Emsworth Hampshire Family History Guide
Emsworth is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1841 from Warblington Ancient Parish.
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Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1841
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843
Nonconformists include: Calvinist, Independent/Congregational, and Particular Baptist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Warblington
- Redhill
- Racton with Lordington Sussex
- Southbourne Sussex
- Westbourne Sussex
- Havant
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
EMSWORTH, a village and a chapelry in Warblington parish, Hants. The village stands on the Emsworth channel of Chichester harbour, adjacent to the South Coast railway, and to the boundary with Sussex, opposite Thorney island, 2 miles ESE of Havant; has a station on the railway with telegraph, a head post office, and fairs on Easter Monday and 18 July; is a sub-port to Chichester; carries on a noted fishery of oysters, which abound in Emsworth channel; and has some trade in coasting-commerce, ship-building, rope-making, and brick-making.
A fine silt abounds in the adjacent waters, and is mixed with clay for bricks; very large fig-trees flourish in the gardens; and a swan was caught here, in 1739, with the Danish arms on a collar.
The chapelry includes the village, and was constituted in 1841. Pop., 1, 655. Houses, 365. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £300. Patron, the Rector of Warblington. The church was built in 1840, and twice enlarged. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists. Works were in progress, in 1865, for reclaiming 2, 000 acres of foreshore.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Dennis William Emsworth Hants linen draper Nov 18 1828
Drewett Napper Emsworth Southampton mariner & victualler Nov 14 1826
Holloway Gawen Emsworth Southampton merchant Feb 12 1839
Pinnix Edw Emsworth Southampton cattle & sheep salesman Dec 17 1825
Stephens Daniel Wells Emsworth Hants wine merchant Feb 17 1835
Whicher Henry Emsworth Southampton butcher & farmer Nov 6 1829
Administration
- County: Hampshire
- Civil Registration District: Havant
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Droxford
- Poor Law Union: Havant
- Hundred: Bosmere
- Province: Canterbury