Every year the Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG) award prizes (£50 book tokens via Amazon) to students studying at Diploma or Master’s level at the three institutions which are affiliated to RQG.
The IHGS Student Award went to Maggie Gaffney (DipGen) for her outstanding Diploma in Genealogy submission "The Hamerton family of Hellifield Peel”. Maggie who is from Wellington, New Zealand has recently joined the IHGS Tutorial team.
Maggie described her work:
“In 2020 I was asked to transcribe two early 20th century pedigree charts showing the family of Robert Chisenhall Hamerton (1838-1914), and which traced his Hamerton line back to Richard de Hamerton of Slaidbourne, Yorkshire, in 1170. Both charts were illustrated with 14 “armorial bearings”, appearing to be marital arms, each annotated with a number, and matched with a corresponding numbered marriage in the charts. I was interested in what the quartered arms for Robert Chisenhall Hamerton would be – and how each marriage to an heiress had augmented the Hamerton arms over successive generations. This essay was my investigation into Robert Chisenhall Hamerton’s direct Hamerton ancestral line, and how accurate the heraldic shields were in the way they were presented, and the genealogy they suggested.”
Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Maggie on her achievement.
