History of Isle of Wight County
A History of Isle of Wight County:   Written about 1907 by Col. E. M. Morrison for the Jamestown Tercentenary Exposition.
County Sketch and Historical Records:  From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine (April 1899)  [New]

Isle of Wight Queries
Current Queries
Archived Queries

Marriage Records
Ministers' Returns - Isle of Wight County, Virginia: 1799 - 1824
Isle of Wight County Marriage Bonds: 1828 - 1833  [New]
Isle of Wight County Marriage Bonds for Free African-Americans: 1828 - 1833  [New]

Military Records
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System:  A National Parks Service site to locate civil war ancestors.
Isle of Wight Avengers:  Company F of the 61st Virginia Infantry, CSA  [New]

Cemetery Records:
The Isle of Wight Historical Society's cemetery transcriptions. (Excellent site!)

Deeds & Land Records:
Newport Parish Vestry Book:  Processioning - 1752-1760 ("Processioning" was the process of land owners and witnesses reconfirming the boundary lines between adjacent properties -- generally every four years).

Census, Tax & Voting Records

• Personal Property Tax Lists - 1790 & 1800
• 1813 Voting for Virginia General Assembly
• 1815 Voting for Virginia General Assembly

Local Newspapers

The Tidewater News
1000 Armory Drive
Franklin, VA 23851
Franklin is separated from Isle of Wight by a bridge over the Blackwater River, and this paper, established in 1905, covers a lot of Isle of Wight news.

Isle of Wight History & Genealogy Sites

• The Isle of Wight Historical Society Main Page
• Isle of Wight Courthouse: Article and pictures  [New]
• Isle of Wight’s largest city: Smithfield  [New]
• Town of Windsor  [New]
• Zuni: Population 120:   One of Isle of Wight's villages.
• And more Zuni:   Article and pictures  [New]
• Historic St. Lukes Church
• Isle of Wight Arts League  An interesting place to visit.  [New]
• An Isle of Wight County site from the UK in conjunction with their Isle of Wight.
• Bike Ride  Take a bike ride through the Isle of Wight countryside via You Tube.
• Isle of Wight Topographic Maps:  If you are working with old wills and deeds, this site gives the names, and latitude and longitude of swamps, creeks, branches, runs and rivers.
• National Register of Historic Places in Isle of Wight
• Isle of Wight Roadside Historical Markers (with maps)  [New]
• Virginia Century Farm Program:   A list of Isle of Wight farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years.
• Miscellaneous Court Records from the William & Mary Quarterly:   From the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project. Most records from the 1600's.  [New]
• Isle of Wight Committee of Safety:  Many Isle of Wight names from the Revolutionary Period. Note: This is a Hardy Family web page -- just scroll down.
• The Geography of Slavery:  Runaway slave advertisements (in early newspapers) that mention Isle of Wight.
• Isle of Wight slaves freed after 1792 Virginia Legislative Enactment.  Abstracts of wills and deeds in Isle of Wight court records.
• Isle of Wight Genealogy Forum at Genealogy.com

Of special note:

Virginia History & Genealogy Sites

• The Library of Virginia Genealogy Research Page
• Historical Maps of Virginia
• 18th Century Virginia Law
• Jamestowne Society Organization of descendants of those who lived at Jamestown
• African Ancestry in Virginia
• Virginia Genealogical Society
• Virginia Council on Indians
• Virginia Department of Historical Resources
• Virginia Historical Society
• Women and Education in Eighteenth-Century Virginia  [New]

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  Other Interesting or Helpful Sites

  • Ancestry.com Search
  • Colonial Occupational Titles
  • Dating Old Photographs
  • Restoring Old Photographs
  • English Family History and Genealogy:   Lots of English data bases, many free.
  • 18th Century History Resources on the Net
  • Find-a-Grave  Volunteers from all over the country find and register grave markers. Site has a search engine and often photos
    of the markers. It is a "virtual cemetery" with the ability to leave "flowers", information and photographs of deceased relatives.  [New]
  • Registers of (English) Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686:  (a Virtual Jamestown site)  [New]
  • Family History Centers and Library
  • Genealogy "How to" Articles
  • Historical Maps of the United States
  • National Archives:   Genealogy Research Page
  • Looking Beyond Will Abstracts
  • The OLIVE TREE Genealogy Homepage:   Early ships' passenger lists.
  • Social Security Death Index
  • Genealogy Blog:   Daily(?)  [New]
  • Public Profiler/World Names:  Where is your surname most common both in U.S. and world? Drills down to section of a country such as Yorkshire, England.
  • Slave Voices: Duke University Special Collections

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    Neighbors -- Now . . . . and Then:

    Neighboring Counties	The Eight Original Virginia Shires Created in 1634
    Nansemond   (Merged into City of Suffolk in 1974) Southampton  (Cut out of Isle of Wight in 1749) Surry Sussex Hertford, NC Northampton, NC	Accomac Charles City Charles River (Renamed York) Elizabeth City (Merged into City of Hampton in 1952) Henrico James City Warwick River (Merged into Newport News in 1958 Warrosquyoake (Renamed Isle of Wight)

    Comments?  Suggestions?  Complaints!

    Contact me:
    Joyce Whitehead.
    County Coordinator
    isleofwight@optonline.net