The Alabaster Chronicles 

The Journal of
The Alabaster Society

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

Below is a list of articles which have appeared in the printed versions of the Alabaster Chronicles. Many 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 attribted 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 April 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

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

The following 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 May 2008.

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-seven Spring 2007

News from Laraine Hake; Gathering 2008; Mary Ann Alabaster nee Criddle, Painter; Alabaster Coat of Arms to be available from Brian Alabaster; Thomas Blewett Mead; Walter Charles Alabaster 1870-1939; New Members; "Priceless Paintings found near Shilo"; Percy Criddle`s Education; Alabasters in the News: Pauline Alabaster of Canberra, Help for Albatrosses; Poets` Corner; Primrose Cottage, 9 Stone Street, Hadleigh, by Sue Andrews; Accounts to 31st Aug 2006.
 

Alabaster Chronicle Number Twenty-eight Autumn 2007

Letter from the Hon. Sec., Laraine Hake; Eighth Alabaster Gathering, Saturday, 26th April 2008; Laraine`s Postbag: Batey & Co., mineral water manufacturers; Catherine Berry, descendant of Ellen Margaret Alabaster 1869- ; Cliff Alabaster; Descendants of Clara Rose Alabaster (IV) 1881- in Canada; Photos of Celia Susan Charlotte Alabaster (W of W) and her modern-day descendants; David Vesey writes from Toronto about some 17th c. connections; The Criddle-Vane Homestead Anniversary Celebration, August 2007; Bertie Alabaster, young soccer star of Elsenham; Descendants of Thomas Alabaster b.c.1512 and more about the Paston Letters; Seen in a John Lewis store, Alabaster perfume.
Birth: Ella Georgie Cousins (IIIB);
Marriage: Clare Alabaster and Matt Sanders; 
Deaths: John Stanley (W of W) 3rd November 2006; Margaret Oram (IIA) 18th May 2007; Susan Mary George nee Alabaster (IIIB) 26th October 2007.
Alabaster Way out West, by Robert Alabaster (IIA); Gilbert Stephen Alabaster d. April 1918, by Moe Parry; RSM George Alabaster of the 2nd Btn South Wales Borderers d. 1957 aged 81, museum display; Amy Alabaster visits bee-keepers in Southern Bohemia; Moe Parry meets Tricia Dyer; Alabaster arms cast in lead by John Stammers Alabaster.

 


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.