Wardleham, Hampshire Genealogy

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

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.

Genealogy From Periodicals
Rickman, D. Rickman Descendants. Mr Rickman advises that there is a document in the Local Studies Dept of Birmingham Reference Library:- "Copy of the list of the descendants of Richard and Isabel Rickman of Wardleham Hants" It contains some 50 individual family trees from 1512 onwards. Article is found in The Hampshire Family Historian Vol. XV111, no. 2, August 1991. page 111.

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