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NONCONFORMIST REGISTERS




Below is a list of all the nonconformist registers held by the Record Office, arranged in the following order:-

  1. Baptist


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  1. Wesleyan Methodist
  1. Bible Christian/United Methodist
  1. Primitive Methodist
  1. Congregational/Independent
  1. Unitarian
  1. Roman Catholic

The Record Office does not have a complete set of nonconformist registers. The individual entries have been recorded in our Personal Names Index (1539 – 1900) – a card index available in the Search Room. Note: some Methodist records are closed for 30 years.


1) BAPTIST



Newport

Baptisms: 1807 - 1837
Burials: 1853 - 1877
Members: 1809 – 1909

Niton

Burials: 1860 - 1963
Members: c1840s - 1940s

Sandown

Members: 1882 – 1935, 1964 - 1981
(incl. dates of some baptisms)

Wellow

Baptisms: 1810 - 1837
Members: c1838 - 1910


2) WESLEYAN METHODIST REGISTERS



Bembridge

Baptisms: 1844 - 1918

Blackwater

Baptisms: 1913, 1914, 1930
(only 6 entries)

Calbourne

Baptisms: 1884 – 1967

Carisbrooke

Baptisms: 1961, 1962, 1969
(only 3 entries)

Chale

Baptisms: 1869 – 1979

Cowes, East

Baptisms: 1884 – 1920

Cowes, West

Baptisms: 1832 – 1837

Freshwater

Baptisms: 1834 – 1959

Isle of Wight Circuit

Baptisms: 1813 – 1850

Merstone

Baptisms: 1848 - 1979

Newbridge

Baptisms: 1949 & 1953
(only 2 entries)

Newport, Pyle Street

Baptisms: 1850 - 1977
Marriages: 1899 – 1969

Victoria Wesleyan Sunday School,
Pyle Street, Newport 1910

Victoria Wesleyan Sunday School, Pyle Street

Newport, Hunnyhill

Baptisms: 1926 – 1956

Newport & West Cowes Circuit

Baptisms: 1837 – 1908

Northwood

Baptisms: 1914 – 1998

Ryde

Baptisms: 1838 – 1860

Ryde Circuit

Baptisms: 1860 - 1930

Sandown & Ryde Circuit

Baptisms: 1815 – 1954

Shanklin Circuit

Baptisms: 1878 – 1944

Shorwell

Marriages: 1919 – 1987

Wootton Bridge

Baptisms: 1799 – 1837

Ventnor Circuit

Baptisms: 1850 – 1888

Yarmouth

Baptisms: 1827 – 1933


3) BIBLE CHRISTIAN/UNITED METHODIST REGISTERS



Bowcombe

Baptisms: 1951 – 1989

Cowes, West

Marriages: 1915 – 1963

Gunville

Baptisms: 1951 – 1981

Isle of Wight Circuit

Baptisms: 1824 – 1860

Isle of Wight East Circuit

Baptisms: 1846 – 1863

Newport

Baptisms: 1923 - 1948
Marriages: 1949 – 1978

United Methodist Church, Quay Street, Newport 1930

United Methodist Church, Quay Street

Newport Circuit

Baptisms: 1861 - 1901
1909 – 1922
(mainly Newport)

Newport & Ryde Circuit

Baptisms: 1900 – 1983

Shanklin

Baptisms: 1916 – 1946

Shanklin Circuit

Baptisms: 1863 – 1920

Totland Bay Circuit
Baptisms: 1909 – 1924

Ventnor & Whitwell Circuit

Baptisms: 1901 – 1945

Yarmouth Circuit

Baptisms: 1862 – 1925

Yarmouth & Totland Bay Circuit

Baptisms: 1925 – 1937



4) PRIMITIVE METHODIST REGISTERS



Isle of Wight Circuit

Baptisms: 1838 – 1934
(gaps 1873 - 1881, 1885 - 1915)

Newport

Baptisms: 1870 – 1896

Newport & Cowes Circuit

Baptisms: 1896 - 1913

Northwood

Baptisms: 1870 – 1921

Shalfleet Circuit

Baptisms: 1870 – 1884


5) CONGREGATIONAL/INDEPENDENT REGISTERS



Brading

Burials: 1847 - 1974

Cowes, East

Baptisms: 1828 - 1917
Marriages: 1859 - 1939
Burials: 1872 - 1939
Members: 1829 – 1929
(gap: 1914 - 1926)

Cowes, West

Baptisms: 1802 - 1901
Marriages: 1870 - 1893

Newport, Nodehill

Baptisms: 1802 - 1878
1924 - 1953
(gap 1927 - 1948)
Marriages: 1857 - 1873
Burials: 1806 - 1879
Members: 1804 – 1874

Newport, Lower St James' Street

Baptisms: 1784 - 1953
(several gaps: 1844 - 1861,1864 - 1867, 1871 - 1923, 1927 - 1948)

Porchfield

Baptisms: 1848 - 1908
Burials: 1848 - 1978

Ryde

Baptisms: 1817 – 1909

Sandown

Members: c1872 - c1914

Ventnor

Baptisms: 1859 - 1914
(gap 1872 - 1890)
Marriages: 1955 - 1969
Members: 1859 - 1917


6) UNITARIAN REGISTERS



Newport

Baptisms: 1730s – 1854, 1885 - 1975
Marriages: 1885 - 1979
Burials: 1884 - 1980


7) ROMAN CATHOLIC REGISTERS



West Cowes

Baptisms: 1796 - 1918
Marriages: 1860 - 1942

Newport

Baptisms: 1792 - 1856
Marriages: 1807 - 1960
Burials: 1839 – 1992

Ryde

Baptisms: 1845 - 1906
Marriages: 1856 - 1928
Burials: 1866 - 1910

Shanklin

Marriages: 1904 – 1995

Ventnor

Baptisms: 1860 - 1950
Marriages: 1881 - 1953
Burials: 1883 - 1979

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