Portsea St Mary, Hampshire Genealogy

Guide to Portsea St Mary, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
PORTSEA, is a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Hampshire, with several smaller churches attached to the ancient parish of St Mary's. These other small chapelries/churches (of the Church of England) comprised ten divisions within St Mary's boundaries; they included: Portsea St. Mary Portsea St. George Portsea St. John Portsea Holy Trinity Southsea St. Paul Southsea St. Jude (see also St Simon) Land port St. Luke Land port-All Saints Milton St. James Havelock-Park St. Bartholomew Portsea St. Simon

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
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Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Hampshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Hampshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Genealogy
A Soldier's Bride by Cockaday, P. This is a story of Caroline Jane Amelia Somerville, baptised at St. Mary's Portsea in 1832, who married John Cockaday August 1852. Gives history of the family, and includes photos of them both, and a drawing of the Portsmouth Cathedral in Old Portsmouth. Article in the Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XV, no.2, August 1988, pages 92-93, FamilySearch Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

Fletcher, John S. A Portsea Connection. History and family tree of John Fletcher 1809-1895 and Sarah Ansell 1805-1848. The Fletchers of Sheerness Kent, and South London and their maritime link with Porsea. Photo of John George Fletcher 1857-1949 and Mary Ann Margaret Pritchard 1857-1945. Photo of Arthur Henry Jennings Read (1860-1930) and some of the family named outside his shop at 94 Essex Road, Islington about 1914. Article covers 1805-1976. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 15 no. 4, February 1989, pages 256-260, FamilySearch Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

Probate Records
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.

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