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Frank Brown, Editor of the Eastleigh Weekly News, died on 14th May, 1994. This continmuation provides photographs and a funeral address.
Frank Brown, Editor of the Eastleigh Weekly News, died on 14th May, 1994. He was a man devoted to his family, a loyal friend of the community and a distinguished journalist. He was never happier than when he was at home sitting at his typewriter, or more recently his computer, writing about his family life, his town and the community he loved. For me, he typified the best kind of journalist, courteous in interviewing, painstaking in research, with a phenomenal memory and accurate in reporting; perhaps his secret was that he loved people and writing about them.
This is the story of Matthew Tate, a man who played an important part in Eastleigh’s beginnings.He was bom in 1813 in Darlington, Durham, the third son of Robert Tate and Mary (nee Pattison).His father farmed at St. Helen’s, Auckland, County Durham. He had at least three brothers, John,Robert and William, and a sister, Anne.
Richard St. Barbe Baker was bom in a house called The Firs in West End, now in the Borough of Eastleigh. He grew up to become an authority on arboriculture and was renowned throughout the world for his lifelong interest in the preservation and management of forests. His family had roots in Hampshire over a long period and to quote from one of his many books, My Life, My Trees,
An appreciation of Alf Quilley and the impact he made upon the political life of Eastleigh.
This is an account of the early years of my life spent in a town almost entirely dependent unon the railway industry, and covers the years from 1914 until 193?- It will be obvious that the railway, in many ways, had a great interest for me, and I am ouite unrepentant that this narrative has a strong railway theme woven into it.
The much under-used collection of muster rolls in the Hampshire Record Office (44M69/ ....) form an invaluable sourceboth for the local historian and, because they freuently pre-date parish registers, to the genealogist. It is hoped that this small section of the material will encourage researchers to investigate their own particular area.
Thomas Gibson Austin was bom 11th July 1879 at 26 Peckham Grove, Camberwell in London. By 2003 that house had been demolished and replaced. His father was Thomas Justice Austin, a landscape gardener born in London Place, Manchester on November ls‘ 1838 and his mother Anne Gibson Agnew was bom 5 April 1847 in Congleton. She was a schoolteacher who had qualified in 1869. His parents were cousins as his grandmothers were sisters, daughters of Thomas & Ann Gibson of Somerford Booths near Eaton in Cheshire.
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