Guide to the Collections held by the Isle of Wight County Record Office (as filmed by AJCP)
M2394
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Online Items
Series BRS. Blake Family papers, 1879 - 1880
Filmed selectively.
Letters from Leonard Blake, 1879 - 1880 (File BRS 411)
Leonard Blake, on board Forfarshire to Ruffin Blake, 8 July 1879 - 6 October 1879 (Item BRS 411/1)
Describes the voyage to New Zealand - bad weather, the other passengers and crew, death of children in steerage class, food, rescue of man overboard, ceremonies of crossing the line, catching albatrosses, in quarantine at Port Chalmer's Harbour due to death of child from diptheria. (16p, last page crossed).
Series JER. Jerome & Co. Solicitors of Steephill Chambers, Shanklin, 4 June 1863 - 13 September 1864
Power of attorney re household estates in England and the Isle of Wight, 4 June 1863 (File JER 942)
1) Ignatius Geary, formerly of Chelsea, London, late of Melbourne, Victoria and now of Arrow River District, Otago, New Zealand, gold miner...
Series ML. W. B. Mew Langton & Co. Ltd. Papers, 1901 - 1923
File of documents re reversionary interest of late John Stark in New Zealand Stock, 1901 - 1923 (File ML/58/4)
Documents include: schedule of documents; copy of will of John Stark, 16 May 1890; assignment of reversionary interest under the will of John Stark, by Joseph Richard Stark to W. B. Mew Langton & Co. Ltd., 18 Dec 1901; correspondence between Roach Pitts & Co., solicitors, Newport and W. J. Lake & Son, solicitors, London re Stark, 1902-1923...
Series WhP. White - Popham Family Papers, 1836
R. G. Wakefield, South Australian Commission, London, to Sir Richard Simeon, 15 July 1836 (File Whp 116)
States that they propose to offer 600 free emigrant passages to the colony and suggesting there might be suitable candidates on the Isle of Wight, gives details of type of emigrant required (4p.)