Burntwood Family History Group Journal
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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.
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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)