Bournemouth, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire

Parish History
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The Bournemouth town council website is at http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/

The town celebrates its bi-centennary in 2010.

The on-line encyclopeadia has a good article providing the basic history of the town @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournemouth#History

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
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Available from the FHL
The following list of churches is from the Family History Library Catalogue
 * Bishop's transcripts for Holy Trinity Church, Bournemouth, 1867-1871 / Church of England. Holy Trinity Church (Bournemouth, Hampshire)
 * Church records, 1887-1978 / Boscombe United Reformed Church (Bournemouth, Hampshire :Congregational)
 * Church records, 1921-1931 / St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Bournemouth, England)
 * Church records, 1923-1936 / St. Mark's Presbyterian Church (Bournemouth, England)
 * Monumental inscriptions, 1790-1900 / Church of England. St. Peter's Church (Bournemouth)
 * Parish registers of St. Clement Bournemouth Church, 1871-1945 / Church of England. St. Clement's Church ( Bournemouth, Hampshire)

Census records
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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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain - Place: Bournemouth, Hampshire
 * 1897 Street Map and 1931 Ordnance Survey Map of Bournemouth

Web sites
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