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Welcome to the official website for the Hastings and Rother Family History Society. Please use the menu on the left to browse around. This site contains information on the Society, the area it covers, how to join, and how to buy Family History and Local History books, CD-Roms & microfiche from our bookshop.
Enjoy your visit, and feel free to contact us by post or email with any questions or comments.
Below is a listing of events: all take place at the monthly meetings (second Wednesday of the month from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. approx at the Ore Centre, Old London Road, Ore, Hastings, East Sussex), unless otherwise stated.
| Events for 2008 | |
|---|---|
| 9th Jan | The Ancient Town of Winchelsea, Its History and Its Families - Speaker: Malcolm Pratt |
| 27th Jan | Our Bookstall will be at: The Bracknell Family History Fair - Bracknell Sports Centre, Bagshot Road, Bracknell RG12 9SE |
| 10th Feb | Our Bookstall will be at: The Sussex & South London Family History Fair - K2 Crawley Sports Centre, Pease Pottage Hill, Crawley RH11 9BQ |
| 13th Feb | The Story of the Storaa 'sank off Hastings in 1940 with a loss of 22 lives' - Speaker: Peter Marsden |
| 19th Feb | Coach Trip to the Family Records Centre (FRC) - Click here for more information. |
| 12th Mar | Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Speaker: Nigel Haines |
| 9th Apr | In Pursuit of the Past. The search for an unknown Ancestor: rediscovering the life of ATW Penn (1849-1924) Pioneering Photographer of South India - Speaker: Christopher Penn |
| 20th Apr | Our Bookstall will be at: The South Coast Family History Fair - Worthing Pavilion Theatre, Marine Parade, Worthing BN11 3PX |
| 2nd-4th May | Our Bookstall & Sussex FHG Bookstall will be at: Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE - Grand Hall, Olympia - Click here for more information about WDYTYA? LIVE. |
| 13th May | Coach Trip to The National Archives (TNA) - Click here for more information. |
| 14th May | 'Snatches From Africa's Shores', Slavery, the Slave Trade, Abolition & Sussex - Speaker: Michael Hughes |
| 18th May | Our Bookstall will be at: The Kent Family History Fair - Market Hall, Lockmeadow, Hart Street off of Barker Road, Maidstone ME16 8RG |
| 11th Jun | Annual General Meeting |
| 9th Jul | T.B.C. - Speaker: T.B.C. |
| 13th Aug | T.B.C. - Speaker: T.B.C. |
| 6th Sept | Coach Trip to The National Archives (TNA) - Click here for more information. |
| 10th Sept | T.B.C. - Speaker: T.B.C. |
| 8th Oct | T.B.C. - Speaker: T.B.C. |
| Sun 12th or 19th Oct | Family History Fair at Horntye Park Sports Complex - Click here for more information about the fair. |
| 12th Nov | T.B.C. - Speaker: T.B.C. |
| 2nd Dec | Coach Trip to London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) & The National Archives (TNA) - Click here for more information. |
| 10th Dec | T.B.C. - Speaker: T.B.C. |
| Events for 2007 | |
| 10th Jan | Kipling's Boy Jack - Speaker: Hugh Miller |
| 14th Feb | The Workings of the Harbour - Speaker: Carl Bagwell, Rye Harbour Master |
| 14th Mar | Nicholas Wingfield of Hastings: Privateer - Speaker: James Cruttenden |
| 11th Apr | Sussex Customs and Ways - Speaker: Barbara Cornwell |
| 9th May | The Life of William Jackson Oughton Giles, 2nd Husband of Ellen Chapman the First Female Councillor & Mayor of Worthing - Speaker: Nicola Smith |
| 13th Jun | Annual General Meeting |
| 11th Jul | London the Metropolitan Nightmare - Speaker: Paul Blake |
| 8th Aug | They're Not There! Census Indexes - Speaker: Jeanne Bunting |
| 12th Sep | Coroners Inquests - Speaker: Kathy Chater |
| Sun 7th Oct | Family History Fair at Horntye Park Sports Complex |
| 10th Oct | The Mists of Time: Sources for Earlier Family History - Speaker: Dr. Nick Barratt |
| 14th Nov | Saucy Sussex Women - Speaker: Sharon Searle |
| 12th Dec | And The Bands Played On - Speaker: Don Dray |
Last Updated: 11/01/2008
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