Wymering, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WYMERING (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Fareham, hundred of Portsdown, Fareham and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 4¼ miles (W.) from Havant; containing, with the hamlet of Hilsea, and part of Potwell. There is a place of worship for Independents; and a national school.

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
Wymering 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.

Edwards, Betty. Portsmouth or Portsea? This article has a map, and gives an explanation of  the ancient parishes, including Wymering, St. Peter and St. Paul. The ancient parishes of Widley and Wymering were consolidated in the early 19th Century, Apparently some of the registers are somewhat confused, some books covering the separate churches and some containing entries for both. The joint registers start in 1654, and whatever has survived are available at the Portsmouth City Records Office. Article is in the Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XII, no. 2, August 1985, page 73-75, 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