Contents of Volume 10

Vol 10 No 1

March 2004

Pages	Author	Title	Details
11-13	Mari Alderman	'Workhouses'	[3 pp]
14-19	Graham Camfield	'From Plymouth to Peckham'	Researching William Powis NETTLETON [5 pp]
19-20	Diane Kirby	'From Shoemaker to Pub Landlord'	Researching the BLEST family [½ p]
20-21	Glenys Chatfield	'More Memories of Deptford'	[1 p]
21-23	Margaret Stocker	'The Rays and Russells of Horton Kirby (pt. 2)'	[2 pp]
23-26	Peter Twitchett	'Onward the Fire Brigade'	[2½ pp]
29	Glenys Chatfield	'Photograph and names'	The Top class of Clyde Street School, Deptford [1 p]

Vol 10 No 2

June 2004

Pages	Author	Title	Details
60	Jean Stirk	'Unwillingly to School'	School records - A supplement to West Kent Sources [1 p]
61-64	Mari Alderman	'Noncomformity - Part 1'	History of Noncomformity [3 pp]
65-69	Margaret Stocker	'The Children of James and Letitia Russell'	[6 pp]
70	David Redl	'The Power of the DNA Test'	Identifying the occupants of old Tombs [1 p]
71-72	Francis Wynne	'Life, Times and Muirheads'	Muirheads of Elmers End, Beckenham [2 pp]
78-79	Audrey Cirillo	'Picture Gallery'	Holbeach Road School, Ldn SE6 - 1939 Ballet class at Holbeach Rd - 1936 [2 pp]
79	Francis Wynne	'The Muirhead Memorial Photograph'	Metropolitan Cemetery West Norwood [½ p]

Vol 10 No 3

September 2004

Pages	Author	Title	Details
107-11	Mari Alderman	'Nonconformity - Part 2'	How to Identify a Nonconformist Family [4 pp]
111-12	Dorothea Teague	'The Freedom of Cycling'	The Bicycle - a great emancipator of women [1 p]
113-15	Christine Ellis	'Chance and Poor Emma'	Gilbert CHANT of Somerset and sources of information [2 pp]
115	Doris Pullen	'Picture Gallery'	201 Sydenham Road and other cottages in Sydenham, once in Kent [½ p]

Vol 10 No 4

December 2004

Pages	Author	Title	Details
148-49	Mari Alderman	'Migration'	Definitions of migration , with bibliography and web sites [1½ pp]
149-50	David Whitehouse	'From Walsall to Greenwich'	Researching WHITEHOUSES from Walsall [1 p]
150-53	Ann Brunton	'From Drover to Draper'	The Murdochs of Drumwhirn [1½ pp]
152-53	Ron Gray	'Ann Pearson 1827-1919 from Stone Next Dartford'	Researching Ann GRAY (PEARSON) [1½ pp]
154-55	Roger Sutton	'Migratory Ancestors'	Researching DONNELLY and LORD and HAINSWORTH [1½ pp]
155-57	June Biggs	'My Wandering Woosters'	Researching WOOSTERS and sources used [2½ pp]
158-60	Norman Fairfax	'A 1000 Year Family Journey'	The Fairfax family from the Danish Viking invasion to the present day. [2½ pp]
160	Paul Rason	'St Mary Cray Junior Schools Logbooks and Admission Registers'	Update on transcriptions by Volunteers [½ p]
161	David Cufley	'Keith Vansittart Stewart 1929 - 2004'	Obituary [1 p]

Vol 10 No 5

March 2005

Pages	Author	Title	Details
201	Vera Bailey	'HMS Laurentic and W. M. Odell'	Peter Threlfall researching the crew of HMS Laurentic [1 p]
202 -	Len Curtis	'Memories of an Evacuee'	[2½ pp]
204-05	Jeannette Oldfield	'From One Soldier to Another'	Sergeant J Peters wrote this letter to a fellow soldier [1 p]
205-08	Valerie Pike	'Childhood Wartime Memories'	Sidcup [3 pp]
208-09	F J Bullock	'Some Memories of War in South East London'	[1½ pp]
209-10	Ken Gummer	'A Wartime Problem - Travelling to and from Work'	[1 p]
210-11	Rita Ward	'A Young Family in Rainham, Kent'	Memories of the war [1 p]
212	Ruth Marsters	'Dont Let Those Sirens Sound Again'	A poem by Ruth Marsters with whom the copyright remains [1 p]

Vol 10 No 6

June 2005

Pages	Author	Title	Details
242-44	Mari Alderman	'Title Deeds'	[3 pp]
245	Maureen Fearn and Paul Wilkins	'A Modern Day Wedding in Gretna Green'	Maureen and Pauls wedding and website references [1 p]
246-48	Jackie Evans	'Frederick Matthias Alexander'	The history of Frederick Matthias ALEXANDER [3 pp]
249-50	Audrey Cozens	'Some Wartime Memories'	Wartime in Bromley [2 pp]
250-51	Mary Sargeant	'200 Years of an Ordinary Family'	A brief history of Thames watermen [1 p]
251-53	Ruth Cheeseman	'Mixing The Genes'	The story of John ODBOY found as a baby, in a haystack [2 pp]
254-56	Barry Langridge	'London Schools Attendance Medals'	[2 pp]

Vol 10 No 7

September 2005

Pages	Author	Title	Details
289-93	Mari Alderman	'The Royal Navy and Merchant Navy'	References for documents held at The National Archives, Kew [4 pp]
293-95	June Curtis	'Lord Nelson and the Co. of Watermen & Lightermen'	[2 pp]
295-96	June Curtis	'Almshouses of the Co. of Watermen & Lightermen'	At Penge in Kent [1 p]
297-99	Victor Streatfield	'Bombs, Doodlebugs and Rockets'
300-02	Norman Fairfax	'DNA and the Family Historian'	[2 pp]

Vol 10 No 8

December 2005

Pages	Author	Title	Details
332-34	Mari Alderman	'Wills 1858 To The Present'	Terms used and where to find the records [2½ pp]
335-36	Diana Harley	'Wills and Their Uses'	[1 p]
336-41	Pat Manning	'Trying for the Josephine Birchenough's Award'	The deaths of 30 Beckenham auxiliary firemen in WW2, incl. names [5 pp]
341-43	David Blackbourn	'Be Still my Hart??'	Research of HARTSILL family [3 pp]
343-44		'Trafalgar'	Purchase of a young man's account of the Battle of Trafalgar [½ p]
344-45	Chris Barnett	'Our Cousin Daisy'	Memories of a lifetime [1½ pp]
348-51		'Picture Gallery'	Photos relating to the CHOPPING family [3 pp]

Vol 10 No 9

March 2006

Pages	Author	Title	Details
375-76	Pat Cryer	'In Memory of Joan Dolman'	Appreciation of a society member who helped so many people [1 p]
376-77	Doreen Knights	'Volunteering at London Metropolitan Archives'	An account of the work involved [1 p]
377-78		'A Book of Common Prayer'	A bid to return the books to the JOHNSTON family [1 p]
379-81	Mari Alderman	'Illegitimacy'	Reasons, Registers and Documents [3 pp]
381-84	Jean Smith	'Thank Goodness it was Dianna'	Research into the CORNWALL family [3 pp]
384-85	Pauline Linden	'The Gasson Families in Kent'	Research into the name GASSON [1 p]
386-87	Terry Hart	'Dartfords Forgotten River'	The River Cranpit [1½ pp]
387-88	Barry Langridge	'Regimental Numbers'

Vol 10 No 10

June 2006

Pages	Author	Title	Details
416	Walter Eves	'From the Chairman'	Report on 2006 AGM at Eynsford [1 p]
420	Jean Stirk	'Josephine Birchenough's Bursary Fund'	Report of the judging panel [1 p]
422-26	Mari Alderman	'Probate Before 1858'	Good summary of wills & probate procedures [4½ pp]
426-30	Stephen Brissenden	'Mysteries and Tragedies in Victorian London and How Ordinary Folk Would Rise Above Tragic Circumstances...'	Concerns BRISSENDEN of S.E. London, late 19th cent. [part 1 of 3] [4 pp]
430-34	Valerie Pike	'Strokes of Luck'	Researching NIXON of Biddulph, Staffs, & PEARSON of Salford/Biddulph [4 pp]
435-37	Gerald Davey	'Smallpox outbreak in Chiddingstone in 1813'	[reprinted from 'Bygone Kent', Vol.6 No.6] [1½ pp]
442-43	Joan Goodwins	'The Meopham House Group'	Reminiscences from 20 years of the House Group [1 p]

Vol 10 No 11

September 2006

Pages	Author	Title	Details
468-70	Mari Alderman	'Early Name Lists and Taxes'	Brief notes on a dozen taxes including Lay Subsidies, Hearth Tax etc. [2½ pp]
471-73	Valerie Pike	'The Princess Alice Disaster'	Account of Thames steamship disaster in 1878 (plus photos) [2½ pp]
474-76	Victor Streatfield	'St Clere Estate and Memories of Farming There'	Estate in Ightham/Kemsing [2 pp]
476-77	Roger Cookman	'New Cross Memories'	COOKMAN family, 19-20th cent. [1½ pp]
478-79	Iris Finding	'The Revd. Thomas Beck'	Biography of author's 5 x gt. grandfather, 18-19th cent. non-conformist minister in S.E.London; [follow-up in Dec 06 journal with two photos, p.525, 530] [2 pp]

Vol 10 No 12

December 2006

Pages	Author	Title	Details
516-18	Mari Alderman	'Death and Burial'	Notes on available sources for death and burial [3 pp]
519-20		'North West Kent wins Best Web Site of the Year Award'	Brief report on FFHS website competition 2006 [1 p]
520-22	Ann Korta	'The Search for Robert William Pickett'	Researching PICKETT of Bexley/Dartford, 19c [2 pp]
522-24	Paul Hutcheson	'Curious Curate of Beckenham'	Biography of George Frederick LEICESTER 1792-1833 of Richmond, Hatfield Broad Oak (Essex), Beckenham, Brighton [2 pp]