This review primarily relates to the operation of the Akehurst Mailing List.

A full report of the activities of the Akehurst Family History Society, the Akehurst One-Name Study, and the Akehurst DNA Project will be presented at the 2012 Akehurst GetTogether in Canterbury later this year.

Akehurst List statistics
During last year (2010!), there were 208 messages posted to the List, well down from the 321 messages the previous year. There are currently 133 members subscribed to the Akehurst List, up six from the previous year, however only fourteen of the 133 posted to the List during the year.

There are two simple message to note: if you don't post your queries, you don't get them answered; if you don't post any of your research/finds, no-one else gains.

My own Akehurst mailbox scored 1200 messages (both in and out), also down on last year. Even though it was well down, the Akehurst traffic left me little time to pursue my own family history. Ah well, there's always 2012! [:)]

Topic covered during the year included

• 2012 Akehurst GetTogether
• 360 degree pictures . . . next generation photography
• Abraham Ackhurst (1828-1913) of Milton Regis
• Accessing files in our Files Area
• Akehurst / Goldsmith marriage in Hellingly 8/11/1854
• Akehurst/Akhurst DNA Study
• Akhurst and the sinking of the Clan Macduff
• Alfred Akehurst, b. Hastings 1844; md. Anne Lettine
• Anna Akehurst - transcription of 1668 will
• Anne D Dennis nee Akehurst - Australian immigrant
• Antipodean Akehurst-er GetTogether - Melbourne
• Arthur & Elsie Akehurst - Group Settlement Scheme, W.A.
• Ayerst spelling (Hawkhurst, 1800) - is it really Akhurst?
• Charles Akehurst md Annie Sarah Bullen, 16/4/1876 in Brighton
• Charles Jenner Akehurst (1851-1928) - photograph
• Chiddingly Parish Registers
• CWGC - corrections to their website
• Cyril Kenneth Akehurst (1899-1918)
• Daphne Jessie Akhurst - Australian Open Women's tennis champion
• Deeds to Akehurst house in Stonefield Place, Hastings
• DNA Testing for Male Akehursts (and variant spellings)
• Donations to Akehurst DNA Project trust fund
• Edward & Olive Akhurst (b. Faversham 1813 & 1814)
• Eliza Akerst - b.1839, Chalk, Kent
• Ernest Gilbert Akehurst - bd. Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Dublin - photograph
• Frederick Howard Akhurst d.17/2/1917 - studio portrait
• George Ackehurst / Eliza Campany marriage
• George Akhurst - La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France - photo of headstone
• George Frederick Akehurst md Amy Carrington, 1913
• Gnr Albert Frederick Akehurst, Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt
• Harold Ekers (1905-1906), West Ham, Essex - an Akhurst variant?
• Harry Thomas Ackhurst, killed in Flanders on 3/5/1915
• Harry William Akehurst md. Susan Halland Olson at St Judes Portsea, 1891
• James Akehurst, buried Mudgee Cemetery, 11/3/1875 Mudgee Cemetery, aged 58yr, born Kent
• John Akehurst - arrested for drunkness, 1913
• John Akehurst - mayor - Hastings 1614
• John Akehurst - transcription of 1806 will
• Joining the Akehurst email List
• L (Leonard?) R Akehurst - long service award by British Petroleum
• Lance James Akehurst, d.12/9/2011, aged 4
• Launcelot the Loose - play by Wm Mower Akhurst - includes the All-turn-it-knights of the Round Table: Sir Cuss, Sir Geon, Sir Gery,Sir Prize and Sir Tainly Not
• Lt. Norman Walter Akhurst, 35th Coy, Machine Gun Corps, 1896-1918 - pix
• Lt. Colin Cecil Akehurst - Medjez-El-Bab Memorial, Tunisia
• Malcolm William Akehurst and Brenda Margaret Hopper md Holy Trinity, Stroud, in 1955
• Mary Akehurst - the last Quaker in Horsham prison
• Mary Ann Akehurst (1864-1940) -photograph
• Mini Antipodean Akehurst GetTogether - September 2011

• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Gordon Akhurst - DFM - RAFVR - 454 Sqn RAAF Desert Air Force

• Sarah Ann Akehurst nee Pitcher, born 1812
• Sgt C Akehurst, King's Own Scottish Borderers - medal
• Sussex Booklet - interesting booklet about life in Sussex in the 1930-1980's
• The ISOGG Wiki
• Tom Akehurst, road mender - in May 1927 edition of the "Sussex County Magazine" Trying to which two Charlottes married which two Stephens
• War graves - Akehurst/Akhurst soldiers
• William Ackhurst, born Chatham, Kent, in 1835
• William Akehurst 1799 and Hannah Beney md. Hastings 4/12/1822
• William Akehurst born 16 Aug 1841 Fletching, Sussex died 27 December
• 1923 Place Maesteg, Glamorganshire.
• William Akehurst, born Seaford, 1818, tailor
• William Francis Greenland Akehurst, born 1874/5 in Birmingham.
• William George Akehurst and Martha Ann Plumridge md 24/2/1883

(Not all of those were discussed on the List. If you have any queries, first check the List Archives and then give me a call)

Elsewhere in the Akehurst world
The Akehurst website - at www.akehurst.org <http://www.akehurst.org/> -continues to be maintained by our Webmaster, Angela Hollands. Angela is always on the lookout for material - if you have anything which may be of interest, please give her a call.

You will have probably noticed there has been no issue of "The Akehurst-er" newsletter during the year. That is because our Editor, Steve Akhurst, has not received enough material to warrant it. If you want to see another edition, you will need to provide him with material. Steve is the newsletter's Editor, not the Author ... that's your job.

Thank you
A thank you to all who assisted in keeping the Akehurst List 'alive'.  Particular thanks go to Colin Ackehurst for his work in the background managing the List.

A thank you to Morwenna for keeping track of all our trees. They form the basis for the answers to the many queries we receive.

Useful addresses email addresses

Posting to the Akehurst List: <akehurst@yahoogroups.com>
Help desk for Akehurst List: <moderator@akehurst.org>
Akehurst Family History Society: <chairman@akehurst.org>
One-Name Study: <ONS@akehurst.org>
Akehurst DNA Study: <DNA@akehurst.org>
Family trees: <KeeperOfTheTrees@akehurst.org>
Editor: <editor@akehurst.org>
Webmaster <webmaster@akehurst.org>

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