Newchurch (Isle of Wight) Hampshire Family History Guide
Newchurch (Isle of Wight) is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Wroxall is a chapelry of Newchurch (Isle of Wight).
Other places in the parish include: Newchurch-South, Newchurch-North, Homelands, Holmwood, Haylands, Haven Street, Division Ventnor, Wroxall, Winston, Whiteley Bank, Ventnor St Catherine, Ventnor, Ryde St Thomas, Ryde, and Princelet.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Newchurch (Isle of Wight)
- Parish registers: 1690
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1724
Ryde St Thomas
- Parish registers: 1719
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Ventnor
- Parish registers: 1837
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
NEWCHURCH, a village and a parish in the Isle of Wight. The village stands adjacent to the river Brading, 4¾ miles S E by E of Newport, is approached, on one side, by a road cut through an almost precipitous ridge; consists chiefly of one clean and pretty street of cottages, with flower-plots before the doors; and has a post-office under Newport, Isle of Wight.
The parish, prior to 1864, extended from sea to sea; measured 13 miles in length, with comparatively narrow breadth; comprised 8, 730 acres of land, and 470 of water; and was cut into two divisions, N and S. The N div. included part of the town of Ryde, part of Haven-Street, and the places called Homelands, Haylands, and Holm-wood. Real property, in 1860, £57, 100; of which £700 were in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 8,484; in 1861, 10,386. Houses, 1,960. The S div. included the town of Ventnor, and the places called Wroxall, Whiteley-Bank, and Princelet. Real property, in 1860, £21,084; of which £54 were in quarries, and £200 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 3,055; in 1861, 3, 622. Houses, 604.
The pop. of the entire parish was computed at 1, 505 in 1780; and was 2,039 in 1801, and 8, 370 in 1841. But, under a private act of parliament in 1864, the parish was divided, for all purposes, civil and ecclesiastical, into the three parishes of Newchurch, Ryde, and Ventnor; and the curtailed parish of Newchurch includes only the rural tracts, extends from Ashey down to Wroxall, and had a pop. of about 1,000 in 1867. The surface is very diversified, and shares largely in the beauties and other attractions of the island.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £420. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester. The church stands on the brink of a steep wooded bank; was given by William Fitz-Osborne, soon after the Conquest, to his abbey of Lire; retains few marks of antiquity, and none of the Norman age, yet shows some early English lancets, and has interiorly some rude decorated arcades; is plain and cruciform, with a wooden S Wtower; and contains, in the N transept, memorials of the Dillingtons.
There are an endowed school with £9 a year, and charities £7. See Ryde and Ventnor.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Administration
- County: Hampshire
- Civil Registration District: Isle of Wight
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1850 – Isle of Wight, Post-1849 – East Medine
- Poor Law Union: Isle of Wight
- Hundred: East Medina Liberty
- Province: Canterbury