Alresford, Hampshire Genealogy

England   Hampshire     Hampshire Parishes    Alresford

Parish History
ALRESFORD, NEW, a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the liberty of Alresford, Alton and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Winchester, and 57 (S. W. by W.) from London, on the high road to Winchester.

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

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Genealogy
Watkin, Jeff. The Hazelgrove Family - Butchers of Alresford for Four Generations. A picture of Hazelgrove's Shop in East Street, Alresford c.1905 with some of the family standing outside. History of the family starting in 1832-1966. Article to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol.XII, no.4, Feb. 1986, page 227-229. Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h v.12 1985-1986.

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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851 *Vision of Britain

Web sites
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