Tulle Contents: Issues 1-30

(prepared by Richard Lander)

• Issue l: October 1982
  • Articles from "Maitland Mercury" re arrival of Agincourt emigrants

• Issue 2: February 1983
  • Our lacemaker ancestors - the French connection

• Issue 3: March 1983
  • Notes on Thomas Whewell (Agincourt), alias Nottingham Jack
  • The departure of the lacemakers from Calais
  • The Irish question
  • The Bert Archer Story Part 1

• Issue 4: June 1983
  • Elizabeth Simpson's visit and talk
  • Book Notes: Albert Vion's "Calais et Sainte-Pierre au XIX Siecle"
  • Elizabeth Simpson's donation of "Orange's Directory 1840" for Nottingham
  • The computer indexing project
  • Address of Calais Town Hall
  • The Bert Archer Story Part 2

• Issue 5: October 1983
  • President's First Report - Bob Wilson
  • Bobbin skipping ropes
  • Elizabeth Simpson's visit to the Hunter Valley
  • The Bert Archer Story Part 3

• Issue 6: February 1984
  • Luddites - Marjorie Brown
  • Book Reviews - "The Family Tree Detective", "Protest and Punishment"
  • Sydney In 1848
  • The Bert Archer Story Part 4
  • Papers Relative to Emigration
  • The Saywells - Part 1

• Issue 7: April 1984
  • Suggestion from Kingsley Ireland re Harpley research
  • "Living by the Hunter River" - Lindsay Watts
  • The Bert Archer Story - Part 5
  • The Saywells - Part 2 (Includes more on the Luddites)

• Issue 8: July 1984
  • The Bert Archer Story Part 6
  • The Gaskins
  • The Bromheads
  • The Nutts

• Issue 9: October 1984
  • Notes on Second AGM
  • Death of Bert Archer
  • Second Presidents Report - Bob Wilson
  • Report by Chris Sutton

• Issue 10: March 1984
  • Horner Family - Fairlie emigrants
  • Charles Dickens in Calais
  • SMH "Shipping News" on the Fairlie
  • The Harpley - Enid Bastick

• Issue 11: June 1985
  • Widdison/Widdowson/Widderson family per Harpley
  • Nottingham Goose Fair
  • Hiram Longmire 1814-1880 (Harpley)

• Issue 12: November 1985
  • List of ASLC resources
  • The Bert Archer Collection
  • National Library of Australia Computer Research facilities

• Issue 13: February 1986
  • President's Report - Bob Wilson
  • Report on the Harpley - Kingsley Ireland

• Issue 14: July 1986
  • Shipping List - Harpley
  • Shipping List - Fairlie
  • Check list for acknowledging sources of information
  • Machine lace - 1857 Edition, Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • Machine lace - 1895 Edition, Chambers Encyclopaedia

• Issue 15: November 1986
  • James Woodforth (Agincourt)
  • Book Review - "The Common People" (Jean Campbell)
  • Summary of talk by Beth Williams
  • George and John Eastlake - husbands of Frances Saywell
  • Bert Archer's "Diary"' of the Agincourt passage to Australia

• Issue 16: February 1987
  • Report on Harpley reunion, Adelaide - Richard Lander
  • Family Notables - Request for Contributions
  • "Those Ships" - Robert Wilson
  • "Australia Visited and Revisited" - Bruce Goodwin
  • Babies bearing ship names and emigrants from Yardley Gubbins

• Issue 17: May 1987
  • "To Morpeth and Beyond" Report on visit 14/3/87
  • "Australian Rells" - Jean Wright
  • "On Contributing to Tulle" - Richard Lander
  • Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum

• Issue 18: July 1987
  • Woodforth Family Occupations - Jean Campbell
  • "More Fairlie Gossip"
  • Barques and Ships defined
  • Agincourt shipping list
  • "Village Life and Customs (1)- Bruce Goodwin
  • Sex Error on Birth Certificate - Jean Campbell

• Issue 19: October 1987
  • Visit to Nottingham - Barbara Kendrick
  • Stubbs Family Research - Margaret Audin
  • Article from Sydney Morning Herald 12/9/1861
  • "Rare Finds" - Gillian Kelly
  • Lacemakers Weekly Earnings
  • Technical Drawings of Lacemaking Machine donated to the Bathurst Historical Museum by the Brownlows
  • "The Not So Good Old Days"
  • Bathing in the (Hunter) River during Prohibited Hours - Lindsay Watts

• Issue 20: February 1988
  • Secretary's Report including:
    • comment on the talk given by Mr Wakeman of the Department of Lands
    • Historical Department;
    • letter to Vicar of Yardley Gubbins;
    • Interview by BBC, Northhampton
  • "Those Ships" - Marjorie Brown
  • Ship Definitions - Richard Lander
  • "About Mary Pedder" - Jan Balgowan
  • Elizabeth Simpson offers research materials to the ASLC
  • First International Congress on Family History
  • Nottingham Museum of Lace
  • Lander family "Notables"
  • Village life and Customs (2) - Bruce Goodwin
  • Singles on the Agincourt - Lindsay Watts

• Issue 21: May 1988
  • Tom Halls (West family), Rector of St Peter's Anglican Church at St Peters:
    Launching "the History of the Parish". Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of this historic church
  • Thomas Stanley Summerhayes (Saywell family)
  • The Emigration from Calais - Letters to the "Nottingham Review" - Consul Bonham
  • Village life and Customs (3) - Bruce Goodwin
  • "Family Notable - John Wand" Pam Harvey
  • Comment on Agincourt emigrants by NSW Emigration Commissioner
  • Thomas Whewell . . . . "Nottingham Jack"?
  • Who Was Who in Hunter Towns 1888 (John Bromhead)
  • Extract from "Framework Knitting" by Marilyn Palmer - Beth Williams
  • Bush Family - Marjorie Brown

• Issue 22: August 1988
  • Lotion for Removing Freckles
  • President's Report - Bruce Goodwin
  • Guidelines for Conducting the Business of the ASLC
  • Secretary's Report - Enid Bastick
  • Macquarie Woods - Bill Brownlow
  • The Burgess Family
  • Village Life and Customs (4) - Bruce Goodwin
  • Hair Removal remedy
  • Bromhead Family Notables - Lindsay Watts
  • Life in South Australia in about 1853- Enid Bastick
  • Travelling from SA to Victoria 1870 - Enid Bastick

• Issue 23: October 1988
  • Village Life and Customs (5) - Bruce Goodwin
  • What Became of the Members of the Lander Family
    who travelled to Adelaide aboard Harpley? - Richard Lander
  • Extract from "Nottingham Journal", 31st March 1848
  • List of passengers on either the Fairlie or the Agincourt who married after arriving

• Issue 24: February 1989
  • To administer Castor Oil
  • Cure for Drunkenness
  • "Nottingham Machine Lacemakers" - address by Elizabeth Simpson
  • The Bob Burgess Story (cont) - the Maiden Voyage of the Harpley
  • "Elizabeth Simpson at Gosford" - Lindsay Watts
  • Our "BOOK" - Gillian Kelly
  • "Cousins? Which One?" - Richard Lander
  • The Happiest Day of Ruby Collins Life - Pat Stewart

• Issue 25: May 1989
  • "Nottingham Machine Lacemakers" - address by Elizabeth Simpson
  • Dover Marriages
  • Extract from "Nottingham Journal" on Hosiery and Lace Trades
  • Coach Accidents (from "The Practical Housewife", 1855)

• Issue 26: August 1989
  • Death of Cecil Lander
  • "Nottingham Machine Lacemakers" - address by Elizabeth Simpson
  • Harpley Family Update

• Issue 27: November 1989
  • Recipe for "Lacemakers" - the book!
  • "Nottingham Machine Lacemakers" address by Elizabeth Simpson (FINAL)
  • Fairlie Passengers (Calais Births, and Dover and Sydney marriages)
  • Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax - a challenge from Marjorie Brown
  • Found! - Thomas Homan (passenger on steamer Oregon)
  • Sarah Henley who survived a suicide attempt after her voluminous skirts acted as a parachute
  • Genealogy Pox - Symptoms, Treatment, Remarks (No Known Cure)
  • Article from "Bathurst Advocate" (23/10/1848) relating to some of
    the passengers from the Agincourt (Bruce Goodwin)

• Issue 28: February 1990
  • Extract from the "Nottingham Journal" 31/3/1848
  • The File of Captain Gluyas - another link in Beth Williams search for Thomas Homan
  • Agincourt Passengers born in Calais, or married in Dover, or married in Sydney: (also next issue)

• Issue 29: May 1990
  • The Lacemakers Book (Ed. Gillian Kelly) completed
  • Financial Statement Jan - Dec, 1989
  • Extract from "Nottingham Journal" (English Mechanics from France)
  • More Births, etc for Agincourt passengers from Calais
  • Information from Marjorie Brown (feeding the fledgling colonies)

• Issue 30: August 1990
  • Launch of the Lacemakers Book (Ed by Gillian Kelly)
  • Note from Lenore Keays
  • Addresses given by Messrs Bill Brownlow and Richard Lander at the launching of "The Lacemakers of Calais"
  • How long after the death of a husband may a woman modestly marry?
  • The Oliver Lowe Story (Gillian Kelly)
  • Where In the World Is Thomas Whewill? (Gillian Kelly)
  • More About Relationships (Richard Lander)
  • Family Notables - Ben Robinson (Patricia Stewart)
  • European News - The New Insurrection In Paris
    ("Times" 26/6/1848 & 10/10/1848 and probably brought to Australia aboard the Agincourt)

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