My friend at work Gaynor is tracking her family history at the moment and was telling me about her latest discovery of her Husband's grandparents on IOW. After mentioning our link to IOW she offered to look up Arnell. Within a couple of minutes we'd pulled the information from the database -
Patricia Martha Arnell (Mother's name Coleman), born 1903, married Leonard William Smith in 1924, and it could have gone from them if I known then that Grandpa was born in Woking (thanks Dad).
With the recent success of shows like 'Who do you think you are?' family ancestry is now more popular especially as there is less need to visit records offices adn work through through huge registries as its all online. Click on the BMD Index (Births, Marriages & Deaths) and give it a try...
Isle of Wight History Society
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