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