West Middlesex FHS Journal, Volume 41 (2023)
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Rob Purr (1931-2022) - Bridget Purr
Bridget Purr, joint President of the Society with Rob since 2016, provides an obituary on Rob,
who died in November 2022.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(1) 2-4 (March 2023)
Monthly Talks - Ann Greene, Muriel Sprott, Roland Bostock
Notes on the talks given at three recent meetings: Julie Goucher on Pursuing Surnames (November);
Various members contribute to Show and Tell (December);
James Marshall on Moving Millions: Hounslow Borough's Place in the History of Public Transport
in London (January).
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(1) 10-21 (March 2023)
Annual General Meeting
The Agenda for this March's AGM.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(1) 22-23 (March 2023)
Who Lived in My House? - Sarah K. Minney
Sarah investigates the previous owners of the house she grew up in, in Oakley Road,
Ealing. The first resident she finds was James Taylor, a grocer, in 1911;
a widow Gwladys Amy Jane Clifton-Mogg was the resident in 1921, and others followed before
her parents bought the house in 1955.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(1) 24-27 (March 2023)
Book Review
A review of The Sawtooth Slayer by Nathan Dylan Goodwin.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(1) 28 (March 2023)
The Hampton Court Robbery and what Mary did next - Barry Pursdon
Barry continues his account of the life of Mary Ann Goatley of Hampton Wick, after she
was deported to Tasmania inn 1843 for committing a burglary at Hampton Court Palace.
She married in 1848, but life was tough, and she died in Hobart in 1850.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(1) 29-31 (March 2023)
A Trip down Memory Lane
A nostalgic lookback to the mid 1900s, all in rhyming couplets.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(1) 34-35 (March 2023)
Obituary Paul Jourdain Kershaw
Obituary of Paul Kershaw who was an honorary member of the Society, was Examiner of the Society's
accounts for 10 years, and was also Secretary and Treasurer.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(2) 2-4 (June 2023)
AGM 2023 Minutes
Minutes of the Society's Annual General Meeting covering the year ended 31st December 2022.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(2) 10-15 (June 2023)
Monthly Talks - Yvonne Masson, Muriel Sprott, Ann Greene
Notes on the talks given at three recent meetings: John Vigar on Leave No Stone Unturned (February);
Ann Greene on Sidelights of the Workhouse (March); and Ian Waller on My Average Ancestor (April).
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(2) 16-31 (June 2023)
Finding Harriett Grubb; Reading the Unreadable - Yvonne Masson and Roland Bostock
Yvonne and Roland share their efforts to read a difficult headstone, and use family history research to
discover what is really written on the stone.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(2) 32-33 (June 2023)
William Lofthouse Heald - John Seaman
John explores the story behind a headstone in the grounds of Feltham Borstal. William Lofthouse Heald
turns out to have been on both of Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions, 1901-1904 and 1910-1913.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(2) 34-35 (June 2023)
Monthly Talks - Roland Bostock, Yvonne Masson, Ann Greene
Notes on the talks given at three recent meetings: Val Bott on The 1841 Brentford Flood (May);
Jonathan Oates on Historical London Crimes (June); Patricia Williamson on The experiences of an evacuee to Canada during WW2 (July).
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(3) 9-21 (September 2023)
The Hunts of Harmondsworth and Harlington - Wendy Tibbitts
Wendy has been researching the farming community of Heathrow, and in this article she explores
the history of the Hunt family who owned Heathrow Farm and Manor Farm among other activities.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(3) 22-25 (September 2023)
The Repair Shop - Wendy Mott
In a short piece Wendy recalls a visit the Society made to the Repair Shop in the Weald and
Downland South of England.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(3) 26 (September 2023)
Tales from the Cemeteries
Three examples of gravestones are given, from New Brentford Cemetery, Bedfont Cemetery and Hounslow
Cemetery - some sentimentality and unexpected relationships are found.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(3) 27-29 (September 2023)
Plea for Help
Providing a photo, Patricia Acock asks for help re the Acton Argyle football team of 1916-1917.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(4) 7 (December 2023)
Monthly Talks - Roland Bostock, Yvonne Masson, Ann Greene
Notes on the talks given at three recent meetings: Mia Bennett on Introduction to DNA for Family Historians (August);
Adele Emms on Why I'm a Suffragist and not a Suffragette (September);
James Marshall on Highwaymen, Outlaws and Hounslow Heath (October).
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(4) 9-18 (December 2023)
God's Acre in Chelsea: the Moravian story - Roland Bostock
This is the story of how the Moravians formed a non-conformist church in England in 1738, and how their deceased
came to be buried at a site in Chelsea, where all the gravestones, some 780 of them, are small ledger stones.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(4) 19-25 (December 2023)
The Repair Shop revisited - Ann Greene
Ann provides a brief account of what became of plans by the Duke of Northumberland to build a racecourse
in Isleworth. It never happened, of course, but an interesting story.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(4) 26 (December 2023)
Working in the Pelabon Factory, East Twickenham 1915-1918: some memories from my grandmother - Ellen Stuart
As the title indicates, Ellen recalls what her grandmother had told her about working in the Pelabon Factory in Twickenham
during World War I.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(4)27-28 (December 2023)
The "fine memorial" and complicated will of Susanna Thomas - John Seaman
Starting with a quote from 'Three Men in a Boat' concerning a funny tomb at St. Mary's, Hampton, John
investigates further.
West Middlesex FHS Journal 41(4)29-30 (December 2023)
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