Woking Centre

Please note that the meeting at Woking on Thursday March 12th 2020 has changed venue.
It will be at St Andrew’s Church, Goldsworth Park Centre, Denton Way, Woking GU21 3LG.
Sorry for the late notice and the inconvenience.

Woking Methodist Church Hall, Brewery Road, Woking, GU21 4LH

Co-ordinator Chris Leech

Email: woking@wsfhs.org
Second Thursday in month
Doors Open at 7.15pm. Meeting starts at 7.50pm.

2020
Thu	12	Mar	7.50 pm	The Mary Rose PLEASE BE AWARE OF CHANGE OF VENUE - FURTHER DETAILS TO FOLLOW.	Alan Turton
Thu	2	Apr	7.50 pm	CANCELLED Recent Discoveries I have made NOW NOVEMBER 2020	Informal Meeting
Thu	14	May	7.50 pm	CANCELLED Strangers and Aliens NOW MARCH 2021	Cheryl Butler
Thu	11	Jun	7.50 pm	The History of the Midland Railway and its staff records. [With additional information about LSWR	Chris and Judy Rouse
Thu	9	Jul	7.50 pm	No Meeting	No Meeting
Thu	13	Aug	7.50 pm	No Meeting	No Meeting
Thu	10	Sep	7.50 pm	London Ancestry	Jane Fox
Thu	8	Oct	7.50 pm	Non-Conformity - The Road to Toleration	Les Mitchinson
Thu	12	Nov	7.50 pm	Recent Discoveries I have made	Informal Meeting
Thu	10	Dec	7.50 pm	William Heath Robinson	Geoffrey Beare

2021
Thu	14	Jan	7.50 pm	My ancestor was a domestic servant	Ian Waller
Thu	11	Feb	7.50 pm	The Migrant's Journey	Janet Barber
Thu	11	Mar	7.50 pm	Strangers and Aliens	Cheryl Butler
Thu	8	Apr	7.50 pm	My Lucky Break	Informal Meeting
Thu	13	May	7.50 pm	The British Almshouse	Judy Hill
Thu	10	Jun	7.50 pm	The Plant Nurseries of Woking	David Rose

Forthcoming Meetings

March 12 2020

Alan Turton - The Mary Rose PLEASE BE AWARE OF CHANGE OF VENUE - FURTHER DETAILS TO FOLLOW.
Alan is a military historian and historical adviser for television programmes. He is an official presenter for the Mary Rose Trust and all fees for this talk are passed to the Trust.

April 2

Informal Meeting - ** CANCELLED **Recent Discoveries I have made NOW NOVEMBER 2020
An opportunity to share your more recent (last couple of years?) finds with the other members of the group.

May 14

Cheryl Butler - ** CANCELLED **Strangers and Aliens NOW MARCH 2021
Dr Cheryl Butler has degrees in History from the Universities of Winchester and Southampton, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a trustee of the Hampshire Archives Trust.
This talk takes an historical perspective on the welcome (or otherwise!) of migrants in England from Nasty Normans, to Italian Merchants trading in luxury goods, to Religious Refugees from France and economic Migrants brought in to brew beer and mix up gunpowder. A tale of wool, wine and woad.

June 11

Chris and Judy Rouse - The History of the Midland Railway and its staff records. [With additional information about LSWR
This talk is a good starting point for research into railway ancestry - using their knowledge of the Midland railway to provide examples.They look at the various types of records available for researchers: staff records held at the National Archives and elsewhere, Board of Trade Accident reports, Directors and other Minutes, Local and National newspapers, census records photographs, maps and illustrations etc. Researchers can then adapt the techniques to researching their own particular railway ancestor on any British railway including the LSWR.

July 9

No Meeting - No Meeting

August 13

No Meeting - No Meeting

September 10

Jane Fox - London Ancestry
To be added

October 8

Les Mitchinson - Non-Conformity - The Road to Toleration
Parish Registers of the established church can extend a pedigree back to 1538 recording baptisms,marriages and burials. But not everybody used the established church; they chose to follow their own faith instead and worshipped in secret. By doing so they disappeared from view. The talk, "Non-Conformity - the Road to Toleration" looks at the rise of non-conformity, the records they created and where to access them.

November 12

Informal Meeting - Recent Discoveries I have made
An opportunity to share your more recent (last couple of years?) finds with the other members of the group.

December 10

Geoffrey Beare - William Heath Robinson
A Trustee of the William Heath Robinson Trust since 1992, Geoffrey Beare is the Collections and Exhibition Manager at the William Heath Robinson Museum.
The talk will cover William Heath Robinson's childhood and education and his early work as a humorous artist and into advertising. However, throughout his ife he saw himself as a serious painter and he painted landscapes, figure studies and imagined scenes whenever he found the time to do so. The talk will end with a brief overview of the work of the Heath Robinson Museum, which opened in 2016.

January 14 2021

Ian Waller - My ancestor was a domestic servant
Ian Waller is a retired professional genealogist with over 35 years experience in English research. He currently serves as a trustee and education officer of the Family History Federation.
Life and Times of a Domestic Servant. Many families will find domestic servants, both male and female, within their ancestry. This talk looks at their lives and their appearance in records.

February 11

Janet Barber - The Migrant's Journey
Jan runs the Beginners and Intermediate Genealogy Groups for the Woking Area U3A and is a keen family historian.
This talk is about the journey taken by our emigrating ancestors in the 18th and 19th centuries. Before starting a brave new life in a brave new world they first had to cope with months of an uncomfortable and dangerous journey by sea.

March 11

Cheryl Butler - Strangers and Aliens
Dr Cheryl Butler has degrees in History from the Universities of Winchester and Southampton, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a trustee of the Hampshire Archives Trust.
This talk takes an historical perspective on the welcome (or otherwise!) of migrants in England from Nasty Normans, to Italian Merchants trading in luxury goods, to Religious Refugees from France and economic Migrants brought in to brew beer and mix up gunpowder. A tale of wool, wine and woad.

April 8

Informal Meeting - My Lucky Break
An opportunity to share your "Eureka moments" with the other members of the group. Bring them on a memory stick, in a folder of papers – or just talk about them!

May 13

Judy Hill - The British Almshouse
To be added

June 10

David Rose - The Plant Nurseries of Woking
To be added

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