http://www.winteringham.info Winteringham History & Genealogy Update - the RSS service for the local history of the village of Winteringham, North Lincolnshire Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:06:16 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.winteringham.info On July 14th 2009, we uploaded more of the history of Winteringham than we have ever done before! Full details of the newly uploaded pages are on the Home Page. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:06:15 GMT http://www.winteringham.info July 14th has traditionally been one of the big days in Winteringham - for the Fair, the opening of the Temperance Hall, and the weekend of the opening of the railway ... so it was only natural for us to choose THIS July 14th to upload our biggest release of historical information on the site! Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:33:18 GMT http://www.winteringham.info Our latest new page on the history site is dedicated to Winteringham Cricket Club. We've started with the details of a game from exactly 128 years ago, but there'll be more to follow shortly! Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:52:52 GMT http://www.winteringham.info Read a short biography of Rev Thomas Adam written in 1881. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:23:43 GMT http://www.winteringham.info Kay and Val have added another 40 years of marriages from the Winteringham Parish Registers. These include all the marriages between 1601 and 1640, as well as a few "extra" details in the register! Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:44:19 GMT http://www.winteringham.info We have added more photos of headstones - including ones with surnames starting with B, P, and R Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:37:51 GMT http://www.winteringham.info Weddings from 1563 to 1584 now added Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:36:35 GMT http://www.council.winteringham.info Postcard of the first train into "Thealby and Winterton" on Ebay now. Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:48:18 GMT http://www.winteringham.info The site has been contacted by the son of the radar operatoron the destroyer adopted by Winteringham in the darkest days of the war ... Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:14:46 GMT http://www.winteringham.info Heard of anyone dying from Worm fever? Or the story of the sailor lost overboard and washed up on Winteringham foreshore two months later. Our latest transcriptions from the Parish Registers show a fascinating glimpse of early nineteenth century life and death. Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:29:56 GMT http://www.winteringham.info When Mary Brumby was toiling diligently over her maths books in 1912 and 1913, using names of local village shopkeepers and the prices she would expect to pay for a variety of items, little could she know that 95 years later her work would be such a valuable historical source! Nor that her work at the National School would be available to be seen round the world! Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:27:36 GMT http://www.winteringham.info Geoff Greaves photo of School Road shows how it was more than fifty years ago, and before several houses were built on is northern side... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:37:52 GMT http://www.winteringham.info Can you name any of the players or officials from this team of youth footballers from Winteringham 60 years ago? Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:48:57 GMT http://www.winteringham.info Kay and Val have now transcribed the Baptisms for the period 1751-1768 ... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:08:38 GMT www.winteringham.info Kay and Val have now transcribed the Parish Registers for the period 1628-1632. Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:57:33 GMT www.council.winteringham.info On July 14th, the farms, houses and land of the Co-op farms in Winteringham were sold - seven days after the 100 strong prize winning herd ... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:04:13 GMT www.winteringham.info More 17th century baptisls have been added to the site Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:39:27 GMT www.winteringham.info Winteringham Parish Registers burials for 1813-1827, and 1863-1871 are now on the site Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:38:43 GMT www.winteringham.info We asked for photos of the village from the 1970s and 80s ... and they're coming in! Mon, 26 May 2008 22:05:49 GMT www.winteringham.info The 500,000 page view on the Winteringham Local History and genealogy website is expected by the end of the week! Unlike those annoying pop-ups though ... there's definitely no prize for being the half-millionth ... Sorry! Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:28:45 GMT www.winteringham.info Kay and Val have added another two years of transcriptions to the site ..... Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:26:49 GMT www.winteringham.info We've trawled documents to find the names of 19th century Police Constables in Winteringham ... and found quite a few! Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:25:51 GMT www.winteringham.info The stained glass window to arguably the most famous Rector of Winteringham - Rev Thomas Adam says he was 84 when he died on March 31st 1784. That's not what it says on his monumental inscription! Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:49:29 GMT www.winteringham.info When the three Green brothers left their family home in Silver Street Winteringham, only one returned - and he did so only after being taken a prisoner of war ... Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:42:59 GMT www.winteringham.info Last we I was given a chest ... with a local newspaper from 1949 in the bottom. Catch up with the news in Winteringham from June 1949! Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:25:10 GMT www.winteringham.info We now have a new page featuring all the miscellaneous facts about Winteringham that have appeared on the PC website. Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:10:02 GMT www.winteringham.info The latest transcriptions of the Parish Registers by Kay and Val are the baptisms from 1581 until 1600 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:37:50 GMT www.winteringham.info 24 hours after setting a new record of 1,157 page visits, the Winteringham History site beat that figure with a new mark of 1,275! Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:14:58 GMT www.winteringham.info Our web hosts (Europe’s largest) are upgrading their servers. The Winteringham websites will be moved to their new servers between 11pm and 5am on Thursday night/Friday morning, and during this move will be unavailable for about 15 minutes. We apologise for any inconvenience. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:16:52 GMT www.winteringham.info The oldest Parish baptisms have been transcribed by Kay and Val! So who had the honour of being the first baptism .... Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:08:49 GMT www.winteringham.info With the impending demolition of the school canteen and outbuildings, Ken has been recording them for posterity ... Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:54:15 GMT www.winteringham.info Kay and Val have been hard at work to bring the site more 18th century baptism and marriage details ... Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:41:16 GMT