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"NEWTON (near Wisbech) is a parish and pictutesque village in the Isle of Ely, on the Norfolk border of the county, 1 mile from Ferry statlon on the Peterborough and Sutton Bridge section of the Midland and Great Northern joint railway, and 4 north from Wisbech station on the London and North Eastern railway, in the hundred, union, petty sessional division, county court district, rural deanery, archdeaconry of Wisbech and diocese of Ely."
"The soil is loam; subsoil, clay and silt. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans, peas, mustard, fruit and potatoes. The area is 3,092 acres of land and 11 of water; the population in 1921 was 920 in the civil and 479 in the ecclesiastical parish."
"FITTON END, about a mile south, is partly in this parish and partly in that of Leverington."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire 1929]
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office and at Wisbech Library. In addition the 1851 Census for Newton (in the Isle) is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. James is an edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of six bays, aisle, south porch and a western tower with spire containing a clock and 6 bells; in 1912 the 6 bells were rehung in a steel frame, at a cost of £185; the tower, porch and aisles are of good Decorated character; the nave has clerestory windows of Perpendicular date, and the chancel is of the same period: there are several ancient sepulchral slabs and an Early font: the east window and five others are stained; the chancel was restored in 1879, at a cost of £372, and in 1890-91 new choir stalls and organ were provided and two stained windows inserted as a memorial to Dr. Corrie : in 1803 a carved oak altar table and rood screen were placed in the chancel : there are 322 sittings. The register dates from the year 1685. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £800, including 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the bishop of Ely, and held since 1926 by the Rev Thomas Triffitt M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge. A parish room was opened in 1909. There is a United Methodist chapel, erected in 1868."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire 1929]
Newton (in the Isle), St. James : Records of baptisms 1653-1939, marriages 1653-1956, burials 1653-1896 and banns 1754-1963 reside in the Wisbech Museum with microfilm copies of baptisms 1653-1939, marriages 1653-1970, burials 1653-1896 at both Wisbech Museum and Cambridge Record Office. Indexed transcripts of baptisms 1600-39, 1646-48, 1654-1852, marriages and burials 1600-39, 1654-1851 also reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Parish register transcripts of Newton, St. James, 1600-1852, are available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1638, 1661-1868 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.
Wesleyan Methodist Church: Records exist at the Cambridge Record Office for the Wibech Wesleyan Circuit of which Newton (in the Isle) is part.
Land Tax: records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside in the Cambridge Record Office for the years 1798-1801 and 1935-48.
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