Useful Resources

a guide to archives, libraries, books, etc.
to help with St Helena geneaology

incl. addresses for
* The Archivist, St Helena Government Archives
* The Registrar, The Legal and Lands Department, St Helena
and
* a list of St Helena Records available from the Family History Centres of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

India Office Family History Search, incl. St Helena records

- 300,000 births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials in the India Office Records
- biographical notes from a variety of sources
- St Helena data taken from: 
Mainly baptisms, marriages and burials 1767-1835. 
Also baptisms and deaths, 1737, 1747-1766; 
civil and military establishment 1780-1794; 
wills and inventories 1820-1826.

 http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/

 JUST PUBLISHED 

Colin Fox
The Bennett Letters: A 19th Century Family in St Helena, England and the Cape
(Gloucester: Choir Press, 2006)

ISBN 0-9535913-8-7

1679 Settlers - Signatures   [jpg file]
  A page from the 'St Helena Records' for 1679, showing the signatures or marks of settlers. 
A transcription will be added.

Saints in British 1881 Census   [zip file]
 REVISED & EXPANDED (Jan. 2002)
(contributed by Ian Bruce)
A full list of all Saints and other members of the same household included in the British 1881 census.

Passengers & Soldiers - Ship Batavia 1813
(contributed by Christine Adams)
List of Passengers and Soldiers as Mustered at Mountebank 18th April 1813.
Embarked 1st April 1813.

1673 Settlers
 ‘A List of Passengers ordered on Board the Two Shipps for St Hellena 1673’
 (transcribed here for the first time from the EIC’s records)

Company's Civil Servants 1785
 (contributed by Marian Press)
A list of the Company's Civil Servants at their settlement in the Island St. Helena, 1785.

1814 Census
(contributed by Christine Adams)
A census of the inhabitants, their slaves and their livestock.
!! very large HTML file !!

Houses and Residents c.1815-1821
A list of the principal houses of the island and
their occupants during the captivity of the Emperor Napoleon
(from G.C. Kitching, A Handbook and Gazetteer of the Island of St Helena)

Company's Officers 1816
 (contributed by Colin Fox)
A list of the Honourable East India Company's Officers at St Helena, 1816.
 

also ...

 Napoleon's St. Helena
(by Ted Wildy, courtesy of GENUKI)
A complete index of names, both on and off the island, mentioned in
Napoleon's St Helena by Gilbert Martineau (1968).
 

non-HTML formats (ie. RTF, MS EXCEL, GEDCOM, etc)
which can be opened directly or saved to disc

Hodson
(contributed by Colin Fox)

Isacke
(link [inactive] to external site; incl. GEDCOM file)
Genealogy of the Isacke Family of  England to St. Helena Island to the United States

Seale
(link to external site)
The Seale family database

Yon
(contributed by Robert Yon - file revised 2002)
Births to Father/Mother of Surname Yon -
St Helena Birth Records 1835-1898

Yon
(contributed by Robert Yon)
Marriages - Either Partner with Surname Yon -
St Helena Marriage Records 1835-1920
 

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