Baughurst, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BAUGHURST, a parish, in the union of Kingsclere, forming a detached portion of the hundred of Evingar, Kingsclere and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from Basingstoke. .

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
Baughurst 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.

Smallbone, Ken. Baptisms Recorded at Baughurst, Hampshire. Article is a list of names and dates of Baptisms, Transcripts at the Hampshire Record Office. covering 1813-1837. Article in Hampshire Family Historian. Vol. 9,#2, 1982. pages 69-71, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h.

Genealogy From Periodicals
Charles Smith's Diary. the Journal of a Hampshire Emigrant 18 June to 8 August 1886. Part One, This article is about the life of Charles Smith, born at Pudding Hill Farm, Church Green, Baughurst in 1862, parents being John and Ruth Smith. He had 6 sisters, and Charles emigrates to Townsville, Queensland, Australia on the McIlwraith McEacharn Steamer 'Cloncurry' in 1886. Article has a family tree, a drawing of the Cloncurry, and his ticket, as well as a diary of part of the journey to Australia, and is to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol.XI. no.4, February 1985, pages 229-238. Family History Library Ref. 942.27B2h and a continuation of the article containing a picture of Charles Smith's father and his six sisters at Church Green Baughurst, with names, in The Hampshire Family Historian,  vol.XII,no.1, May 1985, pages 25-31, Family History Library Ref.942.27 B2h v.12. A further article of Charles Smith's Diary including a photo of him taken in Collingwood, Queensland Australia, in 1888, to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol.XII,no2, August 1985, pages 94-95, Family History Library Ref 942.27 B2h v 12. A further article of Charles Smith - it is a letter written from Pheasant Creek, Kingslake, Victoria, dated December 5th 1894, written to his younger sister Nellie (Frances Ellen) shortly before his return to the family farm at Baughurst, where died of Tuberculosis. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XIII.no.3. November 1985, pages 190-191, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h v.12

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