Godshill Isle of Wight Hampshire Family History Guide

Godshill Isle of Wight is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Whitwell is a chapelry of Godshill Isle of Wight.

Other places in the parish include: Sandford, Week, Roud, Rookley with Week, Rookley, Stenbury, and Appuldurcombe.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1678
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780

Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Particular Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Gatcombe
• Arreton
• St Lawrence
• Whitwell
• Newchurch
• Wroxall
• Chale

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GODSHILL, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in the Isle of Wight. The village stands near the Medina river, 5½ miles SSE of Newport; is a pretty place; and has a post-office under Southampton, and an inn. The parish includes also Appuldurcombe, Stenbury, Roud, Sandford, and Rookley. Acres, 6, 535. Real property, £10, 851. Pop., 1, 215. Houses, 237. The property is much subdivided.

The surface is diversified; comprises much fine scenery; and includes vantage-grounds, one of them the churchyard, commanding brilliant views.

The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Niton, in the diocese of Winchester. The church is large, cruciform, and partly decorated English; has a western pinnacled tower, in perpendicular English; and contains a rich altar-tomb to Sir J. Leigh of the time of Henry VIII., and several handsome monuments to the Worsley family. T

here are chapels for Wesleyans and Bible Christians, national schools, and charities £39.

Dean Cole, a persecutor in the time of Mary, was a native.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Archives and libraries – Inventories, registers, catalogs ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish records, 1608-1908

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Ground plan of graveyards and memorial inscriptions
Author: Isle of Wight Museums Documentation and Collation Unit

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Godshill (near Newport), 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Church records ( 9 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Godshill, 1780-1872
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Godshill (Hampshire)

Church records, 1878-1944
Author: Ventnor Circuit (Hampshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

Marriage transcripts, 1678-1737
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Godshill (Hampshire)

Marriages, Godshill, Isle of Wight, England, 1678-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Godshill (Hampshire)

Miscellaneous parish records, 1608-1908

Parish register transcripts for Godshill, 1678-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Godshill (Hampshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1614-1838
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Brook (Hampshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Godshill (Hampshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Kingston (near Newport, Hampshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Shorwell (Hampshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Thorley (Hampshire)

Parish registers for Godshill, 1678-1986
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Godshill (Hampshire)

Transcripts of Bishop’s transcripts, 1780-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Godshill (Hampshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Gatcombe (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
15 Isle of Wight parishes : index to marriages : from Mr. Bower Marsh’s transcripts, 1780-1853
Author: Sayers, Henry W.

Parish register printouts of Godshill, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, marriages, 1678-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Court records ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish records, 1608-1908

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Land and property ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish records, 1608-1908

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Manors – Court records ( 2 )
Court rolls and manorial rents for the manor of Appuldurcombe, 1352-1619
Author: Manor of Appuldurcombe. Court (Hampshire)

Court rolls and manorial rents for the manor of Godshill, 1609-1891
Author: Manor of Godshill. Court (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Occupations ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish records, 1608-1908

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Miscellaneous parish records, 1608-1908

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Godshill, 1800-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Hampshire)

Miscellaneous parish records, 1608-1908

England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Voting registers ( 1 )
The register of persons entitled to vote
Author: Hampshire (England)

Administration

• County: Hampshire
• Civil Registration District: Isle of Wight
• Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
• Diocese: Winchester
• Rural Deanery: Pre-1850 – Isle of Wight, Post-1849 – East Medine
• Poor Law Union: Isle of Wight
• Hundred: East Medina Liberty
• Province: Canterbury