Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Isle of Wight County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County History One of the original 8 shires created in 1634, it was named Warrosquyoake Shire. In 1637, it was renamed Isle of Wight County, after the island off the south coast of England of the same name. St. Luke's Church, built in 1632, is the nation's only original Gothic church and the oldest existing church of English foundation. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in recognition of its significance. In 1732 a considerable portion of the northwestern part of the original shire was added to Brunswick County; and in 1748 the entire county of Southampton was carved out of it. The county is bounded by the James River on the north and the Blackwater River to the south. The land is generally low-lying, with many swamps and pocosins. INCORPORATED TOWNS Smithfield & Windsor UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES & TOWNS Battery Park - Benns Church - Burwell's Bay - Carrolltown - Carrsville - Central Hill - Indika - Isle of Wight - Lawson - Mogart's Beach - Raynor - Rescue - Rushmere - Stott - Walters - Wills Corner - Zuni Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Mortality Schedules Wills/Probate Records Website Updates Jan 2013 Births - 1867 Births - 1868 Births - 1869 Births - 1870 Births - 1871 Births - 1872 Jun 2012 Todd - Ashton Marriage Wise - Atkinson Marriage Cocke - Johnson Marriage Coleman - Jerdome Marriage May 2012 1890 Veteran's Census - Smithfield 1890 Veteran's Census - Windsor Magisterial District 1890 Veteran's Census - Hardy Jan 2012 1850 Mortality Schedule Eastern District No, 1 Robert Pitt Biography Nov 2011 Richard Miles Cary Biography Oct 2011 County Officials Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Southampton County - south & west Surry County - northwest Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.