Sherborne St John, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes  Sherborne St John

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

Parish History
SHERBORNE ST JOHN, or EAST SHERBORNE (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Basingstoke, Basingstoke and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 2¾ miles (N. N. W.) from Basingstoke. .

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

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
Ford, Michael. Hatchments of Sherborne St John, Hampshire. There were 10 hatchments but now only 4 remain surname of Chute, years 1705-1824 with a copy of a Hatchment to Edward Chute, died 1722. Article in the Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XI,no.4, February 1985,pages 267-268, 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.

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