Selborne, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SELBORNE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Alton, hundred of Selborne, Alton and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 4½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Alton. .

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

Genealogy
Reeves, John A. The Bridger Family of Selborne, Hampshire, and Bridger of Liss, Hampshire. Two descendancy charts of Robert Bridger and james Bridger of Selborne, also Bridger of Liss, Hampshire, covering years 1567-1862. Family Trees to be found in the hampshire Family Historian, vol. 2 no. 1, pages 8-9, Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h vol.2 &amp; 3.

Williams, C. L. Sinclair. The Wake Family of Selborne and Solent. The history of Edward and Ann Collyn. Included are the names Baly, Bert, Merrett, Williams, Newlyn, de Bragboef, de Bohun, Stratton, Clare, de Quincy, de Bolny, and Baybof. Article covers years 1269-1981, to be found in Hampshire Family Historian Magazine. vol.9, #2, 1982, pages 50-53. Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h

Steadman, Rita. Selborne Connection. The history of Emma Hale who married Albert Josiah Webster in the middle of Queen Victoria's reign, no date given. History of the Hales some starting as early as 1579-1850's, in the article, to be found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XX11, part no. 1, May 1995, pages 25-26, FHL Ref 942.27 B2h

Reeves, J. A. A Short History of the Heighes Family of Hampshire. A history of the Heighes, de Heyes, Hayes, Heighes family starting from 1200-1870, including two Pedigree charts, with Seal of Andrew de Heyhes, c1250 and their Coats of Arms, various parishes of Headley, Kingsley, Selborne, E. Worldham. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian vol. 3, no.1, May 1976, pages 26-32. FAHL 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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