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Tulle Contents: Issues 1-30

(prepared by Richard Lander)

• 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
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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

• 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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