KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

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Canterbury Branch Meetings

For Sat-Nav users, the address is: Kendall Hall, St Mary Bredin Church, 59 Nunnery Field, Canterbury CT1 3JN.

Unless specified, meetings are held on the second Friday of the month. Our June meeting is an outdoor meeting at a place of local historical interest. There is no meeting in January. 

The venue is open from 7pm, with the meeting commencing at 7.50pm.

Future Programme

DATE

SPEAKER

SUBJECT
12th March 2010 Charles Boxer Please note-different venue for this meeting
The meeting will be held at 7.30pm, at the Kent Freemasons' Museum, St Peter's Place, Canterbury (opposite the Guildhall), where Mr. Boxer will talk about the Museum, and the planned family history library to be established there.
Parking closest to this venue is found in Pound Lane and North Lane car parks. Very limited parking is available at the Museum for disabled/limited mobility visitors, and must be pre-booked; please email info@canterburykfhs.co.uk to book a parking place.
9th April 2010 Dr David Wright The Revd. Brian Faussett: Archaeology and Genealogy
14th May 2010 t.b.c t.b.c
11th June 2010 Outdoor Meeting A visit to Kingston, near Canterbury: a short guided walk around the village, followed by a visit to the 'Churchyard and Community' history of Kingston exhibition in the Barn, with refreshments.

Previous Speakers

Oct 2005 Gillian Rickard Records of Vagrants, Gypsies, Travellers and Strangers. Report Here.
Nov 2005 Anne Carter Guy Fawkes. Report Here.
Dec 2005 David Wood My Ancestors are Still Revolting. Report Here
Mar 2006 Lady Mary Teviot London Sources. Report Here.
Sept 2006 Jon Mills Identifying Uniforms from Family Photographs. Report Here.
Oct 2006 Peter Christian Finding Genealogy on the Internet. Report Here.
Nov 2006 Wendy Anderson The Dark Satanic Mills. Report Here.
Jan 2007 Peter Ewart School Life in Victorian and Edwardian Times. Report Here.
Feb 2007 Mervyn Streatfield Were the Good Old Days - That Good? Report Here.
Mar 2007 Paul Blake London- The Metropolitan Nightmare. Report Here.
Apr 2007 Meryl Catty To Coin a Phrase. Report Here.
May 2007 Martin Lloyd Buzz Bombs and Bicycles. Report Here.
June 2007 Michael Peters Outdoor Meeting- Huguenot Canterbury. Report Here. Photographs Here.
July 2007 Brian Fagg The Chelsea Flower Show and How it Came into Being. Report Here.
Sept 2007 Bob Ogley Doodlebugs and Rockets: The V1 and V2 attacks on Kent. Report Here.
Oct 2007 Peter Ewart The History of Rye. Report Here.
Nov 2007 David Wood Why Didn't We Remember Them? Report Here.
Jan 2008 Peter Ewart The Records of the Parish Overseer. Report Here.
Feb 2008 Marjorie Lyle Slaves to Missionaries. Report Here.
Mar 2008 Dr David Wright Probate Records. Report Here.
Apr 2008 Michael Gandy Chancery and Exchequer. Report Here.
May 2008 Anthony Cooke and Charles Fagg Members Talks. Report Here.
June 2008 Geoffrey Pike Outdoor Meeting- A Walk around Old Whitstable. Report Here.
July 2008 Miss Anne Carter Rochester Cathedral. Report Here.
Sept 2008 Chris McCooey Kent and Sussex Women- Famous, Infamous and Unsung. Report Here.
Oct 2008 Sir Walter Bodmer People of the British Isles: A National Genetics Study. Report Here.
Nov 2008 Richard Ratcliffe Was She a Murderess? Report Here.
Dec 2008 Anne Carter Queen Victoria. Report Here.
Jan 2009 Peter Ewart Newspaper Research for the Family Historian. Report Here.
Feb 2009 Gillian Rickard Goods and Chattels- Probate Inventories. Report Here.
Mar 2009 Peter Ewart The Swing Riots: An Account of the Agricultural Labourers' Revolt of 1830. Report Here.
Apr 2009 Steve Cordery Ten Things to do with your Electronic Tree. Report Here.
May 2009 Ted Maynard and Ros Clark Members Talks. Report Here.
June 2009 Anthea Bryant Outdoor Meeting- A Walk around South Canterbury. Report to follow.
July 2009 Lady Mary Teviot I Never Thought of That: A Second Look at Problems. Report Here.
Sept 2009 Helen Allinson Life in the Workhouse. Report Here.
Oct 2009 Julia Page Sandgate to Rye: Napoleon's Gateway. Report Here.
Nov 2009 Celia Heritage Records of Death: Don't Neglect Them. Report to follow.
Dec 2009 Geoff Hutchinson History in Comic Verse- From 1066 to the Internet. Report Here.
Feb 2010 Peter Ewart Nor the Years Condemn- Some War Memorials in Kent and East Sussex. Report Here.

                          

For further details of the Branch Programme please telephone Patricia Lee on 01795 537802.               

Site updated 5th March 2010