Newton in the Isle, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

Guide to Newton (in the Isle), Cambridgeshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Newton (In the Isle) or Newton is a parish and a village, in Wisbeach district, Cambridgeshire. The village is near the boundaries of Norfolk and Lincoln, it is 3¾ miles N W of Wisbeach railway station; the post-office is under Wisbeach. The parish contains also the hamlet of Fitton-End.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Newton-in-the-Isle, Cambridgeshire: baptisms, 1600-1639, 1646, 1648, 1654-1852; marriages, 1600-1639, 1654-1851; burials, 1600-1639; 1654-1851; vicars, curates etc., 1600-1638, 1653-1660; index at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Newton (near Wisbeach), 1599-1868 have been digitised.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cambridgeshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Newton In The Isle on GENUKI