East Cowes, Hampshire Genealogy
Guide to East Cowes, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| East Cowes, Hampshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | East Medina Liberty |
| County | Hampshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Isle of Wight |
| Registration District | Isle of Wight |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1834 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | East Medine |
| Diocese | Winchester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester |
| Location of Archive | |
| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
COWES, EAST, a parochial district, in the parish of Whippingham, liberty of East Medina, Isle of Wight division of the county of Southampton, 5 miles (N.) from Newport; free. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Rector of Whippingham, with a net income of £135. There is a place of worship for Independents.[1].
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Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Cowes parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] |
| COWES PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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East Cowes parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| EAST COWES PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| BOYD | 1836-1837 | |||||
West Cowes parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| WEST COWES PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| BOYD | 1680-1703 | |||||
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Genealogy[edit | edit source]
Waight, Stan. A Monday Night in May. A history of the Monday night of the Air raids in Cowes and East Cowes, by the author, who was only 13 years old. Also a photo of a Memorial with the names of those who lost their lives in air raids, 1939-1945 near a shipyard. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian vol. 28 part 2, pages 97-99, FHL Ref. 942.27 B2h.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Hampshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
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Websites[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848), pp. 702-710. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987).
