Bursledon, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes Bursledon

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

Parish History
BURSLEDON, a chapelry, in the parish of Hound, union of South Stoneham, hundred of Bishop'sWaltham, Southampton and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 4¾ miles (E. S. E.) from Southampton. .

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
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Genealogy From Periodicals
Whitlock Family Tree. A Family tree starting with Stephen Whitlock, born 1766 and showing all his descendants up to 1983. Some in the parish of Bishopstoke, Bursledon, Hound, Hursley, Soton, Stoneham, and Australia. Article to be found in The hampshire Family Historian, Vol.X.no.2, Aug.1983,page 65, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

Moore, Joyce. A Great Hampshire Shipbuilder. A photo of the Memorial Inscription on the Parson Vault, of George Parsons of St. Leonard's, Bursledon, where 4 generations of the same family are interred. A description of the vault, and some of the names and dates buried therein. Article in the Hampshire Family Historian, Vol.XIII, no.3, November 1885, page 187, 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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