Parkhurst Forest, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes  Parkhurst Forest

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

Parish History
PARKHURST, a quondam extra-parochial tract in Carisbrooke parish, Isle of Wight; 1¾ mile N W by N of Newport. It was known, at Domesday, as the King's Park and was long a royal hunting-ground. .

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.

Occupation
Earwaker, Peter. Building a Brickmakers List. Start of a brickmaking list on the Isle of Wight, with surnames Pritchett, Butcher, Moore, Flux Kent. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 35, no.2. Sept 2008, page 126, 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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