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The Annual General Meeting
of the East Family History Society
  will be held on
Saturday 14th October 2017
  at Bishopshalt School,
Royal Lane, Hilingdon.
UB8 3RF. 
from 12.00pm

We hope you will come and join us.
Members & non members are Welcome.

Full details on the AGM page.

The EAST Family history society was launched in 1993, to bring together people researching ancestors with the name EAST and to build a database of family tree's for EAST families worldwide.
In addition to the name EAST, we also research variants of the name such as EASTE, EASTES, EST, ESTE,  & ESTES.
In 2013 the EAST Family History Society celebrated 20 years of helping people worldwide to research their  EAST ancestors.

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Please consider joining the East Family History Society as the very small membership fee helps us to provide this website and maintain the society.
Membership of the Society is open to anyone with an interest in the surname EAST or its variants.

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We are Looking for information on John Alger East or his family,  Can you Help ?

This painting of an unknown man by an unknown artist is believed to be Captain James Cook. The painting is now owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was bought in 1905 from J. A. East.
John Alger East appears in the 1911 census as an Artist living in Hackney, London. Could he be the painter ? Was he the J. A. East who sold the painting ?
John was married to Mary C Worth in 1843, who in the 1871 census was also recorded as an Artist.  
But John also had an Artistic family - His father was Henry Matthew East was a Picture Dealer in Hackney in the 1871 Census. Laura East & Gilbert East were siblings of John who became Sculptors.
The portrait can be viewed online at : http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw08900/Unknown-man-formerly-known-as-James-Cook?

Does anyone have information on Silversmith John East ? 

This Queen Anne Silver Porringer, described as 'Rare' was made by John East in 1711 and recently listed for sale on Ebay for £990 or $1223
This Queen Anne Silver Feeding Cup was made by John East in 1712. recently offered for sale in the United States, it was described as 'Extremely Rare'  and was priced at $9,850 or £7973.
This is the assay mark of John East which was registered in 1697 and has been seen on silverware pieces dated between 1701 and 1722
The Founders Award
In Memory of John & Andrée East

An annual prize of £50 will be awarded to the member who submits the most interesting article for publication in the Points East Journal

The 2017 competition 
closes on the 1st August 2017 so please send articles for consideration to our Journal Editor. 
to contact our Journal Editor
Amanda  
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 £50  

CASH PRIZE



The winner of the £50 cash prize for the best article submitted for publication in the journal during 2016 is  Alan (George) East.
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After receiving a letter containing his prize Alan wrote :
I am most appreciative of your letter in regard to the John and Andree East Award
and am very pleased that the information in my contribution was of interest to
the AGM members.
I hope you may be able to convey my thanks to all concerned.
Yours sincerely
Alan East

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Alan's Winning
Entry
Write an article telling us your story  and you could be the winner of the 2016 cash prize

WE HAD AN 'EAST' ON THE UK  'X FACTOR'  

Fleur is a very talented 26 year old singer/songwriter from Walthamstow in East London who came 2nd in the 2014 competition.  She became the show's first contestant to reach number one on the UK iTunes Store chart during the competition, with her performance of "Uptown Funk". 
!n 2015 She was signed by Simon Cowells Syco record label and released a full-length debut album, Love, Sax and Flashbacks with lead single 'SAX' reaching no 3 in the UK charts. It also became an international hit in the Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Hungary and Croatia. Fleur's  career has gone 'international' after she was signed by Sony's Columbia Records, performed in the USA  on the season finale of Dancing with the Stars and appeared on the Today show & James Cordens Late Late Show.  
She  is  one of The X Factor's biggest breakout acts. She performed on The X Factor Tour 2015 & her own 'Sax' Tour this year,  has produced a second single  "More and More", performed at the National Television Awards, Blackpool Illuminations, Pride Festivals at Brighton, Manchester & Birmingham and Girl Guiding UK's BIG GIG at Wembley to name but a few.

 Fleur East has also teamed up with British dress company Lipsy (London)  for the launch of her first fashion collection.

 We continue to watch with interest and congratulate Fleur on her fantastic success to date and we remain sure that there is still a lot more to come from her in the future.

Its a Double Mystery ! 
Can you  help us ?
Our Society Chairman Ros and her husband David recently visited the World War Battlefields & Memorials in Northern France. While visiting the Thiepval Memorial where 72,191 missing soldiers with no known graves are listed, they noticed an inscription for “East J “  a member of the Durham Light Infantry.
Our former Research Manager Anne, found that the soldier was 28 year old Captain John East  of the 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, who died on the 1st July 1916. He was the son of John East from Auckland, New Zealand and husband of Marguerite East (nee Jacquet), of 33, Hatherley Rd., Sidcup, Kent.

We currently have no details of this family tree in our records but we would love to know more about this family. If anyone visiting the site has any information about Captain John, his father or any relatives in the UK or New Zealand, please let us know.  
 
We were also contacted by the Llandiloes community project who asked if we knew anything about H.H. East who is recorded on the towns WW1 war memorial.  Harold Henry was recorded as having been born in 1885 and he died age 32 on the 6th November 1917. He was a Private in the 1st/1st Bn. Herefordshire Regiment. His parents were Edwin and Laura East, of Newport & his wife was Edith Emily East, of "Dyfnant," Queen's Terrace, Aberystwyth. Harold's grandfather was Job Dawson EAST born in Reading about 1827 but moved to Wales by 1861, where he worked on the railway. 
Unfortunately although Harold came from a fairly large family, we do not have his family or his immediate ancestors in our trees.  Can anyone tell us anymore about this family ?


Even as a non-member you can have the complete  EAST  Births database  free
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In England EASTS have been traced right back to the arrival of the Normans.
The EAST FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY, was founded in England and has helped many members to trace their ancestors back to the 16th century.
Some of these members live in Australia and  we are sure that many EASTS living in America can also be traced back to these  times.
Can you help us ?
Our aim is to compile a database of all East family trees. 

If you have traced your EAST family tree, please let us know the details of the earliest EAST ancestor that you have found - you may be able to help us record a new family line that we don't yet know about !
Information from the Society's database is provided to Society
members and to the public. 
Research assistance can also be provided. 
Look at the database page for details of the information we have available to members.  

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