Lockerley, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LOCKERLEY (St. John), a parish, in the union of Romsey, hundred of Thorngate, Romsey and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 6 miles (N. W.) from Romsey. There is a place of worship for Baptists. .

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
Lockerley 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.

Genealogy from Periodicals
Pierce Family Tree. Family tree of Thomas Pearce, possibly born Lockerley, Hants, with family scattering to Michelmersh, Wellow, Romney, Bishopstoke, Farnham, Crondall, London, Winchfield, and Guildford, dated from 1661-1959. Family tree to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. X1V, part 2, August 1992, page 101, 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.

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