Hagger and Therfield Researchers Meet Up
Once again a number of us either with Hagger or Therfield links (or in a good number of cases both) will meet up on Saturday 8th March at the North Hertfordshire Villages Research Groups annual gathering at Kelsahll from 10.00 am. After the meeting finishes at about 12.45 pm we will adjourn to the Fox and Duck in Therfield for lunch and a good chat. If you would like to join us or know more about this get together please contact Peter.
Marriage Challenges
The Guild of One Name Studies of which Peter is a member has been running a project called Marriage Challenge. The GRO index of marriages in England and Wales does not give the spouses surname prior to 1912 and this project addresses those marriages registered between 1837 and 1911. Volunteer members attempt to find the full details of marriages during this period in Parish Registers for a complete Registration District.
In our case we have 1,833 marriages registered during this period and now we have at least limited details of over 500 of these marriages and over 340 of these have come from the Marriage Challenge Project.
Hagger Blog
In addition to our web site and these occasional Newsletter you can now keep up to date with what is happening on the Hagger One Name Study front by looking at our blog on Yahoo. We try to update the blog on most Fridays, although this is not always managed.
Hagger Families
Whilst we have over 30,000 individual records in our master database and probably another 5,000 records accessible but not yet loaded that is not the end of the story. In an ideal world each of those records would be linked to a particular Hagger family branch.
In the database we have over 100 Hagger family branches, with many of them interrelated. Some of these families are well developed with details of a number of generations documented others are in the early stages of development. This family reconstruction we believe is an important part of the One Name Study, the study has to be more than just collecting data.