I want to give you the latest information on the Westward Ho! Movement & Migration Conference being organised by the SW Group of Family History Societies, at Exeter University from 3 - 6 April 2003. This is a major family history conference with world class speakers. It is a residential and non-residential event. Non-residential is £20.00 per day including lunch. Look at www.Cornwallfhs.com or www.sdhfs for more information You should be able to download a registration form, if not contact the bookings sec. Audrey Lovell, 784 Muller Rd, Eastville, Bristol, BS5 6XA There will be lots of Society bookstalls and exhibitions showing migration from the South West and plenty of time to enjoy the talks and meet interesting people. Hope to see a lot of you there. Please pass this on to other lists. Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard, Programme Organiser for Westward Ho! Conference WESTWARD HO! MOVEMENT & MIGRATION, CONFERENCE EXETER UNIVERSITY - 3 - 6 April 2003 ROGRAMME OF TALKS Thursday 3 April 19.0 Dinner Graham Davis: Myths and Legends among the Irish pioneer settlers in Texas. Friday 4 April 09.30 Opening of Conference. William Van Vugt: Britons in the Ohio River Valley during the 18th Century: Multicultural Episodes in the Emerging 'Empire of Liberty'. 11.45 Eric Richards: Varieties of West Country Emigration to Australia, OR Andrew Hinde: Migration from West Dorset in the Nineteenth Century. Lunch 14.0 Gordon Handcock: Provenance and Patterns in the West of England Migration to Newfoundland, OR Peter Towey: Germanic Immigration to Britain 1500-2000. 15.0 Sheila Haines: Captain Hale, Red Herrings & Brandy: The Petworth Ship of 1833 & Mark Brayshay: The Role of James B. Wilcocks, Plymouth's mid-Victorian selecting agent, in assisted emigration to Australia from Cornwall, Devon, Somerset & Dorset, OR Paddy Fitzgerald: Early Irish Migration into South West of England, & Graham Davis: Irish in Britain in the Nineteenth Century. 19.0 Reception hosted by The Federation of Family History Societies 20.0 Dinner followed by Social Evening Saturday 5 April Joint Day with the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies and the Institute of Cornish Studies, Exeter University. 16.0 Bruce Elliott: Nineteenth Century Emigration from England's West Country OR Bernard Deacon: Barra or Barrow? Bute or Burnley? Why did some people in the 19th Century emigrate and others just migrate? 17.0 Sharron Schwartz: The Making of a Myth: The Migration of South West Metal Miners to Latin America, OR Jill Chambers: Forced Migrants - Swing Rioters transported to Australia, OR Guild of One Name Studies Meeting. Lunch 14.0 Visit/Tour Exeter (all afternoon ) 14.0 Federation AGM (as long as it takes ) 14.00 - 18.00 Migration session - Chair: Prof. Roger Burt & Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard, short talks from Willaim Van Vugt & Eric Richards about migration to the US and Australia. Dr Bill Jones: "Not dead but gone to Slough" (Scranton or Ballarat or): Leaving Wales 1800-1939. Tea break Regional Migration Studies - Dorset & Channel Island Migration , Irish Migration Centre, Cornish Migration, Petworth Project, Newfoundland, Ellis Island etc. Graham Davis & Paddy Fitzgerald: Migration Studies where are we now? General Discussion with the speakers. OR 14.00 - 15.00 Group Sessions - Northcotte House Steve Wilkinson: Wot's in a Census? OR Sharon Hintze: Getting the most out of the LDS Family Search Website OR Sylvia Guthrig & Eileen Wilmot: Sources at The Tree House (Devon FHS Centre) 16.00 - 17.00 Dr Moira Donald: MA in Family History at Exeter University OR Ian Maxted: Come up and look at my etchings BANQUET Sunday 6 April 08.30 Ecumenical Service in the University Chapel, conducted by the Lazenby Chaplain, Revd. Dr Jeremy Law. 09.30 Moira Martin: Emigration of Pauper Children from Bristol to Canada 1870-1915 OR Diana Trenchard: Movement and Migration within England from the South West in the 19th Century. 11.15 Andrea Buttons: Migration of Indentured Servants & Malefactors to the West Indies during the 17th Century OR Roger Burt: Freemasonry and Emigration during the Victorian period. Conference ends with Lunch. SPEAKERS and where they are from: Prof. William Van Vugt, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan,, USA Prof. Eric Richards, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Dr. Andrew Hinde, Southampton University Prof. Gordon Handcock, Memorial University, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada Peter Towey, Anglo-German Family History Society Dr Sheila Haines, University of Sussex, Brighton Dr Mark Brayshay, Plymouth University Dr Paddy Fitzgerald, Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh, Northern Ireland Dr Graham Davis, Bath Spa University College, Bath Prof. Bruce Elliott, Carleton Centre for the History of Migration, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Dr Bernard Deacon, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, Truro Sharron Schwartz, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, Truro Jill Chambers, Letchworth Dr Bill Jones, Cardiff University Dr Moira Martin, University of the West of England, Bristol Dr Diana Trenchard, SDFHS, West Dorset Research Centre, Bridport Andrea Buttons, University of the West of England, Bristol Prof. Roger Burt, the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Exeter University Steve Wilkinson, SDFHS Sylvia Guthrig & Eileen Wilmot, Tree Tops, DFHS Sharon Hintze, Dir. Hyde Park Family History Centre, London Dr Moira Donald, Exeter University Ian Maxted, Local Studies Library, Exeter Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard & Celia Martin, SDFHS, West Dorset Research Centre, Bridport