Pokesdown St James, Hampshire Genealogy

Guide to Pokesdown St James, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

The parish of Pokesdown St James in Bournemouth was created in 1859 from Christchurch and Holdenhurst.

Originally within the county of Hampshire, the parish was moved to Dorset as a result of the

Memorials

 * Pokesdown War Memorial 1939-45 - situated on Christchurch Road on either side of the entrance gates to St James Church and St James School.

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