Froxfield, Hampshire Genealogy
Guide to Froxfield, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Froxfield, Hampshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | East Meon |
| County | Hampshire |
| Poor Law Union | Petersfield |
| Registration District | Petersfield |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1544; For more records see East Meon | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1780 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Andover |
| Diocese | Winchester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Pre-1845 - Court of the Peculiar of East Meon with Combe, Steep, Ramsden, Froxfield and Oxenbourne; Post-1844 - Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester |
| Location of Archive | |
| Hampshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
FROXFIELD, a chapelry, in the parish and hundred of East Meon, union of Petersfield, Petersfield and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 3¾ miles (N. W. by W.) from Petersfield.[1].
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]
Froxfield 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] | |||||
| FS = FamilySearch - free[4] | |||||
| PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[5] |
| FROXFIELD PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BIVRI | 1543-1787 | |||||
| FMP | 1700s-1800s | 1700s-1800s | 1500s-1800s | |||
| FS | 1544-1876 | 1544-1837 | ||||
| PRTS | 1780-1812 | 1780-1812 | 1780-1812 | |||
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., [A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848), pp. 269-272. 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.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Hampshire, England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 8 October 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 30 September 2013.
