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All Drawn By Horses

Ian Waller looks at the horse drawn transport age from the mail coaching networks to transport on the estate or farm. A huge number of carriages, carts and wagons existed and he'll look at the regional differences, the types of transport and the horses which pulled them.

Tuesday 11th September 2018, 7.45pm
Community Centre, Wakeman Road, Bourne End, SL8 5SX

Buckinghamshire Family History Society welcomes non-members to its meetings; entry is £4.

Coram's Children - The Story of the Foundling Hospital

Jane King will recount the struggle of Thomas Coram at the beginning of the 18th century to establish the Foundling Hospital - Britain's first and only home solely for illegitimate children - and how the babies left there were brought up. Jane will describe the involvement of William Hogarth and his fellow artists, and why the Hospital became Britain's first public art gallery, and examine the contribution of George Frideric Handel through his fund-raising concerts which established a rich musical tradition at the Hospital.  Jane will also cover the continuing work of Coram  as a pioneering children's charity.

Saturday 18th August 2018, 2pm
Turnfurlong Junior School, Turnfurlong Lane, Aylesbury HP21 7PL

Buckinghamshire Family History Society welcomes non-members to its meetings; entry is £4.

Do you have an elusive ancestor? Our Buckinghamshire Names Database (over five million surname entries) and libraries are available for consultation at most of our Aylesbury

Coping With Kew

This talk by Gwyneth Wilkie is an introduction to The National Archives; what you may hope to get from TNA’s holdings, which records are accessible at home and which on site, which ones you have to pay for, what else is on open access and whether you need a reader’s ticket. Gwyneth will also look at how to use Discovery. Details you may want to remember will be mostly in accompanying notes, so that the slides Gwyneth presents can be used to walk you round the building and show you what some of the documents actually look like and how they can be used to further your research.

Wednesday 1st August 2018, 7.30pm
Methodist Church Hall, Queensway, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK2 2HB

Buckinghamshire Family History Society welcomes non-members to its meetings; entry is £4.

Yes, it's mortification; it means death of tissue, gangrene, etc.

Graham

Prisons, Punishment And Pain

Prisons have always been important institutions in London, and their records are one of the richest for genealogy and family research. In this talk, Colin Oakes looks at the large numbers of prisons that have existed in London from medieval times to the present and their myriad forms. He'll begin by tracing how they slowly became a place of punishment, both Corporal and Capital in form, before moving on to the painful conditions in which men and women were kept and how the 'press' was utilised before the reforms of the nineteenth century.

Wednesday 4th July 2018, 7.30pm
Methodist Church Hall, Queensway, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK2 2HB

Buckinghamshire Family History Society welcomes non-members to its meetings; entry is £4.

The Society's annual Open Day and Family and Local History Fair takes place between 10-4 on Saturday 28th July at The Grange School, Wendover Way, Aylesbury, HP21 7NH. See our website for details.
http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/