Yarmouth, Hampshire Genealogy
England Hampshire
Hampshire Parishes
Yarmouth
Guide to Yarmouth, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Yarmouth, Hampshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | West Medina Liberty |
County | Hampshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Isle of Wight |
Registration District | Isle of Wight |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1614 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1780 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | West 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 | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Yarmouth (St. James)
YARMOUTH (St. James), a market-town and parish, and formerly a representative borough, in the liberty of West Medina, Isle of Wight division of the county of Southampton, 10 miles (W.) from Newport, and 94 (S. W.) from London, by Portsmouth. Here are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.[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]
Yarmouth parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
YARMOUTH PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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BIVRI | 1859-1888 | 1838-1898 | ||||
BOYD | 1614-1812 | |||||
PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
PRTS | 1780-1812 | 1614-1679, 1693-1812 | 1780-1812 |
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.
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. 707-716. Date accessed: 28 May 2013.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 24 September 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 27 September 2013.