Steep, Sussex Genealogy
Guide to Steep, Hampshire and Sussex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Steep, Sussex | |
|---|---|
| Type | Chapelry |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Easebourne; East Meon |
| County | Hampshire |
| Poor Law Union | Petersfield |
| Registration District | Midhurst; Petersfield |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1610; For more records see East Meon | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1780 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Droxford |
| 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]
STEEP, a parish, partly in the union of Petersfield, hundred of East Meon, Petersfield and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, and partly in the union of Midhurst, hundred of Easebourne, rape of Chichester, W. division of Sussex contains also North and South Ambersham.[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]
Steep 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] |
| STEEP PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1700s-1800s | 1700s-1800s | 1500s-1800s | |||
| FREG | 1610-1827 | 1610-1754 | 1610-1812 | |||
| 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. 198-200.Date accessed: 5June 2013. Date Accessed: 4 October 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.
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