When I was a small child at Aldershot, Hants. in the 1930s and 1940s, my Mother would send me weekly ? to pay the Rechabites, have no idea what that was. That could be an incorrect spelling, was it some type of insurance, if not does anyone know what it was ? It seems to me that about the mid- 1940s I didn't have to go pay it anymore. Regards, Pam [ RENNEY ] McKinley, now in Arizona. My names :- ROGERS - REEVES - MALT - CROOK - Hampshire. RENNEY - County Durham and anywhere.

This was one of the many so-called friendly societies which in the era before state insurance & social welfare paid comforts, principally on death, to members & their families, who themselves made a modest weekly contribution. Peter Gawn (Canada). ----- Original Message ----- From: <Pmc248@cs.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:41 AM Subject: [HantsLife] Rechabites or Reckabites --- Insurance ??? > When I was a small child at Aldershot, Hants. in the 1930s and 1940s, my > Mother would send me weekly ? to pay the Rechabites, have no idea what that was. > That could be an incorrect spelling, was it some type of insurance, if not > does anyone know what it was ? > It seems to me that about the mid- 1940s I didn't have to go pay it > anymore. > > Regards, Pam [ RENNEY ] McKinley, now in Arizona. > My names :- ROGERS - REEVES - MALT - CROOK - Hampshire. > RENNEY - County Durham and anywhere. > > > ______________________________

G'day Pam. I believe The Rechebites were a temperance society. I'm sure my father was a member. They seem to have faded out after the 2nd world war. I recall there was a meeting place in London Road, Portsmouth. Just past North End junction. There were a lot of these type of societies that started in the early 19th century. Oddfellows was another BTW. I didn't understand why my father was a member. As I had seen him sink 8 or 9 pints of beer on a Saturday night. Perhaps the membership funds were used to help the wives & children of the men who were alcoholic. Seamus. (Tout á fait Chevalier ) All e-mail checked by Symantec Professional 2003. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Pmc248@cs.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: [HantsLife] Rechabites or Reckabites --- Insurance ??? > > When I was a small child at Aldershot, Hants. in the 1930s and 1940s, my > Mother would send me weekly ? to pay the Rechabites, have no idea what that was. > That could be an incorrect spelling, was it some type of insurance, if not > does anyone know what it was ? > It seems to me that about the mid- 1940s I didn't have to go pay it > anymore. > > Regards, Pam [ RENNEY ] McKinley, now in Arizona. > My names :- ROGERS - REEVES - MALT - CROOK - Hampshire. > RENNEY - County Durham and anywhere. > > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Visit Where your ancestors lived..... > SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages > AND VI > > ============================== > 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 > > >

Pam The Independent Order of Rechabites was a friendly and temperance society formed by a group of Manchester Methodists in the 1830s. It was much like other friendly societies except that they did not meet in public houses. Before one could benefit from the Friendly Society you had to sign a declaration of temperance. The Order went into rapid decline after WW1 and again after WW2, but was certainly still in existence in the late 1960s. I was a member (it was easy to be a member of a temperance society when you were only 12 or 13 - I've made amends since!!!) but I took part in athletics championships in the south of England and still have medals from these (I probably still hold the 60 yards dash record!!). The link below is one of many to provide a brief history. http://home.clara.net/tirbach/HelpPagepearls4.html#Rechabites Its very difficult to determine if the Order still exists, I suspect it may have disappeared finally in the last 10 years or so with some of the financial institution changes that have also resulted in many building societies becoming banks. There is certainly evident that the Rechabites were still going in 1984. Jon Baker Calne, Wiltshire, UK Family History: www.vectis10w.freeserve.co.uk Calne & District Skittles League: www.calneskittles.org.uk Researching: RYALL (Isle of Wight/South Africa), DOWNTON (Dorset/IOW/NZ), KEEN (Gloucs/IOW), WALKER (Oxford/Nova Scotia), JOHNSON (Gloucs), BAKER (London/Hampshire), HAYTER (Hampshire), HUGHES (Co Armagh), STEWART (Co Down) ----- Original Message ----- From: <Pmc248@cs.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 10 June 2003 08:41 Subject: [HantsLife] Rechabites or Reckabites --- Insurance ??? > When I was a small child at Aldershot, Hants. in the 1930s and 1940s, my > Mother would send me weekly ? to pay the Rechabites, have no idea what that was. > That could be an incorrect spelling, was it some type of insurance, if not > does anyone know what it was ? > It seems to me that about the mid- 1940s I didn't have to go pay it > anymore. > > Regards, Pam [ RENNEY ] McKinley, now in Arizona. > My names :- ROGERS - REEVES - MALT - CROOK - Hampshire. > RENNEY - County Durham and anywhere. > > > ______________________________

RECHABITES_pronounced Reck-a-bites, among the Jews, the descendants of Janadab,the son of Rechab, who bound themselves, among other things, to abstain from wine; a society of abstainers. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Pmc248@cs.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:41 AM Subject: [HantsLife] Rechabites or Reckabites --- Insurance ??? When I was a small child at Aldershot, Hants. in the 1930s and 1940s, my Mother would send me weekly ? to pay the Rechabites, have no idea what that was. That could be an incorrect spelling, was it some type of insurance, if not does anyone know what it was ? It seems to me that about the mid- 1940s I didn't have to go pay it anymore. Regards, Pam [ RENNEY ] McKinley, now in Arizona. My names :- ROGERS - REEVES - MALT - CROOK - Hampshire. RENNEY - County Durham and anywhere. ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== Visit Where your ancestors lived..... SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages AND VI ============================== 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 --- 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: 6.0.486 / Virus Database: 284 - Release Date: 29/05/2003

Chris Never heard it pronounced Reck-a-bites, it was always Rack-a-bites. What intrigues me now reading some of the history was why the Society insisted on complete temperance, when Rechab actually only told them to abstain from wine ;-) Jon Baker Calne, Wiltshire, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris & Caroline <chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 10 June 2003 22:43 Subject: [HantsLife] Rechabites or Reckabites --- Insurance ..definetly not!! > RECHABITES_pronounced Reck-a-bites, among the Jews, the descendants of > Janadab,the son of Rechab, who bound themselves, among other things, to > abstain from wine; a society of abstainers. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Pmc248@cs.com> > To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:41 AM > Subject: [HantsLife] Rechabites or Reckabites --- Insurance ??? > > > > When I was a small child at Aldershot, Hants. in the 1930s and 1940s, my > Mother would send me weekly ? to pay the Rechabites, have no idea what that > was. > That could be an incorrect spelling, was it some type of insurance, if > not > does anyone know what it was ? > It seems to me that about the mid- 1940s I didn't have to go pay it > anymore. > > Regards, Pam [ RENNEY ] McKinley, now in Arizona. > My names :- ROGERS - REEVES - MALT - CROOK - Hampshire. > RENNEY - County Durham and anywhere. > > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Visit Where your ancestors lived..... > SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages > AND VI > > ============================== > 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 > > > > > --- > 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: 6.0.486 / Virus Database: 284 - Release Date: 29/05/2003 > > ______________________________