Berkshire Family Historian
March 2001

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The illustration on the cover is a cartoon depicting an application for relief (see article on The workhouse in Berkshire).

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Vol 24 No 3 - March 2001

Editor - John Gurnett

Features ...

First World War Soldiers’ Documents by Joyce Stamp

Finding your way through the ‘Burnt Records’

The workhouse in Berkshire by Peter Higginbotham

Life in the workhouse in the nineteenth century.

A Baptist conundrum by Daphne Spurling

The story of a Baptist family

A Bluffer’s guide to converting your family tree into a family history by Barry Jerome

A letter from Canada submitted by Joan Vinall

Remembering life in Berkshire in the early years of the twentieth century

The Bulletin includes: CHAIRMAN'S NOTES, Battle of the Atlantic, Shinfield War Memorial, American quilts, The 1940s House, Missionaries, Fairs and Open Days, Family history magazines, Royal Archives, Spoof 1881 Census entry

Help Wanted:

• About Bucklebury by Mrs. Margaret Turner

• About the Silvester family in the early 1700s by Ruth Noyes

• About the Twinch family from Windsor by Carol Twinch

Letters to the Editor:

• About an indenture made in 1601 between HARRYS, SHERWOOD and BATEMAN from Bridget Duckenfield

• The collection of Mrs. John Hautenville Cope at Reading Local Studies Library from Mrs. Valerie Kearey

Book Ends - These are included in our collected list of Book Reviews

National Burial Index - See latest information

Members’ interests - These are included in our complete list of members interests

Research Centre - See the Research Centre pages

Postal Research Services - See current details

updated 4th June 2002