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"FAMILY HISTORY" OPEN DAY AT THE MUSEUM
Family Trees are Big Business these days! Everybody seems to be at it. The Museum has a fantastic collection of source documents - records, registers, census returns, magistrates notebooks - which makes it an indispensable port of call for people researching families with Chippy connections. But more than all that you get the personal attention and interest of the members of the Local History Society. On Saturday at an Open Day there was a steady stream of visitors - including one charming lady from Cheltenham - Selina Dunn (top left) - who was researching the Scarsbrook family. (Selina said she had read about the Open Day on this website which she enjoyed a lot and visited often!) She was poring through a "List of Town Burgesses". Brenda Morris (top right) told me that she could tell instantly that Selina was a Scarsbrook - the family resemblance was unmistakeable. Now thats the sort of thing you don't get from computer databases. Peter Bowell from Oxford (second from left) was after any information he could find on his family who had lived in Chalford in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On his last visit Peter had discovered an entry in the magistrate's records of a big fine imposed on an ancestor who had tried to sell fruit in Chippy - but who wasn't a Freeman of the town. Strictly verboten - apparently. Peter was really now trying to flesh out the lines on his Family Tree with more background and understanding of what life was like for his forbears. He was hoping to find some more local colour on this visit. As Selina and her mother happily left to find a pub lunch another couple were arriving. Irish and noisy. "I'm looking for my great grandfather who came from round these parts..." he boomed. I made myself scarce... leaving Alan, Brenda and Peter to what was clearly going to be a very busy afternoon.