Hi all (again) I have just been informed by the list owners of HAMPSHIREL, that the site I posted was commercial, sorry if I have offended anyone by posting the address, I just thought people might enjoy looking at the old photos as much as I did, and I was also told there was nothing Hampshire related, so once again I apologise for misguiding people. Suzanne, Deciding to go back to just lurking in the back ground of the lists lol

Sorry all, sent the wrong address, http://www.ancientfaces.com/ Suzanne

I'm not sure if anyone knows of this site, but I found it while just surfing around the WWW, and what a little Jewel it is. I found a few Hampshire related pictures but none of my family, however i thought i would share it with you all, http://www.ancientfaces.com/index.cfm, Hope you all enjoy, Suzanne

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris & Caroline" <chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 7:21 PM Subject: [HantsLife] SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) - site updates > Photographs of Bradley, > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/bradley.htm Dear Chris, Thanks for these. My husband's Great grandfather, Nathan Wilson, came down to Bradley from Ayrshire in the late 1870's. They endured a lot of problems but he stayed! His 1st wife is buried in the churchyard there. His second wife supposedly worked for Lord Templemore but so far unproved. Do know where he lived? Strangely we have visited the Ayrshire villages but on our one try to see Bradley we couldn't locate it so once again many thanks. Jenny

Is anyone out there researching the surname JUNE? If so there is a Hampshire Regiment army account book from the 1880's for William JUNE for sale on Ebay - this link will take you straight to it. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=583&item=2174311059&rd=1 The item is described thus: Account book for William June, 646, Hampshire Regt. Book is dated 1881, entries start 12/01/1883 when he enlisted at Bentworth, Nr Alton in Hampshire. Gives personal details, pay, savings, education, clothing and uniform, and various places where he served, starting with Winchester, Gosport, Malta, Secunderbad, Bhamo, Burma. The auction ends 21st May. Moya Page (nee Banting) researching BANTING and PERREN in Hampshire

Message From: "Chris & Caroline" To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [HantsLife] SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) - site updates UPDATES: Photographs of Holy Trinity Church Millbrook ~~~~~~~~~~ Thankyou for this, Chris. I remember it well. Used to walk past it when going to & from Millbrook rec or ride past it when going to the New Forest or Totton etc by bus. M, nz

Is anyone able to suggest where else I might look to find out where the following family (records courtesy of Knightroots) came from or went to? Does anyone have access to the 1851/61 census for Portsea? St Marys Portsea Baptisms page 9 no 67 Robert son of James & Elizabeth SAUNDERS Hyde Park Portsmouth Carpenter Feb 14 1834 page 114 no 908 John Charritt son of James & Elizabeth SAUNDERS Portsea age 114 no 909 Robert son of James & Elizabeth SAUNDERS born Dec 17 1833 & baptized June 23 1837 page 114 no 910 Matilda daughter of James & Elizabeth SAUNDERS born April 17 1837 & baptized June 23 1837 There is no mention of Father James in what Apprenticeship records exist, and no existing Settlement papers. Neither have I found a record of their parents' marriage, and no burials. There is not a Will on the PRO site, and the 1881 or 1901 censuses have helped. I have managed to trace Robert's progress to Deptford (marriage to Jane Amelia SCOTT not proven) but now I am completely stuck on his parents and siblings. Any help gratefully received. Yours Vicki Turner

hello all I am still trying to find a baptismal - or any other record - for Emma NEW born about 1857 Heckfield Hants, and her neice, Mary SELLWOOD born about 1880/1 Heckfield. In 1891 they were living in Mapledurham Oxon. Can anyone help? Yours Vicki Turner

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Stroud" <richard@rwstroud.fsnet.co.uk> To: <hampshire-life-l-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 6:32 PM Subject: Request to join Hi, I am researching the STROUD / SMART surnames for my family tree. Both families are from north Hampshire (Basingstoke, Andover, Winchester areas) and I would be grateful if you could include this email address (richard@rwstroud.fsnet.co.uk) on your mailing list please. Regards, Richard --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.480 / Virus Database: 276 - Release Date: 12/05/2003

A little while ago there was somebody researching GURD and BONE If they would like to contact us we have some information on both names and photos of graves Chris and Caroline --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.480 / Virus Database: 276 - Release Date: 12/05/2003

The following updates have now been added to SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages And can be accessed from the MAIN INDEX or by clicking on the county concerned on the front page. UPDATES: Photographs of Bradley, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/bradley.htm Cliddesden, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/cliddesd.htm Ellisfield, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/ellisfield.htm Farley Wallop, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/fawallop.htm History of St Martins church Ellisfield http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/\ellisfield_church.htm SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) is not a commercial website and is to give a brief insight into the villages where your forefathers may have lived. We are constantly on the lookout for new information or old and new photographs to add. If contributing please check with us before you send this is due to virus activity etc. A credit will go alongside the photographs or articles that are submitted so please give us your name and hometown. We would also like to thank all of our subscribers to Hampshire Life, visitors etc for all the support they have given us in the past two years, without your help we would not have such a popular website!! ------------------------------------------- Chris and Caroline See where your ancestors lived.....visit.... SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) WEBSITE Featuring the history of the villages of: Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Dorset, Isle of Wight, West Sussex & Wiltshire http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.480 / Virus Database: 276 - Release Date: 12/05/2003

Those wishing to contact churches in Hampshire can get addresses and phone numbers of the benfices from http://www.cofe.anglican.org/infosheets/sheetlink.asp?dioname=Winchester Also Post code shows a map Chris and Caroline --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.480 / Virus Database: 276 - Release Date: 12/05/2003

The following updates have now been added to SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages And can be accessed from the MAIN INDEX or by clicking on the county concerned on the front page. UPDATES: History of St Nicholas church Bishop Sutton http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/bishops_suttonchurch.htm Photographs of Holy Trinity Church Millbrook http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/\millbrook.htm SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) is not a commercial website and is to give a brief insight into the villages where your forefathers may have lived. We are constantly on the lookout for new information or old and new photographs to add. If contributing please check with us before you send this is due to virus activity etc. A credit will go alongside the photographs or articles that are submitted so please give us your name and hometown. We would also like to thank all of our subscribers to Hampshire Life, visitors etc for all the support they have given us in the past two years, without your help we would not have such a popular website!! ------------------------------------------- Chris and Caroline See where your ancestors lived.....visit.... SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) WEBSITE Featuring the history of the villages of: Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Dorset, Isle of Wight, West Sussex & Wiltshire http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.480 / Virus Database: 276 - Release Date: 12/05/2003

A FAMILY HISTORIANS LAMENT Send in by Adele (pentony) Chris and Caroline AUTHOR UNKNOWN I've been doing family history for nearly 30 years, Diligently tracing my illustrious forebears, >From Pigeon Lake to Peterborough, Penrith to Penzance, My merry band of ancestors has led me quite a dance. There's cooks from Kent and guards from Gwent and chimney sweeps from Chester. There's even one daft fisherman lived all his life in Leicester, There's no- one rich or famous, no not even well-to-do, Though a second cousin twice removed once played in goal for Crewe. I've haunted record offices from Gillingham to Jarrow, The little grey cells of my mind would humble Hercule Poirot. I've deciphered bad handwriting that would shame a three year old, And brought the black sheep of the family back to the fold. My bride of just three minutes, I left standing in the church, As I nipped into the graveyard for a spot of quick research. Eventually I found an uncle, sixty years deceased. That was far more satisfying than a silly wedding feast, After three weeks of wedded bliss, my wife became despondent She named the public records office as the co-respondent. I didn't even notice when she packed her bags and went I was looking for a great granddad's will who'd died in Stoke on Trent But now my 30 year obsession's lying in the bin Last Tuesday week, I heard some news that made me pack it in. Twas then my darling mother, who is not long for this earth, Casually informed me they'd adopted me at birth! --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.480 / Virus Database: 276 - Release Date: 12/05/2003

Hi Brian, Well send the Echo these links, then sack the lot of them!! I reckon it was just wishful thinking on some old hacks part. Believe me, as one who can just remember the ending of sweet rationing, I was not alone in wishing it had been in 1949!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2737000/2737731.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2737000/2737731.stm http://www.thisisdorset.net/dorset/bournemouth/news/BOURN_NEWS_FEATURES8.html http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/factfile/YORK_FACTFILE_HISTORYFEATURESOLD1.html Moya Page (nee Banting) researching BANTING and PERREN in Hampshire ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Palmer To: HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:09 AM Subject: [HantsLife] Re: "Guess What" 24th March 1953 Hi Listers I was just reading some old e-mails before deleting when I came across one from Moya titled "Guess What" happened on Wednesday 24th March 1953 the answer given was that sweets came off ration in the UK. In fact Sweets and Chocolates came off ration 24th April 1949 according to the Daily Southern Echo newspaper printed 24th April 2003. As we all know that newspapers don't tell lies.!!! Brian Fair Oak ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== Chris and Caroline Hayles, Eastleigh, Hampshire List Administrators: HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Home of SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages EMAIL: chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk FAMILY WEBSITE: http://www.chayles.freeserve.co.uk Over 1,600 villages in HAMPSHIRE, BERKSHIRE, DORSET ISLE OF WIGHT, SURREY, WEST SUSSEX,and WILTSHIRE village history,parish church history, village photographs, and other useful information for genealogy. Lots of links to other useful sites ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi Listers I was just reading some old e-mails before deleting when I came across one from Moya titled "Guess What" happened on Wednesday 24th March 1953 the answer given was that sweets came off ration in the UK. In fact Sweets and Chocolates came off ration 24th April 1949 according to the Daily Southern Echo newspaper printed 24th April 2003. As we all know that newspapers don't tell lies.!!! Brian Fair Oak

This is a great web site. Hundreds of editions of the Illustrated London News to view on-line with a good links page. <A HREF="http://www.btinternet.com/~john.weedy/iln_years/noframeiln.htm#yeargrid"> http://www.btinternet.com/~john.weedy/iln_years/noframeiln.htm#yeargrid</A> Joy

Think of all the family allowance or tax credit the mother would get!! Chris and Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gill Wensley" <gillw2407@ntlworld.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1904 1:38 AM Subject: Re: [Ham] An Interesting Observation And to think that we thought the sixties were permissive! Gill on 11/5/03 1:43 pm, Alan McGowan at mcgoa@lineone.net wrote: > John Monkhouse, Rector of Bramshott, wrote the following in the Bramshott > parish register: > > "Of 72 marriages in the last 10 years ending 1820, not less than 69 females > have been unchaste before marriage. Those who gain husbands are more > fortunate than those who bear bastards, but not more virtuous." > > Alan McGowan > > > > > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Turn over a new leaf - there might be a new ancestor hiding underneath > ______________________________ --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.480 / Virus Database: 276 - Release Date: 12/05/2003

Many thanks to Ann Sargeant and Moya Page for the detail on Whitchurch accomodation facilities,I can now make arrangements to visit the town of my ancestors.Again, many thanks to you lovely people. Regards. Frank. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 06/05/2003

Many, many thanks to everyone who replied to my request re above, including Steve HILLIER. (When I started this, I already had a feeling something cheeky would come out of Esperance!!!. Thanx, Steve, for the chuckle). When I was first told about Hilliers Gardens by Sue, I thought that was the answer as both my BEARE & WEEKS families produced working gardeners (Broadlands, Romsey, Stratton Park, Winchester & Palmerston Park, Southampton) but the more I learned about Hilliers, the less likely it seemed to be the connection. Just to have one more shot at it, this is what I found on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website in the Civilian Register - "In memory of Florence Emily WEEKS, wife of G.Weeks, of St. Hilliers, Romsey Road, at St. Hilliers, Romsey Road, who died as a result of enemy action on Sunday 1 December 1940, age 56. Commemorated in the County Borough of Southampton section of the Civilian War Dead Register". Her daugher Eva Mary, 21, was also killed as were Florence Ada BEARE, 27, wife of Ronald Edward Beare, & their sons Ronald, 8, Colin, 6 & Roger, 2. I assume Florence Ada BEARE & the boys were dau & grandsons of Florence Ada & G. WEEKS as their address was also given as St. Hilliers, Romsey Road. I think they were all my gran & grandpa's cousins. Do you think it might have been a largish house in the Nursling/Rownhams area ? I was unaware that semi rural areas of Southampton had been badly affected by the bombing. Maybe St. Hilliers was in Upper Shirley. Perhaps I'd better contact Joanne Smith at Southampton City Archives again. Any more ideas would be very gratefully received. Kind regards, Maureen, Hampshire Hog in Kiwiland, NZ