Nonconformist registers

We have a list of nonconformist denominations available for which the registers are held by our record office. There are gaps where records do not survive, and we do not hold all registers from all chapels of all the denominations.

To access a catalogue, select the denomination in which you are interested.

All the entries in the nonconformist registers up to the year 1900 have been recorded in our Personal Names Index. This is a card index that can be checked in the record office searchroom.

Some registers held at the National Archive have been microfilmed, and copies are held at this office. Members of the public wishing to consult these registers or print copies of actual entries are advised to contact this office to book a microfilm viewer or printer in advance.

Catalogues to Methodist and other nonconformist records are available in the searchroom (4.1 and 4.2 respectively). These catalogues contain the references to the administrative records of nonconformists held at this office.

Nonconformist church catalogues

Baptist (PDF, 782KB)

  • Castlehold Newport
  • Niton
  • Sandown
  • Wellow
  • Colwell

Wesleyan Methodist (PDF, 445KB)

  • Bembridge
  • Blackwater
  • Calbourne
  • Carisbrooke
  • Chale
  • Cowes East
  • Cowes West
  • Freshwater
  • Merstone
  • Newbridge
  • Newport Pyle Street
  • Newport Hunnyhill
  • Northwood
  • Ryde
  • Shorwell
  • Wootton Bridge
  • Yarmouth
  • Isle of Wight Circuit
  • Newport and West Cowes Circuit
  • Ryde Circuit
  • Sandown and Ryde Circuit
  • Shanklin Circuit
  • Ventnor Circuit

Bible Christian/United Methodist (PDF, 453KB)

  • Bowcombe
  • Cowes West
  • Gunville
  • Newport Quay Street
  • Shanklin
  • Isle of Wight Circuit
  • Isle of Wight East Circuit
  • Newport Circuit
  • Newport and Ryde Circuit
  • Shanklin Circuit
  • Totland Bay Circuit
  • Ventnor and Whitwell Circuit
  • Yarmouth Circuit
  • Yarmouth and Totland Circuit

Primitive Methodist (PDF, 223KB)

  • Newport
  • Northwood
  • Isle of Wight Circuit
  • Newport and Cowes Circuit
  • Shanklin Circuit

Congregational/Independent (PDF, 250KB)

  • Brading
  • Cowes East
  • Cowes West
  • Newport Nodehill
  • Newport Lower St James Street
  • Porchfield
  • Ryde
  • Sandown
  • Ventnor

Unitarian (PDF, 237KB)

  • Newport High Street

Roman Catholic (PDF, 770KB)

  • Cowes West
  • Newport
  • Ryde
  • Shanklin
  • Ventnor