Hampshire & Isle of Wight Resources

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General

Hampshire Record Office

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives

Online catalogue search

http://calm.hants.gov.uk/


Hampshire Genealogical Society Website

http://www.hgs-familyhistory.com/

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Isle of Wight Resources

Isle of Wight Record Office

http://www.iwight.com/Residents/Libraries-Cultural-and-Heritage/Records-Office/Record-Office/Using-the-Record-Office

Isle of Wight FHS Website

www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk

Isle of Wight BMD 1837 onwards

http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/bmd/startbmd.htm

Isle of Wight Memorials

http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/

Ventnor Heritage Museum

http://ventnorheritage.org.uk/Museum/default.htm

Ryde District Heritage Centre now open, a lot of local info

http://www.historicrydesociety.com/

(thanks to Ann E for both these)

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Southampton

Southampton City Archives

http://www.southampton.gov.uk/s-leisure/artsheritage/history/archives/default.aspx

PortCities Southampton Explore the history of the Southampton Docks and the people who lived and worked at the port.

http://www.plimsoll.org

Southampton Directories

http://www.plimsoll.org/Southampton/streetdirectories/default.asp

Includes:
Cunningham 1811
Fletchers 1836, 1839

Post Office Directory 1843 - 1863 (every other year)
Cox's Street Directory 1871
Steven's 1884
Kelly's 1887, 1907 through to 1970 (irregular intervals)
Kelly's Directory 1912-13

Southampton Master Mariners Club

http://www.cachalots.org.uk

Highfield Local History

For parish/village information, transcribed street directories for Highifield, memorial inscriptions, school history and parish records (on the way).

http://www.HighfieldHistory.co.uk

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth History Centre

https://librariesandarchives.portsmouth.gov.uk/archive-service-and-history-centre/

Staunton Park Genealogy Centre

http://www.stauntoninfo.co.uk/index2.html

Portsmouth: Local History

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephen.pomeroy/local/local.htm
http://www.history.inportsmouth.co.uk/index.htm

Memorials & Monuments

http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/

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Local History

Hampshire - General

http://www.hantsphere.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=file&p=hants&f=hants.htm
http://www.southernlife.org.uk

Aldershot

http://www.aldershotcivicsociety.org.uk/html/bygone-aldershot.htm

Botley

http://mti.botley.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=181

Durley

http://www.durley.hampshire.org.uk

Farnborough

http://www.historicfarnborough.co.uk/

Froyle

http://www.froyle.com/welcome.htm

Gosport

http://www.gosport.info/History/history.html

Grayshott

http://www.grayshott-archive.org.uk/

Medstead

http://www.medstead.org/

Weeke

http://www.weekehistory.co.uk

West Tytherley

http://www.westtytherley.com/history/history.htm

Whitchurch

http://www.whitchurchhampshire.org.uk/archives.html

Isle of Wight

http://web.archive.org/web/20070509193542/http://members.lycos.co.uk/s0uthbury/index.html
http://www.southernlife.org.uk/wightind.htm
http://www.invectis.co.uk/iow/index.htm

Cowes & Isle of Wight Customs History

http://www.customscowes.co.uk/   

Wootton Bridge  Isle of Wight

http://woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/

Thanks to Shanko, Ann E, jmec73 among others

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Ryde - Ryde Social Heritage Group, includes links to grave database and cemetery maps

http://www.rshg.org.uk/

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Gazetteer

http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/hantgazf.htm

Maps

General county maps

http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/hantsmap.htm

Links to a variety of maps of all parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/ham.htm

Map of Winchester, 1925

http://www.artus-familyhistory.com/Winchester%201925/Main%2520map.html
(thanks to 0rinoco)

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Occupations

Brickmakers of the Isle of Wight


http://freespace.virgin.net/roger.hewitt/iwias/bricks.htm

Isle of Wight photographers

http://www.iowphotos.info/

Hampshire Constabulary - History Society

http://hampshireconstabularyhistory.org.uk/

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Burials, Cemeteries

Kingston Cemetery, Portsmouth

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2367320

Eastleigh

Searchable database of those buried in the cemeteries cared for by Eastleigh Council 1900 - 2012 (Eastleigh, Bishopstoke, Pine Road, Ramalley):

http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/our-community/cemeteries-in-eastleigh/cemetery-database.aspx

Fareham

Searchable database of burials in eight cemeteries in the care of Fareham Council from 1861 (Crofton, Fareham, Holly Hill, Roman Grove, St John's, St Paul's, Titchfield)

http://www.fareham.gov.uk/council/departments/leisure/parks/cemrecsearch.asp

Hedge End Cemetery

Map, indexed lists

http://www.hedgeendcemetery.hampshire.org.uk/

Romsey Abbey - gravestones

http://www.romseynet.org.uk/genealogy5.htm
(thanks to Springbok)

Southampton Old Cemetery

http://fosoc.net/html/southampton_old_cemetery.html