Southwick, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes  Southwick

Parish History
SOUTHWICK (St. James), a parish, in the union of Fareham, hundred of Portsdown, Fareham and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 4 miles (N. E. by E.) from Fareham. .

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Genealogy
Barber, Norman. The Nortons of Southwick. The genealogy of a 17th century Hampshire Family from 1638-1666, starting with the children of Mr. Richard Norton and Ann Norton nee Erle, starting in chronological order.Also includes a family tree. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XI, no. 1, May 1984, pages 63-67. 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
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