The Isle of Axholme Family History Society

Why not take a look at our Glass Slides page and few of the photos and see if there is anything that you find familiar. We would really like to know who the Vicar is who is on many slides along with his wife and children, because we think that it may have been him who was the main photographer of the slides. We also think that he may have come from somewhere in the North East of England as some of the slides show "Darlington" and a poster advertising a football match between "United and Jarrow" in the North-Eastern League, at the Victoria Ground on the 3rd of September (no year given), although a poster next to it shows a date of 1910.

Isle of Axholme 1841, 1851 & 1861 Census CD's now available

We have now completed producing a CD version of the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census transcriptions that cover the whole of the Isle of Axholme. It is a fully searchable database by either Surname or Household. The following parishes are included on the CD's. Althorpe, Amcotts, Belton, Crowle, Eastoft (Yorks & Lincs) Epworth, Garthorpe, Haxey, Luddington, West Butterwick, Owston Ferry & Wroot. Also covered are parts of the parishes of Adlingfleet, Ousefleet Reedness and Whitgift, as these are in the corner north of the Isle where the parish boundaries overlap with each other. The CD is now available from the Bookstall, and the price of these CD's will be £10 each (p&p for UK is 50p and the rest of the world is £1.00). We will be continuing the series with all the other census for the Isle in the near future, and we will still be producing the Census booklets for the individual parishes for those who require them in that format.

Journal on CD

The society has had all 79 of its journals dating back to 1987 digitised, and we have now put them altogether on a single CD which is available now from our Bookstall. It has been made searchable using Adobe Acrobat and will come with the latest edition of Adobe Reader. Many of the journals contain members interests from the Isle along with the regular family stories and info sent in by society members. The cost of the CD is £6.00, + 50p p&p(UK) and £1.00 for overseas postage, and is now available from our bookstall.

We seem to have had a very good response so far and many past and present members have sent for the CD. All the feedback we are getting tells us that the information contained on the CD has been very helpful in tracing other members researching the same surnames.

THE EPWORTH BELLS

'Hatches, Matches and Dispatches'

Part 1

A new booklet has been produced that includes all the Birth, Marriage and Death entries that can be found in the first editions of the Epworth Bells Newspaper from 1873 to 1879. Although there are only a few Births, there are 452 marriage and 825 death entries. Many of them also include details of other family members and relations that Parish Registers hardly ever contain. There are also some announcements for Isle folk that have moved to pastures new, 'Strays'. The booklet is now available on our bookstall and can be ordered on the Publications page.

1911 CENSUS NOW ON-LINE (but limited)

The 1911 census came on-line last night (12th Jan), but only a limited number of returns have been included. Looking down the list of counties the following have been included :-

Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire & Yorkshire - West Riding.

The following are not currently available :-

Wales: Anglesey, Brecknockshire, Carnarvonshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire.

England: Durham, Cumberland, Northumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, East Riding and North Riding

Other: Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Royal Navy (ships at sea at time of census), Military Establishments (overseas)

Prices are :- 40 Credits it will cost £5. If you want to view 1 transcription it costs 10 credits (£1.25) and to see the original census page it costs 30 credits (£3.60)

At these prices, it really does make you appreciate the average pricetag of £2.50 on our bookstall for census' and registry transcriptions. Lets just hope that other genealogy sites can let us have the same information at a lower price!

If you want a few tips on searching the 1911 Census, you will find a few on the Computer Zone / Internet link on the main menu

Our next meeting

We welcome old and new members to our next meeting which wíll be held on the 23rd September 2010 at the Wesley Memorial Hall in Epworth. Our speaker for the evening will be Rodney Cousins who will be giving us a talk about - 'Down Your Way'. Our Library and Bookstall will be open as usual, and light refreshments will be available. If you are not a member of the society, but just want to come down and see what a family history society is all about, you will be most welcome. We are very friendly and will try to advise the best we can.

Got Photo's or Documents...we want them!

We have recently taken on more internet space for the society and can now store more images of photographs and documents on the society web site. If you have any of the above that you would like to share with others researching their ancestry in the Isle of Axholme, send them into me at webmaster@axholme-fhs.org.uk and we will put them on the Photographs page.

Documents you could send in are scans of Birth, Baptism, Marriage Death and Burial Certificates. Scans of pages from Family Bibles, Diaries, Wills, Local Maps, Memoires, Membership Lists, Old Newspaper Cuttings Service Records etc.

Photographs accepted of People, Places, Events etc.

Please only send us items that are associated with the Isle of Axholme and its nearby villages.