The Alabaster Chronicles 

The Journal of
The Alabaster Society

 
Contents of Past Alabaster Chronicles
Picture by Rupert Fox from a design by Michael Wm Alabaster

Below is a list of articles which have appeared in the printed versions of the Alabaster Chronicles. Most articles are available online, from the menu panel on the right or from the links in the text below. We are constantly adding articles to the website, and to this online list, so do please keep coming back.
Articles and news items which have no author attributed to them are written by the Editor.

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Copies of all past issues are now available for sale
They can be obtained by post from the Hon. Sec. Laraine Hake, price £1.50 each, post paid to UK addresses,
and £2.00 each post paid overseas (sterling). Prices correct summer 2008.
Laraine Hake, Tollgate Cottage, The Turnpike, Bunwell, NORWICH NR16 1SR

Alabaster Chronicle Number One Autumn 1993:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Two Spring 1994:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Three Autumn 1994:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Four Spring 1995:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Five Autumn 1995:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Six Spring 1996:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Seven Autumn 1996:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Eight Spring 1997:

    • Editorial, by Laraine Hake
    • News from Around the World:
      James Alabaster Strugnell, by Maureen Strugnell
      Paul Alabaster writes about Branch IIA
      Dorothy Gould eats dessert first!
      Nicholas Alabaster (WofW) marries Susan Markey
               in Hadleigh Guildhall, by Robin Alabaster
      John Stammers Alabaster, a 70th Anniversary
      An Alabaster on the wireless
      Emma Jane born, by Joan Watts (IIIB)
      Video of 1996 Gathering, by Pauline & Brian Alabaster
      Stephanie born, by Shirley Rowe (IIA)
      Aidan Connor Duffy born, by Molly Duffy (IIC)
      Records at Society of Australian Genealogists, by Beryl Neumann (IIA)
      Jeremy Springall (IIA) marries Louise Taylor, by Tony Springall
    • 1881 Census - Two orphans in the Workhouse School (IIIB)
    • A Family Bible, by Laraine Hake (IIA)
    • An Alabaster Family in Bethnal Green in the Latter Half of
               the Nineteenth Century, by Laraine Hake (IIA)
    • Uncle Sid Alabaster, by Alf Oram (IIA)

Alabaster Chronicle Number Nine Autumn 1997:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Ten Spring 1998:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Eleven Autumn 1998:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twelve Spring 1999:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Thirteen Autumn 1999:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Fourteen Spring 2000:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Fifteen Autumn 2000:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Sixteen Spring 2001:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Seventeen Autumn 2001:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Eighteen Spring 2002:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Nineteen Autumn 2002:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty Spring 2003:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-one Autumn 2003:

    • Ten Years On, a poem by Tricia Dyer (nee Alabaster) (IIA).
    • Alabaster Research, by Peter Copsey & Laraine Hake.
    • An Interesting Baptism, by Millie Knox (WofW).
    • Tales from Therfield, Hertfordshire, by John S Alabaster (I).
    • Visit to Landulph Church, by John S. Alabaster (I)
    • News from Around the World:
      Deaths in WWI, and Alabaster House, East Peckham, by Sue Hill (IIIB)
      Home demolished in the Blitz,
               and Descendants of Agnes Alabaster, by Steve Abbott (IIIB)
      Annie Margaret Alabaster (IIIA) married in 1874, by Sandra Stevens
      Book from Thailand (in Thai) received by Angela Alabaster (IIA)
      A Photograph of Sidney Herbert Alabaster, by Tony Moore (IIA)
      New Motor Yacht by Jim Alabaster (IIA)
      Larbalestier memorial in Jersey, pictured by Tony Springall (IIA)
      Egyptian Alabaster met by Ian Alabaster (WofW)
      William John James born, by Monica Alabaster (WofW)
      Family Celebrates Moe Alabaster`s (IV) 75th birthday (photo)
      W. G. Alabaster treated for Consumption (TB) in Ventnor,
               by Ivor Smith (IV)
      George Brian Armstrong born to Samantha & Phil (IIA)
      Phoebe Zonne Videbeck born in New Zealand, by Kelley Videbeck (IV)
      Henry Alabaster`s Tomb visited by Laura Brown (IIIB)
      Congratulations and Thanks from Beryl Neumann (IIA), Australia

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-two Spring 2004:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-three Autumn 2004:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-four Autumn 2005:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-five Spring 2006:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-six Autumn 2006:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-seven Spring 2007:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-eight Autumn 2007:

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-nine Spring/Summer 2008:

 


Later issues are not yet available online, but are available in print, on application to the Hon. Sec.

whose details are on the Contact us page. The cost is £1.50 per copy post paid to UK addresses; £2.00 overseas (sterling).   Prices correct summer 2008.
 
Printed copies of all of the Alabaster Chronicles are available from the Hon. Sec., Laraine Hake, whose details are on the Contact us page. The cost is £1.50 per copy post paid to UK addresses; £2.00 overseas (sterling).
Prices correct May 2008.