FENLAND
FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

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Ag. Lab. Chronicles
The Journal of Fenland Family History Society

This is published 2 – 3 times a year and is distributed free of charge to members. Back issues are also available for purchase from the Bookstall. Most issues include contact details for committee members, subscription information, time and location of meetings and our web site address.

Contents

No: 1 July 2001
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Historical documents in Cambridgeshire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
No: 2 Winter 2002
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
No: 3 Summer 2002
Program 2002/2003
Chairman’s Chat
Meetings:
Computers in Family History
Visit to the Family Records Centre
Life in the Fens – 19th Century
Finding your way around the Census
George IV to George V – the Anker family
Who are the Fenlanders?
Projects Update
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
Snippets from Scottish Parish Records
Extending Your Search
A Wisbech Photographer – J Kennerell
Fenland Birth, Marriage, Death Announcements 1825
Cambridgeshire Family History Fair 2003
No: 4 Winter 2002/3
Program 2003
Editorial
Chairman’s Chat
AGM Report
Society Officers’ Reports
Meetings:
Deciphering Old Handwriting
The Victorian Ag Lab
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
Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1836
1821 Census Index for Parson Drove
No: 5 Spring 2003
Program 2003
Editorial
Federation of Family History Societies News
Chairman’s Chat
Preserving our Schools History
An Old Family Bible
Meetings:
Trams and Canal of Wisbech
Writing Family Biographies
Births Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1836
Members Write:
Photos and Postcards
Philip Dack
St Ives Marriages 1841
1851 Norfolk Census look-up offer
Members Queries
Coming Events
Marshland People in 1891 – The Walpole
s
No: 6 Summer 2003
Program 2003/2004
Editorial
Chairman’s Chat
Meetings:
Witches & Ghosts of Cambridgeshire
Drugs & Blue Paint – Opium and Woad in the Fens
Newspapers for Family Historians
Outing to March
Wisbech Rose Fair
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
Members Write:
Quanborough family
Dains, Folkes & Willesee families
Coales & Timpenny families
Peake family
Marshland People in 1891 – The Terringtons
Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1839
No: 7 Winter 2003
Program 2004
Editorial
Chairman’s Chat
Meetings:
The Industrial Revolution in Coalbrookdale
Researching British Orders, Decorations and Medals
Social Evening
Samuel Smith & Victorian Wisbech
Upwell Baptist Church Memorial Inscriptions
AGM Report
What is a One Name Study?
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
A 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
No: 8 Summer 2004
Program 2004/5
Editorial
Chairman’s Chat
Meetings:
The Poor law & The Poor
Land Around March – History
Members’ “Show & Tell”
Vanishing Cambridgeshire
Victorian Photographs; Using the Census
Upwell History
Upwell Baptist Church
Law and Order in 1904 – names mentioned
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
A Typical Fen Farmer – Jesse Scott
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
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
Helpline:
Cockett family
Rebecca Bunning
Butcher family
The Society Bookstall
No: 9 Winter 2005
Program 2005
Membership Renewal 2005
AGM report
Chairman’s Chat
Memorial Inscriptions report
Meetings:
Visit to Walsoken Church
History of the Oddfellows Society at Wisbech
Gypsies and Travellers
Ringing the Changes - Bellringing
Windmills and Millwrights
Popeley Family
Society Reference Library
BBC Family History Roadshow, December 2004
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”
Lynn Sessions 1838
Members Write:
Newman family
March High School for Girls
Redhead family
Livett family
Bennett and Walpole families
Marshland People in 1891 – Upwell
Message from the General Registry Office, London 1837
Marriages and Deaths recorded in Star in the East 1837
No: 10 Summer 2005
Program 2005
Notice of AGM
Chairman’s Chat
Meetings:
Dating Victorian Photographs
History of Wisbech Castle
Jewels of Kew – Holdings of the National Archives
Family History Day:
Christianity in the Fens
Open Spaces and Enclosures
Victorian Clothes
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
Members Write:
Merrington & Ward families
Frusher family
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
No: 11 Winter 2006
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
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
   
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
No: 12 Summer 2006
Notice of The Sixth Annual General Meeting
Program
Chairman’s Chat
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
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
The Crime Page
Marriage
Star In The East, June 1837
No: 13 Summer 2007
Notice of the Seventh Annual General Meeting
Report of Sixth Annual General Meeting
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
Star In The East, June - September 1837
Book Reviews
Members Write:
Serendipty
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia!
New Contacts
Residents at a Girl’s School, Old Market, Wisbech 1841
Reading the Registers
Society Bookstall
The Chapman County Codes
No: 14 Winter 2007
Editorial
2008 Programme
Bookstall Annual Report 2006/7
Memorial Inscription Recordings
Look-ups and Enquiries
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.
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
The Star In The East – June 1837
Society Bookstall
No: 15 Summer 2008
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?
Recent Society Meetings:
Eels, Punts and Poaching
Childhood Memories
Funny Blood
Life on the Lincolnshire Marshes
St. Matthew's Church, Sutton Bridge
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
No: 16 Winter 2008
Chairman's Chat
Recent Society Meetings:

The East Coast Floods
Picture Postcards – showing local views
Hallowe’en and Myths

A Legend of Holbeach – a true story written as rhyme about 1800
Letters
Migration between Wisbech area an Yorkshire/Lancashire in 19th Century
The ‘Black Sheep’ Makes Good
War Stories 1939 – 1945
Fenlanders Down Under
The Star in the East – August 1837
Society Bookstall

Last Updated on: 8 January, 2009

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