Winchester St Cross with St Faith, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WINCHESTER St Cross was an ancient chapel, which was annexed with St Faith, lying within the ancient parish of Winchester (The Cathedral - The Holy and Undivided Trinity). It is an ancient chapel in the City of Winchester and comprises both the extra-parochial chapel of St Cross Hospital Chapel and St Faith's chapelry. St Faith's was annexed to the mastership of the hospital of St. Cross, which is extra-parochial, and in the chapel of which the parishioners attended divine service, the original church of St. Faith having been demolished for more than [three] centuries. Records begin by 1674.

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
Winchester St Cross with St Faith 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.

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