East Cowes, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
COWES, EAST, a parochial district, in the parish of Whippingham, liberty of East Medina, Isle of Wight division of the county of Southampton, 5 miles (N.) from Newport; free. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Rector of Whippingham, with a net income of £135. There is a place of worship for Independents. .

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
East Cowes 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.

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

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

Genealogy
Waight, Stan. A Monday Night in May. A history of the Monday night of the Air raids in Cowes and East Cowes, by the author, who was only 13 years old. Also a photo of a Memorial with the names of those who lost their lives in air raids, 1939-1945 near a shipyard. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian vol. 28 part 2, pages 97-99, 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

Websites

 * East Cowes One-Place Study