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Resources Available in local libraries and archives

Navy List, 1889,1911, 1916 to 1976 /C
Navy List, 1936 to 2002, /L
Army List 1914 to 2001 /L
Airforce List 1966,1968 /C
Hampshire Genealogy Society Monumental Inscriptions for
Hill Lane,All Saints and St Marys,St Marks Sholing,Christ churh Highfield,
Church of the Ascension,St Lawrence,St Denys
Hampshire Family Historian 1974 to 1997
Southampton Voters Lists 1932 to Current (every year) including 1939 absent voters (including service numbers)
Southampton Kelly's, Trucker's ,and Steven's trade directory with many residential names/addresses 1839 to 1975 ,1948 MO
Kelly's IOW 1879 and 1914
Kelly's Andover 1950 to 1974
Ditto 1934 to 1974 most years SC
Kelly's Basingstoke 1952 to 1974
Ditto 1935 to 1974 ,most years SC
Kelly's Bournemouth and Poole 1926,1945 and 1952 to 1974
Ditto 1935 to 1975 most years SC
Kely's Christchurch 1955 to 1967
Ditto 1952 to 1975 ,gaps SC
Kelly's Portsmouth and Southsea, 1929,39,48 and 1953 to 74
Ditto 1918 and 1934 to 1976 most years SC
Kelly's Gosport 1923
Ditto 1934 to 1958 ,6 only SC
Kellys Winchester 1951,1960,1966 to 1973
Ditto (Clifton's) 1937 to 1973 ,gaps SC
Kelly's Hampshire and IOW 1855,57,59
Kellys IOW 1879,1924,Newport 1933-1937 (4),Ryde 1933 to 1951 (3) Shanklin,Sandown,Ventnor 1933 to 1951 (4) SC
Kelly's and White's Hampshire 1865,(78 + IOW),85,89,97 and 1898,1903,1907
Kelly's Hampshire,Wiltshire,Dorset and (Channel Islands 1911 only),1880,1915,1920,1923
Kelly's Hants and Berkshire 1927,31,
Kelly's Hants,Wilts,Dorset,CI 1935 and 1939
Winchester Commoners 1836 to 1890
Army List 1914 to 1941 and 1949 to 2001
Winchester Old Wykehamists to 1899
Registers of Winchester College 1836 to 1906
Hampshire Magazine 1960 to 2001 with Index for 1960 to 1996
Rate books for about 1920 to 1930 giving the name of the ratepayer and the house owner name.
Electoral Roll for Southampton from 1930s (earlier were never archived or were lost) to the year before the current year
Current , voter's lists (Electoral Roll) for Southampton (Itchen and Test) ,Waterside (Fawley,Totton),Romsey,Winchester,Fareham and Botley areas.


Newspapers on microfilm:-
The Independent 1990 - 1995
Chart,Musical Express,New Musical Express 1949 - 1971
The Times from 1785 to current (BM &D)
Sunday Times 1972 to current
London Gazette 1793-1856
Hampshire Advertiser 1827-1940
Echo Newspaper (Southampton) 1888- current
Southampton Times 1860-1925
Hampshire Chronicle 1772-1830 -U
Hampshire Chronicle 1772 to current year - W
Hampshire Advertiser 1823 to 1900 -W
Hampshire Observer 1877 to date - W
Winchester Echo - 1989 to date - W
Winchester Gazette Extra 1981 to date - W
Hampshire Independent 1836-1927
Southampton Observer and Winchester News 1869-1906
Northern Star (Leeds) 1838-1852
Southampton Herald 1823-1827
The Examiner 1808-1880
Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette 1753-1785
People's paper 1852-1858

Microfiches of indexed and transcribed 1851 census of Western Surrey (west of Dorking)
Microfiche transcipts and indexes of Surrey Parish Registers of Abinger,Wotton,Oakwood, Effingham,Fetcham,Betchworth and Headley
Microfiched transcripts and indexes of genealogical content of Surrey Archdeaconry Court of Surrey Wills 1480 to 1524,1529-1541,1559-1560,1639-1640

1846 map of Southampton may or may not be available on
http://map.southampton.gov.uk/gis/asp/MappingApp.asp?X1=440898&Y1=115803&X2=444268&Y2=109413&MOVE=&MODE=INITIALMAP&Raster=Historic%201846%20Southampton%20Map&EXTRALAYERS=239
My Other Personal Genealogy Pages are
Names,Dates and Places
Some early wills transcribed
I would be interested in establishing mutual exchange look-ups with people in the Norfolk and Kent areas familiar with their own county's archives. That is I look up material of interest in their studies but out of area in Hampshire in return timewise for them looking up material for me in Norfolk or Kent.

Hint for decoding some of the returned results on the 1901 census online. Go into source code and the hex number string after "person&key=" and the final sets of numbers that match , except for last number or two , relate to the same census record, the final digit or two varying with the position in that record , ie from"Head" down to youngest roughly. Anyone know how to translate any of the other numbers to folio & page number ?
Anyone using Firefox browser and http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ where the "frame advance" by number facility is corrupted go to the URL detail window and change the number/letter before .tif

Some examples of commissions I have completed for people around the world.

Obtaining details of the court case in 1827 that resulted in someone's ancestor being transported to Australia and then some family history relating to Overton ,Hampshire.
Establishing the best fit explanation behind why dozens of American Servicemen's names should be scratched on a wall in Southampton. This is written up on Southampton Graffiti
Establishing from evidence of heirloom spoons the nature of a families residence and business in Southampton 1860s to 1890s.
Discovering the recorded birth of an ancestor's twin in Southampton in the 1860s explaining a mystery in their family history.
Establishing from the vaguely remembered name and address ,details of a lost friend of someone in Portsmouth in 1950s.
From poorly remembered date and nickname establishing full details of someone's murder in Southampton in 1970s
Establishing the names and addresses of a family in Southampton and South Hampshire from 1930s to 1986.
Gaining a substantiated explanation of why there is a load of carved brick graffiti relating to Canadian scouts on a house in Southampton
Transcribing from the Catherine House Index all indexed births with rare surname born in England 1890 to 1926.
Establishing the identity of an English town and road on a victorian glass negative from a name associated with the slide - it turned out to be Wimborne ,Dorset

Exposing what purported to be a postcard from the Titanic before sailing on to its doom.
Showing detail from two areas of the card.
The address on the card, supposedly the mother of a Southampton crewman was bogus. The cancellation font looks wrong for 1912 and then the vast majority were roundels. The use of a time-stamp on a cancellation in 1912 was technically possible but very unlikely but further philatelic enquiries would have to establish that. I could not view the original under a microscope to check on the 'ink' deposition but the main evidence was :-
The cancellation mark goes right up to and 'inside' the perforated edges of the stamp, see the 'O' of Southport in the top left hand corner and the upper line in the top right corner . I posited the 'ink' was pulled through from the picture side by the 5-6,000 volt transfer voltage of an old style, straight pass, laser printer. Rather than pushed by rubber stamp from the address side which always leaves a gap surounding the stamp because of the thickness of the stamp. Check yourself by looking at any current modern stamped and cancelled envelope, using inked stamp rather than ink-jet. Note this was a very light 'cancellation' - a heavily inked genuine cancellation will easily splurge and cary into this 'guard band' around a stamp.

To help anyone else , from the stonework on the small church near me in Southampton. Foundation stone of 1883 laid by an Edwin Jones,JP presumably of local department store fame and originally Primitive Methodist between Ivy Rd and Priory Rd. 1935 an extension built , inscription St Denys Methodist Church School Hall. For decades now its been happy-clappy New Testament Church of God Inc.