Service Description: The Record Office preserves historical documents relating to the Isle of Wight and makes them available to the public for research. Our material spans the 12th - 21st centuries, and includes records of parish churches, estates, families, businesses, schools and local government.
Also known as:- Archives, County Record Office, Family History on the Isle of Wight, House History on the Isle of Wight, Records & Archives
Answer: The RECORD OFFICE keeps church registers of baptisms, marriages and burials dating from 1539 onwards. We have a Personal Names Index (on card), which records all the entries in these registers for the period 1539-1900. The REGISTER OFFICE can supply birth, marriage and death certificates dating from 1 July 1837onwards. The Isle of Wight Family History Society is in the process of indexing these records, and their database is available online. In addition, microfiche indexes to births, marriages and deaths for England are available locally at the Lord Louis Library.