HELP OFFERED

This section of the Web Page is for members to advertise that they can help other family historians find information about their Isle of Wight ancestors. Feel free to contact Geoff Allan at Click for email address if you can offer your help.

CAMPEN documents
Due to a house clearance some documents have come into my hands. They are mainly about Edward Marden CAMPEN and his wife Margaretta Eugenia, nee MARTINDALE. They include birth and marriage certificates and letters about various engineering positions Edward Campen held. I will willingly pass them on to anyone who can claim relationship.

Dina Broughton, Willscroft, Copse Lane, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, PO40 9BZ

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[17th May 2008]

LOOKUP SERVICE
(If using this service, please only ask for the services of one of the LOOKUP volunteers)

Steve Holden has offered his service to look up records in the IW County Record Office.
Please note that the marriage certificates held at the Record Office only go up to 1910 so Steve cannot obtain details of marriages after that date.
You can contact Steve by clicking on Steve Holden

Pamela Sim offers her services to look up records in the IW County Record office for people unable to do this for themselves. Click for email address

LOOKUP Research Service
This is a country wide service undertaken by volunteers to do some initial research for family historians from local resources.
Mrs Ann Barrett, is a LOOK-UP volunteer for the Isle of Wight. Ann is unable to go to the Record Office at the moment to do research but she does have a considerable amount of material at her own home and can often use these resources to help people. She can be contacted by email at Click for email address
The time Ann gives to the research, she gives freely but if any expenses are involved such as petrol, postage, copying etc. then obviously these are charged to the enquirer. Sad to say some people have taken advantage of Ann in the past.
PHILLIPS
Carol Robins from Adelaide, South Australia has acquired a large folder of material about the PHILLIPS families on the Isle of Wight which she finds have no connection with her. They date back to the mid 1600s. She would like to share this information with others who are tracing this family.
Carol's email address

SUFFOLK / ESSEX Research
Terri Robson is offering her services as a look-up in the Ipswich Record Office and any research connected with the village of St Osyth near Clacton-on-Sea and surrounding Tendering area, near Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, where her great aunt is the local historian.
Terri Robson (IWFHS Member 2425) Click for email address

MILFORD/DENT
I have been researching the Milford/Dent line and have been able to accumulate quite a lot of information on Ella Milford, a.k.a. Helen Duffy Dent. She was a Scot and if anyone is interested in this information I would be happy to share it. The Duffy, Dent, Robertson, Gibb history is quite interesting.
John Hughes (IWFHS Member 2283) Click for email address

GROVES
By using index cards in the Newport records office relating to the GROVES family I have recorded all the GROVES births/baptisms, marriages, deaths/burials and cemetery records. Since returning to Australia, I have transferred and created a computer record of all this information and supplemented it with information from the various census, LDS records and BMD records. Although I am still in the final throes of editing the computer file, I am quite happy to share this information with any person who is interested. Eventually, when I am happy with the information I plan to send a copy to the Newport records office along with a copy to the IOW FHS.
David Groves (IWFHS Member 2016) Click for email address

Buckinghamshire Research
I have fairly easy access to Bucks resources. The parish records are in my local library and other archives are nearby in Aylesbury. I am less than an hour from Kew and would willingly look up something there when I go if I have fairly clear instructions. Although I must say that I have had no luck with first world war service records so far for my grandfathers.
I have transcripts of most of the available parish records for Cilcain, Flintshire (rather a limited audience for these I should think).
Maz Lewis, Mem. 2094, Email: Click for email address

Hemel Hempstead
I can offer assistance if anyone needs it in the Hemel Hempstead area of Hertfordshire.
Carolyne Downer-Smith, Mem.0686, Email: Click for email address

LOOKUPS in AUSTRALIAN RECORDS
Mrs Yvonne Doornekamp,(Mem.1830) has offered to help members with their Australian research by looking up the following records in each state in Australia. She says, "Members must know which state they want the lookup in. I have many other records. I can do further research if members wish me to but I would need to charge a research fee for research, initial look-ups are free."
VICTORIA
Births 1836-1920, Marriages 1836-1942 Deaths 1836-1985,Inquests 1840-1985
Marine Births Deaths & Marriages 1853-1920
QUEENSLAND
Births 1829-1919, Marriages 1829-1939, Deaths 1829-1954.
NEW SOUTH WALES
Births 1788-1918, Marriages 1788-1955, Deaths 1788-1975.
TASMANIA
Births 1803-1905, Marriages1803-1919, Deaths1803-1919.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Births 1841-1905, Marriages 1841-1930, Deaths 1841-1980.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Births 1842-1922, Marriages 1842-1927, Deaths 1842-1966
To contact Yvonne Doornekamp: Click for email address

For further help on Australian research go to this website. www.doors-to-the-past.com.au

DASHWOOD
I am currently researching my DASHWOOD ancestry and I have gathered a lot of BMD information on various DASHWOODS living in the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth. However I would be pleased to hear from anyone who has any DASHWOOD family history or general information on any DASHWOOD collected as a result of their own research into their ancestry. Also I would be pleased to hear from anyone who has DASHWOOD ancestry. With thanks,
Martin Brown Mem. 1602 Click for email address
(Submitted 27.02.2003)

CLARKE/CLARK
I have a very large database of CLARKE/CLARK family records (thanks to a chap in Croydon who is related and who has done all the research!) The history comprises of some 500+ pages of CLARKE data. Including all the census extracts for the Island, all B/D/M from mid 1500's until around 1920. There are Legal documents, some Wills, records pertaining to some of our maritime ancestors - you name it! Clarke families unrelated are also included . I would like to share this information with anyone else who has an interest in the CLARKE surname, and would always like to hear from others with an interest in the name.
Angela McMurtry Member No 1251 Click for email address

MATTHEWS
I am researching the MATTHEWS name on the Isle of Wight and have PC-held files of all instances of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials, census returns and Wills recorded at the Records Office and Myddleton House. The first baptism was recorded in 1569 and over 1,000 of us have been born on the island since. I would be very pleased to help anyone, and in turn they help me piece together all this information into families and family trees.
Jon Matthews, Dove Cottage, 23 St Andrews Street, COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT, PO31 7DF Email: Click for email address

BLUECOAT CHARITY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (1761-1902) in Newport.
The records of the Bluecoat Charity School for Girls contain over 1,000 name references, including, ages, parents, abode, their lives at school and where they went after leaving, also the Mistresses and Matrons. I have researched and indexed these records and am willing to find all references to a given surname.
Mrs Ann Barrett, Click for email address

"SOLDIERS DIED IN THE GREAT WAR"
This is now available on CD-ROM : I have a copy of it and it's been extremely useful : I'd be willing to do searches on it for specific individuals for the price of a 1st class stamp. Bigger searches (e.g. everybody who died in France!) are not feasible.
ARMY ROLL of HONOUR - World War II" - I also have this on CD-ROM, and will search this too on request.
Geoffrey Allan, 2 The Lawn, Spencer Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 2NU Mem.No.392, Click for email address

WALKER FAMILY
I have extensive information on the WALKER family on the Isle of Wight from c1550-1900. I have indexed this information and am willing to do lookups for any member who is interested.
Christina Gemmell, Mem.No. 241. Click for email address

DANIEL/CLARKE/GOODE + Godshill Primary School
My great-parents, Edwin Daniel (1841-1911) and Eliza (née Clarke) (1844-1912) retired to Whitwell, Isle of Wight, to be near their eldest son, Edwin, whose wife Laverna (née Goode) was Mistress of Godshill Primary School (1892-1921). Their children were Ernest Edwin and Cyril Benford. I have volunteered to transcribe onto CD the first of three school logbooks spanning this period to be deposited in the Record Office and at the school.
PS
I now have files (one downloadable in .pdf format) up on my website. These are a transcription of a document Mrs Jan Williams lent me from Godshill Primary School. It is a volume of memoirs compiled by the head teacher in 1987. I hope to add photographs at a later date. This is the address:
www.lendingtheway.com/GODSHILL.html
My database of Daniel genealogy is on my website
www.lendingtheway.com I can be contacted by letter: Dr Gwyneth Daniel, 107 Pauntley Road, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 3JJ. E-mail: Click for email address
(Submitted 08.10.2003)

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