Journal Contents - 1996

Contents of February 1996 Journal

Inside this issue

Article

Page No.

Editorial

1

Records of the IOW House of Industry

2

Cherry Stones – count down

5

The Isle of Wight Record Office

8

Microfiche held by the Society

11

Island parishes – Wroxall

12

Obituary – Miss Enid BAKER

13

Update to members’ interests

13

The Island past and present

14

The FOSS family at Newtown

16

West Wight Family History Group

25

The CHAMBERS family

26

Strays

28

A tangled web (B)

30

The WYATT connection

34

Letter from Social History Curator at Isle of Wight Museum

35

No baptism what can I do?

36

The SWEETMAN connection

42

PIGOT & Co.’s National Commercial Directory – Newport

44

The Gallipoli Campaign

49

YOUNGs of the Isle of Wight

50

Ryde Cemetery (plot numbers and burials)

52

St Lawrence marriages 1840-1898 out of county/parish

55

My LIN(N)INGTON research

56

The BARNES family Bible

57

Newchurch memories

58

The diary of Eldred DENHAM (continued)

60

New books

64

Help wanted

65

New members

66

Change of address

68

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Contents of May 1996 Journal

Inside this issue

Article

Page No.

Editorial

1

The COWDERY family in the Isle of Wight

2

The Mary Rose

8

The Titanic disaster

10

JEFFERY family reunion

11

The FOSS family at Newtown

12

The Island past and present

22

West Wight Family History Group

27

Why my ancestors were Islanders

28

DASH or DAISH?

30

Update to members’ interests

37

How to trace your family history (without a computer)

38

The NORRIS family of East Cowes

41

Island parishes – Yarmouth

42

PIGOT & Co.’s National Commercial Directory 1830 – Newport

46

The diary of Eldred DENHAM (continued)

50

Help wanted

54

New books

60

New members

61

Change of address

63

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Contents of August 1996 Journal

Inside this issue

Article

Page No.

Editorial

1

Ventnor and St Lawrence in South Africa

2

Searching for lost CHEVERTONs

5

Isle of Wight branch line

6

The STEBBING tree so far

9

Isle of Wight War Memorials – part 1

10

The Isle of Wight County Record Office

15

The Island past and present

16

West Wight Family History Group

19

PIGOT & Co.’s National Commercial Directory 1830 – Newport

20

Extracts from Arreton School logs 1863-1879

24

Niton – Tasmania

28

The FOSS family in Newtown

34

The advantages of publishing

50

Civil registration in England and Wales

52

Island parishes – Yaverland

54

The diary of Eldred DENHAM (continued

56

New books

60/62

Update to members’ interests

62

Help wanted

64

New members

66

Change of address

68

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Contents of November 1996 Journal

Inside this issue

Article

Page No.

Editorial

1

An update on the unusual memorial jug

2

USHER syndrome – the Isle of Wight connection

4

Census returns of England and Wales

6

The FOSS family in Newtown

10

The journey to work in the twentieth century

21

British 1881 census index

22

Arreton School log

26

Stray marriages

29

PIGOT & Co.’s National Commercial Directory

30

Gatcombe marriages 1837-1901 out of county/parish

38

West Wight Family History Group

39

A Homely Record

40

A trip to Aldwych

44

Isle of Wight War Memorials – part 2

46

Private Theodore DRUDGE (1883-1917)

54

How many generations?

56

New books

57

Update to members’ interests

58

Help wanted

61

New members

63

Change of address

64

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