Research Buddies: Poynton and Prestbury

The April FHSC Cheshire Research Buddies topic of the month is Poynton and Prestbury - Do you have ancestors in the town, or are you researching a local family and want some help, perhaps on the other hand you live in the locality and could offer help with photographing gravestones or buildings. This is the chance for members to help each other, I'm sure there are many members out there with knowledge of the area that they could share. If you have a research question then please feel free to email me on and I will circulate it among attendees beforehand.
You will need to register to attend, to do so please click on the 'Register [Individual]' button below on the left and process your registration, you will receive an email confirmation and the zoom links/meeting protocol will be forwarded the morning of the helpdesk meeting. If you run into any difficulties with this then please contact Margaret Roberts on
NOTE that registration closes at 10am on the morning of the meeting.
Runcorn Group a talk by David Guyton - Brick Walls - Finding a way round them
Macclesfield Group: Short AGM & Members Talks
A house, a family and an architect by David Guyton
Research Buddies:Tattenhall and Beeston

The April FHSC Cheshire Research Buddies topic of the month is Tattenhall and Beeston - Do you have ancestors in the town, or are you researching a local family and want some help, perhaps on the other hand you live in the locality and could offer help with photographing gravestones or buildings. This is the chance for members to help each other, I'm sure there are many members out there with knowledge of the area that they could share. If you have a research question then please feel free to email me on and I will circulate it among attendees beforehand.
You will need to register to attend, to do so please click on the 'Register [Individual]' button below on the left and process your registration, you will receive an email confirmation and the zoom links/meeting protocol will be forwarded the morning of the helpdesk meeting. If you run into any difficulties with this then please contact Margaret Roberts on
NOTE that registration closes at 10am on the morning of the meeting.
Rock Ferry and the surrounding local history
Runcorn Group Research Night we have free access to Ancestry, Family Search, Find my Past
NORTHWICH HALL MEETING OCTOBER 13th 2025
THE 1960s - HOW SWINGING WERE THEY? Talk by David Walmsley
The 1960s - Profumo and MacMillan; the Labour government 1964-1970; Kennedy and King; Vietnam; Coronation Street and Z cars; the Beatles and the Stones.
Jules Verne and friends

Most will have heard of the ninenteenth-century French author, Jules Verne, if not read some of his novels (including Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Centre of the Earth). You may not, however, be aware that his first visit outside of France was to Liverpool and Birkenhead, and that he set parts of several of his novels in Birkenhead! John Lamb will be telling us more.
(Image: Jules Verne by Harry Furniss. pen and ink, late 19th or early 20th century. NPG D1643, Used under Creative Commons licence from National Portrait Gallery)