Westbury Area Family History Group will welcome Tony Hadland on Thursday 22nd June, who will give a talk entitled ‘A Tiger in the Bathroom and Bullets up the Chimney.’
Tony is an award-winning former journal editor of the Oxfordshire Family History Society and has been tracing his family history for nearly 30 years.
His father’s Hadland ancestors were in Oxfordshire for centuries, but his mother’s ancestry was quite a different matter. This talk spotlights Tony’s ancestors in India and Ireland. They include an English painter and pioneering photographer, a mysterious Indian lady and a handsome Irish soldier with divided loyalties. In getting to the truth, family myths have been deconstructed to reveal a fascinating story that earlier generations would have found shocking.
The Westbury Area Family History Group meets every 4th Thursday of the month at 7.15pm in the foyer of Westbury’s Methodist Church. The branch has regular interesting and informative talks and discussions by members and guest speakers on all aspects of family history and general history.
