Bournemouth St Peter, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes  Bournemouth St Peter

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

Parish History
The parish of Bournemouth St Peter was created in 1845 from Christchurch and Holdenhurst, with Reverend Morden Bennett, the first rector, presiding over the building of the mother church.

Originally within the county of Hampshire, the parish was moved to Dorset as a result of the

As the population of the parish grew in the latter part of the 19th century, further parishes were created as divisions from St Peter. These churches included the following:


 * Bournemouth St Clement - 1871
 * Bournemouth Holy Trinity- 1867
 * Bournemouth St Michael]] - 1874
 * Bournemouth St Paul - 1878
 * Bournemouth St Andrew - 1887
 * Bournemouth St Augustin - 1893
 * Bournemouth St John - 1888
 * Bournemouth St Stephen- 1902

1848
BOURNEMOUTH, a village, in the parish, union, and hundred of Christchurch, Ringwood and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, about 6 miles (W. by S.) from Christchurch. .

Websites

 * Bournemouth - Dorset OPC
 * Bournemouth, Hampshire (St Peter) - Michael Day, UKOLN
 * St Peter with St Stephen, Bournemouth - Church of England
 * Bournemouth Town Centre Parish