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Isle of Wight County (Va.) Free Negro Registrations, 1833-1861, include numbered certificates that recorded the free person's name, sometimes age, a brief physical description and the circumstances of the person's freedom or emancipation. If born free, a reference is sometimes made to the parents. If emancipated, the emancipating owner, place and date may be mentioned. There are affidavits that were given by individuals affirming a free person's status. There are written descriptions of free persons. Lastly, you will find registrations which are loose papers that match information found in the bound volumes of registered "free negroes" kept in the court house.

Isle of Wight County (Va.) Health and Medical Records, 1905-1936, consist of records described as Lunacy Papers.

Isle of Wight County (Va.) Marriage Register, 1772-1853, is comprised of information extracted from the county's original marriage bonds and ministers' returns. This manuscript volume and accompanying typed index were both compiled from this information. The painstaking detail and amount work that went into the creation of this volume is worth noting--done during the Great Depression no less. The marriage bond information is divided into two sections encompassing pages 1-424 and 510-535. Printed forms were used to record the following information: date of marriage bond, the names of both parties, the name of the person responsible for the bond, the name of the parent/guardian present or giving consent and any additional witnesses. The intended groom's occupation, the bride's status at the time and the race of the couple are noted in parentheses. Chronological ommissions are noted on pages 111, 115, 137, 270 and 424. Marriages between "free negroes" are noted from 1811-1852 on pages 111-423. Page 539 of the volume includes information copied from mutilated bonds (some without dates and a couple dating from 1799 and 1824.)

Isle of Wight County (Va.) Marriage Register, 1850-1862, is a list of marriages celebrated in the county and recorded by the county clerk. The following information is included: the name of the parties, the date of the marriage license, upon whose consent the license was granted and a notation of the minister's return and the name and denomination of the minister performing the ceremony (this section is only included on leaves 1-63 from 1850-1854.) Marriages between "free persons of color" are noted from 1850-1861 on leaves 2-81. The register also includes an unnumbered, internal index found at the beginning of the volume. This index is organized alphabetically A-W, by the groom's surname, according to the order of the leave numbers in the volume.

Isle of Wight County (Va.) Tax and Fiscal Records, 1785-1939 (bulk 1877-1909), consist of Applications for Ardent Spirits, Inventories, Liquor Licenses, Liquor License Bonds, Liquor License Returns, Ordinary Bonds, Petitions for Liquor License, Prescriptions, Soft Drink License and other Tax and fiscal records.