News
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Blackwood – Christmas Lunch
On Tuesday, 4th December, the Branch stalwarts met at the Three Horseshoes Pub in Pentwynmawr, for lunch. The venue was chosen following the success of our Summer lunch held there […]
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Blackwood – Older records for family historians
The members were captivated by a talk by Kia Michael and Gareth Thomas from the Gwent Family Archives on 13th November 2018. The amount of information available was truly mind […]
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Newport – The Mystery Name
Elizabeth Gillespie (28th Nov 2018) entertained us with a most interesting account of her search through her family records to explain the origins of the almost unique name Huntold- only […]
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Chepstow – Since the Summer
Our summer months are always quiet. We have no meeting in August. In June we visited Chepstow Museum where the curator Annie Rainsbury
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Blackwood – Betty Perry’s Family
At our October meeting, we welcomed Branch member Mrs Elizabeth (Betty) Perry who had agreed to give a talk on her family history.
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Newport – Thomas Prothero talk by Paul Busby
Thomas Prothero was at one time a very prominent Newport Citizen- but now almost totally forgotten. In Paul Busby’s brilliant talk on 26th September, he revealed the multitude of faults […]
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Newport Branch – “We Don’t Always Know Who We Think We Are” : Richard Lockett
Richard, one of the Newport group members, gave his first talk to us on 29th August – and it was a very good one.
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Newport Branch- Solemn Sabbaths and Faraway Sundays
Peter Strong gave a very interesting talk (27 June 2018) on how Sundays were treated
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Newport 130th Field Ambulance (St John’s) Unit
Three Field Ambulance Units were set up at the start of World War I attached to the 38 Welsh Division. The 130th was formed from volunteers
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Chepstow – Schools and World War 1
Rhiannon Phillips an archivist from Gwent Archives came to talk, in March,