Records On Newport Past:
Newport High School Records and Award Boards 1896 - 1949
Searchable databases - entry registers, leaving registers with career information and the award boards from the boys and girls school halls. 
St Woolos Schools Admissions Registers 1895 - 1943
Searchable databases - entry registers.
Durham Road Schools Admissions Registers 1894 - 1940
Searchable databases - entry registers.
St Marys R.C. Schools Admissions Registers 1898 - 1949
Searchable databases - entry registers.
Crindau Schools Admissions Registers 1900 - 1949
Searchable databases - entry registers.
Marshes Road / Shaftesbury Street Schools Admissions Registers 1888 - 1916
Searchable databases - entry registers.
Newport Residents In Usk Gaol 1871 - 1876
A searchable database, with photographs of most of the prisoners and details of their offences and punishments.
Baptisms at the Great Central Hall 1908 - 1932
A searchable database, with images of the actual pages.
Saint Mary's Church Malpas
(Malpas Church) Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1759 - 1915
Record book of convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land on board the MANDARIN 30th June 1840
A searchable database of the 212 prisoners, including John Frost. You can find out a great deal about the 212 convicts (including John Frost) who arrived on this ship via these web pages. We have a searchable database with many details about the prisoners, including: age, where born, previous occupation, where tried, offence and sentence. Also you are able to view the original pages from the record book which documented each prisoner's time until the end of sentence, being pardoned or death. And, the icing on the cake, for the prisoners tried at the Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court) we have links to the trial records!
Newport (St Woolos) 1845 Tithe Map and Apportionment
The whole tithe map can be zoomed for close examination and every detail in the apportionment is available in a searchable database. The map also includes the centre of Newport.
Newport (Christchurch) 1840 Tithe Map and Apportionment
We have 7 of the 9 sections of this large area east of the river. So many fields where there are now houses... what a surprise to see the railway marked in (maybe added later?)...
Kelly's Newport Directory 1848
Over 2 700 searchable entries - "General list of names of the GENTRY, MERCHANTS, PROFESSORS and TRADESMEN of Newport"
Butcher's Street Directory of Newport, 1876
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Around 4 000 entries. Newport was very different then... just three properties on Caerleon Road!
Butcher's Commercial Directory of Newport, 1876
Search over 1500 business entries
Johns' Street Directory of Newport, 1886
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Total entries - 8,811.
Johns' Street Directory of Newport, 1897
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Total entries - 10,733.
Johns' Street Directory of Newport, 1905
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Total entries - 16,476. A lot of new building going on.
Johns' Street Directory of Newport, 1914
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Total entries - 23,230.
Johns' Street Directory of Newport, 1927
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Total entries - 24,679.
Johns' Street Directory of Newport, 1938
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Total entries - 29,599.
Johns' Street Directory of Newport, 1946
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Just after WW2. Total entries - 31,463.
Johns' Street Directory of Newport, 1950
Explore the town street by street or search for people, properties, occupations etc. Total entries - 27,105.
Mayors of Newport
Past Mayors of Newport - stretching right back to 1314.
Newport Pubs
Search our databases of inns/hotels/pubs/beer houses.
Links To External Websites:
Caerleon Records (Caerleon Net)
Baptisms, Marriages, burials, searchable censuses, street directories, tithe map and more...