THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 55 January 2022 Contents page Lockdown experiences – Diana Beamish 6 Balchin’s Victory & Cawdor Castle – Sir Robert Balchin (Lord Lingfield) 8 What have you found? – Diana Beamish 14 William and Louisa Balchin of Guildford and their family – Diana Beamish 15 Learning a new skill during lockdown […]
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Josiah (Joseph) Charles Balchin – 1883 Hunter Pocket Watch
In Newsletter Issue 32, page 8 (July 2010) we reported on my find of a pocket watch winding key stating that it had been made by ‘J C BALCHIN, 162 LAMBETH WALK, LONDON SE’. This article created a lot of interest and was later followed up by a letter from Graham Balchin in Issue 33, […]
Issue 54
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 54 July 2021 Contents page A Jewish Balchin – Sir Robert Balchin (Lord Lingfield) 5 Worshipful Brother Edmund Balchin – Gunmaker of Hull & other Masonic Balchins – Sir Robert Balchin (Lord Lingfield) 9 Edmund Balchin – Gunmaker of Hull A Pistol for sale in Munich – Sir Robert […]
Issue 53
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 53 January 2021 Contents page A Balchin Manuscript Which is 450 Years Old (Part 1) – Sir Robert Balchin (Lord Lingfield) 5 How not to spell Balchin – Diana Beamish 8 Balchen Road in London and Balchen in Switzerland – Diana Beamish 14 What have you found? – […]
Issue 52
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 52 July 2020 Contents page Charles Balchin’s Record Drive to Brighton – Sir Robert Balchin (Lord Lingfield) 5 Charles Balchin 1828 – 1862 – Jenny Dixon 8 Who Was James Balchin? – Jenny Dixon 13 The Other Banstead Balchins – Jenny Dixon 14 Further descendants of my great-grandparents, Ann and […]
Edmund Balchin Pistol Case Label
This beautifully presented label adorns an Edmund Balchin pistol case. It proudly shows that Edmund Balchin was the successor to Esau Ackrill who was an established Gunmaker, c1813 in Market Place, Beverley. It also “advertises” his flair for invention as Patentee of Bomb Lances. For more information on Edmund Balchin, his 12-Gauge Double Barrelled Shotgun […]
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Issue 51
THE BALCHIN FAMILY NEWSLETTER Issue 51 January 2020 Contents page Adelaide Balchin and descendants – Diana Beamish 4 2019 Silver Anniversary Gathering – Diana Beamish Anne Rosemary Chapman – Mini Autobiography 18 20 Births, Marriages, Deaths and Congratulations 23 Website – Can anyone help? 24 Items for sale to Members – […]
2019 – Silver Anniversary Gathering
New Place, Lingfield The gathering, taking the form of an afternoon tea by kind invitation of Lord and Lady Lingfield, took place in their garden at New Place in Lingfield in Surrey, on Sunday 8th September, a lovely warm day. The tea (organised by Lady Lingfield, Dee Balchin, Tina Balchin and Rob Balchin) was scrumptious: […]
CSM R. J. Balchin – Plaque
Wall plaque spotted at HQ F Coy. 7 Rifles (Davies St.) Drill Hall commemorating the Amalgamation of Queen Victoria’s Rifles and Queen Westminsters in 1961 with Company Sergeant Major R. J. Balchin as the Interim President. Queen Victoria’s Rifles – The 9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) was a Territorial Army […]