, Swindon decked out to commemorate the coronation of King George VI in 1937.

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family home at 59 Princes Street, Swindon, just two doors away from the shop.

According to Kelly’s Directory for 1939 they were still at this shop during the World War Two, but they did move on to another shop - a retail greengrocer - at 200 Rodbourne Road, Swindon. Reginald was born at 79 Broad Street, Coventry on October 10, 1905 to William Shakespeare, a domestic coalman, and Louisa Peacock née Cooling. Edith was born on April 17, 1908 at 13 Carfax Street, Swindon to Ernest Charles - a Carriage Fitter at the G.W.R. Railway Works - and Ruth Amelia Morse née Cole. The shop fittings were a present from the Misses Jean and Freda (now Birleson) Morse. It is quite likely that these were constructed by Albert Charles Morse - Jean and Freda’s father and bride’s brother - who was an apprentice carpenter at the G.W.R. Works before his marriage and

subsequent move to London where he worked on the shop fitting of the store Gamages. Jean Morse was a bridesmaid at Edith and Reginald’s wedding.

Edith Peacock entered Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, suffering from tuberculosis of the spine where she later died on 1st February 1957 at the age of 48 years. My recollection is being taken by my father with my mother Winifred Louisa née Dixon and my sister Jean to the hospital just prior to Jean’s marriage in June 1953. This was to show off her wedding dress to our Aunt Edie who bought the headdress she was to wear and which I in turn wore for my wedding in July 1954. Reginald Peacock was living at the shop at 200 Rodbourne Road, Swindon. It is thought he eventually moved back to Coventry.

63 Devonshire Road, Newbury Park, Ilford, Essex, IG2 7EW

fzbirleson@tiscali.co.uk

Sherston Magna Parish Register 1655 Thomas GAGG, an apprentice of one Edward NUMDEY of Nibley North, Wootten under Edge in county of Gloucestershire roming (sic) to ye faire on the first day on May dyed here the next day and on the 4th day of the same May was buryed

extracted by Jeremy Turtle (part of transcribers team)

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WARMINSTER LADIES’ BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

THE SICK RELIEVED IN THE YEAR ENDING JULY 1832 Barbara Fuller (1192) The Annual Report of the above Society dated July 1832 gives not only the names of those in receipt of relief and where they lived but also the visitors, collectors and officers of the Society. Details are also given of those who paid a subscription or gave a donation for the year. The report notes that they gratefully acknowledge a bequest of 19 guineas from the late Major Batchellor which enabled a more considerable purchase of flannel to be made so it seems they also gave in kind, as well as money. In the exact words of the report

The expenditure of this year exceeds that of the last. It cannot be disputed that to the afflicted poor of this parish, many sources of consolation are presented by this Society, not only in the pecuniary aid it affords, but in its kind sympathy and seasonable advice of those benevolent individuals who are hereby led so constantly to visit the chambers of sickness and the abodes of poverty. Each revolving year sweeps away many who have been assisted by its bounty, some who have contributed liberally to its funds and others who have exhibited a deep interest in its prosperity. It is pleasing to reflect on those who long rendered efficient aid, as now resting from their labours.

Below is an index of the names mentioned – more details can be found in the original document which can be consulted in the Library of Devizes Museum. The main list gives the name of the recipient, where they lived ,and the amount of money they received. Sometime the word ‘dead’ appears in brackets, so presumably the payment was towards funeral costs. For example :

Mary Brown, Church Street (dead) 1/- So why did Charles Garrett (dead) of Pound Street receive 2/-? The visitors names are followed by the area they covered. For example:

Mrs Walsh and Mrs T .Morgan covered Pound Street.

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The subscriptions and donations list only includes the donors name and amount given. Numbers in brackets indicate the number of entries for each name THE VISITORS Bannister (2) Brodribb Chettle Cox (2)

Cruse Dalby Everett (2) Hodding (2)

Morgan (3) Powell (2) Provis Randall (2)

Rowlandson (2) Scard (2) Short

Shorto Slade (2) Vardy Walsh (2)

LIST OF SICK RELIEVED (1832) Adlam (8) Alexander (2) Alford (1) Appleby (1) Archer (1) Baker (3) Ball (5) Bedford (2) Blake (3) Blandford Bray (2) Bristow (2) Bristol (1) Brimson (1) Brown (1) Bond (2) Bounds (1) Boice (1) Bush (2) Burgess (1) Butcher (5) Cane (1) Carpenter (2) Carr (7) Carter (3) Charlton (1) Clacey (1) Coombs (1) Cornish (1)

Coster (1) Courtney (1) Cousins (1) Cross (1) Cundick (1) Curtis (5) Daniell (3) Dashwood (1) Davis (1) Dean (2) Debnam (4) Derwick (1) Dicks (1) Digby (1) Doel (1) Dunkerton (1) Dunn (1) Dutch (1) Eacott (6) Elliott (1) Exton (3) Fear (1) Ferris (1) Foreman (4) Ford (3) Fricker (1) Gale (1) Garrett (5) Giles (11)

Gilbert (2) Gibbs (4) Goddard (3) Golding (1) Grist (3) Greatwood (1) Hart (1) Harding (1) Harris (1) Hawkins (1) Haynes (1) Hayter (2) Hayward (1) Hickman (1) Hill (2) Hiskett (2) Hinwood (1) Hobbs (1) Holton (8) Howell (1) Ingram (6) James (1) Jarvis (1) Kellow (1) Kemp (1) King (2) Kirly (1) Langley (2) Liversuch (1)

Lidbury(1) Loyd (2) Martin (1) Matthews (1) Mead (4) Milmer (1) Mines (1) Mogg (2) Moody (1) Moore (4) Nail (3) Nightingale (2) Noble (1) Noyle (1) Olden (1) Orders (1) Owen (3) Oxford (1) Pain (7) Painter (1) Papps (1) Parker (5) Parkinson (1) Pearce (5) Perman (1) Perry (1) Pinnel (1) Ponton (4) Ponting (1)

Price (3) Prangley (1) Ransom (3) Reeves (2) Reynolds (2) Richmond (1) Robinson (1) Rose (2) Rutty (2) Ruddock (1) Ryall (2) Salmon (1) Sanger (1) Sargood (4) Shepherd (2) Shore (1) Scammel (3) Silcox (3) Sims (2) Smith (2) Soloman (1) Sparey (1) Spinnel (2) Stedman (1) Stevens (1) Tabor (3) Taylor (1) Teague (2) Titford (2)

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Titt (1) Trapp (5) True (1) Tucker (7)

Turner (1) Turvill (1) Vallis (2) Vizard (1)

Walter (1) Walters (1) Warren (7) Watson (1)

Whatley (5) Wheeler (3) White (2) Whittock (1)

Wire (1) Yates (5) Yeodall (1) Young (5)

In the annual report there is rather an enigmatic remark – ‘What may be the calls on this Charity for the ensuing year cannot be foreseen – threatened as the neighbourhood is by a Disease of a new and alarming character’. This is following by an exhortation, ‘Be ye stedfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord’ It is not clear what this disease might be – do any readers have any ideas ?

THE RECORDS OF

BROADMOOR CRIMINAL LUNATIC ASYLUM

Nigel Lampard

Should anyone be trying to get access to an Inmate’s Record when they were confined in Broadmoor Asylum, I would like to share what I have learned regarding the process.

The Inmate’s Records from the opening of Broadmoor in 1863 up to 1900 have recently been deposited at the Berkshire Record Office. However, I have been told that public access will not be possible before the summer of 2008. Many of the bound volumes are falling apart and are too fragile to be handled. Urgent conservation work is needed and cataloguing has to be undertaken. The preservation of Broadmoor’s records is a part of a larger, on-

going conservation project for which funding has been granted. I asked if immediate access under the Freedom of Information Act would be given, but the response was “No, under Section 20”.

A contract is currently being drawn up between Broadmoor and the Berkshire Record Office in regard of what will be accessible by the public and what will still be closed. The hundred-year closure period still applies, as it does for Medical Records at Wiltshire

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Record Office. Rather than waiting until 2008, two options are available:

1. Contact Berkshire Record Office who will conduct limited and specific searches on written enquiries. 2. Contact Broadmoor Hospital directly, they can supply information from an inmate’s file since the earlier ones are on microfilm. However, as the Medical Records staff is very small, their standard response is to only supply a very short

summary. They will not supply printed copies of any of the information. Contact details are – Mrs Sheena Ebbsworth, Medical Records, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire, RG45 7EG. I was able to negotiate to see an

individual’s record on microfilm inside Broadmoor under the supervision of a member of the Medical Records staff. This proved very worthwhile. There are mostly

WILLIAM JUDD’S WILTSHIRE CONNECTIONS

Documents in the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office provide details of the time William Judd, a 35 year old tailor, spent in custody. He was tried at New Sarum Quarter Sessions Winter Assizes 10th Dec 1869 where he was found guilty of ‘unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to a stack of hay, the property of James Read, at Winterbourne Earls on the 9th of October 1869.’ He was found to be insane and sentenced to ‘remain in strict custody until Her Majesty’s pleasure be known.’ Initially he was incarcerated in Devizes Goal. Then on the 17th January 1870, he was transferred to Fisherton House Asylum at Fisherton Angler near Salisbury. Finally on January 6th 1877, he was discharged to the specialist hospital, Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum in Crowthorne in Berkshire.

(WSRO J7-190-13, Male Case Notes; Courtesy of Wiltshire & Swindon RO)

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medical records that are typical of any asylum, and a small collection of letters to and from Broadmoor. The whole group is less than twenty pages of information. But some of it is priceless family history details – such as the fact that he was going to be discharged to his two sons in Australia, which instantly explains why I lost track of them after the 1881 Census.

An in-sight into William Judd’s despairing mental state and deteriorating physical health, which led him to being detained at HM Pleasure are fully described for the first time.

From Medical Record No: 898 William Judd Problems arose from: An ill feeling arose, from some dispute that they had from time to time, about the right to sell beer for which Judd sought occasional licences, although he was a tailor by trade. During 1869 his eyesight began to fail him, and from want of money and work, he became depressed and in dread of the future. He then resolved to do something which might get him into penal servitude as a sort of relief from his troubles. His first idea was to get deeply and criminally into debt with cloth merchants, grocer’s etc, but his wife would

not let him. He ultimately resolved to set fire to some property and carried out his purpose. Warrant No: 34029/10. [Dated 09 Jan 1888] Mental enfeeblement, with a tendency to melancholia. Unfit to take proper care of himself if at large. His is quite harmless, but requires Asylum supervision, as he is not fit to take care of himself. He might if set at large relapse into a state of active insanity.

Reported entries: There are only twelve covering his detention period at Broadmoor (06/01/1877 – 09/01/1889) and most are very similar and very brief.

30/07/1878 Unable to work for several months with sprained foot which is now better. 24/09/1886 A man of weak intellect, garrulous when talking of former life. Works in gardens. Health fair. Sight very defective. 30/10/1887 No change. Quiet and industrious. Anxious at times. To be discharged to care of his two sons in Australia, but it does not appear that they could take care of him. 09/01/1889 Removed to Wilts County Asylum in the charge of Attendant Coles.

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The second collection of material is mostly letters, and one is from his eldest son Albert, in very small and neat handwriting, giving an exact street address and date.

May 1881 8 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall SW. To Dr Orange, Broadmoor. Sir, I respectively beg permission to ask you, if it be at all likely that William Judd, who is at present in Broadmoor Asylum, will ever be again at liberty and free from confinement in an Asylum. He has been under restraint at difference places since 1869, that is eleven years and I trust that you will bear in mind that this my enquiry is a natural one, and at your convenience, I should be thankful if you would kindly let me have a reply.

I am Sir, yours obediently, Albert Judd.

Another letter is written and signed by William Judd himself, to an unknown person asking him or her to petition for his release. Presumably it never left Broadmoor. The handwriting is very large and wanders across the page, and is probably the only surviving example.

31st October 1885. Dear Friend I wish you would be so kind as to get up a petition on my behalf, and get it signed by all the farmers and people of influence in order that I may get my release, and if I get it, it is the will of God. I am sure you will succeed. I remain your loyal friend William Judd. [signed]

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GOOD FRIDAY ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY YEARS AGO

A FUNERAL LONG REMEMBERED Andrew Jones (2958)

Good Friday 10th April 1857 was unlike any other Good Friday in Trowbridge. On that day a funeral took place that brought thousands of people into the town centre. Three thousand people on the street – so many that the police superintendent, John Foley, took charge of public order; three thousand people lining the route from Union Street to The Down., all watching a procession of several hundred marching behind a cortège.

Whose funeral was this that drew such attention? The Trowbridge Advertiser reported that it was ‘our late highly respected townsman, John

Warburton minister of Zion Chapel’ – one of the town’s best known church leaders of the nineteenth century.

John Warburton was a native of Manchester, born there in October 1776 and brought up in a poor family. By 1809, he had become the pastor of Hope Baptist Chapel in Rochdale. Later, in 1814, he first preached in Trowbridge. By March the following year Warburton had accepted an invitation from a new church to become its first minister.

The new Baptist Church, Zion, was formed in January 1813 when forty-one members left the Back Street Chapel, now Emmanuel, over doctrinal differences. The new pastorate began on 2nd April 1815. Within a month, the meeting in an upper storey of a warehouse in Wicker Hill was crowded. It became imperative that a chapel should be built. This, Zion Chapel in Union Street, was opened in June 1816.

Over the next 42 years, Zion Chapel was crowded as over a thousand flocked to the House of God. The building was so full that, during the evening service, forms were placed down the aisles. So powerful was the voice of John Warburton that, on a Sunday evening, with the chapel windows open, his words could be heard at the top of Trimbrell Street.

John Warburton

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Membership at Zion was by baptism by immersion. In the early days of the pastorate, thousands would gather to hear Warbuton preach and then baptise in the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hilperton Marsh or in the mill stream at Ladydown Mill. He would baptise twenty or even twenty-four people at one time.

By the 1850s, John Warburton’s health was deteriorating and he was only able to preach once a Sunday. A heart condition was diagnosed in 1856. In January 1857, because he was unable to preach, Warburton offered his resignation. Such was the feeling towards their pastor that the church would not hear of it. Instead they continued to pay his salary for two further six week periods. By March it was evident that his life was drawing to a close. On 2nd April, the family was summoned to his bedside in Dorset House, The Halve. At 7:15 that evening, John Warburton breathed his last – forty-two years to the day after he preached his first sermon as pastor in the warehouse on Wicker Hill.

News reached Zion at the start of the mid-week meeting. The visiting minister, Mr Hatton from Wolverhampton, announced the sad tidings to the congregation and many wept openly.

The funeral took place at 11am Good Friday – a day remembered for many years as being bright, warm, and sunny. The cortège left the home in The Halve to go to Zion Chapel. The outer gate of the chapel had to be closed to prevent overcrowding. In the chapel, clad with black drapes around the galleries and pulpit, the coffin was placed on a table pew and the choir struck up a hymn. Three ministers spoke – Mr Hatton, Mr Mortimer of Old Baptist Chapel, Chippenham, and Mr Roff of Stowe in the Wold, Gloucestershire. The coffin was then carried from the chapel to the cemetery. The hearse was proceeded by Mr Spragg, surgeon, Zion Chapel c. 1816

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Dr William Fowley, and the visiting ministers – Gorton from Milton under Winchwood, Peacock from Seend, Nightingale from Southwick, and Hatton, Roff, and Mortimer. The pall was borne by the deacons and the family followed. This included three sons, James, Gideon, and John, two sons-in-law, John Hayward and Isaac Moore, and eight grandsons. They were accompanied by a hundred male members of the congregation and 130 female members. At the cemetery a short service was held. George Gorton gave an affecting and powerful address. The Zion Chapel choir was joined by the Back Street Chapel with Mr William Keats leading and Mr Felix Stevens of Back Street assisting. After the committal, Mr Roff closed the service in prayer.

So concluded a day long remembered in Trowbridge. One hundred and fifty years have passed since that spring morning. Dorset House in the Halve remains. Zion Chapel, built for the preaching of the gospel message by John Warburton still remains open and that same gospel message is preached to this day.

MORE OBSCURE MARRIAGES

Steve Hobbs, FSA, archivist The earliest register of Salisbury St Thomas (1900/4) comprises several loose pages of baptisms and burials, 1530-2, 1560-1, which the transcription team have been tackling recently. Among them are some accounts, for the latter years, of payments of fees for services of communion, churching of women, burial and the following marriages.

Richard Mackarell and Joan Hopar, 20 Jul [1561] Thomas Skyllyng and Katherine Dyapar, 2 Aug [1561] John Luys and Amice Samways, 31 Aug [1561]

The Great Rolls of the Quarter Sessions have thrown up another record of a marriage from the mid 17th century for which the registers of the parish do not survive.

A certificate signed by John Archer, priest, that William Ambrose and Jane King were married 5 Jan 1563; the parish is not stated but Archer signed the bishop transcript of Swallowcliffe for 1640 and that seems the likely place. (A1/110/1653H/174).

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In the first parish register of Calne (2083/1) the following list is written in a late17th cent hand. The only name which occurs in the marriage licence bond index is John Frayling who was licensed to marry Sarah Cook in Cherhill in 1697.

The names of those that have been married out of the parish: John Townson, Thomas Gunfeild, Anthony the Fidler, Edward Massey, Salalon Tyler, Edmond Dickes, William Prater, Thomas Clarke alias Hunt, … Harris married at Cherhill; Robert Bull, Thomas Hobbs, John Frayling, and John Webb, (The last three names are added in different hands presumably at later dates.)

Finally a correction to the index of a marriage licence bond for Edwards and Masters, which is not 1677, but 1672. It is possible that the abodes of the parties and bondsmen were transposed by the clerk writing the bond, but the correct entry is as follows:

EDWARDS, Mr Zachary, 23, Oxford, apothecary MASTERS, Mrs Abigail, spr, 21, Salisbury

Masters, Samuel, clerk, Oxford Edwards, Thomas, clothier, Salisbury

25 Nov 1672.

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RECORD OFFICE NEWS Steve Hobbs, FSA, archivist The new Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, into which the Heritage services will be moving during the summer, was handed over to the county and borough authorities by the builders, Cowlins, at the end of January. It looks very impressive and some heritage staff have transferred already. By a strange coincidence, Cowlins, a long established firm from Bristol, built the bonded warehouse now occupied by the Bristol Record Office. On a personal note, I worked for many years in the Somerset Record Office, which was the first purpose-built local authority record office in the country (opened in 1957), and am looking forward to working in the latest one at Chippenham. Many of those who have used your societies’ Goody/Baddy index, and have consulted the calendars of prisoners (A1/125), are probably aware that, from 1828, the number in the calendar corresponds to the number of the relevant deposition (A1/145). These are the witness accounts of the crimes on the basis of which verdicts were determined. They provide interesting background information of use to family and local historian alike. The bundle for each sitting of the Quarter Sessions, has several depositions that do not relate to persons in the calendar, because the case may not have been pursued, or the accused was bailed to appear in court and not detained in prison. These have been effectively ‘lost ‘for research, but no more. A volunteer, Peter Lewis, is working on a list of them that will supplement existing indexes. He has progressed as far as 1853 and the amount of detail he has unearthed is considerable. The most common offences are theft and assault. Members of the Wiltshire Constabulary, which was formed in 1839, were frequently victims of the latter, adding credence to Sir William Gilbert’s words, ’a policeman’s lot is not a happy lot’. The depositions are useful for those interested in public houses and their landlords, as much crime was associated indirectly with them (12 are named between 1828-1843). One case of assault in Bradford, in the bundle for Easter 1839, is particularly interesting because it was associated with chartist activity in the town. Several men were accused of attacking soldiers prior to a chartist meeting at Trowle common. Not all of these were sent to trial and the evidence is a rare survival.

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BOOK REVIEWS Diana Grout (4032)

Military History Sources for Family Historians

The Crimean War 1854-56 by Phil Tomasilli, (FFHS, 2006) at £4.95 The Zulu War 1879 by Phil Tomasilli (FFHS, 2006) at £4.95 The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 by Phil Tomasilli (FFHS, 2006) at £4.95 This is a very useful trio of booklets, each giving an overview of the relevant war, a list of the regiments and other services who took part in the campaigns, and details of the sources available for research. Each booklet is illustrated with photographs and line drawings. The final chapter of each gives advice on how to make the best use of time spent at The National Archives researching military history. These books are available from WFHS through Jim & Joyce Lanfear at 12 Southwick Road, North Bradley, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 OSD. For more information email j.lanfear@virgin.net.

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BBAAPPTTIISSMMSS OOFF SSAALLIISSBBUURRYY SSTT.. TTHHOOMMAASS && CCAATTHHEEDDRRAALL AANNDD 99 PPAARRIISSHHEESS TTOO WWEESSTT AANNDD NNOORRTTHH

1 Winterboume Stoke 2 Berwick St. James 3 Stapleford 4 South Newton 5 Woodford 6 Stratford-Sub-Castle 7 Bemerton 8 Fisherton Anger 9 West Harnham 10 Salisbury St Thomas 11 Cathedral Close Wiltshire Family History

Society Registered Charity No.290284 Salisbury St Thomas is the largest parish, in entries, transcribed to date. It is unique in commencing in 1530, eight years before

Thomas Cromwell’s mandate requiring records to be kept. Sadly, they only survive for a short period, there being a gap from 1531 to 1558. The parish is small in area but highly populated, being the central area of the city. The population did not increase, indeed, entries reduced during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The transcripts are too big to publish in book form; they will be available on fiche, but not in our usual series of sets at £3 each. They will be £6 each for baptisms and burials. CDP5 includes baptisms of 10 other parishes and will be £17 including VAT. Burials will be in the National Burial Index, and baptisms and burials will be on the Federation pay-per-view site www.familyhistoryonline.net in due course.

WFHS CDP5

Baptisms from earliest record to 1837

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USEFUL WEB SITES Rod Whale (3914) An interesting site for surnames can be found at http://www. namethesaurus.com/Thesaurus/Search.aspx. A search retrieves a list of variations of the name. The ‘Giddings’ test produced 61 spellings plus more than a thousand that could match with Soundex, a method often ignored.

Another useful site is at http: //www.rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html. This is an index explaining historical occupations. For example, a Tanner’s Beamsman is a person who draped a part-cured skin over a tanner’s beam - a flat slab of wood or stone used to scrape remaining flesh off the hide. There are other links from the site - one being a History of Diseases and Illnesses Through the Years in U.K. It reveals how frequently bubonic plague, influenza, and cholera were amongst the nasties that afflicted

our ancestors. It seems amazing that anybody survived! (A similar site was discussed in the October 2004 journal.)

Most members will be aware of the site that was formerly called http://www.1837online.com. It has now changed to http://www. findmypast .com. An offshoot of it, reached either as a link or by using http://www.ancestersonboard.com, is a database of passengers who left UK ports on ships travelling worldwide. At present, it covers the period 1890 to 1909, but the eventual cut-off date will be 1960, when it is anticipated that the list will exceed 30 million people. Again, I used the ‘Giddings test’ and found that there are one hundred and twenty seven people listed with the surname. The initial index is free but to obtain full details becomes chargeable.

BRANCH MEETING REPORTS Devizes 7 November, Poverty and Crime in 18c Devizes, Lorna Haycock In the 18th century there were harsh game laws and many crimes were

punishable by death. The poor often lived in squalor and their ramshackle cottages have not survived. Inflation and infant mortality were high and food

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accounted for sixty per cent of spending. 1765 saw food riots. Throughout the period potatoes were scarce, bread was rationed in 1800, and making pastry was forbidden. Although charities helped with costs for confinements, funerals etc, many women died in childbirth. Life were very unpleasant for the poor. 2 November, Wiltshire Place Names, Dr John Chandler John explained that although place names have always fascinated

people, a serious study of them was not made till 1920s. In 1939, a Wiltshire map was produced showing details. Some names have survived from Saxon times. There were also Roman and Norman influences, but very few names have Viking connections. We were given examples of old names - some were from old fields or landscape, some were streets, and some were public houses. 2 January, Conceptions and Misconceptions, Beryl and John

SOME OF THE EARLY MEMBERS SHOWN CUTTING THE 25TH YEAR CELEBRATION BIRTHDAY CAKE AT THE OFFICERS’ SEMINAR

(left to right - with membership numbers) John Hurley (743), Doug Jackson (480), Richard Moore (1), Nan Simmons (583), Julia Hunt (18), Jim and Joyce Lanfear (559), Richard Shead (446), Beryl Hurley (743). Jennifer Walker (406). New members today have membership numbers approaching 7400.

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Hurley In their usual light-hearted way, John and Beryl showed the dangers of making assumptions and how this might catch out the unwary researcher. They provided many examples, often drawn from their own findings, including unavailable or non-existent records. They highlighted transcription errors never corrected and gave examples of deliberate falsification with ages and names that were erroneous. Even experienced researchers were given plenty of food for thought. 16 January, Members Evening Our two visitors must have learnt a lot as memories were jogged revealing unusual records, reminiscences and even rhymes. Swindon’s National Monuments Centre had provided details of an ancestor’s home ‘up north’ which led to finding a 19th century farm records. A diary written in verse revealed a town’s way of life during many years. Other obscure items found by research were a curious burial, a murder, and many other details of family life - all discovered by good research. 6 February, World War Ron, Dr Norman Beale Norman told us that when checking his deceased father’s effects he found a few tantalising records regarding his life as a prisoner of war in WWII.

Methodical research revealed that, after capture near Dunkirk, life deep inside Europe was harsh until liberty was eventually achieved. In his father’s case, it is unclear if liberty was due to being released or whether it was due to an escape.

Rod Whale Malmesbury 22 November, Trade Directories, Julia Hunt Most numerous and informative between 1840 and 1939 and containing the names of mostly tradesmen, farmers, and gentry, trade directories are potted histories of each town and village. They include details of services such as the post office, chapels, local agriculture, market days, and local industries. For Wiltshire, many directories can be found in the Record Office. Local libraries have one or two copies. And of course, they are now being put on the internet. 13 December, Social Evening Our meeting was divided into five teams to complete Sheila Clemmet’s special Christmas quiz. The winning team was presented with a chocolate bar each. The Grand Raffle then followed with so many prizes that there was almost one for every member. Next it was refreshments and a change to catch up on the latest gossip and research.

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24 January, A Death in the Family, John Pickett John talked about his fascinating research with a difference – to study the circumstances of his four grandparents’ descendants’ deaths. He suddenly found that his family suffered from interesting ENDS - ranging from possible poisonings, bombs, a train crash, falling down stairs, capsizing at sea, and friendly fire. All these had unexpected stories behind them. So, start collecting your certificates now!

Jennifer Walker Trowbridge 13 December, Members’ Evening In place of a formal talk, those who attended this social evening chose to speak to the group about surprises found in their research. There were several stories that showed how a particular resource could be of use, and people shared their knowledge of websites. Bishop’s Transcripts, passenger records, newspapers and Army records were amongst the records mentioned. The group then shared some party food and drinks at this pre-Christmas social evening. 10 January, Using Trade Directories for Family, Local, and Community History, Julia Hunt Trade directories can be a very good primary source for descriptions of towns and villages,

information on community infrastructure, and on individuals within communities. Perhaps the best-known directory was Kelly’s, but local libraries and record offices hold many different directories in which ancestors may be listed. The website www.historicaldirectories.org is searchable and has a selection of old directories where pages can be viewed online. 14 February, Exploring the Working Life of Your Farming Ancestors, Bethanie Afton Surviving sources of interest connected with agriculture include manorial court rolls, estate papers (maps and agreements), enclosure maps, farm accounts and day books, journals, diaries and commentaries. The development of agricultural practices was given and along with an indication of how changes in farming practices affected people’s lives.

R Grist Westbury 23rd November, Mistakes I have Made, Richard Moore Richard had a great deal of information on aspects of ancestral history including leaflets and books. His main topic was his own family history, the mistakes he had made and the routes he took to find the truth. Richard also showed various

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slides and everything was explained in an entertaining and simple way. 25th January, Hunt’s the Chemist, Peter Cooper Peter’s presentation contained a huge amount of history and research into his own family’s history and their chemist shops in

Winchester, with dates ranging from 1649 to nearly present day. The talk was embellished with a slide show that included photographs of the chemist shops and old newspaper advertisements.

Marion Hall

HELP WANTED and OFFERED

EDITOR’S NOTE Publishing help wanted letters is a free service. However, due to restrictions on space, priority will be given to members’ letters with a Wiltshire content. Letters over 150 words may be edited to fit into the space available. Since this can result in the unintentional editing of what the writer considers essential information, it is in your interest to keep to this word limit, and, whenever possible, send letters by e-mail. Mrs K Sharpe (3593) My great-grandparents Clara and James Reeves were market gardeners at Goatacre before 1914. On discussing this with another researcher, she was able to tell me that she had read an account of Clara and James’s work and methods of working the land. Unfortunately, she was unable to tell me where she had seen this!! If anyone knows of this report or can give me any information to help me find it, I would be most grateful. I enclose a photo (next page) of Clara (on right) and her sister Eliza.

The Rosary, Goatacre, nr Calne,

Wilts, SN11 9JE tony@absharpe.freeserve.co.uk

EDITOR’S NOTE: An excellent source for all things rural including market gardening is the online bibliography at the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading www.merl.org.uk/the_collections/bibliog_brit_irish.html. I did some work on this in its early stages and can strongly recommend it. Simply put in a search word and references from books, articles, and archives are identified. Another suggestion is to look at Parliamentary Papers to see if there was an investigation into agriculture including market

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gardening around the date that the Reeves were working in Goatacre. Often these contain evidence with amazing detail taken from individual witnesses. Similar investigations cover other occupations. Beryl Martin (6842) I am looking for information on William Pearce; b. c1755, Trunkmaker, and Sally Tarrent; b. c.1759, d. 1841, Nunton; married, Jan. 1780, at Southbroom. Any idea why people were ‘sojourners’ at Southbroom? Where would the banns be recorded? Children born in Salisbury:-

1. William; b. 1783, d. 1821, Grocer, m. Martha; b. c 1780, East Stower, Dorset. I am looking for their marriage.

2. Sally; b.1784, m. David Matthews, 1808, Salisbury. Daughter, Martha, b. 1810, d.1837, m. 1828 James Corbin; b. c.1808, Lymington, Hampshire. Information wanted on umbrella makers of Salisbury, 1800s-60s, including James Corbin & Josiah Ventham, 3. George Pearce; b. 1793, Umbrella maker, m. c1823, Maria Lecter; m. 1827, Fisherton Anger, Hannah Collins, widow. George went to Bristol without Hannah, I am looking for Hannah’s burial.

I would also like information about coachmakers of Salisbury, in the 1700s and 1800s. Henry PEARCE; Wheelwright, d. 1770, Salisbury. Edward & Thomas PEARCE; Coachmakers, c1790-

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1827, Exeter St. Salisbury. Wanted Edward and Thomas’s burials. Thomas Pearce m. 1795 Mary GILLO[W]. Their sons were Thomas Henry, William Gillo and Lewis all coachbuilders, between 1830-70 in Salisbury. Wanted births of the sons 1806-9.

3, Blackthorn Circuit, Menai, NSW 2234, AUSTRALIA

beryljmartin@hotmail.com Ann Stewart (6981) As a relatively new researcher, I would be grateful if anyone in your group can help me, as I have just discovered Wiltshire ancestors. My great-great-grandfather was born in Wanborough; he was John Hatton, born 1802 or 1807, depending on the census. He married my great-great-grandmother Ann Taylor in 1835, in Lewes, Sussex, where he lived till his death in 1897. According to the 1841 census for Lewes, he had staying with him Richard Hatton, born 1809 (I presumed a brother, but could be cousin, I suppose). Both John and Richard were tailors.

a)Using the IGI and parent search, I found a John Hatten, born Aug.8 1802, parents Thomas and Mary, along with Henry, 1807, and Isaac 1805, all born in Trowbridge. The only Richard born to a Thomas

and Mary was born in Ashby de la Zouch. b) However a Hatton family in the 1841 census, shows John (1806) Isaac (1808) Harriott and Ann (1814) George (1836) Thomas (1779) and Mary (1781), all born in Great Bedwin. In 1841, however, my John is in Lewes, with his wife.

Can anyone help with these queries 1) If the family in paragraph (a) are mine, are Wanborough and Trowbridge adjacent areas which could be confused? And where does Richard fit in? Is he brother, or part of another Hatton family (which might account for his birthplace)? I suppose I should search Ashby in case his mother came from there. 2) Because my John cannot be in 2 places on census night, is the family in paragraph b a second Hatton family, headed coincidentally by Thomas and Mary also and also with a son Isaac?

a.stewart3@freeuk.com EDITOR’S NOTE: Ann’s letter shows some of the problems found when using the internet for research. It is an excellent place to start your family tree, but soon can cause difficulties like this. Because John was in Lewes in 1841, it is unlikely, but not impossible, that the Great Bedwin

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census included Ann’s John. The occupation sometimes helps. Were they both tailors? Were Thomas and Mary John’s parents? If so, I would still doubt that the John Hatten of Trowbridge in the IGI is the same person in spite of the names of the parents. Later censuses may help. Did he or the John Hatton in the 1841 Great Bedwin census appear in later censuses in the same places? These later censuses have more useful information than the 1841. From them we know that John Hatton of Lewes was born in Wanborough, a parish about 12 miles from Great Bedwin and about 28 from Trowbridge. The best solution is to look at original documents. Because the marriage and birth of John occurred before the introduction of civil registration in 1837, Ann needs to resolve this census problem by looking in local parish registers. WFHS has published the baptismal records for Wanborough so that might be a useful purchase. Another suggestion would be to contact the Research Co-ordinator at society@wiltshirefhs.co.uk or write to The Wilts FHS Resource Centre, 10 Castle Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1HJ to ask them to look for the name in the Surname Index. This would check for the occurrence of John Hatton in all Wiltshire documents transcribed by the society.

Alan Holbrow (7389) My family history, started in Gloucestershire, has moved to Wiltshire and has – as always – hit a brick wall. My 5xgreat-grandfather, William HOLBROW was living with his father (also William) at Wandswell Court Farm, nr Berkeley in Gloucestershire. William jnr married Sarah PHILPOTT of Tytherton Lucas Wilts on 12-4-1781. They had 5 children at Berkeley. In July 1799, William snr died followed in the November by Sarah. Both are buried in Berkeley. William jnr then married Sarah SARNEY of Wootton Bassett, Wilts, on 4-3-1800 and returned to Berkeley where they had one son in 1801 who died aged 6 mos. The lease of the farm changed hands in 1802 and William and Sarah disappear at the point. My question is, did they return to Wilts, are they buried there (they do not appear on the Wilts Monumental Inscriptions List)? William’s age is unknown at this point but Sarah was 23 when they married in 1800. Has anyone spotted them?

28 Oak Ave, Shirley, Croydon, CR0 8EE

EDITOR’S NOTE: Again, try the WFHS surname index.

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Elizabeth Cannon Elizabeth Scott (1883-1971) married my mother’s cousin, Frederick William Veale (1882-1979) in Keynsham, Somerset, in the first quarter of 1906. Frederick was a market gardener and greengrocer. After service in WWI, he could not settle in Keynsham so he took his wife and young son, also Frederick William, to Guernsey. The younger Fredrick married a Guernsey woman and they remained on the

island where their son, John Howard Veale, still lives. In helping John clear his parents’ house after their deaths, we found many photographs. One collection was in a biscuit tin. I concluded that this was found by FW jnr amongst his father’s possessions and was kept separate. I hope these provide your members with some interest and would be delighted if people researching these contact me.

345 Unthank Road, Norwich, NR4 7QG efcannon@tiscali.co.uk

Robert Scott (b.1880)tailor

Joseph Scott (b.1848) stonemason

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Elizabeth has sent WFHS a collection of photographs of the Scott family, all descendants of Lucy Scott and some from the Warminster area. Most of the

photographs have been identified, and details, along with a family tree, were included. She has offered these to members researching the family or for us to retain in our archive. Depending on the readers’ response, WFHS will decide whether to send scanned versions or the original to anyone interested. Theses photos are a small sample of the collection.

Edward Scott (b.1887) (right)Edward (Ned) joined the Navy under age in about 1900. He served in Q ships during WWI and remained for several years afterwards. He was at Jutland and the Falklands and was a CPO at both Whale Island and Gibraltar. He played soccer for the RN and his two sons, Edward and George played as part-time professionals.

Albert Scott (b.1892) (left) Albert worked for the Post Office (shown in uniform here) and served in the camel-corps in Mesopotamia in WWI. He contracted am illness from which he never fully recovered and died relatively young. They had one child.

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Rosemary Blair (6986) The photograph (below) is of Edward Price, gamekeeper at Baynton House, Coulston, and his wife Emma Ellen taken in 1918 at their Golden Wedding. Along with Edward and his wife (seated in the middle) are his sons (l to r) - Frank, Charles, Fred and Sidney (the eldest, a gamekeeper married to Kate Bull living at Steeple Ashton and Bratton). Sitting in front of Sidney is his younger brother, Herbert, who married Annie Early in Coulston. Standing between her two brothers at the back-right, is my grandmother, Martha and leaning on her fatherʹs knee is, I believe, Edith who married Jacob

Hale in Coulston where they lived at the Bell Inn owned by his mother, Jane Hale. Missing is a son, William Price who latterly lived in Savernake St, Swindon , and two daughters, Agnes who had emigrated to Vancouver and Sophia Jane who entered a convent. We have no idea who the elderly seated couple on the left are, although, as Emma Ellen had no siblings, we assume they are from Edwardʹs family. The lady sitting on the floor may be Kate Bull and the one on the right in the chair may be Annie Early. And we donʹt know who the two other women in the back row with Martha and her brothers are. Can anyone recognise

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any of these folk or the dwelling? Edward had previously lived at the House of Steps but this must have been his retirement cottage. rosiehblair@yahoo.co.uk Janet Vivyan I am trying to find Helen Isabel Vivyan, also known as Nell, m. William Chapman in 1904 in Portsmouth; d. in Durrington. That is all the information I have. Can anyone help?

7 Bryants Field, Crowborough, East Sussex, TN6 1BH,

janetvivyan@hotmail.com Chris Keynes (5516) Over the past 10 years, I have been extremely lucky in being able to trace almost all my forbearers with their husbands/ wives and children since 1700. For most of that time, they lived in and around the Berwick St Leonard area of Wilts. I have now reached the proverbial brick wall with the birth of Mary on 2-3-1700 at Stourton (Bonham Register) to James and Sarah Caines (sometimes Keynes). This register often shows the family as ‘Papists’. I have been unable to find any trace of James and Sarah prior to this in Wilts, Dorset, or Somerset. I would greatly appreciate any help or advice.

63 Gt Preston Rd, Ryde, IoW, PO33 1EF

Freda Birleson (4633) Enclosed is information about my MORSE family. I should love to hear from any descendents – I know some of the children of some of the names – in order to add to the family tree and to make contact. I have other information to share. Edith Ethel Mary Morse – married to Reginald Peacock, newsagent and tobacconist (see article p 16), is my aunt. She had five brothers:

Dennis Arthur Robert Morse, b. Dec 18 1901 m. Beatrice Lorial NEW Dec 26 1925 Reginald Ernest Morse, b. Apr 1 1904, d. Sep 20 1906 Albert Charles Morse, (my father) b. Aug 26 1906 m. Winifred Louisa Dixon Aug 6 1927 William John Bateman Morse, b. Aug 16 1909 m. Elsie May Butler Apr 22 1935 Frederick Harry Morse, born September 23, 1914, married Grace Mary Bishop on March 26, 1941

Ernest Charles Morse had the following brothers and sisters:

Kate Morse, b. Jun 20 1869, d. Aug 6 1903 William John Bateman Morse, b. Dec 1 1870 m. Annie c.1893 Ellen Louise Morse, b. Mar 24 1872 m. Francis William Stockham Oct 23 1901 Mary Jane Morse, b. Nov 22, 1873

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Joseph Robert Bateman Morse, b. Feb 7 1880, died c.1918 Frank George Bateman Morse, b. Aug 8 1882 m. Emma Froud Dec 24 1902 John James Bateman Morse, b. Apr 24 1884 Albert Arthur Bateman Morse,

b. Mar 8 1887 m. Annie Elizabeth Lily Pickett May 14 1910 Charles Bateman Morse, b. Oct 21 1888, d. Dec 19 1888 Cecil Bateman Morse, b. Oct 13 1890 63 Devonshire Road, Newbury Park,

Ilford, Essex, IG2 7EW fzbirleson@tiscali.co.uk

LETTERS TO THE EDITORChris Poole It is sad to record that in the middle of December, the demolition men moved in and started pulling the Cowbridge works down (below). The fate of the old house is

interesting since the demolition currently is only knocking down the ‘40s and ‘50s brick built extensions. Rumour has it that the developers have sold the house to a third party developer who intends

Destruction of Cowbridge works Photograph by Bob Browning

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to take the house down brick by brick and rebuild it on an estate in the home counties thus creating a new country house - time will tell if this comes to pass.

chris.poole@ekco-radar.co.uk www.ekco-radar.co.uk

EDITOR’S NOTE: Chris was the author of ‘Malmesbury’s Secret Echo of ECKO’ in the October 2006 journal. He sent this photo taken by Bob Browning who kindly gave his permission for its use. Both Chris and Bob have a continuing interest in Cowbridge. Bob gave a paper on Cowbridge to the Malmesbury branch in July 2006. Rosemary Skyrme (7257) Just a line to say “wonderful” for the printing of the latest magazine. The colourful cover makes such a difference and gives it a truly professional look. This impression is continued when reading inside.

Thank you for the detailed explanation about the paper, printing process, design, etc. – something I’m sure many people don’t realize, the different aspects to publishing a journal! – and good to include the names of those helpful people with their technical knowledge, too. Restores faith in human nature! Well done. Credit where credit is due…. Many thanks.

32 Sandridge Road, Melksham Wilts, SN12 7BH

skyrme@onetel.com EDITOR’S NOTE: There was no space for an editorial this quarter so I would like to use this space to thank Rosemary and all the others who have commented on the new look. There are still teething problems to sort out, but generally I’m happy with the look and it has been fun to do.

PARISH REGISTER TRANSCRIPTS BROCHURE

With this issue of the journal you will receive the list of parish register transcripts. We have found it necessary to increase prices from 1st April, the first increase for fifteen years, but we think they are still good value considering all the unpaid voluntary work that goes into them. Some years ago, a decision was made not to reprint books after a period of five years from first publishing. Due to demand, however, some of these have now been republished; the others will follow as soon as we are able.

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MMEEMMBBEERRSS AANNDD TTHHEEIIRR IINNTTEERREESSTTSS New members’ name and address will not be published in this journal until they supply their interests. The Society reserves the right to limit the number of research names for any one member to sixteen in any one journal, but other names may be submitted for later publication. There is no charge for this service. Members wishing to have names published should submit details to the Membership Secretary (see inside front cover). Research requests should be sent to the Members’ Interests Secretary, Mrs H Rogers, WFHS, 10, Castle Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1HJ hilary@wiltshirefhs.co.uk, including a SAE if using regular mail. There is no charge for members of the Society providing that they quote their membership numbers; non-members are invited to make a donation for this service, preferably by cheque payable to Wiltshire Family History Society. WFHS will be responsible for any payment of VAT due.

CHAPMAN COUNTY CODES ENGLAND BDF Bedford BKM Buckingham BRK Berkshire BRS Bristol CAM Cambridge CHS Cheshire CLV Cleveland CMA Cumbria CON Cornwall CUL Cumberland DBY Derby DEV Devon DOR Dorset DUR Durham ERY East Riding Yorks ESS Essex GLS Gloucester HAM Hampshire HEF Hereford HRT Hertford HUM Humberside HUN Huntingdon IOM Isle of Man IOW Isle of Wight KEN Kent LAN Lancashire LEI Leicester LIN Lincoln LND London MDX Middlesex MSY Merseyside NBL Northumberland NFK Norfolk NTH Northampton NTT Nottingham OXF Oxford RUT Rutland SAL Shropshire SFK Suffolk SOM Somerset SRY Surrey SSX Sussex STS Staffordshire SXE E Sussex SXW W Sussex WAR Warwick WES Westmorland WIL Wiltshire WMD W Midland WOR Worcester YKS Yorkshire WRY W Riding NRY N Riding EYK E Yorks NYK N Yorks SYK S Yorks WYK W Yorks WALES (WLS) AGY Anglesey BRE Brecon CAE Caernarvon CGN Cardigan CMN Carmarthen CWD Clwyd DEN Denbigh DFD Dyfed FLN Flint GLA Glamorgan GNT Gwent GWN Gwynedd MER Merioneth

MGM Mid-Glamorgan MON Monmouth MGY Montgomery PEM Pembroke POW Powys RAD Radnor SCOTLAND (SCT) ARL Argyllshire AYR Ayrshire BAN Banffshire BUR Buteshire CAI Caithness-shire DFS Dumfriesshire, INV Invernessshire, KKD Kirkcudbrightshire, LKS Lanarkshire MLN Midlothian NAI Nairnshire RFW Renfrewshire SEL Selkirkshire WIG Wigtownshire IRELAND (IRL) ANT Antrim CAV Cavan COR Cork, KER Kerry, LDY Londonderry, LOU Louth MAY Mayo, MEA Meath, MOG Monaghan, ROS Roscommon, WIC Wicklow, NIR Northern Ireland TYR Tyrone OTHER CHI Channel Islands IND India BLG Belgium, BGU British Guiana CAN Canada, GER Germany SA South Africa, USA United States of America, WI West Indies AUS Australia NOMENCLATURE < pre or before, > post or later than, year or century shown; e early e.g. e19c early 19th century.

NAMES UNDER RESEARCH

ID NAME PLACE, COUNTY,

CENTURY 7378 ABBISS Pirton, Hrt, 18-19c

7378 ABBISS Holwell, Bdf, 18-19c

7421 AITKEN Lochwinnoch, RFW, 18-19c

7383 ALLEN Wilcot, Wil, 17c

7176 ANGELL Studley, Calne, Wil, 18-20c

7393 AUSTIN London, Lnd, 19-20c

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7412 BANKS Lacock, Wil, 17-19c

7330 BARBER Bradford on Avon, Wil, 18c

7392 BARRATT Corsham, Wil, 19c

7421 BASS Great Burstead, Ess, 19c

7412 BATH Box, Wil, 18-19c

7327 BAYLY Bromham, Wil, All

7392 BEARD Allington (Chippenham), Wil, 18c

7392 BEAZER Yatton Keynell, Wil, 18c

7415 BENNETT Ashton Keynes, Wil, 18-19c

6908 BESLEY Lydiard Millicent, Wil, 18c

7382 BESTALL All, Dby, <19c

7383 BIFFIN Manningford Abbots, Wil, 16c

7392 BILLETT North Wraxall, Wil, 19c

7327 BISHOP Devizes, Wil, All

7390 BOULTER Melksham, Wil, 18-e19c

7362 BOYLAND All, Wil, 17-21c

3699 BOYS Chippenham, Wil, 18-19c

7393 BROWN Piddlehinton, Dor, 19c

6946 BULL Westbury / Frogmore, Wil, All

7327 BURDEN Potterne, Wil, All

7382 BURGES Pinxton, Dby, <19c

7362 BURNAND All, Wil, 17-21c

7382 BURNHAM Alfreton, Dby, All

7382 BURNHAM Swanwick, Dby, 19c

7382 CALLADINE South Wingfield, Dby, <m19c

6236 CHAMBERLAINUpavon, Wil, 18-19c

7400 CHARD Redhill, Som, 18-20c

7372 CHIVERS Cherington, Gls, 19c

7390 COLBORN Melksham, Wil, 18-19c

7390 COLBOURN(E) Melksham, Wil, 18-19c

7392 COLE Yatton Keynell, Wil, 18c

3699 COLEMAN Chippenham, Wil, 18-19c

7421 CONWAY Carrigaline, COR, 19c

3699 COOK Fareham, Ham, 19-20c

7394 COOK(E) West Overton / Bishops Canning, Wil, 18-19c

7394 COOK(E) Clyffe Pypard, Wil, 18-19c

7327 COOKSEY Bromham, Wil, All

7415 COOMBS Gillingham, Dor, 18-19c

7382 COOPER All, Hun, <L19c

6750 COTTLE Biddestone Area, Wil, 18-19c

7378 CROCKER Tregoney, Con, 18-19c

7414 CROSBY Great Bedwyn Area / Burbage Area, Wil, 17-m19c

7330 CROSS Shaftesbury, Dor, <18c

7355 CRYER Devizes, Wil, 18-19c

7355 CRYER Bristol, Brs, 20c

7421 CUBITT Hindolveston, Nfk, 18-19c

7386 CULLEY Gosport, Ham, 18-19c

7386 CULLEY Melksham, Wil, 18-19c

7392 CULLIMORE Yatton Keynell, Wil, 18c

7406 CULLIS Chippenham, Wil, 16c

7406 CULLIS Sheviock, Con, 17c

7355 DEAN Devizes, Wil, 18-20c

7373 DEAN Seend, Wil, 19c

6946 DEW Westbury / Dilton Marsh, Wil, All

6946 DEW Bishopstoke, Wil, 1800+

6946 DOEL Dilton Marsh / Westbury, Wil, All

7400 DOUGHTY Knook, Wil, 18-19c

7400 DOUGHTY Heytesbury, Wil, 17-20c

7382 DUFFY Coatbridge, LKS, <m20c

6946 DUNFORD Warminster, Wil, All

7378 DUSTOW Gerrans, Con, 18-19c

7401 EDWARDS Falmouth / Fowey, Con, 17-19c

7397 EDWARDS Devizes, Wil, 19c

7415 EDWARDS Wanborough / Swindon area, Wil, 17-18c

6908 ELBRO All, Oxf, 18c

6908 ELBRO All, Brk, 18c

7397 ELLEN Devizes, Wil, 19c

7362 ELLIOTT All, Wil, 17-21c

7412 ELMES All, Wil, 18-19c

7223 ELTON Buckland, Som, 19c

6946 EYRES Westbury, Wil, All

7393 FARR Manningford Bruce, Wil, 19-20c

6946 FERRIMAN Marylebone / Islington, Mdx, All

6946 FERRIMAN Wymeswold, Lei, All

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7386 FERRIS Warminster / Dilton Marsh, Wil, 18-19c

7392 FIELD Yatton Keynell, Wil, 18c

7330 FIELDER Plaitford / Wellow, Wil, 17c

7330 FIELDER All, Ham, 17c

7382 FIRTH All, Dby, <m18c

7362 FISHER All, Wil, 17-21c

7327 FRANKHAM Bromham, Wil, All

7392 FRY Castle Combe, Wil, 18c

7382 FULLER Chatteris, Cam, <L19c

7382 FULLER Somersham, Hun, <L19c

6908 FUSSELL All, Som, All

6946 GAGE Damerham / Figheldean, Wil, All

6946 GAGE Rockbourne, Ham, All

6946 GAGE Portland, Dor, All

7362 GASCOYNE All, Wil, 17-21c

7362 GASKINS All, Wil, 17-21c

7378 GIBBS Leamington, War, 19c

7373 GILHAM Poulshot, Wil, 19c

7373 GILL(H)AM Haydon, Dor, 19c

7373 GILLHAM Stourton Caundle, Dor, 19c

7373 GILLHAM Poulshot, Wil, 19-20c

7382 GOODWIN Selston, Ntt, <20c

7373 GOSNEY Stourton Caundle, Dor, 19c

7418 GOULD Bethnal Green / London, Mdx, 19c

7223 GREEN Tellisford / Bath, Som, e19c

7401 GRIFFIN Ramsbury, Wil, 18-19c

7378 GRILLS Saint Mellion, Con, 19c

7383 HAILSTONE Pewsey, Wil, 16-17c

6966 HALLING Swindon Area, Wil, 18-19c

7415 HANCOCK Ashton Keynes, Wil, 18-19c

7330 HARPER Lacock / Westwood, Wil, <19c

7373 HARRIS Worton, Wil, 20c

7362 HARTUP All, Wil, 17-21c

7421 HAY South Leith, MLN, 18-19c

7392 HAYES West Yatton, Wil, 19c

3012 HERRMAN Paddington, Lnd, 18/20c

6908 HIGGS All, Oxf, All

6908 HIGGS All, Brk, All

7378 HILBORN East Stonehouse, Dev, 19c

6946 HILL Dilton Marsh / Westbury, Wil, All

7327 HILLIER Bromham, Wil, All

7393 HILLIER Burbage, Wil, 19-20c

7397 HILLMAN Devizes, Wil, 19c

7382 HIND Pinxton, Dby, <19c

7397 HITCHINS Devizes, Wil, 19c

7412 HOBBS North Newton, Wil, 17-20c

7389 HOLB(O)ROW All, Wil, 18-19c

7223 HOLCOMB Garsdon / Charlton, Wil, 19c

7223 HOLCOMBE Tellisford, Som, e19c

7382 HOLMES Arnold, Ntt, <18c

7387 HOLTON Southwick, Wil, 20c

7382 HOUSLEY Arnold, Ntt, <L18c

7382 HOUSLEY South Normanton, Dby, >m18c

7412 HUDD All, Wil, 17-20c

7327 HUGHES Devizes, Wil, All

7415 HUNT Fontmell Magna, Dor, 17-18c

7421 HUTCHINGS Stoke-Sub-Hamdon, Som, 18c

7327 HYATT Potterne, Wil, All

7392 JAMES West Kington, Wil, 18c

7373 JEANS Hermitage, Dor, 19c

7423 JEFFERIES Malmesbury, Wil, 18-19c

7382 JOHNSON Arnold, Ntt, <L18c

7176 JONES Studley, Calne, Wil, 18-20c

7390 JORDAN Melksham, Wil, 18-e19c

7412 JURD Gosport, Ham, 18-20c

7416 KIBBLEWHITE Purton, Wil, All

7416 KIBBLEWHITE All, Brk, All

7390 KNEE Melksham, Wil, 18-19c

7402 LAMBE All, Ess, 19c

7402 LAMBE Poplar, Mdx, 19c

7382 LANG All, LKS, <m20c

7382 LANGTON Alfreton / Belper / Riddings, Dby, <20c

7382 LANGTON Selston, Ntt, <L19c

7392 LEWIS Avening, Gls, 18c

7415 LIGHT Gillingham, Dor, 17-18c

7373 LINE Newton Longville, Bkm, 19-20c

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7362 LINOM All, Wil, 17-21c

6966 LOVE Swindon Area, Wil, 18-19c

7382 MARRIOTT South Normanton, Dby, <19c

7382 MAYELL All, Ess, <L19c

7382 MAYELL Chatteris, Cam, All

7382 MAYELL Melksham, Wil, All

7382 MAYELL Stamford, Lin, All

7378 MCFARLANE Paisley, RFW, 18-19c

7382 MCINEARNEY All, LKS, <20c

6946 MEAD Westbury / Chalford, Wil, All

7330 MERRETT All, Ham, <19c

7330 MERRETT Portsea, Ham, <19c

7330 MERRETT West Tytherley, Ham, All

7330 MERRIFIELD Shaftesbury, Dor, <19c

6946 MILLARD Westbury / Warminster /Dilton Marsh, Wil, All

6946 MILLARD Portsmouth, Ham, 1880+

6946 MILLARD Cloford, Som, 1880+

7421 MITCHELL Glasgow, LKS, 19c

7400 MOGER Melksham, Wil, 19-20c

7421 MONEY Johnstone, RFW, 19c

7386 MOODY Corsley / Warminster, Wil, 18-19c

7382 MULHEARN Coatbridge, LKS, <20c

7382 NAYLOR Arnold, Ntt, <e18c

7362 NICHOLS All, Wil, 17-21c

7415 NORTHEAST All, Wil, 18-19c

7383 ORAM Edington, Wil, 15-16c

7327 ORCHARD Potterne, Wil, All

7418 ORCHARD Potterne / Devizes, Wil, 19c

7383 PAGE Vale of Pewsey, Wil, 16-17c

7327 PAGET Bromham, Wil, All

7383 PAIN(E) Edington, Wil, 16c

7387 PAINTER Hannington, Wil, 19c

7378 PALMER Over Whitacre, War, 19c

3012 PARFITT Chatham, Ken, 19c

7383 PAYNE Edington, Wil, 16c

7382 PEACOCK Warsop, Ntt, <L18c

6946 PEARCE Westbury / Westbury Leigh /Chalford, Wil, All

7383 PEARCE Oare, Wil, 16-17c

3012 PHILLIPS Andover, Ham, 18c

7378 PICKARD Stroud, Gls, 19c

7423 PIKE Malmesbury, Wil, 18-19c

7372 PINNOCK Cricklade, Wil, <20c

7387 PLUM(B) Marston Maisey, Wil, 19c

7395 POMEROY Alderbury, Wil, 19c

7377 PONTIN Wilcot / Oare, Wil, All

7377 PONTIN Chilton Foliat / Ramsbury, Wil, All

6946 POTTER Dilton Marsh / Westbury, Wil, All

7327 RAWLINGS Bromham, Wil, All

7362 REYNOLDS All, Wil, 17-21c

7390 RICHARDS Melksham, Wil, 18-e19c

7413 RICHENS Bedwyns, Wil, 17-18c

7378 RICKARD Mevagissey, Con, 17-19c

4082 RIDEOUT Melbury Abbas, Dor, 18c

7413 RISHENS Broad Hinton, Wil, 17-18c

7413 RISHONS Staverton, Wil, 17-18c

7378 ROBERTS Pontypridd, Gla, 20c

3012 ROOK North Shields, Nbl, 19c

6946 ROSE Swindon / Westbury / Warminster, Wil, All

7418 ROTHENBURG West Ham, Ess, 19c

7412 RUDMAN Chippenham, Wil, 17-20c

7413 RUSH(A/E)NTS Bedwyns / Highworth, Wil, 18-19c

7413 RUSH(A/E)NTS Newbury, Brk, 18-19c

7373 SAYELL Slapton, Bkm, 19c

7373 SAYELL Cheddington, Bkm, 20c

7372 SCALES Tetbury / Upton / Shipton Moyne, Gls, 19c

7372 SCALES Hankerton, Wil, 19c

7330 SCOATES Tytherley, Ham, All

7412 SELMAN Lacock, Wil, 17-19c

7412 SELMAN Bath, Som, 17-19c

6908 SHEPPARD Enford, Wil, 18-19c

7330 SHEPPARD All, Wil, <19c

4082 SIBLEY Ashmore, Dor, 18c

7390 SIDNELL Melksham, Wil, 18-e19c

7382 SIMPSON All, Dby, <19c

7383 SKUESE Edington, Wil, 16c

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7327 SMART Bromham, Wil, All

7397 SMART Devizes, Wil, 18-19c

7330 SNOOK Shaftesbury, Dor, <18c

7395 SPACKMAN Wilton / Alderbury / Melksham, Wil, 19c

7395 SPACKMAN Fisherton Anger / Stockley, Wil, 19c

7395 SPACKMAN Ogbourne / Lowe Westwood, Wil, 19c

7412 SPACKMAN All, Wil, 16-20c

7420 SPACKMAN Bradford on Avon, Wil, 19-20c

7378 SQUIRES Pirton, Hrt, 18-19c

7384 STEVENS Kennett, Wil, 19c

7421 STEVENSON Lochwinnoch, RFW, 18-19c

4082 STILL Fontmell Magna, Dor, 18c

7390 STOKES Melksham, Wil, 18-e19c

7421 STOREY Ballymoney, ANT, 18-19c

7421 STROUD Marylebone / Hanwell, Mdx, 19c

2057 STURGESS All, Wil, 16-20c

7327 SUMNER Bromham, Wil, All

7415 SUTER Mere, Wil, 18-19c

3699 SWAIN Chippenham, Wil, 18-19c

4082 SWEET Ashmore, Dor, 18c

4082 SWETNAM Langton Long Blandford, Dor, 17c

7382 TAYLOR All, Dby, <19c

7421 TAYLOR Ashbury, Brk, 19c

7421 THORNE Stoke-Sub-Hamdon, Som, 18c

7382 THORPE South Wingfield, Dby, <19c

7362 TOWNSEND All, Wil, 17-21c

7402 TRUBRIDGE Great Wishford / South Newton, Wil, 19c

7402 TRUBRIDGE Amport, Ham, 19c

7327 TRUMAN Bromham, Wil, All

6929 TRUMAN All Cannings, Wil, 17-18c

4082 TRYM Iwerne Courtney, Dor, 18c

6946 TUCKER Warminster, Wil, All

4082 TUFFIN Sutton Waldron, Dor, 19c

7412 TUGWELL Heddington, Wil, 17-20c

6946 TURFREY Islington, Mdx, All

2057 TURGIS All, Wil, 16c

7382 TURNER All, Dby, <m19c

4082 VINCENT Fontmell Magna, Dor, 17c

7362 W(A/H)MAN All, Wil, 17-21c

7382 WAIT Monkton Combe, Som, <m19c

7362 WARD All, Wil, 17-21c

7400 WARFORD Butcombe, Som, 18-20c

4082 WATERMAN Sutton Waldron, Dor, 18c

6946 WATERMAN Salisbury, Wil, 1800+

6946 WATERMAN Rockbourne, Ham, All

7330 WATTS Shaftesbury, Dor, <18c

7362 WAY All, Wil, 17-21c

7378 WEEKS Ryton On Tyne, Dur, 19c

7327 WELLS Potterne, Wil, All

4082 WEST Ashmore, Dor, 18c

7382 WHARTON Alfreton, Dby, <m19c

7386 WHATLEY Warminster / Crockerton, Wil, 18-19c

4082 WHEELER Ashmore, Dor, 18c

4082 WHEELER Tarrant Hinton, Dor, 17c

6946 WHEELER Dilton Marsh / Westbury, Wil, All

7421 WHEELER East Hanney, Brk, 19c

7330 WHITE Bradford on Avon, Wil, 18c

7392 WHITE Yatton Keynell, Wil, 18c

7392 WHITTAKER Swindon, Wil, 19c

7330 WICKENS All, Sry, All

7330 WICKENS All, Mdx, All

7392 WILLIAMS Corsham, Wil, 19c

7423 WILLIS Malmesbury, Wil, 18-19c

6750 WIX / WICKS All, Wil, 18c

3012 WOOD All, Wes, 19c

7421 WOODHOUSE Kelling, Nfk, 18-19c

7355 WOOL Long Sutton, Som, 18-19c

7383 WORM Edington, Wil, 16c

7419 WORT Bishopstone (S.Wilts) / Wilton, Wil, 18-19c

7419 WORT Downton, Wil, 18-19c

7419 WORT Fordingbridge, Ham, 18-19c

7362 WRIGHT All, Wil, 17-21c

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ADDRESSES OF MEMBERS WHOSE INTERESTS APPEAR IN THIS JOURNAL

ID MEMBER and ADDRESS 2057 Mr David STURGESS, 5, Chisenbury Court, East Chisenbury, PEWSEY Wilts.,SN9 6AH, UK;

davesturgess@btinternet.com 3012 Mr & Mrs James & Shelia MITCHELL, 38 Moresby Close, Westlea SWINDON Wilts, SN5 7BX, UK;

sm4hannahlightfoot@talktalk.net 3699 Mrs. Pamela Margaret MARSH, 6, Baydon Close, Holbrook Park, TROWBRIDGE Wilts, BA14 0RS, UK;

4082 Mr Michael C N JONES, White Cottage 44 Sandhurst Road WOKINGHAM Berks, RG40 3JD, UK; mcnjones@hotmail.com

6236 Mr. & Mrs. Les & Jackie HANKINSON, 12, Middle Street, West Harnham, SALISBURY Wilts., SP2 8LL, UK; l.hankinson@btinternet.com

6750 Mrs. Margaret HOWIE, RSD181, 3, Mary Street, CASTLEMAINE Victoria, 3450, Australia; mhowie@gcom.net.au

6908 Mrs. Alison FUSSELL, 326, Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, BATH Bath & NE Somerset, BA2 2PA, UK; alisonfussell326@yahoo.co.uk

6929 Mr. & Mrs. Ken & Frances TRUMAN, 8, St. Edeyrns Close, Cyncoed, CARDIFF , CF23 6TH, UK; ken.truman@btinternet.com

6946 Miss Valerie MILLARD, 33, Thornbury Road, CLACTON-ON-SEA Essex, CO15 3PB, UK;

6966 Mrs. Jean BALDWIN, 22, Manor Park Avenue, Allerton Bywater, CASTLEFORD West Yorks., , WF10 2DW, UK; martianjeanius@tiscali.co.uk

7176 Mr. David BASSETT, 73, Malmesbury Road, CHIPPENHAM Wilts., SN15 1PU, UK;

7223 Mr. Alan MASON, 5, Clanny Road, NEWTON AYCLIFFE Durham, DL5 5EH, UK; alan.mason10@btopenworld.com

7327 Mrs. Gwenneth M. BEAZLEY, ʺBromhamʺ, 11, Earls Court, WANTIRNA SOUTH Victoria, 3152, Australia; gmayb@bigpond.com

7330 Mrs. Valerie G. BLACKBURN, 32, Cotwell Avenue, Cowplain, WATERLOOVILLE Hants., PO8 9AW, UK; valeriegrace@hotmail.co.uk

7355 Mrs. Avril B. SAMUEL, 2, Alwyne Mansions, Alwyne Road, WIMBLEDON London, SW19 7AD, UK; avrilsamuel@hotmail.com

7362 Mrs. Marion TOMSETT, 10, Dolphins Way, Gamlingay, SANDY Beds., SG19 3NL, UK; mjt@mosaic.demon.co.uk

7372 Miss Lorna Margaret DAWES, 98, Tydeman Street, SWINDON Wilts., SN2 8AU, UK;

7373 Mrs. Trixie GILLHAM, Meadowside, Penstraze, Chacewater, TRURO Cornwall, TR4 8PL, UK; trixiegillham12@msn.com

7377 Dr. & Mrs. John & Ros PONTIN, 26, Hermitage Woods Crescent, St. Johns, WOKING Surrey, GU21 8UE, UK; rosjohn@pontin26.freeserve.co.uk

7378 Mr. Gary PALMER, 5, Silbury Close, WESTBURY Wilts.,BA13 3TD, UK; gary_j_palmer@hotmail.com

7382 Mr. Neil DUFFY, 36, Broadleas Crescent, DEVIZES Wilts., SN10 5DH, UK; neil.duffy@bigfoot.com

7383 Mr. Ian PAGE, Viewforth, Garval Road, TARBET Argyll, PA29 6TR, UK; ian.page@tesco.net

7384 Mr. Peter STEVENS, 60, Crane Street, Brampton, HUNTINGDON Cambs.,, PE28 4UX, UK; pete.stevens1@ntlworld.com

7386 Mr. Robert G.A. WILKINSON, 16, Pound Street, WARMINSTER Wilts., BA12 8NL, UK; ibblowed@btinternet.com

7387 Mr. Charles William STEVENS, 58, Rectory Road, FARNBOROUGH Hants.,GU14 7HZ, UK; mail@billcarol.f9.co.uk

7389 Mr. Alan HOLBROW, 28, Oak Avenue, Shirley, CROYDON Surrey, CR0 8EE, UK;

7390 Mr. Roger COLBOURNE, 31, Gatcombe, Great Holm, MILTON KEYNES Bucks., MK8 9EA, UK; roger.colbourne@btinternet.com

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7392 Mr. Adrian LEWIS, 31, Lammack Road, BLACKBURN Lancs., BB1 8JW, UK; aslewisheritage@aol.com

7393 Mrs. & Mr. Ingrid & Derek AUSTIN, Old Manor Farmhouse, Bourton, SWINDON Wilts.,, SN6 8HU, UK; ingrid.austin@austingroup.co.uk

7394 Mr. A. POTTER, Shalom, Middle Lane, Whitacre Heath, Coleshill, BIRMINGHAM West Midlands, B46 2HY, UK; wheelsx4@hotmail.com

7395 Mr. D.J. PAYNE, 15, Meadow Close, Elmstead Market, COLCHESTER Essex, CO7 7HR, UK; paynes_2@tiscali.co.uk

7397 Mr. Douglas R. SMART, 1852, Lake Forest Lane, ORANGE PARK Florida, 32003, USA; osumsu@msn.com

7400 Mr. Michael DOUGHTY, 36, Fore Street, WESTBURY Wilts., BA13 3AX, UK

7401 Mr. Ian GRIFFIN, 2350, Cemetry Side Road, RR2 Stn. Main, CARLETON PLACE Ontario, K7C 3P2, Canada; igriffin@magma.ca

7402 Mr. William TRUBRIDGE, 36, Firham Park Avenue, Harold Wood, ROMFORD Essex, RM3 0SJ, UK; willtrubrid@hotmail.com

7406 Mrs. Audrey MADDOCK, 77, Behind Berry, SOMERTON Somerset, TA11 6SF, UK; audreyellen@supanet.com

7412 Mr. Richard JURD, 3, Little Blenheim, Yarnton OXFORD Oxon, OX5 1LX, UK; richard.jurd@ntlworld.com

7413 Mrs. Diann BARNETT, 17, Kennet Rise, Axford, MARLBOROUGH Wilts., SN8 2EZ, UK; diannbarnett@hotmail.com

7414 Mr. Robert CROSBY, 35, Knightswood, WOKING Surrey, GU21 3PU, UK;

7415 Mrs. Madeleine DUKE, The Old School, MAIDEN NEWTON Dorset, DT2 0AB, UK; maddyduke@email.com

7416 Mr. Robert KIBBLEWHITE, 12, Walnut Close, WITNEY Oxfordshire, OX28 5XH, UK; kibblewhite@beeb.net

7418 Mrs. Jenny ORCHARD, SALISBURY Wilts., UK; jennyorchard@btinternet.com

7419 Mr. George & Mrs Clare Robinson WORTE, 12, Broadwater, Lower Kings Road, BERKHAMSTEAD Herts., HP4 2AH, UK; keniston@tesco.net

7420 Mr. A. SPACKMAN, 127A, Dorset Road, BEXHILL ON SEA East Sussex, TN40 2HU, UK; alanspackman@uwclub.net

7421 Mrs. Theresa STROUD, 28, Nythe Road, SWINDON Wilts., SN3 4AN, UK; therstroud@aol.com

7423 Mr. Clive PIKE, 14, Lower Church Road, BENFLEET Essex, SS7 4DL, UK; clivepike@btconnect.com

We regret to announce the death of the following members: 2847Mr. Kenneth CLEVERLEY, 11 Smithie Close, New Earswick YORK, Yorks, YO32 4DG

(Membership continued by Mrs Sarah CLEVERLEY) 6387Mrs. M J DAVIES, 8 Bronte Farm Road, Shirley SOLIHULL, West Midlands, B90 3DD 6744 Mr. Frank HARPER, Pathfinders, The Crescent WIDEMOUTH BAY, North Cornwall,

EX23 0AD 1148 Mr. I V HAWTHORN, Hilltop, Hammersley Lane, Penn HIGH WYCOMBE, Bucks, HP10

8HG (Membership continued by Mrs H BREEZE) 2873Mr. Antony Lewis HILLIER, 25A Broad Street, WARWICK, Warks, CV34 4LT 2886Mr. Peter R G HORTON OBE, Hedge End, West Grimstead SALISBURY, Wilts, SP5 3RF 7142Mr. Donald MANSON, 39 Larchwood Close, BANSTEAD, Surrey, SM7 1HE 5779 Mr. John A SKIDMORE, 9 Quarter Sessions Road, CHURCH POINT, New South Wales,

2105, AUST 2449Mrs. Mary E YOWARD, 4 Slipper Mill, EMSWORTH, Hants, PO10 8XD (Membership

continued by Mr Tony YOWARD)