DUKINFIELD GROUP NEWS
April 2008
CHESHIRE BMD Up-Date:
Deaths for Tameside are now complete for at least 100 years to 1937 with several sub registration districts now complete up until the 1960s. Here is the full list of progress on death registrations:
· Ashton Town 1837-1937
· Audenshaw 1837-1937
· Denton 1837-1937*
· Dukinfield (1) 1837-1897*
· Dukinfield (2) 1907-1969*
· Dukinfield and Stalybridge 1969-1974*
· Hartshead 1837-1897*
· Hyde 1837-1954
· Knott Lanes 1837-1911*
· Lees 1911-1927*
· Mossley 1897-1961*
· Mottram 1837-1937*
· Newton & Godley 1837-1937*
· Staley 1837-1882*
· Stalybridge 1897-1969*
· Tameside 1991-2006
* This is the date these sub-registration districts ceased to exist.
UKBMD Up-grades:
For the first time Cheshire East and West Register offices now have the ability to pay by credit card on-line, available when you click on the reference number from the summary screen.
Ancestry:
Splashed an announcement in time for St Patrick’s Day to say that Griffiths Vaulation and the Tithe Applotment books were now available to search. *Come and find your Irish Ancestors*. They are listed on the Ancestry UK menu, but only available to World Wide De-Luxe subscribers (Rather sneaky, I thought!).
They have though made the Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies (1812-1834), many from the Caribbean. These include name of owner, parish of residence, name, gender, age and nationality of slave. I found a Margaret Dukinfield, aged two and a half in 1823 in the Parish of St Thomas in the East, Jamaica, owned by a James Drysldale. She was listed as a Creole. This was in the parish that the Dukinfield family of Dukinfield had owned slave plantations until 1755. More about the Dukinfields and Slaves in the new edition of Tameside Local History Forum’s magazine out next month.
Find my Past.com:
Their outward bound migration lists are now complete and hold 24 million names from 1890-1960. The last ten years include all the people who took advantage of the £10 assisted passage scheme. They have also completed the 1871 census.
National Archives News:
New Podcasts
The Navy Board Project
Archivist Sue Lumas describes the painstaking cataloguing and conservation of naval records held at The National Archives.
Watch the Birdie and Say Cheese
Conservator Stephen Harwood looks at the invention and development of photography, describing all the major photographic processes and explaining how anyone can identify different photographic types from the earliest photogenic experiments to today's sophisticated gelatine-silver prints.
New Project:
Doris Prince has already started collecting school photos. Eventually she hopes to collect and scan as many photographs for as many schools in Tameside as possible, especially if people can remember names. It is hoped that eventually these will add to Tameside Libraries Image Archive. Eventually we may have a day in the Archives library where people can bring there photos in to be scanned, but in the meantime, could people bring them in to our meetings to be returned later or email scanned copies, (preferably in jpeg format at a reasonable resolution of say 300 dpi) to: Or speak to Doris at our meetings.
NEXT MONTH:
We will be having an ‘Open Forum’ meeting. This will be everyone’s chance to suggest how our group moves forward, what type of programme you would like us to arrange for next year and any activities we should be participating in. I will also be looking for a list of volunteers to take me to Anderton 4/5 times per year for our Society meetings. I do have to attend these meetings, but sadly I don’t drive and there is no other way of getting there on Sunday afternoons. It’s not really an afternoon out to look forward to, but if everyone wants me to carry on as group leader!!! The first of these meetings is on the 27th April.
The next edition of Tameside Local History Forum’s magazine History Alive Tameside Issue 3 will be available and I should have copies available for Society members.
In June we will be having an afternoon visit to Chetham’s School of Music and Chetham’s Library. This is a wonderful opportunity to visit the medieval heart of Manchester to see Thomas de la Warre’s baronial hall, which in 1421 became the living quarters for the Collegiate Church and later (1653) the first public library in the English speaking world by kind donation of Humphrey Chetham. Finally parts of the building became the school of Music in 1969. There is a maximum number allowed on this tour so it will be first come first served. I will be taking names from the beginning of May
PROGRAMME 2007/2008
· 14 May 2008 - "Open Forum"
· 11 June 2008 - "Afternoon visit for a Concert and Tour of Chetham's Library"
· 9 July 2008 - Jan Craig - "Palaeography"
www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm
Meetings are held in the Old Chapel schoolrooms, Old Road, Dukinfield, on the second Wednesday of each month (except August), starting at 7.00 pm. A £1 donation is requested and refreshments are provided. Please email me with any items for the newsletter: