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LANCASHIRE FAMILY HISTORY AND HERALDRY SOCIETY
Rossendale Branch Newsletter October 2003
Programme:
TONIGHT
Wednesday 1st
October
Members Miscellany.
(Short talks by members on a subject of their choice)
Wednesday 5th
November
The Lancashire
Cotton Famine (1862 - 1865)
Fred Holroyd.
Wednesday 4th
December
Christmas
Celebrations.
2004
Wednesday 7th
January
Research Evening
Wednesday 5th
February
To be arranged
Wednesday 3rd March
Tracing your Army
Ancestors. Jonathan Ali
Wednesday 7th April
AGM and Heirlooms.
Coming Events
Saturday 13th
September.
The Great North
Fair
Gateshead Stadium,
Neilson Road, Gateshead
10.00 am - 4.30pm.
adults £2.50, children free.
The new national
event for Family Historians, supported by the History Channel and
the 2003 Genealogy Project.
Saturday 8th
November
The North West
Group of Family History Societies
Family History Fair
Manchester
Velodrome, the National Cycling Centre, Stuart Street, Manchester.
10.00am - 4.00pm.
Admission £2.00
(children free)
Refreshments ----
Free Parking
Free Lectures:
10.45am Basic
Sources for Family History Research.
Bill Taylor LFHHS.
12.00 noon Family
History Sources at Greater Manchester C.R.O. Vincent McKernan.
Archivist.
1.15pm Use of
computers in Family History Research.
Graham Fidler. FHS
of Cheshire.
Stalls will cover
all the usual topics -Books, FFHS publications, Source Indexes,
Maps, Lancashire Parish Registers, Computer Software, Family History
Societies, Public and County Record Office Information,
Details - Mr E.W.
Gullick, 4 Lawrence Avenue, Simonstone, Burnley. BB12 7HX
email -ed@gull66.freeserve.co.uk
Saturday 8th
November
One-Name Studies
A free seminar
sponsored by the Halsted Trust will be held at the Swedenborg
Society, 20 21 Bloomsbury Way, London 9.30am - 5.00pm
The seminar is
entitled "Introducing the Guild" and it deals with all aspects of
setting up a one name study. Tickets will be allocated on a first
come, first serve basis. Contact
John Hanson, 16
Audley Mead,
Milton Keynes, MK13 9BD or
email:
halsted.seminar@one-name.org
KAY FAMILY
ASSOCIATION
A good example of a one name association is the Kay Family
Association. Their current secretary is Kay Relf, 38 Coombe Rise,
Oadby, Leicester, LE2 5TT
Kay writes to tell
me that the Kays are having their Annual Reunion/ Gathering at the
Bolholt Hotel in Bury, 25th October 2003. Start 2.30pm with talks,
discussions and tea. Dinner is at 7.30pm. Cost £15.
For further
information and to join the society email
krelf@dmu.ac.uk or write to the
above address.
Newsplan 2000 -
Ramsbottom Observer
and Bury Guardian
These two
newspapers have recently been microfilmed under a project supported
by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the UK Newspaper Industry, to
preserve unique and fragile collections of local newspapers, held in
libraries throughout the UK.
The Ramsbottom
Observer from 1906 - 1950 is now available on microfilm at
Ramsbottom Library.
The Bury Guardian
has also been microfilmed for the years 1857 - 1935. The original
bound copies were stored in the basement at Bury library, but had
become so brittle that they disintegrated when touched. The Bury
Guardian was a Tory paper whereas The Bury Times supported the
Liberal Party. The two papers merged in 1935. Both the Bury Times
and Bury Guardian are now available on microfilm in Bury Reference
Library.
1901 Census
Index
Whilst we have been
pressing ahead with the Lancashire BMD indexing project, our 1901
census indexing is being neglected.
To date the only
areas to have been transcribed, typed and checked for publication
are RG 13/3853 (Bacup, Tunstead and Stacksteads)
RG 13/3854 and RG
13/3855 (Haslingden).
Various
registration districts have been transcribed but require typing up
before checking at the library.
I am currently
working on RG 13/3852 - Bacup.
Other areas still
have had no work done on them.
If you have copies
of the 1901 census on CD, transcribing and checking could be done at
home.
Anyone interested
in helping to complete this project should contact me.
Rossendale
Ancestry
If you have
Rossendale Ancestry, you may send details of your research for
inclusion in our monthly newsletter. We are also happy to print
short articles and queries on the neighbourhood, as space allows.
Please add your membership number.
Diary that is a
Family Heirloom.
adapted for an
article by Albert Mathias which appeared in the Rossendale Free
Press. c1960s.
Today a journey to
Australia becomes a happy holiday prospect, quite a lot different
from the experience of an emigrant, more than 80 years ago. What it
was like then, it is possible to glean from the personal diary of a
Rossendale man who made such a journey,
The diary,at the
time this article was written was a family heirloom in the
possession of Miss Phoebe Brennand, who lived in Newchurch Road,
Rawtenstall.
It was written by,
a relative, Stephen Brennand who in 1883, left Rossendale with his
friend Alfred Gaskell to emigrate to Australia. He was 33 at the
time, six years older than his friend Alfred.
The diary opens
with the railway journey to London, when Stephen and Alfred were
accompanied by James Ashworth of the Bee Hive, in Bacup.
Stephen Brennand
sailed to Adelaide South Australia, on the clipper ship "Harbinger"
on the 18th August 1883. His descriptions of the scene of departure
from London are typical of the sadness of these occasions. As the
ship cast off, he felt a great sense of loneliness at not having
familiar faces around.
You get something
of the attitude of those days towards the emigrant and obviously he
resents being "treated as some runaway scoundrel and eyed in most
cases with suspicion and distrust".
A keen observer he
reacts to the wonder of being at sea. He describes the food, storms,
the death of a mother in childbirth, and how tensions lead to fights
and squabbles.
The voyage took
three months; towards the end, he said "I have almost to lie down to
write anything. I am so weary with the blessed monotony". On Monday
12th November, they went ashore. The last entry reads "Weary, Weary,
Weary". The Harbinger had travelled 14,000 miles.
Submitted by
Michael Hiluta.
In 1881 Stephen
Brennand aged 30, (born Grindleton, Yorkshire) was living at
Waterfoot with his mother, Ellen, 69 (born Gisburn Yorks) and two
brothers Phineas and Abraham (both aged 24) born Whalley.
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