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Stourbridge Group – ‘The extraordinary life of Captain Adam’
Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United Kingdom'The extraordinary life of Captain Adam' (A Story from Lye & Wollescote Cemetery) Captain William Adam Captain William Adam (1819-1893) was born in London on the 11th March 1919 and died in Stourbridge on the 26th December 1893. He. served in the 72nd and 48th Regiments of Foot. He was living at Wollescote House when […]
Wolverhampton: West Midlands Police Museum History and Archives
Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United KingdomTonight our presentation is given by Corrine Brazier who you may have seen on Jay Blades History of the Black Country when she shared information about criminals in Birmingham. This evening Corrine is going to tell us about the history of the museum and its archives, and about how Wolverhampton features within these records. Join […]
Birmingham: Family History Class
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomFamily History Class Follow up to the Family History Surgery & Help Desk of the 14th Sept. Learn or refresh your skills on how to research your family history. This one day event is suitable for both beginners and those who have some experience of research. To celebrate National Heritage Week, Midland Ancestors will be […]
London: Members Day: “The Ancestor I would most like to meet”
Wesley’s Chapel and Leysian Mission 49 City Road, London, United KingdomMembers Day: “The Ancestor I would most like to meet” This is an opportunity for members to pick out an ancestor that for whatever reason they would like to meet. Was it a notable person, someone who was a rogue or even someone who went missing? All of our ancestors will have a story or […]
Birmingham: Apprenticeship Indentures and Assignments and three Overseers Accounts
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomApprenticeship Indentures and Assignments and three Overseers Account Speaker: Rhonda Niven In this presentation we will hear about the conservation of Apprenticeship Indentures and Assignments and Overseers Account Books of Bromsgrove St Johns. This project was carried out in 2022 by Rhonda Niven, Book and Paper Conservator at the Hive in Worcester as a result […]
North Staffs Branch – Research / Help evening
St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United KingdomResearch/help evening
Kenilworth: ‘From Lubenham to Sandy: Riches to Rags [well not quite!]’ (LIVE)
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomSpeaker: John Frearson The story of four generations of a Leicestershire Family. Great-grandfather Ashton raised cattle in Leicestershire for the London market. He had 14 children – and three brothers married three sisters. This is the story of the struggles of one branch of the family that moved to Bedfordshire in the judgemental late 19th […]
Stourbridge Group – ‘The Real ‘Allo ‘Allo’
Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United Kingdom'The Real 'Allo 'Allo' A talk by John Pittwood The Talk - The Real 'Allo 'Allo' This is a fascinating talk about the father of John, also called John. John had volunteered for the RAF and had became a Lancaster bomber navigator with 207 Squadron. On the 3rd/4th May 1944, John and the rest of […]
Wolverhampton: Clive of India
Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United KingdomRobert Clive was born near Market Drayton in 1725 and has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company (EIC). Clive's actions on behalf of the EIC have made him one of Britain's most controversial colonial figures. His achievements included checking French imperialist ambitions on the Coromandel Coast and establishing […]
Birmingham: The Mourning Brooch
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomThe Mourning Brooch Speaker: Jean Renwick Jean Renwick’s talk reveals years of research behind her family saga, The Mourning Brooch, based upon the lives of real Yorkshire people who lived in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. After inheriting a mourning brooch, Jean was intrigued to know who […]
North Staffs Branch – Talk
St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United KingdomTalk "Etruria Bone Mill" Speaker Bernard Lovatt
Kenilworth: Researching Irish Ancestry (LIVE)
Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End, Kenilworth, Cv8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth, United KingdomSpeaker: Paul Wilkins Paul is the founder of The Family Tree Tracers,Dorector of Family History Detectives and delivers family history courses at WCRO as well as giving talks and teaching genealogy, and writing for WDYTYA? Magazine