RESEARCH SESSIONS
This page was last updated on: 12 April 2007
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AREAS COVERED
AUDLEY PARISH (Ancient ecclesiastical)
Audley Township including Boon Hill (part), Carr, Mill End, Ravens Lane, Wyn Brook
Bignall End including Boon Hill (part), Dunkirk, Miles Green (part) Wood Lane
Halmer End including Alsagers Bank, Apedale (part) Miles Green (part), Scot Hay
Knowl End including Adderley Green, Heighley, Knowl Bank, Shraley Brook
Park End
Eardley End including Brierley Brook
Talke including Butt Lane, Hardings Wood, Peacock's Hay, Red Street (part), Talke Pits
ADJOINING PARISHES
Barthomley including Alsager, Balterley
Church Lawton including Old Butt Lane
Wolstanton including Apedale (part), Chesterton, Knutton
Keele including Silverdale
Madeley including Leycett
Betley
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MEETING TIMES
First Wednesday afternoon every month 2.00 – 4.00pm
First Friday evening every alternate month – Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec 7.00 – 9.00pm Talks are held on the alternate months.
Refreshments are served during the meeting.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, on rare occasions, a meeting may be cancelled. Please refer to the News page for any amendments.
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LOCATION
Research Sessions are held at St James Church Hall at the corner of Wilbraham's Walk and Church Street, opposite St James’s Church. For a map see Location.
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Non-members are welcome to all meetings on payment of £1.
If you would like to become a member please visit the Joining Us page. A benefit of becoming a member is that Miss Pat Spode will do a moderate amount of research on your behalf (Contact us) This service is free of charge, but the research is only done from the records she holds at home. Please be aware that Pat has no access to a microfiche viewer and therefore cannot look through records that are on microfiche. A microfiche viewer is available at Research Meetings.
On the Wednesdays and Fridays the records of the society are available to those researching their family history. For a list of the available records and research material please go to the Records page.
The Audley and District Family Society also produce a number of books and other research material that is available for sale. Please go to the Publications page
MEMBERS INTEREST LIST
A major benefit of joining the Society is the opportunity to contact people with similar research interests. If you are a new member please submit your research interests. If you are an existing member, please keep your research interests up to date. The list is on view at Research Meetings or by contacting Pat Spode on famhist147@hotmail.co.uk . The members list can only be viewed by members. The History Society does not give out any information about members to non-members.
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The top five names currently being researched by members are (in order of popularity):
1. Johnson 2. Hancock 3. Colclough 4. Burgess 5. Dean
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