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 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/
THE ST HELENA GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES
&
THE ST HELENA GOVERNMENT LEGAL, LANDS ETC.
DEPARTMENT
some users found that they never got a reply
to their letters, so be warned
The Archivist
The St
Helena Archives
The Castle
Jamestown
Island of St Helena
South Atlantic Ocean
phone: +290 - 2470 (Castle switchboard)
fax: +290 - 2598 (Castle)
Archivist's e-mail: lacosta@sainthelena.gov.sh
see website
for details of holdings and of services on offer
also visit the Museum
of St Helena website |
The Registrar
Legal, Lands & Planning Department
Government of St Helena
Essex House
Jamestown
Island of St Helena
South Atlantic Ocean
phone: +290-2270 / fax: +290-2454
e-mail: Seo.admin@legalandlands.gov.sh |
 ST
HELENA RECORDS
A list of mainly East India Company records available on microfilm from
the Family History Centres of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints.
Janisch's classic Extracts
from the St Helena Records is available online.
(N.B: although called 'Extracts', Janisch did not always quote the
original, instead summarising or even commenting on the 'records'). |
ARCHIVES
OF THE CHURCH OF THE PROVINCE OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN (incl. ST HELENA)
- University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg
Includes the following:
AB2073mfm C.P.S.A. Diocese of St. Helena
Parish registers and indices, 1680-1986. 7 reels
microfilm (16mm) 2 sets.
Includes the following parishes: St. James 1680-1938,
St. John's 1862-1947, St. Matthew's 1862-1974, St. Paul's Cathedral 1830-1954,
Garrison Chapel 1859-1905.
Also gravestones and memorials of St. Helena 1686-1975,
registers of Tristan da Cunha 1835-1857; registers of St. Mary's, Ascension
Island 1839-present, index of burials and copies of letters 1839-1986.
Index available.
E-mail: Carol Archibald |
| ST HELENA GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS
A computer data base of all surviving gravestone inscriptions on St
Helena from the 18th century until 1994. For information, contact
Urs and Sue Steiner (Switzerland) at: ussteiner@freesurf.ch |
ST
HELENA RECORDS AT THE LIBRARY OF THE SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS
An institute list of recent additions to the Society of Genealogists'
London based library and documents collection. |
there is an Ascension island genalogy website at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~shnai/inde.htm
but the site is rather incomplete at present
the following site is highly recommended
The St Helena Virtual Library
and Archives
This site provides searcheable, electronic versions of literature related
to St. Helena and also maps and views. The emphasis is on the older, more
scarce, St. Helena material (books published prior to 1900; maps and views
published prior to 1800). Books that deal only, or mainly, with Napoleon's
exile on St. Helena are not included.
Contents of the Virtual Library
Books: Complete text and illustrations of pre-1900 books exclusively
about St. Helena.
Partial Books: Complete text and illustrations of pre-1900 books that
are partially about St. Helena.
Maps and Views: Early (mostly pre-1800) maps and views of St. Helena.
Miscellaneous Documents.
Other Islands: Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
An
Introduction to the Honorable East India Company's Records
by M.S.Baddeley
Historical Researcher
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PUBLISHED ST HELENA FAMILY HISTORIES
Arnold Chaplin
A St. Helena Who’s Who or A Directory of the
Island during the Captivity of Napoleon
(London, 1919)
Edward Carter
The Dovetons of St. Helena
(Cape Town, 1973)
Robert Colquhoun
Yamstocks, Brushmakers and Latter-Day Saints:
The Isackes of St Helena and their Descendants
(London, 1998)
Colin Fox
The Bennett
Letters: A 19th Century Family in St Helena, England and the Cape
(Gloucester: Choir Press, 2006)
Philip F. Skottowe
The Leaf and the Tree: The Story of an English
Family
(Chippenham, 1963) |
OTHER PUBLISHED RESOURCES
John Titford
'Settlers of the Old Empire: The South Atlantic
Islands - St Helena'
Family Tree Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 9, July 1998
Alan Day
St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
[World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 197]
(Oxford, 1997) ISBN 1-85109-272-2
Brian S. Smith
A Guide to Manuscript Sources for the History
of St Helena
(Todmorden, 1995) ISBN 1-871132-15-0 |
THE ST HELENA INSTITUTE
BOOKSHOP
books about
St Helena,
Ascension Island,
and Tristan da Cunha
available
for purchase online
(some
books at a discount)
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Old genealogists never die, they
just lose their census.
(Anon.)
It is indeed a desirable thing to
be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
(Plutarch)
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