THE BULLETIN CALH 2015 Autumn {September 2015} Contact CALH by email: CambsAssociation4LocalHistory@gmail.com Editorial... 2 CALH 2015 / 2016Programme... 2 CALH Location for Talks... 3 CALH Conference... 3 Archaeology Open Day North Stowe Sunday 6 th September 2015... 4 Chatteris History Society Forthcoming Events for 2015... 4 Guilden Morden Local History Group... 5 Requesting Lambert Data... 5 Hemlocs: Hemingfords Local History Society... 6 Cambs Record Society... 8 Remembering Eltisley s Fallen, 1914-1918... 8 Warboys Local History Society programme... 9 The Spring Issue of the Bulletin... 10 1
Editorial We now produce two versions of the Bulletin i.e. a bigger, digital version distributed by email and a briefer paper version distributed by post. In addition, you are free to print out and distribute this digital version for your friends and fellow members, as long as you acknowledge the source, do not rename it or alter the contents in any way. You may also take materials from the Bulletin, with the same caveats applying. Ray Adams CALH 2015 / 2016Programme 2015 3 rd October Colin Chapman 7 th Chris Jakes November 5th December 2016 9 th January Ancestral Voices David Lincon WW1 POW Camps in Cambridgeshire 160 Years of Public Libraries in Cambridge A Tudor Christmas World War 2 Evacuees 6 th Mary Dicken Suffragettes February 5 th March Prof. Michael Local accents and dialects McCarthy 2 nd April Dr. Ceri Law Religious change in the University of Cambridge 1547-84 7 th May CALH CONFERENCE 11 th June Dr. Jennifer Ward 1st October 5 th November 3 rd December Prof. Stephen Upex David Oates Robert Hill Life in a noble household in the 14th century: Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare The Roman occupation of the East of England, particularly the area around the Nene Valley A Bit of a Jam the history of Chivers factory at Histon Being a Blue Badge Guide in Cambridge 2
CALH Location for Talks St Johns Church Hall, St John the Evangelist Church, corner of Blinco Grove & Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8RN For directions, please go to: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.1879683,0.15376,15z?hl=en or http://www.stjohntheevangelistcambridge.org/location/ CALH Conference May 7 th May 2016, St Johns Hall, Blinco Grove, Cambridge Details will be released in the next edition of the Bulletin and by email to CALH members. If you wish attend, please contact: Michael Farrar, 37 Hawthorne Road Stapleford Cambridge CB22 5DU (01223 840947) The fees for attendance are 10 for members of CALH, 12.50 for member of societies affiliated to CALH and 15 for others. 3
Archaeology Open Day North Stowe Sunday 6 th September 2015 Chatteris History Society Forthcoming Events for 2015 Friday 25th September 6.00 p.m. Burwell Museum and Windmill -[*meet in car park at Chatteris Museum] Friday 27th November 7.30 p.m. Fenland Geology Survey - Ken Rolfe, Cambridge Geosites Team [*Members car share to go to venues] Membership fees usually cover all event costs. There may be extra costs which will be notified to you before an event. Guests are welcome at 3 per event. For further information contact Jenny Furlong at tel: 01354 696319 or email: chatterismuseum@tiscali.co.uk 4
Guilden Morden Local History Group In 2014 we were awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant for our project Guilden Morden in the 1940s. We recorded the memories of village people who remembered that period and we carried out extensive research, collecting many photographs and items of memorabilia. This material was displayed at an exhibition attended by some 500 people over two days in September 2014. To complete the project we have published a book which has been distributed free to households in the parish. The book is available at a price of 8 from Geoff Harper, 14 Church Street, Guilden Morden, Herts. SG8 0JD. Requesting Lambert Data Having been researching my Lambert ancestors for more than thirty years, and finding that they bounced back and forth from Huntingdonshire to Cambridgeshire, and then back and forth again, I have amassed a great deal of Lambert data for both counties. So much, in fact, that I have decided to make what was originally my family history project into a full study of the Lambert (and variants) surname. Between my ancestors, they seem to have most of the two counties covered, as well as later moving to London and then further south. I have parish records, birth, marriage and death certificates, wills, and all sorts of miscellaneous data from the internet, archives, etc, which I have pieced together as far as possible into several Lambert family trees. My original aim was to see if I could put them all together into one big Lambert jigsaw, but now I find that I have become interested in the general movement, occupations and lifestyles of each branch. If I can piece them all together as well, that would be a bonus, but the research is taking me along its own path as well, hence this article. For several years I ran the Lambert Family History Society, and met a lot of lovely Lamberts and their descendants, and which of course provided me with even more links, and data. My intention is to put my eleven large and overflowing ring binders into a database whereby I can extract any aspect of 5
research I choose and write reports on each. I have made good headway into the inputting of the data, and am hoping to add to it all the time. If you have any Lambert data, no matter how small, for either Cambridgeshire or Huntingdonshire, I would be so grateful to receive it, even if it is only a snippet. It could be the snippet that ties other things together. I should like to transfer data to county maps divided into parishes, discuss occupations and movement within the county and whether there is any correlation between occupations and movement. How many Lamberts moved into the counties from other locations in the country? How many Lamberts moved out of the counties too? Why did they go? Are they all related? Where did they originally come from? So, please can you help in sending me information at all? Even if you think I may already have the information, I would rather receive something twice than not at all, and I promise to reply to everyone who contacts me. Please contact me Stephanie Jerrold (nee Lambert) at stephaniejerrold@hotmail.com or my home address, which is 138 Longfield Lane, West Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, EN7 6AG Please get in touch. Hemlocs: Hemingfords Local History Society A small group of members has, for the last 18 months, been researching the effect of WW1 on the two villages, Hemingford Grey and Hemingford Abbots. This research has culminated in the publication of our book Keep the Home Fires Burning. (see below) 6
Research involved many hours in the Huntingdon Record Office trawling through old documents including micro-fiche copies of the Hunts Post the projection of which is guaranteed to cause a headache!! Elderly folk in both villages were interviewed to catch any wartime stories they had heard from older relatives. One of our best sources was a retired local farmer whose father actually fought in the Great War. Keep the Home Fires Burning is divided into sections to capture different viewpoints of the conflict and reflect what was happening here at home as well as at the front. The sections are Children, Women, Food, Fundraising, Local Amenities. The last two chapters are devoted to the fighting men and take the reader on a walk through each village noting their homes to which many did not return. 7
The book is beautifully illustrated with old and modern photographs of significant locations and people. Our book, which costs 5, is on sale at the Hemingford Stores, Hemingford Post Office and the Norris Museum in St Ives. Copies can also be obtained by e-mailing through our website www.hemlocs.co.uk During the summer recess the Society makes outings to local places of historic interest. During 2015 we will have visited Flag Fen archaeological site, Royston Cave and taken a history tour around St Ives. Our monthly talks for the 2015/16 season are already programmed and include the History of the Local Railway, the Swing Riots of 1830, Bridges along the Backs and a Hemingford Saga!! We meet in the Pavilion, Hemingford Grey, on the third Thursday of each month September to May. Talks begin at 7.30pm. Membership is 14 per year or 3 for a single visit. Please visit www.hemlocs.co.uk for a full programme and other information including access to our e-mail. Cambs Record Society The edition of the Religious Census of 1851 for Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire has now been published. CALH members may like to note that all the society's publications, listed at http://www.cambsrecordsociety.co.uk/?q=publications are available to non-members to purchase at the Cambridgeshire Collection, Central Library, Cambridge. Baker's Map of Cambridge 1830 and the Portfolio of Cambridge Maps 1574-1904 are also available to purchase at Cambridgeshire Archives, Shire Hall and in the Map Room of the University Library. Records Society members wishing to buy copies of back publications should however contact Philip Saunders at paksaunders@talk21.com. Remembering Eltisley s Fallen, 1914-1918 The Eltisley History Society have just completed a major project, researching Eltisley during the First World War. In particular, we members of the village history society have been 8
researching the stories of the fourteen men from the village who died during the War, and we have, with the help of a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, just published a book (see below) Remembering Eltisley s Fallen, 1914-1918 about life in the village during the War and an account of each man s sacrifice. The front cover of our book, as shown below, shows a row of trees on Eltisley s village green. This is the Row of Honour, planted during the First World War, one for each of the 14 men who gave their all. It is the village s living memorial to our brave sons. We hope our book will be another lasting tribute. If you would like further information please contact Mary Flinders. For further information about our visit to the Somme and the Ypres Salient in May 2015, or to purchase a copy of the book (cost 15), contact Mary Flinders at: secretary@eltisleyhistorysociety.org.uk or telephone 01480 880268. Warboys Local History Society programme April 2015 Feb 2016 All meetings, unless otherwise stated, take place at 7.30pm in the Methodist Church, High Street, Warboys. Monday 13 April The story of Sutton Hoo Veronica Bennett Monday 11 May Grace Baptist History (Title Nigel Graham tbc) Sunday 6 September Guided walk around Historic Guide; Alan Buckler (afternoon) Huntingdon cost 3 Monday 5 October Strange tales from the dust Alison Dickens 9
Monday 2 November Warboys War Memorial Joan Bennett and Mary Tringham Monday 7 December Warboys Archaeology Project Roger Mould Update Followed by Seasonal Celebrations Monday 1 February 2016 No Palace like Holme Allan Mott This programme is given as a guide only. Speakers may, due to unforeseen circumstances have to be changed at the last minute. Please look out for posters around the village for more up-to-date information. 2015 Annual Membership Fees 10.00 per individual TBC. The charge for talks and visits for non-members is 3.00. For more information please contact one of the following: Joan: 01487 822395 Val: 01487 822867 Brian: 01487 822296 Roger (archaeology) 07721907863 The Spring Issue of the Bulletin The next issue of the Bulletin should emerge at the beginning of April 2016. Please send us any news and related materials by March 2016. Only include events for April 2016 onwards. 10