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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Sussex => Topic started by: Chris in 1066Land on Saturday 11 March 06 08:59 GMT (UK)
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Hi Sussex Rootschatters
Its here at Last ;D
The CUCKFIELD Family History Day at CUCKFIELD Museum
How many of you shall we see there on this the Sussex Boards Mini Meet of Rootschatters.?
It would be really good to see as many of you as possible there and start putting faces to the names of Sussex researchers.
Promises to be a great day :o
Hope to see you there :-[
Chris in 1066
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I'll be there Chris, and I echo your sentiments about meeting people, it will be nice to put some faces to the typing!
Kerry
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It was a most successful day. Thank you so much Chris for all your efforts. We were overwhelmed at the numbers arriving and everyone was most appreciative of your talk and obviously felt they had had a great afternoon.
Andrea
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Hi Andrea & KerryB
I really enjoyed myself this afternoon.
We put out 50 chairs and they just kept rolling in, more and more chairs had to be found, stands had to be pushed back to make way for the extra rows of chairs - Wow, what a day.
People were taking their seats some 40 mins before it started at 2.30pm.
In the end we counted 103 - yes, one hundred and three bums on seats all waiting to learn more about 'Beginning Your Family History'
Andrea, please thank your committee for a great afternoon, and special thanks for that Bottle of Very Good Wine
KerryB, sorry I missed you at the end, but I hope you enjoyed your short stay in Cuckfield
I know I did
Thank you all
Chris in 1066
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Hi there,
Talking of Cuckfield is anyone familiar of the Vincent family of Cuckfield?
Regards,
Pen
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Chris
Yes sorry I missed you too, but I had a really nice afternoon and I enjoyed your talk, it served as a good reminder to me. I'm glad it was so successful and wow 103 people!
Pen - yes my great great grandmother was a Vincent from Cuckfield, hence my reason for visiting the village and getting to know it. She was Naomi Vincent born 1851 to William Vincent 1810 to 1885 and Louisa Johnson 1814 to1882. William's family seemed to have come from Cowfold and Bolney which is fairly close to Cuckfield.
Kerry
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Rootschat Mini Meet and Cuckfield Family History Day
Just a couple of pictures showing how we were trying to get everyone into the room prior to the start of my talk
(The one in the white jumper at the table, shielding her eyes, is 'her indoors' who joined me for the day)
Fantastic response, over 100 bums on chairs plus one or two standing at the back
Great Afternoon
Chris in 1066
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Hiya Chris!
Enjoyed the photos! I do hope that they cheered up a bit AFTER your speech! (See last photo!) It sounds as though it was a resounding success, will o be holding another next year? I do hope so!
All the very best,
Reg.
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Hi Reg
You said "I do hope that they cheered up a bit AFTER your speech! (See last photo!)"
Yes, at this particular time they did not know what to expect, but later on they all seemed to liven up and were firing questions and answers to my questions at me from the floor.
There was talk after the meet about doing it again next year and I indicated that I would be happy to attend - another suggestion was that perhaps a talk on 'Parish Registers' would go down pretty well.
Have you seen these pictures as well
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,138706.msg624026.html#msg624026
Chris in 1066
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Hi Chris
Im glad the day went well in Cuckfield. I was planning on coming, seeing as I have ties to Cuckfield (Charles Newnham owned a bootmakers shop in the Highstreet 1889 - 1839 and he was my gg grand father). However due to university exams etc I was unable to attend.
It sounds like it was a great succes - let me know if they hold another day like it!!
Kim
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Hi Kim
Sorry you did not make the F H day in Cuckfield. Have you been in touch with the museum about the Newnhams? I know someone was recently.
We have a talk on Parish Records and general local history with various local experts there on Friday Sep 17th at 7.30pm and Chris is doing an afternoon on a Saturday in the spring some time. Date not yet fixed.
Andrea
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Hi Andrea,
I did go to the museum and put my details in the guest book. That was early this year I think, so it could have been me!
I know that the museum has a poem written by my gg grandfather Charles which they were going to ty and illustrate. They were going to contact me for some photos of Charles but have not done so yet!! I understand that the lady who worked there has recently left so perhaps I should get back in touch to see if they still want some of my photos.
I will put the 17th Sept in my diary and will try to attend this time!
Many thanks
Kim
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If you contact the museum anything to do with family history will probably come to me now. We would love to have any photos. We are just about to re-open after a major refurbishment so life has been a bit fraught having to pack everything up etc. We are now having to get it all out again and sort out new displays.
I will remind them about the poem. I know it was discussed at an earlier committee meeting.
Andrea
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In that case what I will do is get some copies done of the best photos and send them to the museum. The poem was fantastic - we never knew it existed till we went to the museum!
I will have to come to the museum when it has re-opened! All sounds very hectic!
Kim
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Hi
Yes, I have been invited back to Cuckfield museum to give another talk in the Spring of 2007.
The subject matter for that afternoon is likely to be:-
"Getting more from the Census" - The hidden Information
I will attempt to show you how to extract hidden information from the census by sitting down with copies of the enumerators returns of a street where one of your ancestors lived, and by doing a little bit of work it will enable you to paint a picture of that street.
After that we will compare our findings with other primary sources.
Could be interesting
Chris in 1066