Isle of Wight County, Virginia Genealogy

Guide to Isle of Wight County Virginia ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, immigration records, and military records.

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Description
Isle of Wight County is located in the Eastern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia and was named after the island in the English channel of the same name.

Isle of Wight County, Virginia Courthouse
Current Isle of Wight County Courthouse 17000 Josiah Parker Circle Isle of Wight, VA 23397

Old Isle of Wight County Courthouse 17122 Monument Circle Isle of Wight, VA 23397 Phone: 757-365-6233

Isle of Wight County, Virginia History


The county is named after the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. Many colonial residents moved down into North Carolina in the 1600s and 1700s.

Parent County
1634--Isle of Wight was created in 1634 as an original shire or county. County seat: Isle of Wight The original shire name of Warrosquyoake (also spelled Warrosquoyacke or Warrascoyak) was given then. The name was changed in 1637 to Isle of Wight County

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Virginia county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Virginia County Boundary Maps" (1617-1995) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
Many pre-Revolutionary War loose papers prior to 1783 are missing, but bound volumes of deeds, orders, and wills still exist.


 * Lost censuses: 1790, 1800, 1890

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

African American

 * 1782-1833 - Heinegg, Paul. "Isle of Wight County Personal Property Tax List, 1782-1833," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]


 * 1785-1870 - (FamilySearch) - free. When you browse this collection, look under "Voting Records."


 * 1813-1838 - Isle of Wight County, Virginia Marriage Bonds of Free African Americans 1813-1838 (VAGenWeb) - free.


 * 1859-1862 - (FamilySearch) - free.
 * Search the Library of Virginia's Virginia Untold collection for digitized images related to African Americans of Isle of Wight County.


 * 1935-2009 -, index and images, incomplete

Cemeteries

 * 1800-1986 - at FamilySearch — index

Census
1782 Enumeration


 * Hanover County Heads of Families - 1782 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 29.

1890 Union Veterans


 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890. Available online, courtesy: Prince William County Virginia website. [Includes residents of this county.]

Baptist
Early Baptist churches (with years constituted):


 * 1) Mill Swamp (1774). Minute books begin in 1774: . Birth register (1777-1790) was published in the Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Oct. 1967):88-89, which is available online at Ancestry ($). Minutes (1774-1790) and a membership list (1774) were published in the Genealogical Society of Tidewater Virginia Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jun. 1971):.
 * 2) Moore's Swamp (1791). Minute books begin in 1791:.

Isle of Wight County fell within the bounds of the Portsmouth Association.

Church of England
See also Lower Parish See also Newport Parish  See also Nottoway Parish  See also Upper Parish  See also Warrosquyoake Parish

Meade's 1861 history of parishes in Isle of Wight County is available online.


 * Mason, George Carrington. Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson, 1945. Available at ; digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes Isle of Wight County.]

Puritans

 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes chapters on the early Puritan settlers.]

Quaker
Early monthly meetings (with years of existence):


 * Pagan Creek Monthly Meeting, near Smithfield, Va. (1673-1790) aka Levy Neck. Minutes and papers of denial (1738-1763) have been published: . Hinshaw also published the early records:.
 * Terrasco Neck Monthly Meeting (1672-1772)
 * Western Branch Monthly Meeting (1672-1844) aka Lower Virginia Monthly Meeting. Early records (1673-1756) have been published:.

Friends from Isle of Wight County, Virginia also attended the Chuckatuck Monthly Meeting in Nansemond County, Virginia and the Blackwater Monthly Meeting in Surry County, Virginia.


 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes a chapter on Quakers.]
 * White, Miles. "Early Quaker Records in Virginia," Publications of the Southern History Association, Vol. 6, No. 3 (May 1902):220-231; Vol. 6, No. 4 (Jul. 1902):304-313; Vol. 7, No. 1 (May 1903):17-24; Vol. 7, No. 2 (Mar. 1903):96-105; Vol. 7, No. 3 (May 1903):207-213. Digitized by Internet Archive - free. Reprint:.

Court
Until 1746, the only court order book or loose judgment paper records that exist are one order book dated 1693-1695, which has been transcribed and indexed at least twice. From 1696 until 1745 neither record type is extant. Starting in 1746, several, but not all, order books exist, but no loose papers, until 1783, when there is another void of both. A full run of order books starts in 1795. Loose court papers survive starting in 1799 and run until 1807. Most are available on Family Search; all are on microfilm at the Virginia Library.


 * 1746-1903 - (FamilySearch) - free. An index by category of the court records available so far may be found here: Index


 * 1773-1847 - (FamilySearch) - free.

Chancery

 * 1831-1909 - (FamilySearch) - free.
 * Library of Virginia's Virginia Memory: Chancery Record Index can be used to search Isle of Wight County's chancery records for the years 1767-1966. Digital images are available for records 1767-1933. Indexed and original records available through 1966 - see online catalog or contact Archives Research Services for availability.

Funeral Homes

 * 1935-2009, index and images, incomplete

Genealogy
Compiled Genealogies by Surnames


 * See Isle of Wight County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies for a list of 350+ published books and articles, or jump to the surname using the alphabet bar.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Compiled Genealogies for Multiple Families


 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes chapters on the following families: Bennett, Boddie, Brewer, Bridger, Davis, Exum, Godwin, Lawrence, Newman, and Pitt.]
 * Boddie, John Bennett. Southside Virginia Families. 2 vols. 1955-1956; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976..
 * Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * Chapman, Blanche Adams and Isle of Wight County Library (Virginia). Smithfield Branch. Chapman Collection of Virginia Family Names, Smithfield Branch, Isle of Wight County Library, 1635-1814. MSS., Blanche Adams Chapman Collection, Smithfield Branch, Isle of Wight County Library, at Smithfield, Virginia; also available at.
 * Chapman, Blanche Adams. "Isle of Wight Families," William and Mary Quarterly, Series 2, Vol. 10 (1930):254-260. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Gwaltney, Anne W. Personal History Departments of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia from Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Special Virginia Edition, c. 1884. [Virginia? : s.n., 1884?]. Available at.

Immigration

 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes wills of residents of Warwicksquick and Isle of Wight County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

* Ljungstedt, Milnor. "Items from Southern Records" [Showing Family and Trade Connections with Northern Colonies and the Home Countries], The American Genealogist, Vol. 15 (1938):95-104. Digital version at American Ancestors. [Isle of Wight Co., VA: Day.]


 * Mahler, Leslie. "American Colonists Mentioned in London Wills," The Genealogist, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall 2000):201-204. [Hutchinson family of 'Wacasquoyk' (Warwick Squeak); Wiseman family of 'Warwicksqueake' and Isle of Wight Co., VA.]

Early migration routes to and from Isle of Wight County for European settlers included:


 * Atlantic Ocean
 * King's Highway about 1704
 * Secondary Coast Road late 1730s

Land and Property
Deeds


 * Deeds from 1688 are extant, except for 1727 & 1728, along with a few dating to 1628. Microfilm of the regular deed books 1688-1900 is at Family Search. Early deeds from 1647 to 1782, except for 1736-1741, were abstracted by William Lindsay Hopkins in 3 volumes The 1736-1741 deeds were abstracted by T.L.C. Genealogy. All 17th century deeds were transcribed in full by John Anderson Brayton in several volumes. Deeds and Wills from the earliest days were intermixed in the same court record books in Isle of Wight.
 * (FamilySearch) - free. With a caveat that additional images may be added to this digital collection, in 2021 it includes in large part an assortment of loose deeds. Whether these deeds were recorded in the regular deed books is not known, but presumably most are. These land and property records also contain digital copies of regular deed books (above) vols. 2, 8, 10, 11, & 79. This collection contains information from 1742 to as late as 1932.


 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes abstracts of some early will & deed books.]

Grants and Patents


 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes chapters on land grants 1628-1705.]


 * Hudgins. 393 patents dated 1635-1797 in what is now Isle of Wight County, Virginia placed on a map. DeedMapper, 2003. [Names of those who received land patents, dates, land descriptions, and references may be viewed free of charge (click "Index" next to the county listing); however, in order to view the maps, it is necessary to purchase Direct Line Software's DeedMapper product.]
 * Nugent, Nell Marion. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666. Vol. I (1934; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1991). Available at ; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Isle of Wight County. N.B. If Ancestry's search engine fails, try checking the printed index at the end of the book.] Nugent's abstracts of the records of the colonial land office cover the years from 1623 to 1666 (Volume 1), from 1666 to 1695 (Volume 2), and from 1695 to 1732 (Volume 3). Dennis Ray Hudgins, in collaboration with The Virginia Genealogical Society, has edited additional volumes under the same title which brings the series to 1774 and the end of the forty-two volume colonial patent book series.

Local Histories

 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * Morrison, E. M. Isle of Wight County: 1608-1907. Norfolk, Va.?: unknown, 1907. Available at ; digital version at Ancestry ($).

Maps

 * Campbell, Albert H, Jeremy Francis Gilmer, Louisa Porter Minis, and Confederate States Of America. Army. Department Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer'S Office. Map of Isle of Wight and part of Nansemond. [Virgina: s.n, 1864] Map. Available at Library of Congress.

Migration

 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes a chapter on Isle of Wight and Nansemond settlers who emigrated to North Carolina. Another chapter is titled "Richard Bennett and the Puritan exodus to Nansemond and Maryland."]

Bacon's Rebellion

 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes chapter on Bacon's Rebellion.]


 * Tyler, Lyon G. "Isle of Wight County: Papers Relating to Bacon's Rebellion," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Oct. 1895):111-115. Digital version at JSTOR - free.

Colonial Militia

 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at . [Identifies some Isle of Wight County militia officers and/or soldiers; see place name index.]
 * Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at ; digital book at Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at ; Ancestry ($). [Identifies some Isle of Wight County militia officers; see place name index.]

French and Indian War

 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at . [Identifies some Isle of Wight County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]

Revolutionary War
Regiments. Service men in Isle of Wight County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Isle of Wight County supplied soldiers for the:


 * - 4th Virginia Regiment
 * - 15th Virginia Regiment

Additional resources:


 * McIlwaine, H.R. Proceedings of the Committees of Safety of Cumberland and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia, 1775-1776. Richmond: D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing, 1919. Available at ; digital versions at Ancestry ($), FamilySearch Digital Library, and Google Books.
 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books et. al. 1967 reprint: 973 X2pc 1840. [See Virginia, Eastern District, Isle of Wight County on page 131.]
 * Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." 973 M24ur; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.]

War of 1812
Isle of Wight County men served in the 29th Regiment.


 * List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883. 973 M2Lp v. 5; digital versions at Google Books and Internet Archive. [See Vol. 5, Virginia, Isle of Wight County, p. 86. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.]

Civil War

 * - 3rd Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company K (James River Artillery).


 * - 19th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery (Atkinson's) (Confederate). Company A (Smithfield Light Artillery Blues or Old Dominion Artillery).

Records and histories are available, including:


 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch — index
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch — index
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index ($)
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at — index ($)
 * (FamilySearch) - free.
 * , view under Lineage Society Papers. (FamilySearch) - free.

World War II

 * United States. Selective Service System. Draft Registrations, 1942-1946, from Local Draft Board No. 1 of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Original manuscripts at the Smithfield Branch of the Isle of Wight Library in Smithfield, Virginia; also available at.

Miscellaneous Records

 * 1607-2007 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Native Americans

 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes a chapter on local Native Americans.]

Newspapers
Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette (1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburg website. In addition, Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in this source and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia. These newspapers are valuable resources for all regions of Virginia.

Officials

 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes a chapter on county officers.]

Private Papers

 * at FamilySearch — index and images


 * Family Bible of the Scott, Brock, and Dornin Family of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. MSS. Available at.

Probate Records

 * 1628-1800 - A free index to county wills is available at the Library of Virginia. [However, it contains only the name of the deceased and a source & date.]


 * 1647-1800 - Chapman, Blanche Adams. Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800. 1938; reprint, Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007. Original edition at ; 1995 reprint at ; digital versions at Family Search, Ancestry ($); and World Vital Records ($). Deeds and Wills from the earliest days were intermixed in the same court record books in Isle of Wight. ["The original records on file in Isle of Wight County and abstracted in this work are: Wills and Administrations Book A (1641-1650); Will and Deed Books 1 and 2 (1658-1659, 1666-1719); Will Books 3-11 (1726-1800); Deed Book I (1691-1695); Administrations and Probates (1666-1701); and The Great Book (1719-1729). In addition to the names of the testators and legatees, the entries provide the names of executors, securities, and witnesses and frequently include assignments of property."] [However, Chapman did not include all material that contained names, viz., numerous estate accounts.]
 * 1662-1686 - Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes chapter on wills 1662-1686 in Will & Deed Book I and 4 wills in Deed Book I.]
 * Hopkins, William Lindsay. Some Wills from the Burned Counties of Virginia and Other Wills Not Listed in Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800. Richmond, Virginia: W.L. Hopkins, 1987. Available at . [Includes Isle of Wight County.]
 * 1766-1879 -, 1766-1879 (FamilySearch) - free.

Online Probate Records


 * Wills and Estates 1636-1767; 1661-1719 (also deeds, estates, inventories); 1726-1734; 1733-1745; 1745-1752. Virginia Pioneers ($)
 * Images of Wills, Inventories, Estates - 1636-1767; 1661-1719 (also includes deeds); 1715-1726; 1726-1734; 1733-1745; 1745-1752; 1794-1803; 1804-1808 Virginia Pioneers ($)

London Courts


 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes wills of residents of Warwicksquick and Isle of Wight County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

'Online Probate Links


 * 1636-1767;1661-1719 - Virginia Pioneers ($) Images of Wills & Estates
 * 1639 – 1850 Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records 1639-1850 at Ancestry.com — index to transcribed records, incomplete, $
 * 1726-1734; 1733-1745; 1745-1752; 1794-1803; 1804-1808 - Virginia Pioneers ($) Images of Wills & Estates (also deeds)

Taxation
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Bibliography


 * [1704] "Virginia Quit Rent Rolls, 1704," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 28 (1920):207-218, 328-339; Vol. 29 (1921):18-28, 337-343, 402-412; Vol. 30 (1922):21-30, 280-285, 341-347; Vol. 31 (1923):70-75, 153-163, 215-231, 314-318; Vol. 32 (1924):69-75, 144-158, 281-287, 338-343; Vol. 33 (1925):47-50, 359-370; Vol. 34 (1926):113-119, 252-258, 313, 321. Available at ; reprinted in Virginia Tax Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, which is also available at ; digital version of VMHB at JSTOR ($). [Isle of Wight County appears in 29:337-343.]
 * [1704] Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and FamilySearch Digital Library. [Includes 1704 quit rents.]
 * [1714] Quit Rent Roll, 1714, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Apr. 1979). Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * [1778] Assessors Book, 1778, William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jan. 1917). Digital version at JSTOR - free.
 * [1782-1833] Heinegg, Paul. "Isle of Wight County Personal Property Tax List, 1782-1833," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
 * [1783] - Personal Property (or Land) Tax List, 1783; index online at Revolutionary War Service website - free.
 * [1787] Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia: An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years, the Number of White Males Between 16 &amp; 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 &amp; Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle &amp; Carriages, and Also the Names of All Persons to Whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses Were Issued. 3 vols. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. Available at . [The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. Isle of Wight County is included in Vol. 2.]
 * [1790, 1799] Indexed images of the 1790 and 1799 Personal Property Tax Lists of Isle of Wight County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * [1800] Tax List, 1800, Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct. 1988); Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan. 1989); Vol. 33, No. 2 (Apr. 1989). Available at.
 * [1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at . [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Isle of Wight County is included in Vol. 3.]
 * [1824-1899] Isle of Wight County, Virginia Land Tax Books 1824-1899 (FamilySearch) - free.

Birth

 * 1853-1876 - Isle of Wight County Birth Index 1853-1876. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1853-1866 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1867-1896 - (FamilySearch) - free.
 * 1867-1896 - Fridley, Beth, comp. Isle of Wight County Virginia Birth Records, 1867-96 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001. Available at Ancestry ($).
 * 1912-1913 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage

 * 1628-1800 - Chapman, Blanche Adams and Anita Comtois. Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800. Originally published in 1933. Reprint: Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1976. Reprint available at ; digital version at World Vital Records ($).
 * 1660-1800 - Virginia Marriages 1660-1800 (Ancestry) ($).
 * 1660-1959 - Virginia, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
 * 1740-1850 - Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 (Ancestry) ($).
 * 1772-1852 - Isle of Wight County Marriage Index 1772-1852. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1774;1793-1794;1800 - Marriages Virginia Pioneers ($)
 * 1776-1779 - Isle of Wight County Marriage Bonds 1776-1779, [Not in Chapman],The Southside Virginian, vol. 7, no.1, pp.10-12
 * 1785-1940 Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 at Ancestry.com ($) — index
 * 1799-1824 - Ministers' Returns Isle of Wight County, Virginia (VAGenWeb) - free.
 * 1813-1838 - Isle of Wight County, Virginia Marriage Bonds 1813-1838 (VAGenWeb) - free.
 * 1813-1838 - Isle of Wight County, Virginia Marriage Bonds of Free African Americans 1813-1838 (VAGenWeb) - free.
 * 1853-1935 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1854-1900 - Isle of Wight County Marriage Index 1854-1900. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1936-1988 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Divorce

 * 1918-1988 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Death

 * 1853-1874 - Isle of Wight County Death Index 1853-1874. Batch at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1925-1944 - (FamilySearch) - free.
 * 1912-1987 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Isle of Wight County, Virginia Genealogy Websites

 * Isle of Wight Co., VAGenWeb. Part of the USGenWeb Project. Maps, name indexes, history.
 * Isle of Wight County, VA History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Familytree101)
 * Cyndi's List
 * Cyndi's List