This is a comprehensive study of the early history and inhabitants of Isle of Wight County. It begins with a graphic description of the early settlers--including accounts of Quakers and Cavaliers--and is followed by detailed histories of the various Isle of Wight families. Nearly 200 pages of this voluminous work are devoted to abstracts of deeds, land records, and quit rents. Besides a place and subject index, the work further includes a 38-page name index of several thousand entries.

"The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own local roadsteads and a unique double tidal system. This geography has shaped the area's history. Southampton's docks, located on Southampton Water to the north-west, had become the country's largest civilian port by the mid-twentieth century. Just north-east across the stretch of water called Spithead is the island city of Portsmouth with its ideal natural harbour. This was an internationally important port for over three hundred years, while the whole area has been places of naval significance on the world stage for even longer. From when Queen Victoria bought Osborne House in 1845 and had it remodeled as an Italianate mansion the Isle of Wight became a hub of Victorian society. The Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson lived at Freshwater, while Charles Swinburne grew up at Bonchurch, a place where Charles Dickens vacationed. Charles Darwin began his Origin of Species here, and Karl Marx came to restore his health; it was the expanding rail network that brought them there. Mark Bardell explores the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth and the surrounding maritime landscapes, revealing unexpected historical and literary associations."--PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION.

Based on deeply personal testimonies and factual research, this book presents a rich and diverse portrayal of Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ history.

Dagrun Wahl is a young healer/priestess of the Warinni tribe, early settlers on the Isle of Wight, from Germania in the early centuries A.D. They arrived on Britannia's shores, fleeing from flood and warring invaders in their own land. In comforting her Ealdmōdor's dying hours she hears the Last Telling. She learns of the true Royal bloodline to Wōden, the Father of her people. She finds she is an Adept, a spakōna, and can travel on the river to Wryd, to earlier times. She is guardian of the stones. She learns of Wōden and the magick of the Runes. She also learns the terrible fate of her people in future times. In 686 A.D Wihtland was invaded by a Wessex army, led by Caedwalla, whose true purpose was to eliminate the Royal bloodline. Along with Wilfrid, an erstwhile bishop from Northumbria, they used fundamental Christianity as a front to commit genocide on a whole race of people. There has been a vacuum in the island's history. Until now, these have been a forgotten people. The Wihtwara were a peaceful people from a rich grouping of seven tribes who had a deep and intricate understanding of their natural world. They were pagan, animists who "put their iron down" in the worship of Folde Mōdor, the Earth Mother, Nerthus, yet keeping Wōden and the northern gods/goddesses within their honouring. It was a time of magick, invocations and hearing the standing stones speak. Wihtland is the ancient name of the Isle the Wight. It means "Isle of Spirits" and the Wihtwara, "People of the Spirit". Archaeological, linguistic and DNA research has shown that these migrations of Germanic people from the Cimbric peninsular occurred much earlier than suggested, and in smaller numbers, to Britannia. Jan Harper Whale has spent years of painstaking research to unearth this missing history. And it brings to light issues we face again today. That religion has been used, and is still used, as a mask to hide greed and an insatiable need for power. In the process, she discovered her name is ancient Saxon, and has a bloodline to these ancestors.The Wihtwara if the first historical novel in the series, The Wihtwara Dynasty. The second book in the series, Berandinzium Villa follows the descendants of the Wihtwara to new understanding of other religions. Eyvindr, Dagrun Wahl's brother is witness to the very beginning of Christian fundamentalism from Rome, against Gnostic Christianity. The final book, The Healer Queen takes us to the violent conclusion of genocide at the hands of Caedwalla.