My life as a Professional Genealogist

Mat Homewood is a young Lewes based genealogist and will be sharing the ups and downs on his career to date.

Researching Brewer and Publican Ancestors

Researching Brewer and Publican Ancestors by Simon Fowler

Hundreds of thousands of our ancestors ran a pub, worked in a beer house, tavern or coaching inn, or were brewer’s draymen and coopers. The talk tells the story of pubs and the men and women who ran them since Elizabethan times. The public house, in all its forms, has been a key part of local communities for many centuries, and still remains popular today.

The talk will show members how to start researching their brewery and publican forebears, as well as looking at the major sources they will use to find more about these men and women.  Unfortunately there will be no free samples.