CHAIR: – PAT WARD

RESEARCH COORDINATOR:- JENNY McBRIDE

The group meets on the first Tuesday of the month at Carterton College during term time or in a

members home during the holiday periods.

Contact Pat or Jenny for monthly venues or if you wish to join the group.

Link to Local Heroes Book Local Heroes Book

New members welcome.

“Who do you think you are”

Join us and find out.

Help given to those members who wish to start tracing their family history

or who are unable to further their own research.

Monthly topics researched by members and discussed by the group.

Our next meeting is to be arranged due to a clash of dates with the Queens Jubilee

Info re venue will be sent to group members later

Anyone wishing to join the group please contact Pat Ward

It was satisfying to see the result of our last project, the transcript of the War Memorial, framed and hung

the Town Hall in time for Remembrance Day and a final lasting result of our research for the ” Local Heroes”.

 We are now doing a monthly project on our own family histories “with a twist”.

Our final meeting of the year is to be held at Jenny McBride’s on Tuesday 6th December at 2pm

and hopefully in the new year we will be able to have use of the college library again.

 Jenny McB

FAMILY HISTORY GROUP

A framed transcription of the names from the War Memorial was presented to the Mayor Cllr Norman MacRae MBE.by Christine Huggins, Jenny Maxwell, Jenny McBride and Pat Ward  who had been involved in the design. It is to be hung in the ground floor meeting room of the Town Hall. The group wishes to thank the Mayor and Mrs MacRae and Mr & Mrs T. Rose for their contributions to the project.

Jenny McBride Family History Group Coordinator

Below is an extract from the Carterton Town Council Minutes dated 19th October 2010:-

73. ADJOURNMENT FOR PUBLIC TO RAISE MATTERS
Mrs Jenny McBride thanked the Council on behalf of the U3A for supporting the publication
of the book ‘Local Heroes: Carterton War Memorial’ and presented the Mayor with a copy.
She was in touch with a family in Canada who are the descendants of one person
commemorated on the memorial. The Mayor thanked Mrs McBride and the U3A History
Group for all their work on the project.

The book researched by the Family History group is now complete and a printed copy is available at Carterton Library.

From 15 names – some with incorrect initials, we have traced 13 and written their stories. From the earliest settlers in Carterton to the present day, our research has taken us to all corners of the UK and Canada.