Meeting Reports

Well, what a year so far! It started well, but … As individuals and a Society, we have had to rearrange our lives to cope

What a year so far! It started well, but … As individuals and a Society, we have had to rearrange our lives to cope with

The November meeting is traditionally a social event with a “bring and share” buffet and some social activities and festive quizzes. The focus of the

The speaker was Margaret Lake talking about her maternal great-grandmother who was born in 1842 in Appleby, Westmorland. The talk was illustrated with photographs and

Bryan is an experienced local historian and speaker and he used to be a local history tutor in Cambridge. He prefaced his talk by saying

BThere was a very good turnout for the April meeting 36 people coming to see and hear the ever popular Bill Smith. As this was

The meeting took the form of a series of talks by individual members who have researched various aspects of family and local history. Jessie Tindale,

Keith gave us a family tree with a difference, rather than just the standard relationships he added in all the different musical instruments (and singing

The first meeting of the New Year saw the welcome return of Anne Barnes as our speaker. Anne’s talk covered marriage from the earliest times

A good crowd of members gathered to enjoy the last meeting of 2016 with a bring and share buffet and several activities as well as

The secondary heading for this talk was “The tale of Alfred Hyam Wicks, an Oundle tailor” and it proved to be a fascinating and informative

Liz opened her talk by saying that every one of us has a Victorian child in the family tree, possibly even three or four generations