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Vol 18 No 4 (December 2000) - Contents |
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From Our Secretary |
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News Roundup |
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Help! |
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Letter to the Editor (Re: 'Mitochondrial Eve' and 'Y-Chromosome Adam') |
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Gift Aid Charitable Contributions |
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Bookshelf |
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Editor's Notes |
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Transquotation - a family history puzzle |
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New Members |
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Surname Interests |
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Vol 18 No 3 (September 2000) - Contents |
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Jottings from the Chairman |
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News Roundup |
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Certificate Courier Service |
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WMFHS Library Update |
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Help! |
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Letter to the Editor (Re: Middlesex Deeds Registry) |
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Bookshelf |
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Seven Women Founded Europe |
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Editor's Notes |
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New Members |
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Surname Interests |
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Vol 18 No 2 (June 2000) - Contents |
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Jottings from the Chairman |
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News Roundup |
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Certificate Courier Service |
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Non-Conformist Records at the Public Record Office |
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Hang on, Your Name's Familiar |
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If Only They Were All Like This! |
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Help! |
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Bookshelf |
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Twentieth West London Local History Conference: 2000 Years of West London History |
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Editor's Notes |
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New Members |
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Surname Interests |
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Vol 18 No 1 (March 2000) - Contents |
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Jottings from the Chairman |
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Annual General Meeting 2000: Agenda |
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News Roundup |
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Certificate Courier Service |
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Thank You |
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Help! |
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Bookshelf |
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Telephone directories: A Neglected Source? |
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Did Shakespeare Do Family History? |
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Church Drawings |
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Editor's Notes |
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New Members |
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Surname Interests |
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
Prehistory of West London - John Cotton (Museum of London)
Downe and Allfarthing Manors, Wandsworth, in the Middle Ages - Rita Ensing (Wandsworth Historical Society)
Fulham Palace - Miranda Poliakoff (Curator, Fulham Palace Museum)
Richard EDWARDS, 17th Century farmer in Barnes - Maisie Brown (Chairman, Barnes and Mortlake History Society)
Growth of London - Paul Velluet (Asst Regional Director, English Heritage London Region)
Impact on West London of Growth in the 20th Century - James Wisdom (Chairman, Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society)
West Middlesex FHS Journal 18(2) (2000)
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)
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)
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)
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)