Winchester St Maurice, Hampshire Genealogy

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

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 Maurice 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.

Winchester St Maurice was an ecclesiastical parish within the boundary of the ancient parish of Winchester Cathedral. Its parish registers commence from the year 1538.

To view a more comprehensive list of all surrounding chapels and parishes within the ancient parish boundary of Winchester Cathedral, be sure to visit the Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire page.

Occupations
Weller, Michael. Generations of Grants: Winchester Tailors. History of Grants, who were tailors in Winchester. Article starts with the baptism of George Grant in 1792 at St. Maurice, with history of the continuing generations with the last death entry being in 1992. Article includes a family tree, and pictures of William F Grant, and family, and an individual picture of Frederick C. Grant. Other surnames mentioned in the tree are Sampson, Sherman, Griffin, Palmer, Bartlett, Budd, Brooks, Gardner, Mould, Hunter, Luthi. the Family tree starts back in 1735 with George Grant's birth. Article in the Hampshire Family Historian vol. 32, part 1, pages 20-24, 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.

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