Itchen Abbas, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ITCHIN-ABBAS (St. John), a parish, in the union of Winchester, hundred of Bountisborough, Winchester and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 3½ miles (W. N. W.) from Alresford. .

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
Itchen Abbas 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.

Genealogy
Burge, Mary. The Hall Family of Winchester. A pedigree chart beginning with Henry Hall death in 1755-1966. Covers area of Alresford, and Winchester, and London. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol.XII,no.2, August 1985, page 81, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h v12

Pearce, Jeanette and Tomlinson, Jane. Bignell's Cottage Itchen Abbas. The Will of George Bignell 1717 shows that for the next two hundred years the Bignells lived in Itchen Abbas. Tells of some of the relatives, and their occupations. A drawing of Church of St. John, where the family were regular church goers, and gave funds for repairs.There is also a drawing of the date stone on the wall of the Bignell Cottage, and also details of the farm. Copy of the advertisement in October 1949 of the Auction for Bignell Cottage. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XV,no.2, August 1988 pages 97-99, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

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