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Local and Family History News and Events in Tameside
This page will no longer be up-dated, but can I suggest to follow the latest information at the following websites: Especially the Family History Society of Cheshire Page which is up-dated almost daily.
- The Family History Society of Cheshire
- Tameside History Forum
- Sign up for the Lost cousins Newsletter
- Chris Paton's British Genes Blog
Underground Manchester - Keith Warrender
Click Here Keith Warrender will be coming along to tell us about his discoveries below Manchester's streets. Keith has written two books on the subject and his talk comes highly recommended.
Gruelling Experience - 300 Years of the Workhouse
Click Here Peter Higginbottom will be coming along to talk to our group at Old Chapel Schoolrooms from 7.00pm on Wednesday 13th April. Peter is the renowned expert about workhouses and poor law nationally, so we are extremely lucky he is coming along on this evening to speak to our group
Visit the Tameside Local History Forum's web page to find out anything happening in the area
Click Here Our local history forum is made of of thirty members groups so lots of events happening in Tameside. Look for the latest news in the right-hand column or click on our members' page to see the diversity of groups aiming to keep the History and Heritage of Tameside Alive
The Ellen Barnes' Bequest Lecture Programme 2010-2011
Click Here to download a copy of the 2010 programme of Evening Lectures. Ellen Barnes left a bequest in her Will to set aside money for a series of Evening Lectures of a Literary Nature. The first of these took place 85 years ago in the Astley Cheetham Library and Art Gallery her ancestors built for Stalybridge. The meetings now take place in Stalybridge Civic Hall which has better diasbled access
Family History Society of Cheshire's 2010-2011 Programme of Talks and Visits
Click Here to download a copy of the Family History Society of Cheshire's local 2010-2011 programme of talks. All at Old Chapel Dukinfield's schoolrooms unless otherwise stated. An exciting programme this year with many national speakers and local authors.
***** The Spanish Civil War*****
Free Talk at Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre, Wednesday 22nd September at 7.00pm about Tameside People involved with the Spanish Civil War click here for more details
***** Dukinfield Group AGM*****
Our Dukinfield Group of the Family History Society of Cheshire AGM 8th September 2010. Will be followed by a presentation about the new Family Search Record Search Pilot Site. This has made many more records available for people researching their family history in Tameside and beyond, and the new permanent site should be launching next year. Doors open from 7.00pm.
***** Dukinfield Group Trip in July *****
I have arranged a visit and guided tour to the newly refurbished People’s History Museum in Manchester on Wednesday 14th July at 2.00pm. The cost will be £3 per person, but I might be able to arrange a bit of a discount for Society members. The Museum is very easy to get to. Train from either Stalybridge or Ashton to Victoria and cross over the platform and train for one stop to Salford Central. The entrance to the Museum is just over the bridge from the station. Alternatively since there is a little difficulty in getting on and off trains at Salford Central - catch the train to Manchester Picadilly and the the number 3 Shuttle Bus to Salford Central.
There is a good café and terrace where we could have lunch before the tour. I am going to need numbers fairly soon for both the tour and the café. Please get in touch as soon as possible for both the visit and if you want to meet beforehand to eat in the café. email: gayjoliver@gmail.com
***** Tameside BMD Project *****
Mothers' maiden names have just been added to birth registrations 1837-1882 in the Stayley sub registration district Cheshire BMD. Click here for more details.
***** Tameside BMD Project *****
ALL births 1837-2007 and deaths from 1837 - 2009 have been transcribed and are availableto search via: Cheshire BMD. Click here for more details.
Just a few deposited church marriage registers to add and these will soon be complete.
Manchester Regiment Museum FREE Evening Talks Proggramme 2010
Tuesday 11 May 2010 - Manchester Regiment Soldiers in Post War Germany and Malaya.
Tuesday 5 October 2010 - Wellington's Foot Soldeirs: The Life of a Soldier in the Peninsular Wars
Tuesday 7 December 2010 - Tommy Atkins: The Life of a Manchester Regiment Soldier 1914-1918
Click here for more details and to download a printable copy of the museum's talk programme..
An Irish Family's Journey
Wednesday 9 June 2010 7.00pm - 9.00pm at Old Chapel, Dukinfield
The Family History Society of Cheshire's regular monthly meeting in the Schoolrooms of Old Chapel, Dukinfield. Parking is in front of the Chapel on Old Road, there is full disabled access, £2 for non members and £1.50 for members, including refreshments. Everyone is Welcome.
Back by popular request. Sandra McLaren will be telling the story of her family's journey from Ireland and the conditions during the Potato Famine which resulted in their migration.
The History of Your House
Wednesday 12 May 2010 7.00pm - 9.00pm at Old Chapel, Dukinfield
The Family History Society of Cheshire's regular monthly meeting in the Schoolrooms of Old Chapel, Dukinfield. Parking is in front of the Chapel on Old Road, there is full disabled access, £2 for non members and £1.50 for members, including refreshments. Everyone is Welcome.
Dr Mike Nevell, from the Centre for Applied Archaeology and straight from Channel 4's "Time Team", will be coming to talk about strategies for dating properties.
The Lancashire Cotton Famine in Dialect
Wednesday 14 April 2010 7.00pm - 9.00pm at Old Chapel, Dukinfield
The Family History Society of Cheshire's regular monthly meeting in the Schoolrooms of Old Chapel, Dukinfield. Parking is in front of the Chapel on Old Road, there is full disabled access, £2 for non members and £1.50 for members, including refreshments. Everyone is Welcome.
'The Lancashire Cotton Famine' and 'How we survived the American Civil War (1861-1863)'.
Told in Dialect by Sid Calderbank from the Lancashire Society - Songs, Stories and Poems of Old Lancashire.
T20 – Twenty Years of the Tameside Archaeological Survey
Friday 9 April 2010 7.15 pm
Since 1990 Tameside MBC has funded an archaeological survey of the borough covering research, publication, family history and community archaeology themes. In that time the project has excavated medieval halls, textile mills and workers’ housing, supported local societies and groups across the borough in researching the borough’s past, such as the Tameside Archaeology Society and the Friends of Gorse Hall, and published 15 archaeological monographs on Tameside. This talk is a chance to review one of the longest running archaeological research projects in the country and to look forward to the future.
Speaker Mike Nevell, Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford
Venue Dukinfield Town Hall
Tickets £3 Hotpot supper included. Tickets available from Tameside Tourist Information Office (0161 343 4343) and Tameside Local Studies Library (0161 342 4242).
For Better or Worse
Family History Meeting at Old Chapel Dukinfield 10 March 2010
Peter Park - Our ancestors were much more moral than we are – they all got married – or did they? A look at marriage, ‘common law’ marriage, irregular marriage, wife selling, bigamy and divorce through the ages. click here to visit the Dukinfield page on the Family History Society of Cheshire's page
Stalybridge New St George's Church Baptisms
I am just letting you know that Lancashire on line parish clerks has recently added to their site the baptisms for Stalybridge New St George for the period 1846-1930. click here to visit the Stalybridge page on Lancashire OPC.
New Exhibition at the Manchester Regiment Museum
Our Friends Abroad:
The Story of the Manchester Regiments Allied Units
Click to read the latest press release.
Recent Research Paper "Chemicals, Plastics, and the Sterling Group: a Chapter in the Recent Industrial History of Stalybridge".
by Tom Craig - it is in the Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre at Ashton-under-Lyne.
Milltown Millenarians, Wednesday 27 January 2010, 7.00pm. Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre
Milltown Millenarians Peter Leeming - aspects of the Christian Israelites in Ashton-under-Lyne. Telephone Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre: 0161 342 4242 for more information and to book your place. Free Refreshments provided
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