Winchester St Cross Hospital Precincts, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes

Guide to Winchester St Cross Hospital Precincts, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
St Faith's is a sinecure rectory, annexed to the mastership of the Hospital of St Cross, an extra-parochial place, and in the chapel of which the parishioners attend divine service, the church of St Faith having been demolished for more than two centuries.

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.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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