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No:
1 July 2001 |
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Bridget’s
Bit
Beginner’s Evening Where your ancestors musical? Littleport Society Diary dates First General Meeting Summary of the Society’s Constitution Steering Committee Wanted! Help Wanted Information and Books Poll Books Historical documents in Cambridgeshire Wisbech & Fenland Museum’s Registers and archives Members write Towering above Wisbech The strangers who came to Thorney |
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No:
2 Winter 2002 |
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Program
2002
Editorial Chairman’s Chat Chairman’s Report to the First Annual General Meeting Treasurer’s Report Minutes of the First Annual General Meeting ‘Great! I Have a Pauper’ The Good Old Days J W Easton – Diarist Map of Old Moulton ca 1890 Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor – Recording History Society Reference Library A Stitch in Time – The Samphire Quilters ‘Who We Are’ The Octagon Church Changing Surnames Local Web Sites That Quiz St. Anthony’s Fire in the Fens? – Witches Sort This Out! – complicated relationships Lost and Found in the Fens - Strays Have you lost a Wisbech Ancestor? Members Write – including parish registers look-up offer |
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No:
3 Summer 2002 |
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Program
2002/2003
Chairman’s Chat |
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Meetings: |
Computers
in Family History Visit to the Family Records Centre Life in the Fens – 19th Century Finding your way around the Census |
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George
IV to George V – the Anker family
Who are the Fenlanders? Projects Update |
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Members
Write - including: |
Queens
Bank, Cowbit Anyone for the Workhouse? Puzzling Occupation - Yan Maker Sutton Bridge families & Guy’s Head Lighthouse Census and Parish Registers look-up offer Walsoken Victory Football Club 1893 |
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Snippets
from Scottish Parish Records
Extending Your Search A Wisbech Photographer – J Kennerell Fenland Birth, Marriage, Death Announcements 1825 Cambridgeshire Family History Fair 2003 |
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No:
4 Winter 2002/3
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Program
2003
Editorial Chairman’s Chat AGM Report Society Officers’ Reports |
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Meetings:
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Deciphering
Old Handwriting The Victorian Ag Lab |
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Members
Write: |
Yokes
& Hemment families Winterton family Dack family Stannberry family Ramsdale family – The Labourer’s Friend pub, Wisbech Offley family St Ethelreda churchyard, Coldham Bailey family Jackson & Spurr families |
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Marriages
and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1836
1821 Census Index for Parson Drove |
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No:
5 Spring 2003 |
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Program
2003
Editorial Federation of Family History Societies News Chairman’s Chat Preserving our Schools History An Old Family Bible |
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Meetings:
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Trams
and Canal of Wisbech Writing Family Biographies |
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Births
Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1836
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Members
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Photos
and Postcards Philip Dack St Ives Marriages 1841 1851 Norfolk Census look-up offer |
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Members
Queries
Coming Events Marshland People in 1891 – The Walpoles |
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No:
6 Summer 2003
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Program
2003/2004
Editorial Chairman’s Chat |
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Meetings:
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Witches
& Ghosts of Cambridgeshire Drugs & Blue Paint – Opium and Woad in the Fens Newspapers for Family Historians Outing to March Wisbech Rose Fair |
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Fenland
to the New World – Ibbott family
The Marshland Apprentices & Journeymen Parishes within Wisbech Workhouse Union Last Page is Turned – J G Corthine Beckett’s Corner – Beckett family |
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Members
Write: |
Quanborough
family Dains, Folkes & Willesee families Coales & Timpenny families Peake family |
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Marshland
People in 1891 – The Terringtons
Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1839 |
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No:
7 Winter 2003
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Program
2004
Editorial Chairman’s Chat |
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Meetings: |
The
Industrial Revolution in Coalbrookdale Researching British Orders, Decorations and Medals Social Evening Samuel Smith & Victorian Wisbech Upwell Baptist Church Memorial Inscriptions |
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AGM
Report
What is a One Name Study? |
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Members
Write: |
A
Visitor to Wisbech Library The Man Who Missed the Titanic An Unknown Soldier Maud Maun of Bridgnorth Murder at Mill House, Parson Drove Tinker Tailor – Wiles family Reeve the Baker |
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Time of Great Change – Civil Registration 1837
100 Years Ago – The Wisbech Standard 1903 (many names mentioned) Fenland Tax Commissioners 1836 – list of names Births, Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1836 Crime and Punishment 1837 – names mentioned Wisbech Union Board of Guardians 1839-40 Marshland People in 1891 – Walsoken Miscellaneous News The New Royal Mail – travel in style |
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No:
8 Summer 2004
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Program
2004/5
Editorial Chairman’s Chat |
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Meetings: |
The
Poor law & The Poor Land Around March – History Members’ “Show & Tell” Vanishing Cambridgeshire Victorian Photographs; Using the Census |
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Upwell
History
Upwell Baptist Church Law and Order in 1904 – names mentioned |
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Fenland
Sportsmen: |
Moulton
Park Gala Day and Sports 1895 On the Cricket Pitches 1904 – names of players Barton School Old Boys Cup Winners 1876 - 1913 |
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A
Typical Fen Farmer – Jesse Scott
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Information
Source News: |
On-line
trade directories Whittlesey nonconformists Firemen and fires National Burial Index Second Edition Data CDs in Wisbech Library The National Archives online Scotlandspeople |
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Wedding
at March in 1904
Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1837 Births and Deaths recorded in the Wisbech Advertiser 1854 A Case of Smallpox at Wisbech in 1904 Marshland People in 1891 – Outwell |
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Helpline:
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Cockett
family Rebecca Bunning Butcher family |
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The
Society Bookstall
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No:
9 Winter 2005
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Program
2005
Membership Renewal 2005 AGM report Chairman’s Chat Memorial Inscriptions report |
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Meetings: |
Visit
to Walsoken Church History of the Oddfellows Society at Wisbech Gypsies and Travellers Ringing the Changes - Bellringing Windmills and Millwrights |
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Popeley
Family
Society Reference Library BBC Family History Roadshow, December 2004 |
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Murder
in the Fens: |
Padnal
Fen The Dog Who Shot A Farmer Guyhirn Gibbett Caxton Gibbett Where Have The Young Men Gone? “Bound For South Australia” |
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Lynn
Sessions 1838
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Members
Write: |
Newman
family March High School for Girls Redhead family Livett family Bennett and Walpole families |
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Marshland
People in 1891 – Upwell
Message from the General Registry Office, London 1837 Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1837 |
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No:
10 Summer 2005
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Program
2005
Notice of AGM Chairman’s Chat |
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Meetings: |
Dating
Victorian Photographs History of Wisbech Castle Jewels of Kew – Holdings of the National Archives |
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Family
History Day: |
Christianity
in the Fens Open Spaces and Enclosures Victorian Clothes |
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Rose
Fair 2005
Inheriting Memories – Exploring King’s College Estates Records CAMDEX – The Cambridgeshire Index Project Book Review – The Master Builders: The story of a Fenland Family (Bennett) New Publications from Fenland Family History Society All Saints Walsoken Memorial Inscriptions One Stop Shop for national archives – a new initiative |
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Members
Write: |
Merrington
& Ward families Frusher family |
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What
is a feoffe?
Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1837 Marshland People in 1891 – West Walton Good News – Canada 1911 Census |
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No:
11 Winter 2006
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Program
2006
Editorial Stan Addison – a tribute Charman’s Chat Karen’s Quest – continuing the search for Philip Daniel Society Balance Sheet for 2004/2005 Minutes of the Fifth Annual Meeting 2005 |
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Recent
Society Meetings: |
Visit
to St Peter’s Church, Upwell. July 2005 Visit to Leverington Road General Cemetery, Wisbech. August 2005 Boot & Shoe Makers – Geoff Lee. September 2005 Talking Junk – Richard Barnwell. October 2005 Non-Conformist Churches – Wim Zalf. November 2005 |
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Long
Distance Genealogy – a member’s story
Discovery at Little Steeping My DNA solved a 100 year-old mystery Numbers in a Family Bible A Peek Into the Past! Another Peek Into the Pase Star In The East, April 1837 Ten New Cousins for Hayden Cox People Who Lived In Marshland: 1891 Tilney Wisbech Castle Girls School 1871 |
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No:
12 Summer 2006
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Notice
of The Sixth Annual General Meeting
Program Chairman’s Chat |
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Members
Write: |
1939
evacuee to Upwell Genealogy from Down Under Picked by fate Maddy’s brick wall Melancholy occurrence near the sluice Schools in Walsoken |
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Recent
Society Meetings: |
Pubs
& Inns of Wisbech. January 2006 The Surprise Find. February 2006 Death Clouds. March 2006 Fenland Family History Day. April 2006 The History of Thorney. April 2006 Searching for Mama Rosa. May 2006 A Visit to Leverington Church. June 2006 |
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The
Crime Page Marriage Star In The East, June 1837 |
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No:
13 Summer 2007
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Notice
of the Seventh Annual General Meeting
Report of Sixth Annual General Meeting |
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Recent
Society Meetings: |
Visit
to the Parish Church of Walpole St Peter. July 2006 A Peek into the Past. September 2006 Looking into Bygone Days. October 2006 Festive Meeting. November 2006. Wisbech & Fenland Museum. January 2007 Abolition of Slavery. February 2007 Rockingham Castle. March 2007 Show and Tell. April 2007 Exploring Family History with Maps. May 2007 |
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Star
In The East, June - September 1837 Book Reviews |
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Members
Write: |
Serendipty How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia! New Contacts |
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Residents
at a Girl’s School, Old Market, Wisbech 1841 Reading the Registers Society Bookstall The Chapman County Codes |
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No:
14 Winter 2007
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Editorial
2008 Programme Bookstall Annual Report 2006/7 Memorial Inscription Recordings Look-ups and Enquiries |
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Recent
Society Meetings: |
The
Church of St Mary the Virgin, West Walton. June 2007 Looking for Black Sheep. July 2007 To Serve Them All The Day. September 2007 Sold, Separated, Divorced. October 2007 Talk & Social Evening. November 2007. |
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Members
Write: |
A
Diary Fenlanders Down Under – From Wisbech to Walkerville. 1854 Holbeach Cholera Outbreak Curtis Family R.I.P. Sophia “Ramsdale” to “Ramsell” – The Curious Surname Evolution To Serve The All The Day Territorial Force of the Cambridgeshire Regiment |
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The
Star In The East – June 1837 Society Bookstall |
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No:
15 Summer 2008
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Notice
of the Eight Annual General Meeting
Report of the Seventh Annual General Meeting Chairman's Chat Monumental Inscriptions and Registers Can you transcribe the 1851 census? |
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Recent
Society Meetings: |
Eels,
Punts and Poaching Childhood Memories Funny Blood Life on the Lincolnshire Marshes St. Matthew's Church, Sutton Bridge |
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Letters
A shortened history of the Fosters of Wisbech Oxborough Hall, Emneth Dry Creek Wetlands John Watton's Story In Memory of Archie H. Ogden That Brick Wall Death of the Borough's Oldest Inhabitant Bookstall |
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No:
16 Winter 2008
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Chairman's
Chat |
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Recent
Society Meetings: |
The
East Coast Floods |
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Legend of Holbeach – a true story written as rhyme about
1800 |
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Last Updated on: 8 January, 2009