Tuesday 28th October 2025, 7.30pm - 9.00pm (Zoom sign-in from 7.15pm)
Dorset Family History Society will be hosting an online Zoom meeting talk by SUE PAUL entitled 'HENRY SMITH, A MOST NOTORIOUS, NAUGHTY, FALSE, LYING FELLOW - A GLOBAL BLACK SHEEP OR MALIGNED CHARACTER?’.
This will be a light-hearted case study demonstrating how to reconstruct a seventeenth-century life that cannot be found in traditional genealogical records to enhance your ancestral history.
Recently retired after many years as a senior project manager in the IT industry, Sue Paul has had a number of articles published in a wide variety of specialist magazine and journals. She is an experienced public speaker including a talk at the 2019 AGRA Conference.
An experienced amateur genealogist, over recent years Sue’s full attention has been on writing her biography of Captain Thomas Bowrey – a late seventeenth century East Indies mariner and early eighteenth century Wapping merchant uncovered during her One-Name study – which was published in 2020. She is currently compiling a detailed catalogue of Bowrey’s unpublished personal papers. This rich source has provided material for many new talks.
Society Members who have consented to receive information by e-mail will find a meeting invitation link in the latest E-News, usually sent on the last Friday each month. If that has not been received, it is also available in the password protected Members’ Area on the website (
www.dorsetfhs.org.uk)
Those who do not receive E-News, or who are not Society Members, are welcome to join this meeting and should email
liaison@dorsetfhs.org.uk with a request for an invitation link. This request should reach us at least 6 hours before the meeting is due to start, and the link will be sent about 2 hours before the meeting starts.
We welcome a £3.00 donation from each person after they have attended a meeting, payable on the Society’s shop on the website
www.dorsetfhs.org.ukEVERYONE WELCOME TO JOIN THIS MEETING, BOTH MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS.
