Petersfield, Hampshire Genealogy
Guide to Petersfield, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Petersfield, Hampshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Finch-Dean |
| County | Hampshire |
| Poor Law Union | Petersfield |
| Registration District | Petersfield |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558; For more records see Buriton | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1700 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Petersfield |
| Diocese | Winchester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester |
| Location of Archive | |
| Hampshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
PETERSFIELD (St. Peter), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Finch-Dean, Petersfield and N. divisions of the county of Southampton with the tything of Sheet. Besides the church, is a place of worship for Independents.[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]
Petersfield parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FMP = FindMyPast - (£)[2] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[3] | |||||
| PRTS = The Parish Register Transcription Society - (£)[4] |
| PETERSFIELD PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1700s-1800s | 1700s-1800s | 1500s-1800s | |||
| FREG | 1784-1814 | 1734-1837 | ||||
| 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.
Genealogy from Periodicals[edit | edit source]
Hurst, N.H.G. The Main Line Article covers the family of William Main, and Mr. Hurst starts with William's brother Reuben, who was Master of the tug "Grinder" at the time of the fatal accident. It continues with details of the family, from 1863, when Reuben Main marries Suzanne Miller, and their children's details are given. Article covers years from1762-1957. The article is found in The Hampshire Family Historian, Vol. VIII,no.2. August. 1981 pages 69-70
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]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848), pp. 558-564. Date accessed: 08 June 2013.
- ↑ 'Over 1.4 million new Hampshire parish records published', Find My Past, accessed 3 October 2013. Date ranges are not clearly identified.
- ↑ 'Hampshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 23 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 2 October 2013.
