Ok this is driving me insane. George Phillip Bennett married Ann Morris off the Island in 1882, they had Helen Mary Bennett in 1885 in Ryde. Some time after 1885 and before 1893 George Phillip Bennett Died. I know this because Ann Morris Married Charles Albert Jolliffe on 3 Nov 1894 and she was a widow. Do you think I can find any reference to his death anywhere? NO! So before I go totally insane waiting for the very kind people at the IOW family History society to transcribe the death register, (I wouldn’t' know about the second marriage if it wasn't for there marvellous efforts so far) is there some way someone can have a peek for me and see if he is there? HELP ! Ian --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.618 / Virus Database: 397 - Release Date: 09/03/2004

Hello List,. Most grateful to the list members who have responded to my request for information about the East Cowes Gas works, Thank you all, Regards, Graham Teall.

Hello list, I am trying to find out the details of the marriage between John DYER and Mary ELSBURY (or ELSBURY ADAMS) which took place in St Marys Church, Portsea, on 31 Oct 1824. If anyone has access to the original transcript, could they please do a look up for me. I believe they both come from the IOW but seem to remember reading somewhere that sometimes people from the island got married in Portsea. Thanks, Sally.

Hello Graham Further to the reply on the site of the Gas works, I think the move to kingston was at the end of the war (1939-45). I hope this might help. Bob ferguson

Hi Listers, I would be grateful if anyone has any information on Edith Dyer b. 1823 Chillerton and Peter Burt b.1820 Newchurch. Edith, daughter of Jacob Dyer and Mary Barnes. Regards, Lorraine McMillan Canada

Hello Graham, I went in to East Cowes Heritage Centre yesterday and asked about the gasworks. They were built in 1859 and were sited in Clarence Road. Apparently there was an explosion there in 1862 when 2 people were killed. The works were resited in Kingston Road in the 1920s or 30s and the original site then became a boat yard and is now part of the GKN factory site (previously known as BHC then Westland Aerospace). I don't know where the manager's house was. For a map showing the Gasworks in 1866 go to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ and enter "East Cowes". When the map comes up, enlarge it to "1" and then recentre using the red arrows - three times using the bottom arrow and once using the left arrow. The road coming in from the bottom right is Yarborough Road and the one from the top right is Osborne Road, meeting at Clarence Road opposite the Gasworks. I hope this helps, Janet Griffin ----- Original Message ----- Subject: [IoW] East Cowes Gasworks. 1860-1870. Hello List, My grandfather, William Wood TEALL. Married Ellen TUTTON, at Northwood Parish Church IoW , April 3rd 1864. Their daughter, Clara Jane, was born March 26th 1865. She was baptised at the Parish Church Northwood IoW, the date entered in the church's baptisms register is April 31st.(is the IoW that Different?) On all the certificates my grandfathers address was given as the Gas House, East Cowes. His occupation , Gas Manager. I am hoping to find someone, who may be able to help me find out some thing about the gas works in the above period, is the house still standing, is there any thing left of the gas works.? I would be most grateful for any information. Regards, Graham Teall.

hi I'm working on the Warder family that seem to be spread from yarmouth to cowes on the IoW and i have come accross the marriage of George Warder to rebecca Hatton that says bondsman john hatton of newport at the very end... is this likely to be the father and his job? the others from around this period (1770's) don't seem to put more than the names of the people marrying so i find this unusual... can u help? Freeserve AnyTime - HALF PRICE for the first 3 months - Save £7.50 a month www.freeserve.com/anytime

A cousin with MEW ancestry has sent me this reference for the surname. In his own research he hadn't previously come across any record of a Manor of Mew, and I'm wondering whether anyone can enlighten us. Thanks Ron Duninng "Spelling variations include: Mew, Mews, Mewes, Meux, Mewis, Muse, Mewsse, Mowse, Meaux and many more. First found in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire where they were anciently seated as Lords of the Manor of Mew, some say from the time of the Norman Conquest, but more likely to be from the 12th or 13th century when the first Flemish industrialists entered England."

hi all thanks guys for 'manner' being a mispelling of 'mariner' cheryl. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband

Dear Listers, Please does anyone have any further information on the following people that I have found on a very useful I sle of Wight website about " coastguards I O W ". The people are listed as follows :-- 1 / Edward GRAHAM 54 East Cowes Census 1861 ( born in Ireland ) 2/ William MAXWELL Bembridge Census 1841 405 / 7 3/ James THOMAS 35 Freshwater / Niton Census 1841 / 51 / 61 and baptisms 4/ Richard THOMAS Chale 1848 / !849 One of my husband's great grandparents was born into a coastguard family and as they kept moving to different coastal locations we are having a few problems tracing details. I'm hoping that even locating in-laws could help us out. Hopefully Irene

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:54:46 EST, you wrote: >Hi there C&C >Did a search on the new search engine www.poodle.com. >The island you refer to is about 2 nautical miles west of Flaripool, a tiny >outcrop of barren volcanic rock. >In 1881 there was only 1 inhabitant - >A C Gull Head Married 56 lighthouse keeper...born Eastleigh > >Flaripool can only be seen for about 12 hours after the 31 March equinox. >Hope this helps >Linda & Tony *A* Sea Gull the only inhabitant!! I love it. Don

ref William Bull and Jenny Young married 1763. My ancestor John Grapes married a Hannah Bull who was born in 1775 and married 1797 at Brighstone. Could this be one of the children of William and Jenny. I would be grateful for any information and also if i can help with anything further let me know Andy Grapes

To All including Web Master Please note change of e-mail address from 2 April 2004. Will be chavinore@aol.com Look forward to still hearing from friends and relations and reading the Digest Yvonne Moore

First, I made an error in my previous request. It was the 1891 census, not the 1881 census, that showed Olive M PHILLIPS as the niece of Louis S WILLCOCKS and Sarah A WILLCOCKS (nee SMITH, married 2Q1888, b. 1Q1863). Since she was shown in 1891 census, it is unlikely that your Olive M PHILLIPS age 3 mo in 1891 is the same family, but could be a cousin of the one visiting Portsea age 4. As for WILLCOCKS females in the same family as Louis Squire WILLCOCKS, they have to fit between Oct 23 1852 when Henry John WILLCOCKS married Julia SQUIRE and 4Q1864 when he died. So far, the known children in this family are all male and all have the middle name Squire: Edmund Squire WILLCOCKS b. 4Q1856, Arthur Squire WILLCOCKS b. 4Q1860 and Louis Squire WILLCOCKS b. 3Q1863. Possibly the gap between 4Q1852 and 4Q1856 is filled by Henry William Squire WILLCOCKS b. 3Q1854, who was in Harwich, Essex, in 1881-1882, and the gap between 4Q1856 and 4Q1860 could be occupied by twin brothers Henry J WILLCOCKS and Thomas W D WILLCOCKS both b. 3Q1858. No female WILLCOCKS found in this period. Between 3Q1863 and 3Q1865, no female or male WILLCOCKS on FreeBMD yet. In fact neither Edmund Squire nor Louis Squire are yet on FreeBMD though a transcriber has given me their details and has submitted them, as well as my own lookups from 1997. At this point, I don't know of any female WILLCOCKS in this family that could have married a male PHILLIPS and gone to Bonchurch IOW to have their kids! Admittedly there may be a few WILLCOCKS entries in this period that haven't yet been entered, so I can't say for sure there aren't any. One other Olive PHILLIPS d. Jun 1895 age 0. There aren't any suitable births on FreeBMD yet, but one Olive Phillips d. age 0, I. Wight, in Mar 1886 (may be my Olive's predecessor? There's an Olive May b. Jun 1890, I. Wight, that is probably yours. Thanks again for your help and for previous requests you have done for me. Regards Martin Willcocks Taylorsville, UT, USA Dave Peach wrote: > Hi Martin > > only one Olive M PHILLIPS shown on 1891 census but aged 3 > months,b.Brading,d/o Robert 45 and Kate 36,there is a 4 year gap between 2 > of their children (James 16& Sydney 12),perhaps a previous Olive M fitted in > there but had died? > > Could she not have been the daughter of a WILLCOCKS female who married a > PHILLIPS? > > regards Dave

Hi all: I'm looking for any available information on Olive M PHILLIPS b. 1877 Bonchurch IOW (as she appeared in 1881 census age 4 as niece of Louis S WILLCOCKS and Sarah A WILLCOCKS) Sarah's maiden name was SMITH. For Olive to be her niece, she had to have had a sister who married a Mr. PHILLIPS, probably around 1885-6 or earlier. Does anyone have the capability to look her up on the 1891 census, when she would have been 14, and probably still at home? Or can SKS find a baptism record (none on IGI) for Bonchurch? Thanks and regards Martin Willcocks Taylorsville, UT, USA.

If anybody has any other information on Prail Island we would be grateful as cannot find anything via Search Engines. Chris and Caroline WIDGEONS ATLAS OF THE BRITISH ISLES Prail island, is a tiny island was once part of the British Isles and until 1944 was used as a staging post for German and Italian prisoners of war, that had been transported to the UK from the continent. The island consisted of an area of approximately forty acres of pastureland situated about eight miles south of the Isle of Wight, in the English Channel, and was once a part of the Channel Islands. Discovery of this island was made by Captain Nathaniel Cleaver on the 19th March 1644 , while the Civil war was raging in England. He was sailing back to England from France having just kept a secret rendezvous with French politicians who favoured Cromwells Parliamentatians. The French had donated twelve tons of gunpowder and some small portable cannon to Cromwell and it was Cleavers mission to collect them and land unobserved in Dorset. But during the night a storm blew up and forced the ship off course where it ran aground on rocks that had not been recorded on the charts. During 1943 - 44 over eight hundred German Officer prisoners of war were held here in wooden huts surrounded by a barbed wire enclosure. A minimum contigent of guards were needed as the nearest land was the Isle of Wight which lay several miles away. Though records show that a number of attempts to escape were made. One of the most notorious of Germany's Panzer Generals, General Wolfgang Dieter von Krumpf was held here before being shipped to London for interrogation. It was during this interrogation that the allies first learned about Hitlers scheme to used chemical weapons against London. The camp was closed down at the end of 1944 and the island was put back to its natural state. The great storm of October 1952 did much damage to the island, and due to the strong fast tides that this storm created most of the cliffs crumbled and fell into the sea. All that remains today is a small pile of rocks that lie just below the surface of the English Channel and is known as the Solent Reef. --- All of our outgoing mail is checked and certified Virus Free by regularl updates Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.647 / Virus Database: 414 - Release Date: 29/03/2004

Hi there C&C Did a search on the new search engine www.poodle.com. The island you refer to is about 2 nautical miles west of Flaripool, a tiny outcrop of barren volcanic rock. In 1881 there was only 1 inhabitant - A C Gull Head Married 56 lighthouse keeper...born Eastleigh Flaripool can only be seen for about 12 hours after the 31 March equinox. Hope this helps Linda & Tony

Hi George, My g.g.Grandmother was Elizabeth Groves b. Nov 19, 1832 Godshill and her parents were Jacob Groves and Jane. This is all the information I have on my Groves. Regards, Lorraine McMillan Canada

This is a message for Pat Horwood who sent a email regarding the Warder family and lighthouses they worked in... I'm a direct descendant of the warder family and would love to swap info could prob even send u photos of the places they lived. I lost ur email address when i saved this message below and would love to chat about this family! Michele Cantwell ----- Original Message ----- From: "pat horwood" To: Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:00 AM Subject: [IoW] Warder > > Thank you for my first e-mail from you. > > I am researching the Warder family and would be pkleased to have any information > > George Warder was born 1806 in Hampshire > Married to Ann Dore born Brixton 1807 > Asst Lighthouse Keeper The Needles UK > > Their son George Hatcher Warder was born 9 July 1838 at South Street, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight > > (listed in 1851 Census) > > I would like to have more information about this family - anything at all - Is there a photo of th lighthouse available. > I would be happy to pay any costs involved > > I have details of the family from then until now and would be happy to send it on to anyone in Isle of Wight who might be interested. > > Thanking you > > Pat Horwood > > Freeserve AnyTime - HALF PRICE for the first 3 months - Save £7.50 a month www.freeserve.com/anytime

Hello Rob, I have found the baptism for your Francis BUSH in the card index at the Record Office (there are very few BUSH cards in the index). He was baptised at Ventnor Roman Catholic Church on 11 Feb 1894, the son of George and Ruth BUSH. Ruth was Ruth Ann Maria BULL who married George Henry William BUSH at Newport Roman Catholic Church in 1876. I have been researching the descendants of my husband's 5 x great grandparents, William BULL and Jenny YOUNG, who were married at Whitwell in 1763. I think that Francis BUSH may be their great, great grandson. I would be pleased to learn more of the BUSH branch of the family. Best wishes, Janet Griffin ----- Original Message ----- Subject: [IoW] Re: BUSH Isle of Wight. Hi, Is there anyone on the Island that can help me by looking up the birth of Francis BUSH, born I think January 1894. Not sure where on the Island, but could be NEWPORT District, if possible could you also let me know his Parents names, Father thought to be George Bush. Religion Possibly R.C. Many thanks for your time. Rob. West Sussex. UK ______________________________