Basingstoke, Hampshire Genealogy

Guide to Basingstoke, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BASINGSTOKE (St. Michael), a municipal borough, a market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Basingstoke, Basingstoke and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 18 miles (N. E.) from Winchester, and 45 (W. S. W.) from London, on the great western road. .

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Civil Registration
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
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 From Periodicals
Lawes, Edward. Militia Records. Article lists Family allowances Paid to Volunteers of the Army of Reserve Serving at Basingstoke, Stockbridge. It lists the men, their wife's names, and some of the children's names and ages. This was taken from Exchequer Receiver's A/C's, Chancery Lane, E182/922 Part 2, 1804 Hants. Article is in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. vol. VIII,no.4 Feb 1982 pages 135-138, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

Mackarill, Diana R. An Ordinary Family, The Paices of Basingstoke. The name Paice (Pace, Payse, Paise) is said to derive from Pascal or Pax. A small history of the family with pictures of Edmund and Emma Paice (nee Bulpitt) married in 1874, and another taken on their Golden Wedding day. in 1924. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XVII, no. 1, May 1990, pages 26-31, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

Albery, Alan. The Unreturning Prodigal: George Venn Wakeford. George Venn Wakeford, born 1799, one of Nathaniel and Jenny Wakeford's six children, whe went to Brazil in 1823. The author found letters written by George in amongst papers relation to Oakley Hall Estate, between Oakley and Dean 6 miles west of Basingstoke. George changed his surname to Wilson, while in Brazil. Article tells of family history of Wakefords and part of George's life. Article dating from 1767-1976, to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 32 part 4, March 2006, pages 291-294, FHL Ref 942.27 B2h

Benwell, R.G. From Basingstoke to Ballarat. The family tree of William Benwell who married Elizabeth Allee, in 1801, with their descendants showing family emigrating to Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, in 1949, and the children born in Australia. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XX111, part 1, May 1996, page 49, Family History 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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