Folker One-Name Study

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Occasional newsletters were published and distributed to relatives and other contacts who had an interest in the Folker research. These have lapsed in recent times but now are replaced by the news page on this website. Copies can be viwed from the list below :

Issue		Date		Contents
No. 1		August 1993		Introduction to the study and the work in hand.
No. 2		March 1994		Review of last issue plus details of progress and current work.
No. 3		August 1995		Progress report plus a description of the archive. A list of other associated surnames.
No. 4		April 1996		Report on current work on Midshipman Samuel Folker. The newsletter mentions a biography of Sydney Folker,
				but that is not attached here as it is now out-of-date.
No. 5		Christmas 1996		An item about Horace Shepherd Folker of Guildford and a note about current research progress.
No. 6		October 1997		USA connections and putting names into family groups.
No. 7		November 1998		A small piece about Alfred Hanley Folker plus the family connection to Isaac Newton.
				An attachment quotes all known references to Folkers in the Excise.
No. 8		September 1999		Current and planned work also changes to the websites.
No. 9		December 2000		Report on progress and contact from relatives.
No. 10		August 2002		Featuring new and existing contacts plus a picture of my family chest.
No. 11		February 2003		The discovery of some family items and a new contact from Canada.
No. 12		August 2003		Announcing new contacts and information from abroad. A picture of the Folker crest.
No. 13		Christmas 2003		Building family groups both home and abroad. A selection of signatures from old documents and a snippet from the internet.
No. 14		October 2004		Feature on my grandfathers family.
No. 15		Christmas 2006		Features on Sydney Newton Folker and Ambrose Folker plus a Folker flower.
No. 16		Christmas 2007		Some discoveries in the British Library plus my mother's Royal Crown Derby christening mug.
No. 17		October 2010		This is an unfinished issue that was not distributed but it mentions a pedigree chart kept in Australia.
No. 18		March 2013		New website dedicated to the Folker name. Some interesting finds. Other publications.