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St Blasius Crib Festival is now in its fifth year. This years "Christmas Cribs" held in early December 2010 featured Cribs from different parts of the world. They come in all shapes and sizes from tiny miniature cribs to cribs over four feet tall. Ray Dyke's model of “Bethlehem” as always, was very popular with the children.
Click here for a pdf showing pictures taken at the 2008 Festival.
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We have produced some information that we hope you will find useful and interesting for any research into your family history. The files are in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. If you need the pdf reader please click here
RESEARCHING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY?
For further information, the IOW Record Office has an extensive collection of parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials from 1539 onwards as well as churchwardens accounts and vestry minutes. Title deeds, account books, surveys and maps of estates are available and records of inmates of the workhouses and electoral registers can be viewed.
There are maps from 1862, County Press newspapers from 1884 (on microfilm) and census returns as well as school records and prints and photos of the Island. The staff are very helpful – just sign in and they will assist you. There is no fee to search.
The Record Office is at 26 Hillside (between Fairlee Road and The Quay in Newport) and the telephone number is 01983 823820.
Isle of Wight Record Office Website
County Archivist
Isle of Wight Record Office
26 Hillside
Newport
PO30 2EB
By 'phone:
01983 823820 or 01983 823821
By email:
record.office@iow.gov.uk
