Milton (near Portsea), Hampshire Genealogy
Guide to Milton (near Portsea), Hampshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Milton (near Portsea), Hampshire | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Portsmouth Borough |
County | Hampshire |
Poor Law Union | Portsea Island |
Registration District | Portsea Island |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1844 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Droxford |
Diocese | Winchester |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester |
Location of Archive | |
Hampshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
Milton St James (near Portsea) was originally created as a chapelry - one of ten chapelries all within the parish of Portsea, in the county of Hampshire, created in 1844 from Portsea Ancient Parish. The other chapelries included:
- (Holy) Trinity
- St George
- St John
- St Mary
- Land port St Luke
- Land port All Saints
- Havelock Park St Bartholomew
- Southsea St Paul
- Southsea St Jude with St Simon
Resources
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
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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.
Websites
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