Fordingbridge, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
FORDINGBRIDGE (St. Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Fordingbridge, Ringwood and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 20 miles (W. by N.) from Southampton, through Ringwood, and 92 (S. W. by W.) from London with the tythings of Bickton, Middle, North, and South Burgate, Godshill, and Midgham. There are a chapel of ease at Ibsley, and places of worship in the parish for the Society of Friends and Independents. .

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

Census records
Copies of the 1831 census also exist at the Hampshire Archives and have been transcribed for Fordingbridge along with Godshill and Burgate and Midgham.

Genealogy
Quibell, George. The Kenchingtons of Fordingbridge. Article begins with Mary Kenchington marrying William Witt on 17 Oct. 1781, of this parish. It has family history beginning with William Kenchington born 1676-1752 and his wife Elizabeth Wing 1707, and carries forward. Other names mentioned are Hall, Collins, Austen, Wyatt, Bartlett, Kensington, Andrews, Sansome, Garrett, Ransom, Cosens, Chubb, Durdell, Pinhorne, Spickernall, Vincent, Witt. Another parish lsited in the article is Frogham. Article dates from 1543-1884, and is to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 32. part 4, March 2006, pages 273-275, FHL 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.

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