Berkshire Family Historian
September 2001

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Vol 25 No 1 - September 2001

John Gurnett - Editor

Features ...

Rural Robustness by Lori Williamson

health and medicine in the nineteenth-century countryside

Shady and pig killing in Lambourn by Jill Wohlgemuth

Recollections of a 1920s goalkeeper by Helen Turner

An unexpected surprise from the National Burial Index by Gillian Stevens

The Wiltshire Wills Project by Lucy Jefferis

An appeal for a mangle by Pauline Houldey

The Boy Apprentice or White Tie and Tails by Daphne Spurling

A word from our Chairman

The Bulletin includes items on: Wiltshire Record Office on the move, GRO birth, marriage and death indexes, Cleaning gravestones, Genealogy and medical research, Procat on-line catalogue, A hot tip from Oxfordshire, Warfield Millennium video, Public Record Office events, Have you caught the disease, Family history classes

Open Day 2001 by Sue Matthews

Society projects by Daphne Spurling

Letters to the Editor

• Honorary membership from Irene Littleby, Reading

• GRO certificates from Ken Skinner, Caversham, Reading

• Have you lost Sarah Haines? from Pat Slatcher, Rugby, Warwickshire

Minutes of the 26th AGM

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 25th February 2002