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Vol 18 No 4 (December 2000) - Contents

From Our Secretary

Future Meetings

News Roundup

Annual General Meeting Notice

A Stitch in Time

Help!

By George, we come from Fulham

Letter to the Editor (Re: 'Mitochondrial Eve' and 'Y-Chromosome Adam')

Gift Aid Charitable Contributions

The Heston Hermit

The Quest for my Bagley Roots

Bookshelf

A Tale of Three Southall Deeds

Society Publications on Microfiche

Past Meetings

Editor's Notes

Transquotation - a family history puzzle

New Members

Surname Interests

Indexes Held by Members


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Vol 18 No 3 (September 2000) - Contents

Jottings from the Chairman

Future Meetings

News Roundup

Hard Times for Hammersmith House Painters

Certificate Courier Service

WMFHS Library Update

Help!

Letter to the Editor (Re: Middlesex Deeds Registry)

A Shot in the Dark

Bookshelf

Society Publications on Microfiche

Past Meetings

Seven Women Founded Europe

Those Fightin' Middlesex Men

Editor's Notes

New Members

Surname Interests

Indexes Held by Members


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Vol 18 No 2 (June 2000) - Contents

Jottings from the Chairman

Future Meetings

Annual General Meeting

News Roundup

Robert Chandler

Certificate Courier Service

High Bridge and Ravenscourt Rowing Clubs

Non-Conformist Records at the Public Record Office

Hang on, Your Name's Familiar

Directory of Members' Interests 2000

If Only They Were All Like This!

The Search for James Joseph Woodward and Richard Bond

Society Publications on Microfiche

Help!

Bookshelf

Twentieth West London Local History Conference: 2000 Years of West London History

Past Meetings

Editor's Notes

New Members

Surname Interests

Indexes Held by Members


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Vol 18 No 1 (March 2000) - Contents

Jottings from the Chairman

Future Meetings

Annual General Meeting 2000: Agenda

News Roundup

Certificate Courier Service

Thank You

A Tale of Two Lives

Help!

Fulham Pottery Remembered

Bookshelf

The Search for James and Sarah Wells

The Most Common Surnames ... and where to find them

Telephone directories: A Neglected Source?

How and Why We Started

Society Publications on Microfiche

Did Shakespeare Do Family History?

Church Drawings

An Early Marriage Certificate

Past Meetings

Editor's Notes

New Members

Surname Interests

Indexes Held by Members


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A Tale of Two Lives - Pat Fawcett
Researching family stories and mysterious marriages (BUDD, CAESAR, CARTER, CHEETHAM)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)


Fulham Pottery Remembered - I W Prior
An account of life and work of a pottery glazier in the early C20
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)


The Search for James and Sarah Wells - Kathy Brooking
A family history (BAKER, BROOKING, DENNIS, ESSAM, GREENAWAY, LEPARD, LUFFINE, MCGRATH, NUTT, ROLFE, TAYLOR, YOUNG, WELLS)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)


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The Most Common Surnames ... and Where to Find Them
The fifty most common surnames inGreat Britain tabulated by number of occurences in electoral rolls and most popular location. Also, the 50 rarest surnames.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)


How (and Why) We Started - Vic Gale
An account of the origins of the Society in 1978
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)


An Early Marriage Certificate - William Wild
A certificate concerning the marriage at Teddington of Thomas STREETING and Johanna SINGER of the parish of Harmondsworth on 1 June 1728.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)


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Past Meetings - a summary of talks given at past meetings:

Railwaymen and their Records; A Bomb in Your Back Garden - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)

Society of Genealogists' Library - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)

Local Studies Resources at Uxbridge Library - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(3) (2000)

19th Century Emigration - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(3) (2000)

The Parish Chest - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(3) (2000)

Charity and the Army - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(3) (2000)

London - the Metropolitan Nightmare - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)

Thomas Cook - a Victorian Innovator and Entrepreneur - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)

London's Water Supply from the Earliest Times - West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)



How (and Why) We Started - Vic Gale
An account of the origins of the Society in 1978
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)



An Early Marriage Certificate - William Wild
A certificate concerning the marriage at Teddington of Thomas STREETING and Johanna SINGER of the parish of Harmondsworth on 1 June 1728.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(1) (2000)



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Annual General Meeting - 16 March 2000
Minutes of the AGM including: reappointment of Wendy Mott and Paul Kershaw as accounts examiners; election of Margaret Harnden and Patrick Harnden to the Committee; annual accounts.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)



High Bridge and Ravenscourt Rowing Clubs - Jacqueline Finesilver
Finding out about the High Bridge Rowing Club (founded 1902) and Ravenscourt Rowing Club (founded 1903) using local newspapers
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)



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Non-Conformist Records at the Public Record Office
Background to the Protestant Dissenters Registry at Dr William's Library 1742-1837 (now in the Public Record Office at RG4/4658-4665 (authenticated register), RG5/1-161 (original certificates) and RG4/4666-4676 (indexes)) and the Wesleyan Methodist Registry 1818-1838 (PRO: RG4/4677-4679 (authenticatedregister), RG5/162-207 (original certificates) and RG4/4680 (index). Also: marriage registrations at RG42; preaching licences at SP29, SP30, SP44; fines for Recusancy at E376-E477; registers of places of worship RG31
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)



Directory of Members' Interests 2000
Invitation to Members to submit their surname interests by 31 July 2000 on the form enclosed with the magazine for a new edition of the West Middlesex Family History Society Directory of Members' Interests
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)



The Search for James Joseph Woodward and Richard Bond - Pam Sim
Untangling some family roots in Hillingdon (WOODWARD, BOND, WARD, GOODMAN, SANDERS)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)



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Twentieth West London Local History Conference: 2000 Years of West London History
An account of the conference held at Montague Hall, Hounslow, on 18 March 2000

West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)



Robert Chandler

We are sorry to report the death of Robert Chandler, one of our Honorary Life Members. Robert was our treasurer from 1985 to 1989. Shortly after this he and his wife went to live in Worcestershire. He still retained strong links with our Society and for many years ran our microfiche postal service. Robert was always a perfect gentleman and this is how he will be remembered by his many friends in the Society.

West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)

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Hard Times for the Hammersmith House Painters - Pat Manning
RIDLER family events in Hammersmith, Fulham, Chelsea, Acton and in the Merchant Navy c. 1850-1916 (RIDLER: Samuel; Albert George; Arthur; Handy; Henry Winstone; Susan; Arthur Albert; Julia May; Susan Caroline; Jessie Amelia; Frank Edward; Samuel George; Henry Wilson; Ernest Oswald; Violet Elizabeth; Frederick. HAMMOND: Mary Ann. RAISEY: Ellen Elizabeth. PATTISON: John McKay; Richard; Stephen. GRAY: James.)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(3) (2000)



A Shot in the Dark - Jackie Didymus
One metaphorical shot in the dark at the Family Records Centre in London leads to a literal one. A family member assumed to have died in childhood found by chance in the probate index for 1874. (BARFOOT: Harry; John; Henry. AVIS: Mary Ann.)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(3) (2000)



Those Fightin' Middlesex Men
Extracts from the Middlesex County Records (Old Series) of various court cases involving: Robert Mareshall and William Lancaster (1556/7 at Teddington); John Davys alias Phillippes, James Herne and William Cauldwell (1583/4 at Twickenham); Robert Batte (1609 at Hillingdon); and Richard Godson and John Cogges (1617 at Ruislip).
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(3) (2000)


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Annual General Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the West Middlesex Family History Society will be held on Thursday 15 March 2001 at Montague Hall, Montague Road, Hounslow. Reports will be presented on behalf of the Chairman and by the Treasurer, and members will be asked to approve the accounts for the year 2000 and elect accounts examiners for the coming year.

Elections will be held for officers and members of the Executive Committee.

Members who wish to bring forward any matters at the AGM, or to propose nominations for the Committee, are asked to write to the Secretary at the address below, by 20th January 2001.

The agenda for the AGM will be included in the next issue of the Journal, to be published and distributed at the beginning of March 2001.

Hon. Secretary: Mrs Mavis Burton, 10 West Way, Heston, Middlesex, TW5 0JF

West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)



A Stitch in Time - Patricia Williamson
Harriet RUTHERFORD worked a cross-stich sampler between 1830 and 1840. Where did she fit in to the family? Some clues; still searching. (RUTHERFORD: Harriet; Herriet; Harriet Amy; Jane Ann. EASTON: James. CARR. COLLISON: Alfred.)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)



By George, We Come From FulhamColin Bower
Researching the BOWER family of Mile End, Stepney, Whitechapel and Fulham. A possible association with a notorious Victorian murderer. (BOWER: William; George Christopher; Benjamin; Alfred; Christopher. HENN: Thomas. LIGHT: Amelia; John; Jane. PITTS: Mary; James Benjamin.WAINWRIGHT: Henry; Thomas.)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)


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The Heston Hermit
An account from the 'Middlesex Chronicle' of 9 June 1906 concerning a troglodyte named IVES.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)



The quest for my Bagley Roots - Robert Bagley
A search and some puzzles concerning the BAGLEYs of Fulham, Putney (and Argentina?). (BAGLEY: Tom; Archibald Steptoe; Harry; Cliffford; Edgar; Percy; Harold; Ellen; Robert Thomas; Margaret; Robert; Maria. BROWN: Margaret. CUSHION: Kate. LIVINGS. PEACOCK: Maria.)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)



A Tale of Three Southall Deeds - Jonathan Oates
How can outwardly tedious and difficult deeds help the family historian? A description by the Archivist of the London Borough of Ealing of three Southall deeds and the information that can be gleaned from them. (ABBOTT: Elizabeth Stoneman; Stephen Walter; Charles Thomas; Charles I; Norman; Ellen Joan. NEAVE: Louis. STEWARD: Annie; Laura. WINGROVE: Thomas Bush; William. BEADLE: Maud Elizabeth; Charles. RUSTON: A S.)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(4) (2000)



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