Lymington, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes  Lymington

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



Parish History
LYMINGTON, a borough, market-town, parochial chapelry, and liberty, and the head of a union, in the Lymington and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 18 miles (S. W. by S.) from Southampton, and 95 (S. W.) from London. .

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

Genealogy from Periodicals
Naish, Robert. From Lymington to Alberta - The Hayward Family. A wedding picture of Oliver Hayward and Bessie Ezitt Green of Lymington, Hampshire 1907, also picture of the Hayward Family taken in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 1918, with history. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XX11, no. 1, May 1995, cover page and pages2-3. 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