Whitchurch Hampshire Family History Guide
Whitchurch is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Hampshire. Freefolk is a chapelry of Whitchurch.
Other places in the parish include: Whitchurch Parsonage, Freefolk Priors, Cold Henley, and Charlcott.
Alternative names: Whitechurch
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1605
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1807
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
- Wonston
- Laverstoke
- Hurstbourne Priors
- Sydmonton
- Tufton
- Litchfield
- St Mary Bourne
- Bullington
- Freefolk
Whitchurch Parish Registers
Whitchurch Marriages 1605 to 1812 Hampshire Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 8 Edited by W. P.W. Phillimore, S. Andrews and J. F. Williams. Published London 1906. Issued to the subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 124 Chancery Lane. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WHITCHURCH, a small town, a parish, and a district, in Hants. The town stands ½ mile S of the South-western railway, and 12 N of Winchester; is a borough by prescription, governed by a mayor and a bailiff; sent two members to parliament, till disfranchised by the reform act of 1832; is a polling place; and has a post-office under Mitcheldever Station, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, a good inn, a town hall, a restored early English church, four dissenting chapels, a mechanics’ institute, national schools, a workhouse, charities £94, a silk factory, and fairs on the third Thursday of June and 19 and 20 Oct.
The parish includes Charlcott, Freefolk-Priors, and Cold Henley tythings; and comprises 6,142 acres. Real property, £6,869; of which £25 are in gasworks. Pop., 1,962. Houses, 429. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £205. Patron, the Bishop of W.
The district contains 8 parishes. Acres, 29,513. Poor rates in 1863, £4,563. Pop. in 1851, 5,619; in 1861, 5,522. Houses, 1,209. Marriages in 1863, 29; births, 170, of which 12 were illegitimate; deaths, 113, of which 39 were at ages under 5 years, and 4 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 370: births, 1,836; deaths, 1,233. The places of worship, in 1851, were 7 of the Church of England, with 2,349 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 675 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 620 s.; 6 of Wesleyans, with 470 s.; 3 of Primitive Methodists, with 390 s.; and 1 of Latter Day Saints, with 20 s. The schools were 6 public day-schools, with 565 scholars; 6 private day-schools, with 128 s.; and 14 Sunday schools, with 1,002 s.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Hampshire
- Civil Registration District: Whitchurch
- Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of Whitchurch with Freefolk and Charlecott, Post-1844 – Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Andover
- Poor Law Union: Whitchurch
- Hundred: Evingar
- Province: Canterbury