West End, Hampshire Genealogy

England Hampshire  Hampshire Parishes  West End

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

Parish History
WESTEND, a chapelry in South Stoneham parish, Hants; near Portswood r. station, and 3¼ miles NNE of Southampton. It was constituted in 1840; and it has a post-office under Southampton.

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

Genealogy from Periodicals
Pither, John S. The Three P's.  Family trees and history of Abraham Pither who married Sarah surname unknown, some are at Shifield, some at Reading and some at Mortimer, West End. Tree is dated from 1776-1991. Article in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. 18, no.2, August 1991, pages 110-111., Family History 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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