Newport Parish, Isle of Wight County, Virginia Genealogy

United States   Virginia    Newport Parish

History
Newport Parish has served Isle of Wight County, Virginia. It was also known as Old Brick Church. It is located in Smithfield, Virginia. It is currently known as St. Luke's Church.

Founded

 * bef 1734

Cemetery
The graves at St. Luke's Church Cemetery are transcribed and mapped at the church website.

See also:


 * Barger, Virginia A. Tombstones in St. Luke's Church Cemetery, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Newport News, Virginia: Mrs. R.V. Barger, 1970. Available at.

Parish History
R.S. Thomas's history of The Old Brick Church (1907) has been digitized by Google Books.


 * Thomas, R.S. The Old Brick Church near Smithfield, Virginia: Built in 1632. 1892?.
 * Hayden, E. Virginia. A Sketch of "The Old Brick Church": Isle of Wight County, Virginia. 1925. 1954 reprint available at . [St. Luke's Parish Church]
 * Historic St. Luke's Restoration, Smithfield, Virginia. 1953?.

Parish Registers
Entries from Newport Parish Register that survive have been published by Boddie in:


 * 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  and Ancestry ($) and.

Marriages in 1785 and 1786 have been published:


 * Isle of Wight County, Virginia Records. Births 1716-1755, Marriages 1785-1786 Solemnized by The Reverend William Hubard in Newport Parish. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 2007. FHL Book 975.554 V2i.

Vestry Books
The original Newport Parish Vestry Book, dated 1724-1772, is kept at the Library of Virginia. FamilySearch has scanned these records and made them available for free. Microfilm copy:. Abstracts:


 * Hopkins, William Lindsay. Suffolk Parish Vestry Book, 1749-1784, Nansemond County, Virginia, and Newport Parish Vestry Book, 1724-1772, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Richmond, Va.: W.L. Hopkins, 1988. Available at.

Websites

 * Historic St. Luke's Church (official website). Includes history, photographs, and cemetery transcripts.
 * St. Luke's Church, The Historical Marker Database
 * St. Luke's Church, (another description), The Historical Marker Database