Hemingway One-Name Study

Welcome and informal introductions.
Informal dinner at a local Italian restaurant to enable us to be better acquainted.

We are hoping that this year we will have more day visitors who may need information on their own family histories from our extensive records. The combined records of Ron & Maurice will be available throughout the day for family tree research.  There are over 9,000 baptisms, 4,500 marriages, 6,000 burials, 1,250 monumental inscriptions, 17,000 BM&D index entries, 1,000 calendar entries for probate, 250 pre-1857 Wills and a plethora of other information to look-up.

During Saturday there will be a programme including :

• Welcome and notices by Peter Gallivan, President Wakefield Board of Trade
• Leeds Hemingway Brewery : History of the family and brewery as an introduction to the display of artefacts by a descendant - John Hemingway
• DNA project results to date - Maurice Hemingway
• Family line of Maj. Edmund Hemingway of Batley, bank manager and accountant - Nick Shelley, a descendant

Lunch will be taken at the Weatherspoons Pub that was built by as a bank by Maj. Edmund Hemingway. It is hoped to include a short tour of the pub.

During the afternoon guides are on hand to take groups of guests to local sites including the National Coal Mining museum and also to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Galleries

Dinner will be at the event centre (Holiday Inn, Ossett) followed by an after dinner speaker (Joseph Hemingway, Master Wood carver).

Morning : Joint service at Wakefield Cathedral

• 10.20 Coffee at Wakefield Cathedral
• 11.00 Solemn Eucharist

Lunch will be at the Spencer Arms, Cawthorne at 13.15. We will be dining in a private room and have been requested to pre-order main courses a week in advance. Please see the menu on the restaurant website and advise Pam Ibbotson at pam@ibb0.karoo.co.uk or Ron Hemingway at ron.rondor@virgin.net of your choice by 31 May 2008.

Afternoon : Visit to nearby Cawthorne Parish Church with its Hemingway connections led by Pam Ibbotson