Fordingbridge, Hampshire Genealogy
Guide to Fordingbridge, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Fordingbridge, Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Fordingbridge Parish Church | |
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Fordingbridge |
| County | Hampshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Fordingbridge |
| Registration District | Fordingbridge |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1642 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1724 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Fordingbridge |
| 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 | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
FORDINGBRIDGE (St. Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Fordingbridge, Ringwood and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 20 miles (W. by N.) from Southampton, through Ringwood, and 92 (S. W. by W.) from London with the tythings of Bickton, Middle, North, and South Burgate, Godshill, and Midgham. There are a chapel of ease at Ibsley, and places of worship in the parish for the Society of Friends and Independents.[1].
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This section requires expansion with: a summary overview of the history of this parish. |
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]
Fordingbridge parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FMP = findmypast - (£)[3] | |||||
| PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[4] |
| FORDINGBRIDGE PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1642-1738 | 1642-1795 | ||||
| FMP | 1700s-1800s | 1700s-1800s | 1500s-1800s | |||
| PRTS | 1781-1812 | 1781-1812 | 1781-1812 | |||
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.
Copies of the 1831 census also exist at the Hampshire Archives and have been transcribed for Fordingbridge along with Godshill and Burgate and Midgham.
Genealogy[edit | edit source]
Quibell, George. The Kenchingtons of Fordingbridge. Article begins with Mary Kenchington marrying William Witt on 17 Oct. 1781, of this parish. It has family history beginning with William Kenchington born 1676-1752 and his wife Elizabeth Wing 1707, and carries forward. Other names mentioned are Hall, Collins, Austen, Wyatt, Bartlett, Kensington, Andrews, Sansome, Garrett, Ransom, Cosens, Chubb, Durdell, Pinhorne, Spickernall, Vincent, Witt. Another parish lsited in the article is Frogham. Article dates from 1543-1884, and is to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 32. part 4, March 2006, pages 273-275, 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. 250-253. Date accessed: 14 June 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 24 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Over 1.4 million new Hampshire parish records published', Find My Past, accessed 3 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 30 September 2013.
