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Civil Registration of Births on the Isle of Wight 1837 - 2010.

Civil Registration of Marriages on the Isle of Wight 1837 - 2010.

Civil Registration of Deaths on the Isle of Wight 1837 - 2010.

Transcriptions of Churchyard inscriptions and Church Burial Registers.

Selected vital event entries for Islanders recorded in other counties and abroad.

Personal names appearing on Isle of Wight War Memorials (based on IW Memorials and Monuments website), together with indexes to those who served as named on Rolls of Honour or from other reports, especially reports of service in the local newspapers.

A subset of the War Service Reports based on the British Red Cross VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) records for Isle of Wight hospitals in WW I

This Poll Book gives the votes cast in the Elections for the parliamentary seats of the County of Southampton (i.e. Hampshire). This database is an extract of the Isle of Wight Divisions.

A list of men capable of militia service in the Parish of Calbourne, taken in 1803.

In effect this is a Census for the parish as it also names the families of these men.

A copy of the Enumerator's return for the 1811 Census, contained in the Overseers of the Poor minutes

This gives heads of household, with numbers of individuals in each household.

A transcription of the Enumerator's notebook from the 1821 Census in Ryde.

An index to the entries from the Whippingham Rate Books of 1845-48, compiled by D J Quigley.

Lists of Voters in the Borough of Newport, according to property qualification, or Freemen.

This Poll Book gives the votes cast in the Elections for the parliamentary seat of the Isle of Wight.

This transcription gives the lists of the Absent Voters registered in the Electoral Rolls of 1939. This in effect shows all the people eligible to vote who were not in residence on the qualifying date, and this represents (apart from a couple of exceptions) all those members of the uniformed services on active duty away from home. Many of those listed died during WW II, so this is a good source of information about servicemen and women at the time.

These index records are taken from the patients' medical records of the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Ventnor, and for the most part give details of patients who were sent to Ventnor from other parts of Great Britain. [Work in progress from 2017 - not yet completed]

Transcriptions from the Record Office Personal names Index for Burials 1537 - 1900

Details of Parish Register transcriptions

Details of Parish Register transcriptions

Details of Parish Register transcriptions

Details of Parish Register transcriptions

Records of Weekly meetings to disburse out relief

Quarterly returns of payments made to Paupers

Records of people apprenticed out from the House of Industry.
Source: transcribed from typescripts originally made by an unknown transcriber from the originals held by the Isle of Wight County Record Office.
This transcription made 2018 by the late Don Hayward and added to IWFHS databases.

Notices from IW Observer 1853-1900, IW County Press from 1885-1914 (in progress), and various other publications

Reports of Inquests, Trials, Marriages etc

A small selection of transcriptions of Wills from the 17th and 18th Centuries

At present we have the records for Chillerton and Parkhurst/Hunnyhill Schools (subject to 100 year closure)