The next meeting of the Chepstow & Wye Valley Branch of the Gwent Family History Society will be an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to elect a Committee and discuss the future of the Branch. Following the AGM on 8 September 2022, no volunteers for Treasurer were proposed therefore the future of the branch is in […]
John Mullen will be giving a talk entitled A Chartist in My Family Tree This will be our first meeting at the new venue. Why not come along and hear John’s tale. Free to members and non-members alike. We hope to see you there.
The next meeting of the Chepstow & Wye Valley Branch will be a members’ research evening. Come with your queries or perhaps some interesting research, family tales, interesting artifact or the like: Have you accessed the 1921 census yet? Was there information that you didn’t know about before? Any DNA revolutions or revelations now? Anything […]
Meetings are held from 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. on 2nd Thursday of the month at The Meeting Rooms Church Lane, St Arvans, Monmouthshire, NP16 6EU. NB This is not the St Arvans Memorial Hall on the A466. Details to be announced.
Gwent Archives archivist Rhiannon Phillips is coming to talk about “From Home Remedies to the Creation of the National Health Service” about Health Provision in Monmouthshire before the National Health Service. It should be an interesting talk about how our forebears looked after their health before the NHS. This will be fascinating and, I imagine, […]
Speaker: Richard Lockett – DNA & your family tree
Members’ Research Evening – bring your queries and revelations! Meetings are held from 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. on 2nd Thursday of the month at The Meeting Rooms Church Lane, St Arvans, Monmouthshire, NP16 6EU. NB This is not the St Arvans Memorial Hall on the A466.
Speaker: Nic Lanagan – Family Letters & History of Richard Lanagan of Blackwood.
Michael Williams is coming to talk to us about Caerleon Families. Meetings are held from 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. on 2nd Thursday of the month at The Meeting Rooms Church Lane, St Arvans, Monmouthshire, NP16 6EU. NB This is not the St Arvans Memorial Hall on the A466.
Helen Frisby is coming to talk to us about the rituals of Royal deaths and funerals An interesting, and hopefully not sombre, talk about the rituals that are observed when a Royal personage dies. Meetings are held from 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. on 2nd Thursday of the month at The Meeting Rooms Church Lane, St Arvans, […]
Meetings are held from 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. on 2nd Thursday of the month at The Meeting Rooms Church Lane, St Arvans, Monmouthshire, NP16 6EU. NB This is not the St Arvans Memorial Hall on the A466. Details to be announced.
This meeting will be the Annual General Metting for the Chepstow & Wye Valley Branch. For details of the agenda and last year’s minutes, please contact the organizer.
The next meeting of the Chepstow & Wye Valley Branch will take place on Thursday 14th November 2024. Anne Hawkins is going to share her experience of researching records of RAF personnel who served in WW2. Her uncle and his wife served in the RAF regiment; he was a gunner and she a driver. I […]