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 registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1841
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843

Nonconformists include: Calvinist, Independent/Congregational, and Particular Baptist.

Adjacent Parishes

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

FamilySearch

England, Hampshire, Emsworth – Church history ( 1 )
The villages of Warblington & Emsworth and the parishes of St Thomas a Becket, and of St James
Author: Montgomery, Roy; Hampshire Genealogical Society

England, Hampshire, Emsworth – Church records ( 5 )
Births and baptisms, 1817-1837
Author: Nile Street Chapel (Emsworth, Hampshire : Independent)

Births and baptisms, 1817-1837
Author: Nile Street Chapel (Emsworth, Hampshire : Independent)

Bishop’s transcripts for Emsworth, 1843-1887
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Emsworth (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Emsworth, parish registers for St. James Church, 1841-1927
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Emsworth (Hampshire); Portsmouth Central Library (Portsmouth, England)

Transcripts of Bishop’s transcripts of Warblington, Hampshire, England : marriages relating to Sussex, 1701-1930
Author: Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Church of England. Parish Church of Warblington (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Emsworth – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Emsworth, Hampshire, England (Independent, Nilo Street) ; christenings, 1817-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Hampshire, Emsworth – History ( 1 )
The villages of Warblington & Emsworth and the parishes of St Thomas a Becket, and of St James
Author: Montgomery, Roy; Hampshire Genealogical Society

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