Romsey, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ROMSEY (St. Mary), a market-town and parish, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of King's-Sombourn, Romsey and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 8 miles (N. W. by N.) from Southampton, and 75 (S. W. by S.) from London. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Sandemanians. .

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
Romsey 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
Hedge, Pam. Man of Means. History and a family tree has been drawn up from the Will of George Wheeler 1811-1892, of Oaklands Romsey. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 19, part 2, August 1992, pages 95-96, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

Burrowes, L.R. Mackrell's Last Journey. Mackrell family tree and story of George Mackrell age 19, buried 25 Mar 1831 the same day as his infant son George Henry Macknell was baptised.. George was drowned in river Test, and article gives an accout of his last journey. Pedigree chart 1714-1960's. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 14, no.1, May 1987, pages 18-20

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