Southsea St Jude, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SOUTHSEA also known as St. Jude; a suburb and four chapelries in Portsea parish, Hants. The suburb lies on the SE side of Portsmouth, on the coast, opposite Spithead. .

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
Southsea St Jude 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.

Non-Conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

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.

Genealogy
Russell, Carol. What's In A Name. Photo taken in 1903 of wedding, persons all named, History of the family of Merritt, Strugnell, Bevans, Sparrow, and Olden. Article covers years 1877-1888 and is found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 17, no. 1, May 1990, pages 24-25, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

Clarke, Midge. Drifting In and Out of Hampshire. Grandfather Bannister born in Isle of Wight, and ran a large Grocery store at Southsea. Mrs. Clarke's paternal grandmother born in Petworth Sussex. Article shows family also being born in the Channel Islands. No dates given, although lady says she has proof back to 1545. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 17, part no. 3 Nov. 1990, page 197-198, FHL Ref. 942.27 B2h

Gale, Joan. The Boy Forester. Photo taken about 1903 of a wedding, held at St Paul's Church, Southsea, of Matthews Family with a family history of each member. Also facsimile of William Thomas Kelsey, Certificate of Ancient Order of Foresters. Other sunrnames mentioned, Kelsey, Pellett, Golding, Anderson, Trigg, Every, McCaffrie/McEffie. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 23 part 2, pages 126-127, FHL Ref 942.27 B2h

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