Goodworth Clatford, Hampshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
GOODWORTH, a tithing, in the parish of Goodworth-Clatford, union of Andover, hundred of Wherwell, Andover and N. divisions of the county of Southampton. .

CLATFORD-GOODWORTH, or Lower Clatford, a parish in Andover district, Hants; on the Andover railway, 2 miles S of Andover. It includes the tything of Goodworth; and has a post office under Andover, and a railway station. .

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
Sherwood, Antony. The Dowling Line. Family history of the Dowlings of Goodworth Clapford in Hampshire including a Pedigree chart. Article covers years 1539-1797, and is found in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol.XI,no.1 May 1984, pages 58-62, Family History Library Reference 942.27 B2h and a continuation with a further history, and a Pedigree Chart dated from 1539-1694, in The Hampshire Family Historian, vol. XI,no.3, November,1984 pages 165-167, Family History Library 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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