Liddiard Family Gathering ( Liddiard, Lidiard or Lydiard (or any other spelling)

Held 12th – 14th April 2019 hosted by the Liddiard Family History Society (our first event) Committee members Karen Rogers, Jacquie Liddiard and Tim Connolly.

Programme Friday 12th April 2018
Location: Aldbourne Wiltshire
Time: 10:30 am – 04-30 pm
A casual and informal day with a chance to talk about our families and to meet the committee of the Society. Karen Rogers, Tim Connolly and Jacquie Liddiard and of course catch up with those we met at the last gathering. The family trees will be displayed in the village, and lunch will be split between the village’s two pubs, The Blue Boar and The Crown. The Aldbourne Heritage Society has offered to run a tour of the village for a small fee of £5.00 per person. The Aldbourne Heritage centre will also be open.

Saturday 13th April 2019.
Location: 10:00 am
Steam- The Museum of the Great Western Railway
Off Fire Fly Avenue Kemble Drive Swindon Wiltshire SN2 2TA
We will have a range of presentations including an updated presentation on The Liddiards – Who are we, where are we & where did we come from, the Liddiard Family History Society, why we formed, The Liddiard DNA project, what it is and what has it confirmed so far and of course the railway, what it meant for our family, along with one or two other presentations.

Sunday 14th April 2019
Coach Tour – 08:30 am from Village Hotel Club Swindon
A: Shaw Ridge Leisure Park, Whitehill Way, Swindon SN5 7DW
We will be visiting Newbury, Hungerford, Chilton Foliat, Ramsbury Marlborough, Poulton House (to be confirmed) subject to the current owners allowing us access and then finally on to Aldbourne as we will close the weekend in Aldbourne church at 4 pm and then back to Swindon around 6 – 6.30 pm.

Liddiard Family Gathering
Liddiard, Lidiard or Lydiard (or any other spelling)

12th – 14th April 2019 hosted by the Liddiard Family History Society (our first event) Committee members Karen Rogers, Jacquie Liddiard and Tim Connolly.

Programme Friday 12th April 2018
Location: Aldbourne Wiltshire
Time: 10:30 am – 04-30 pm
A casual and informal day with a chance to talk about our families and to meet the committee of the Society. Karen Rogers, Tim Connolly and Jacquie Liddiard and of course catch up with those we met at the last gathering. The family trees will be displayed in the village, and lunch will be split between the village’s two pubs, The Blue Boar and The Crown. The Aldbourne Heritage Society has offered to run a tour of the village for a small fee of £5.00 per person. The Aldbourne Heritage centre will also be open.

Saturday 13th April 2019.
Location: 10:00 am
Steam- The Museum of the Great Western Railway
Off Fire Fly Avenue Kemble Drive Swindon Wiltshire SN2 2TA
We will have a range of presentations including an updated presentation on The Liddiards – Who are we, where are we & where did we come from, the Liddiard Family History Society, why we formed, The Liddiard DNA project, what it is and what has it confirmed so far and of course the railway, what it meant for our family, along with one or two other presentations.

Sunday 14th April 2019
Coach Tour – 08:30 am from Village Hotel Club Swindon
A: Shaw Ridge Leisure Park, Whitehill Way, Swindon SN5 7DW
We will be visiting Newbury, Hungerford, Chilton Foliat, Ramsbury Marlborough, Poulton House (to be confirmed) subject to the current owners allowing us access and then finally on to Aldbourne as we will close the weekend in Aldbourne church at 4 pm and then back to Swindon around 6 – 6.30 pm.

Liddiard Gathering 2016 13- 14 August 2016 

Programme Saturday 13^th August 2016.

10:30:  Meet at the Village Green and pick up your family gathering welcome pack.

11:00 – 11:15 Welcome & Opening     St Michaels Church

11.15-12.00- The Liddiard’s –Who are we, where are we & where did we come from – St Michaels Church Presentation by Karen Rogers

12:00- 12:45 – This Wonderful Village – Aldbourne from the Bronze Age to Doctor Who- John Dymond – St Michaels Church

3:00- 3:45 – William Liddiard of Aldbourne –The fascinating story behind one of Australia’s most notorious murders of the 1880s. Come along & discover its links to Aldbourne & a famous circus family.

Karen Rogers -Methodist Hall.

5.00- 05.30 – Close of Day one -Village Green – Raffle drawing & prizes from the questionnaire.

Programme Sunday 14^th August 2016

09:30 – 11:00 – Memorial Hall

Some time to take a look & discuss some of the Liddiard Family trees on display. Can we extend them with our combined knowledge?

11:30 – 12:20 Lunch -Memorial Hall supplied by the Crown

Each table will have Platters of Roast Sirloin of Beef, slow cooked Pork and Lamb served with a selection of fresh vegetables, roast Potato and Yorkshire pudding homemade with homemade gravy

12-30 – Coach Trip 

Places we will be visiting include:

Ogbourne St Andrew’s church and we will get a short talk on the Liddiards from Ogbourne Andrew History Group; we can trace the Liddiards from there from 1453 to today. I will also let you know why this family is important not just to the Aldbourne Liddiard’s but the Liddiard family as a whole.

Rockley Manor Grounds- Home and owned by the Liddiard’s of Ogbourne St Andrew for a time. Whilst the manor is not the original, the grounds and the stables are of that time. I will have on hand photographs of the original Elizabethan manor that was once there and sadly bulldozed.

Ramsbury – A whole branch of the Aldbourne Liddiard’s relocated here –

Then on to Hungerford, Lambourne and East Ilsley in Berkshire.

Rockley Manor