Crawley, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes  Crawley

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

Parish History
CRAWLEY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Winchester, hundred of Buddlesgate, Winchester and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 4 miles (E.) from Stockbridge. .

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

Genealogy
Neyt, E. James Kersley, M.S.M. The Temperant Colour Sergeant. A picture of the Kersley Family with names in Pontefract Yorkshire, 1898, originally living in the early 1700's in Crawley, Hampshire. Also a description of the family to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XII, no.2, August 1985, pages 97-99, Family History Library Ref. 942.27

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
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