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From: "Celia Martin" <>
Subject: [WSX] SWAG conference
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:04:26 -0000
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I want to give you the latest information on the Westward Ho! Movement &
Migration Conference being organised by the SW Group of Family History
Societies, at Exeter University from 3 - 6 April 2003.

This is a major family history conference with world class speakers.

It is a residential and non-residential event. Non-residential is £20.00 per
day including lunch.
Look at www.Cornwallfhs.com or www.sdhfs for more information
You should be able to download a registration form, if not contact the
bookings sec.
Audrey Lovell, 784 Muller Rd, Eastville, Bristol, BS5 6XA

There will be lots of Society bookstalls and exhibitions showing migration
from the South West and plenty of time to enjoy the talks and meet
interesting people.

Hope to see a lot of you there. Please pass this on to other lists.

Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard, Programme Organiser for Westward Ho! Conference




WESTWARD HO! MOVEMENT & MIGRATION, CONFERENCE

EXETER UNIVERSITY - 3 - 6 April 2003

ROGRAMME OF TALKS

Thursday 3 April
19.0 Dinner
Graham Davis: Myths and Legends among the Irish pioneer settlers in Texas.

Friday 4 April
09.30 Opening of Conference.
William Van Vugt: Britons in the Ohio River Valley during the 18th Century:
Multicultural Episodes in the Emerging 'Empire of Liberty'.
11.45 Eric Richards: Varieties of West Country Emigration to Australia,
OR
Andrew Hinde: Migration from West Dorset in the Nineteenth Century.

Lunch
14.0 Gordon Handcock: Provenance and Patterns in the West of England
Migration to Newfoundland, OR
Peter Towey: Germanic Immigration to Britain 1500-2000.

15.0 Sheila Haines: Captain Hale, Red Herrings & Brandy: The Petworth
Ship of 1833 & Mark Brayshay: The Role of James B. Wilcocks, Plymouth's
mid-Victorian selecting agent, in assisted emigration to Australia from
Cornwall, Devon, Somerset & Dorset, OR
Paddy Fitzgerald: Early Irish Migration into South West of
England, & Graham Davis: Irish in
Britain in the Nineteenth Century.

19.0 Reception hosted by The Federation of Family History Societies
20.0 Dinner followed by Social Evening

Saturday 5 April
Joint Day with the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies and the
Institute of Cornish Studies, Exeter University.

16.0 Bruce Elliott: Nineteenth Century Emigration from England's West
Country OR
Bernard Deacon: Barra or Barrow? Bute or Burnley? Why did some people in
the 19th Century emigrate and others just migrate?

17.0 Sharron Schwartz: The Making of a Myth: The Migration of South West
Metal Miners to Latin America, OR
Jill Chambers: Forced Migrants - Swing Rioters transported to
Australia, OR
Guild of One Name Studies Meeting.

Lunch
14.0 Visit/Tour Exeter (all afternoon )

14.0 Federation AGM (as long as it takes )

14.00 - 18.00 Migration session - Chair: Prof. Roger Burt & Jane
Ferentzi-Sheppard, short talks from Willaim Van Vugt & Eric Richards about
migration to the US and Australia.
Dr Bill Jones: "Not dead but gone to Slough" (Scranton or Ballarat or):
Leaving Wales 1800-1939.
Tea break
Regional Migration Studies - Dorset & Channel Island Migration , Irish
Migration Centre, Cornish Migration, Petworth Project, Newfoundland, Ellis
Island etc.
Graham Davis & Paddy Fitzgerald: Migration Studies where are we now?
General Discussion with the speakers.
OR
14.00 - 15.00 Group Sessions - Northcotte House
Steve Wilkinson: Wot's in a Census?
OR
Sharon Hintze: Getting the most out of the LDS Family Search Website
OR
Sylvia Guthrig & Eileen Wilmot: Sources at The Tree House (Devon FHS
Centre)

16.00 - 17.00
Dr Moira Donald: MA in Family History at Exeter University
OR
Ian Maxted: Come up and look at my etchings

BANQUET

Sunday 6 April
08.30 Ecumenical Service in the University Chapel, conducted by the Lazenby
Chaplain, Revd. Dr Jeremy Law.

09.30 Moira Martin: Emigration of Pauper Children from Bristol to Canada
1870-1915 OR
Diana Trenchard: Movement and Migration within England from the South West
in the 19th Century.

11.15 Andrea Buttons: Migration of Indentured Servants & Malefactors to
the
West Indies during the 17th Century OR
Roger Burt: Freemasonry and Emigration during the Victorian period.


Conference ends with Lunch.




SPEAKERS and where they are from:

Prof. William Van Vugt, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan,, USA

Prof. Eric Richards, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Dr. Andrew Hinde, Southampton University

Prof. Gordon Handcock, Memorial University, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada

Peter Towey, Anglo-German Family History Society

Dr Sheila Haines, University of Sussex, Brighton

Dr Mark Brayshay, Plymouth University

Dr Paddy Fitzgerald, Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh, Northern Ireland

Dr Graham Davis, Bath Spa University College, Bath

Prof. Bruce Elliott, Carleton Centre for the History of Migration, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada

Dr Bernard Deacon, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, Truro

Sharron Schwartz, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, Truro

Jill Chambers, Letchworth

Dr Bill Jones, Cardiff University

Dr Moira Martin, University of the West of England, Bristol

Dr Diana Trenchard, SDFHS, West Dorset Research Centre, Bridport

Andrea Buttons, University of the West of England, Bristol

Prof. Roger Burt, the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Exeter
University

Steve Wilkinson, SDFHS

Sylvia Guthrig & Eileen Wilmot, Tree Tops, DFHS

Sharon Hintze, Dir. Hyde Park Family History Centre, London

Dr Moira Donald, Exeter University

Ian Maxted, Local Studies Library, Exeter

Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard & Celia Martin, SDFHS, West Dorset Research Centre,
Bridport

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