Petersfield, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
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. .

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
Petersfield parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Hampshire Archives and Local Studies.

Genealogy from Periodicals
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
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain