The following Links to Websites
have been sent to the Society for inclusion on this page. They are
produced by a variety of organizations on the Island, both
commercial and private and have valuable information about the
Isle of Wight. The information on any of these sites cannot be
guaranteed by the Society and anyone using them is urged to use
them as a guide to research only. If you know of any other sites
that would be useful for Isle of Wight research please feel free
to send them to me, the Webmaster, Geoff Allan. Click for email address
Latest entry
| | Site Author | Description | Website | Contact | Verified |
| Principal Isle of Wight web sites | | | |
| Record Office - Isle of Wight |
IW Council |
The Record Office website has recently been revised. |
www.iwight.com/library/record_office/
default.asp |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
| Register Office - Isle of Wight |
IW Council |
If you need to register a birth or death, arrange a marriage
or civil partnership, this is the website to go to to find out
more. Copies of Certificates may also be obtained. |
www.iwight.com/council/
departments/registrars/ |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
| Other sites of interest - in
alphabetical order by subject - new sites are often added | | | |
Latest entry :
The Abbotts of Canterbury |
Jenny Randall
|
Although the title implies that it is primarily about Canterbury, it is quite specific about one branch of the family that broke away and moved to the Isle of Wight.
Robert Holford Abbott moved to Newport on the Isle of Wight in the 1860s and was the proprietor of the Grapes Inn at Newport. His family (a large one) all married on the Isle of Wight and raised their families there.
|
http://www.the-abbotts-of-canterbury.com/ |
See website |
21 November 2011 |
| Customs Officers in Cowes |
Steve Holden |
This has been compiled by Steve Holden from a search of
Customs and other archives. It is by no means complete, but does
give a large number of names between the 1650's and 1930's
(although there are a few outside this period). It also contains
some Excise Officers, although fewer records appear to have
survived, and Coast Guards until 1830. This is a continuing
project. Steve would be interested to hear from anyone who
has served as Customs and Excise Officers on the Island, or has
had relatives who have done so. |
www.customscowes.co.uk/ |
Click for email address |
6 July 2009 |
East Cowes Heritage Centre |
|
East Cowes Heritage was formed in 1992 by members of the East Cowes Group of the Isle of Wight Society.
With help from the Rural Development Commission, the present centre was opened in 1996. |
www.eastcowesheritagecentre.org.uk/
|
eastcowesheritage@onwight.net |
2 Feb 2010 |
| East Cowes Cemetery (Kingston) |
Friends of East Cowes Cemetery |
This website contains details of many of the burials which have been
transcribed from the registers held by Bereavement Services at
the IW Crematorium. A start has also been made on researching
the lives of those who are buried in the Cemetery. The research
and surveys etc will eventually be deposited at the East Cowes
Heritage Centre.
If anyone has information or photos of those buried at Kingston
Cemetery we would be pleased to include them on the website and
at the Heritage Centre.
The website is due to be replaced in 2009. |
www.friendsofeastcowes.org.uk |
Janet Griffin
Click for email
address |
|
|
Google Books |
Google |
Many of you will know of Google's massive digitisation project for out of print and rare books. A number of Island books have been digitised and can be downloaded for free.
These include :
Vectis Scenery in the Isle of Wight (Brannon, 1831)
A topographical and historical guide to the Isle of Wight (Sheridan, 1833)
An earlier entrant in this field was the Gutenberg Project (see below), which also has several Isle of Wight books available |
Google Books |
|
15 Sep 2009 |
| The Gutenberg Project |
|
The Gutenberg Project started to transcribe classic books many years ago, making them available freely to download as text. They have now started to make images available too;
see for example:
Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight (Jarrold & Sons (eds.) (ca 1900) |
Project Gutenberg |
|
15 Sep 2009 |
| Hampshire Family History (including the Isle of Wight) |
Alan McGowan |
A very useful, easy to navigate and informative site for
finding information and pictures as well as the sources of
information on the parishes, churches, parish registers,
manorial records, maps and much, much more on the Isle of
Wight. There is also a section on Garrison Churches and a guide to TNA holdings (class WO156) of registers of births, marriages and deaths from the Garrison Churches |
website.lineone.net/~mcgoa |
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17 March 2010 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight Villages |
Chris & Caroline Hayles |
This Website has very interesting
profiles and photographs of an ever increasing number of villages
in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. |
southernlife.org.uk |
|
6 July 2009 |
| Hampshire Online Parish Clerk |
Linda and Tony Knight |
Contains searchable transcripts from parish Register entries submitted by researchers. |
http://www.knightroots.co.uk |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
| Historic Postcards - Isle of Wight |
|
This site contain a great deal of information and
pictures of the Island's past and access to other interesting IOW
sites. |
www.postcards.shalfleet.net/ |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
|
Historic Ryde Society |
|
The Historic Ryde Society was formed in October 2009 to raise funds towards a permanent visitor centre for the town.
The site gives a great deal of information on the Georgian and Victorian aspects of Ryde. |
http://historicrydesociety.com/ |
See website for contact form |
17 April 2010 |
| House of Industry |
Peter Higginbotham |
The House of Industry plays a very important part in Isle of
Wight History and family history. This site gives a very good
history of it, a plan of it and several excellent pictures. |
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/
IsleOfWight/IsleOfWight.shtml |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
| Industrial Archaeology Society - Isle of Wight |
IW IAS |
This web site has very interesting information about a large
variety of Isle of Wight subjects including the archaeological
work that has been carried out on the Island. There is also a
historical "Time line" of Island history.
|
www.iwhistory.org.uk |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
|
Island Eye |
|
"Discover the beauty, history and serenity of the Isle of Wight "
This site combines three types of information: Island History, Tourism and Events for the entire Island and surrounding waters.
|
http://www.islandeye.co.uk/ |
See Contact Us on the website |
3rd March 2010 |
Isle of Wight History |
Dr. Alan Champion |
Dr. Champion's website is a miscellany of links based on his exhaustive collection of Island-realted books, maps, prints and historical artefacts. |
http://www.iwhistory.com/
|
see website |
28 Mar 2011 |
|
Isle of Wight to Dunkirk |
|
The story of the Dunkirk Evacuation and the part played in it by Isle of Wight men
|
http://www.iowtodunkirk.com/ |
See Contact Us on the website |
17th May 2010 |
|
Isle of Wight Family Trees |
David Holmberg |
This site created by David Holmberg of Newport lists a number of family trees - surnames include
Jackson, Worsley, Jolliffe, Colenutt and Leigh.
|
www.islandweather.org/tree/index.php |
See Contact Us on the website |
30 March 2011 |
| Isle of Wight Photographers 1840-1940 |
Gordon Childs |
A growing database of photographers offering services on the Isle of Wight
c1840 - c1940. |
http://www.iowphotos.info/ |
See website for contact e-mail address |
3 March 2010 |
| Local History - Isle of Wight |
Ann Barrett |
Ann Barrett has put together a very useful website in which
she offers information from the considerable amount of research
that she has done at the IW Record Office on many topics
concerned with IW local history including Schools and Education,
Parkhurst Prison personnel, Coastguards and IW Railway
personnel. She has also done extensive research into several
Island names. |
http://www.annbarrett.co.uk/ |
Click for email address |
6 July 2009 |
| Monuments and Memorials - Isle of Wight |
Geoff Allan |
The website lists all the known War Memorials, and gives details
of the names inscribed, together with links to other information
including the Commonwealth War Graves records. Also included are
details of the monumental inscriptions from CWGC headstones for
those men and women who are buried on the Island. The website is
illustrated with photographs of most of the memorials.
In addition, there are also details of public monuments on the
Island.
The website can be searched by any keyword, e.g. place, name or
regiment. |
www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk |
Click for email address |
6 July 2009 |
| Northwood Cemetery (Cowes) |
Friends of Northwood Cemetery |
This website has been set up to represent the work of the Friends of Northwood Cemetery.
If anyone has information or photos of those buried at Northwood
Cemetery we would be pleased to include them at some stage on the website. Burial Records from 1856 can be searched. |
www.friendsofnorthwoodcemetery.org.uk |
Jon Matthews (Membership Secretary)
Click for email
address |
6 July 2009 |
| Northwood Village and Churchyard |
Northwood Village community |
This site has been created for Northwood Village but can be
of value to people searching for knowledge of the village and for
the graves of ancestors who were buried in the churchyard. The
work is still in progress. There is a link to the Burials data for St John's Church at Northwood. |
www.northwoodvillage.org.uk |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
| Parkhurst Heritage |
|
This site is about a museum at Parkhurst Prison.
Principal Officer John Kingsbury, and Officer Brian Manser,
working completely independent of the Prison service, have
successfully opened a museum, which is full of artefacts and
items of interest from the prison. It includes information about
the 'Parkhurst Boys', many of whom were sent to Australia.
Webmaster's note : The current status of the museum is not clear (2009) |
www.wightonline.co.uk/parkhurst-heritage/ |
|
6 July 2009 |
| Photographs by Herbert Marfleet |
John Marfleet |
This is a site that has been put together by John Marfleet who has reproduced
these photographs from the work of his ancestor, Herbert Marfleet, a photographer
based in the Broadway, Totland. Subject include West Wight scenes, and the V.A.D. camp at Osborne House.
This URL will lead you to two pages of thumbnail
pictures which can be enlarged by clicking on them.
John Marfleet can be contacted by freepost at Marfleet FHS,
FREEPOST, Huncote, Leicester, LE93BS |
web.ukonline.co.uk/
john.marfleet/person/cards/a_030a.htm |
See address given |
6 July 2009 |
| Pictures and Old Postcards - Isle of Wight |
Antony Barton |
This is a site full of pictures around the Island on
postcards which has been designed by Antony Barton, a member of
the IOWFHS. He would like more contributions to the collection. |
http://www.bartiesworld.co.uk/ |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
Public Houses, Inns & Taverns |
|
Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Isle of Wight, Hampshire.
The listing uses information from census, Trade Directories and History to add licensees, bar staff, Lodgers and Visitors. |
http://deadpubs.co.uk/IsleofWight/index.shtml
|
see website |
2 August 2011 |
| Ryde Social Heritage Group |
RSHG |
Originally created to research burials in Ryde Cemetery,
the Ryde Social Heritage Group, thanks to an LHI grant, has set up this site with all kinds of information
about the social history of Ryde. It is a work in progress and
will be updated on a regular basis. The burials data can be searched, and there are detailed cemetery plans to help locate a grave.
A valuable site for family historians with ancestors in the
Ryde area.
The cemeteries at Binstead at Ashey, and St Thomas's Churchyard in Ryde are now also being surveyed. |
www.rshg.org.uk |
See Contact page on website |
6 July 2009 |
| Ryde and area - street views |
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The Streets of Ryde, Binstead, Seaview, Bembridge, St.Helens,
Wootton and Ryde Coast. This website contains modern photographs of streets in the
these towns and villages. |
http://www.rydeiow.co.uk/ |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
| Shalfleet - Census details |
Steve Holden |
Census details from the Census 1841 - 1901, Parish records and other local information, compiled by Steve Holden. |
www.sources.shalfleet.net/index.htm/ |
Click for email address |
6 July 2009 |
| Surname Lists - Hampshire, IoW, Sussex |
Graham Jaunay |
The lists are now published in a searchable
database using a commercial supplier eCritical. You can search by
Surname (the string matches from the initial letters); place
(string matches any occurrance), County (pull down list), Status
N=New (only selection at present). The result listing is limited
in blocks of 15 |
www.list.jaunay.com/engnames/index.html. |
|
6 July 2009 |
|
UK Postcards |
John Elsbury |
John Elsbury from Auckland in New Zealand has published his collection of UK postcards from the beginning of the 20th century,
and this website contains many examples of Isle of Wight scenes. |
http://www.ukpostcard.co.nz. |
see website |
1 January 2011 |
| Victoria County History - Hampshire & The Isle of Wight |
|
An index to place names in the titles of topographical
articles in the published volumes of the Victoria County History.
The site in general attempts to provide some useful
resources for those researching medieval English ancestry,
including a guide to sources, classified lists of links to online
source material and medieval family histories, a hyperlinked
medieval calendar and other reference material, including a
collection of corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
in progress. |
www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/
vch/hampshire.shtml |
|
6 July 2009 |
| Wight Air Wrecks |
A T Gilliam |
This site is chiefly about a book that has been written on
air wrecks on the Isle of Wight. There are pictures of aircraft
and the men who flew them on the website. Several books on the subject
are mentioned and recommended. |
www.gdtp.freeserve.co.uk |
Click to contact |
6 July 2009 |
| Wootton Bridge Historical |
R Murphy and R Richardson |
This community web site has been created to ensure the historical information about our village is preserved before those who can remember,
are no longer around. In 2004 two local residents, namely Roy Murphy and Roy Richardson, decided there was a need for a permanent record of
village history and agreed to investigate the possibility of creating a historical web site, and this site is the revamped version of their efforts.
The site has now moved to a new location, and more information, including a galley of some 70 Isle of Wight Riflemen has been added. |
www.woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/ |
Click to contact |
9 August 2010 |
