Portsea Holy Trinity, Hampshire Genealogy

Guide to Portsea Holy Trinity, Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
PORTSEA (Holy Trinity). Trinity church, the first stone was laid in June, 1839. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents (the principal of which, in King-street, is one of the largest and handsomest meeting-houses in the kingdom), Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics; and a synagogue.

PORTSEA, is a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Hampshire, with several smaller churches attached to the ancient parish of St Mary's. These other small chapelries/churches (of the Church of England) comprised ten divisions within St Mary's boundaries; they included: Portsea St. Mary Portsea St. George Portsea St. John Portsea Holy Trinity Southsea St. Paul Southsea St. Jude (see also St Simon) Land port St. Luke Land port-All Saints Milton St. James Havelock-Park St. Bartholomew Portsea St. Simon

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
Portsea Holy Trinity 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