Burntwood Family History Group Journal
Published quarterly by Benhill Press Limited

 

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The Journal

The Burntwood Family History Group Journal is published quarterly and is available free of charge to group members.  Non-members can purchase a copy of the current journal for £1.00. Please enquire if you are interested in past editions of the journal.

If you represent a family history group, or a similar organisation, and you are interested in exchanging journals, please contact us.

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Contents of the April - June 2024 Journal

  • View From the Chair

  • Bridge 60 on the Trent & Mersey Canal (reprise)

  • Inaccurate Documents

  • Reviews of Talks: The English and Gardening

  • The Dancing Marquess

  • Notes for the Milkman

  • Finding My Grandparents

  • Fifty Years of Family History Research in Surrey

  • A Visit to Sandfields Pumping Station

  • This Issue’s Cover Photograph

  • Their Finest Hour

  • Book Review: The Lost Ancestor

  • Useful Addresses

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 

Contents of the January - March 2024 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • Murder & Highway Robbery in Abbots Bromley

  • How To Be A Grown-Up

  • Beaudesert and Carrick

  • The Creation of the County of Staffordshire

  • Memorable Genealogy Quotes

  • Reviews of Talks: Smethwick in the Second World War

  • Book Review: Hiding the Past

  • The Mansty Murders: Another Perspective

  • This Issue’s Cover Photograph

  • Mystery of the Found Photos

  • In Some Corner of a Foreign Field

  • Close… But No Coconut!

  • Useful Addresses

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 
 
 

Contents of the October - December 2023 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • Why Can’t I Find a Birth Certificate For My Grandmother’s Sister?

  • This Issue’s Cover Photograph

  • Stories of the Lichfield Martyrs

  • 1944 Onward – Part 2

  • Reviews of Talks:

    City of Dreadful Night

    The Forgotten Army

    Dying for a Rabbit – the Masfen Murder

  • Rowland Jennings

  • ’Ello, Me Dearios – Is It Cordwainer or Cordwangler?

  • Useful Addresses

  • Programme of Speakers for 2024 (Back cover)

 

Contents of the July - September 2023 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • A Word From Your Secretary

  • Not So Happy Holidays

  • Saint Matthew’s Hospital

  • Chase Terrace from 1944 Onward

  • Historical Hair Habits

  • Review of Talk: The Goodness of King George III

  • Review of Talk: The Battle of Waterloo

  • Lichfield Cathedral Library

  • Seeing Double in the 1921 Census

  • Mum, I Just Made A Mushroom Cloud!

  • Useful Addresses

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 

Contents of the April - June 2023 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • The Professor

  • Mr John Hill of Lichfield

  • Historical Conundrums

  • Brownhills School War Memorial: A Final Update?

  • So Many Clergy!

  • Rules for Teachers, 1915

  • The Mansty Murders

  • This Issue’s Cover Photograph

  • Humorous Genealogy Quotes

  • Useful Addresses

  • Transcriptions on CD – Half Price Sale

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 

Contents of the January - March 2023 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • ‘Old’ Is When...

  • Dad’s Watercolour

  • Of Cats in Bags…

  • Why Move?

  • Things My Parents Used To Say

  • Memorials Great and Small

  • The Sweet Taste of Nostalgia

  • Adopted or Abandoned?

  • Review of Talk: The Great Train Robbery

  • Albert Hill, VC

  • This Issue’s Cover Photograph

  • This Issue of the Journal – An Appeal

  • Useful Addresses

  • Transcriptions on CD – Half Price Sale

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 

Contents of the October - December 2022 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • BFHG Annual General Meeting 2022

  • The Great Moon Hoax

  • Review of Talks by Guest Speakers

  • A Full Set

  • Tidings of Great Joy!

  • Friday Night and Saturday Morning

  • A New Great-Great Addition to the Family

  • Save Time and Save Money

  • Brownhills School War Memorial: A Further Update

  • Heavenly Fireworks

  • What’s in a Name?

  • This Issue’s Cover Photograph

  • This Issue of the Journal – An Appeal

  • Useful Addresses

  • Transcriptions on CD – Half Price Sale

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 

Contents of the July - September 2022 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • Patagonian Dimensions: ‘Fat, Fair and Forty’

  • Rich Ormsby and Poor Ormsby

  • Born in the Workhouse

  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) – How Did It Start?

  • History is Just Weird…

  • Review of Talk by Guest Speaker

  • You Learn Something New Every Day!

  • Unexpected Treasures In Southwick

  • Not So Jolly Holidays

  • The Queen and I (sort of)

  • Memories Are Made Of This!

  • Ernest Bennett: The Final Unexpected Chapter

  • Useful Addresses

  • Transcriptions on CD – Half Price Sale

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 

Contents of the April - June 2022 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • Patagonian Dimensions: ‘Fat, Fair and Forty’

  • Rich Ormsby and Poor Ormsby

  • Born in the Workhouse

  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) – How Did It Start?

  • History is Just Weird…

  • Review of Talk by Guest Speaker

  • You Learn Something New Every Day!

  • Unexpected Treasures In Southwick

  • Not So Jolly Holidays

  • The Queen and I (sort of)

  • Memories Are Made Of This!

  • Ernest Bennett: The Final Unexpected Chapter

  • Useful Addresses

  • Transcriptions on CD – Half Price Sale

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 

Contents of the January - March 2022 Journal

  • From the Chair

  • For Sale – Trouble And Strife

  • A Generation That Will Never Come Back

  • Ernest Bennett, Kensington Palace and Chatsworth House

  • Medical Treatment

  • Help Wanted

  • Review of Talk by Guest Speaker

  • Blood Will Out!

  • Useful Help With Your Staffordshire Research

  • This Issue’s Cover Photograph: Lichfield Cathedral

  • The Brownhills School War Memorial: A Timely Update

  • Useful Addresses

  • Transcriptions on CD – Half Price Sale

  • Programme of Speakers (Back cover)

 

Contents of the October - December 2021 Journal

  • From the New Chair

  • BFHG Annual General Meeting 2021

  • BFHG Accounts 2020–21

  • An EXTRA-ordinary Career

  • Things Your Mum Said When You Were Growing Up

  • Review of Zoom Talk by Guest Speaker

  • Strange Laws of Old England

  • Addicted to Marriage

  • Help With the Technology

  • How Much For ‘er Indoors?

  • Sod’s Laws of Genealogy

  • Clang, Clang, Clang Went the Trolley…

  • Book Reviews

  • This Issue’s Cover Photograph

  • Useful Addresses

  • Transcriptions on CD – Half Price Sale

  • Programme of Speakers (Back Cover)