County Resources
Hampshire & the Isle of Wight
Shelf Mark: HA
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
County-wide sources:
- General Registers
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes: A-C | D-H | I-R | S-Z
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Hampshire, Isle of Wight [&] Channel Islands parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National Index of parish registers, vol. 8, part 6: Hampshire & the Isle of Wight. London: SoG, 2001. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
List of Bishops' transcripts at Winchester: Hampshire registers, vol. 12 [Typescript.] [HA/R 130]
Parish & nonconformist registers of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight [Shelf 9 (HA/REG)]
The parish registers & parochial documents in the Archdeaconry of Winchester [HA/R 108]
Parish registers of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight [as of 1994] [Shelf 9 (HA/REG)]
Parish registers of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight: a detailed guide [as of 1992] [HA/R 130]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the Origins Network.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at FamilySearch.org
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
Hackman series index: Hackman series of Hampshire bishops transcripts, vols. 1-82 [Shelf 9 (HA/REG)]
Hampshire baptism index 1813-41, Church of England only, excluding the Isle of Wight [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet (HA/REG)]
Hampshire burial index 1400-1837 [excludes Isle of Wight] [CD-ROM.] [SOGNET]
Out of area collection 1, 1975-76 [UK/REG]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Dorsetshire & Hampshire Quarterly Meeting: Z(I) 1638-1837 & 1664-95, M(I) 1658-1837 & 1665-1715, B(I) 1657-1837 & 1678-98 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3391]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
Hampshire allegations for marriage licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester, 1689-1837, part 1 A-L, part 2 M-Z: Harleian Society, vols. 35-36 [HARL]
Hampshire marriage allegations, 1689-1837, supplement to the Harleian Society's, vol. 35, 36: Hampshire tracts, vol. 2 [HA/G 8]
Hampshire allegations for marriage licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester, 1689-1837, part 1: A-L, part 2: M-Y & supplement: Harleian Society, vols. 35-36 [Microfiche] [Apply to library staff]
Hampshire marriage licences 1607-40 from records in the Diocesan Registry, Winchester (including details of bonds) [Typescript] [HA/R 120-121]
Hampshire marriage licences 1607-40 from records in the Diocesan Registry, Winchester (corrected version of HA/R 120-121 but excluding details of bonds) [HA/R 122]
Hampshire marriage licences, 1669-80; from records in the Winchester Diocesan Registry [HA/R 123]
Marriage bonds for the Diocese of Bristol excluding the Archdeaconry of Dorset, vol. 1: 1637-1700: Publications of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Records Section, vol. 1 [GL/PER]
Marriage licences of Salisbury 1615-31, 1633-34, 1636-46, 1653, 1660-82: The Genealogist new series, vol. 24-38 [PER/GEN]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
Guide to printed, typescript & manuscript copies of monumental inscriptions in Hampshire [Typescript.] [Box 27/folder 30]
Hampshire church notes, [1st series] vols. 1-3 [Manuscript.] [HA/G 17-19]
Hampshire church notes, [2nd series] [Manuscript.] [HA/G 16]
Monumental inscriptions in 60 Hampshire churches [HA/M 11]
Monumental inscriptions in England relating to West Indians: Caribbeana, being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, & antiquities of the British West Indies, vol. 1-5 [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]
Wessex has their bones: who's buried where in Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire & the Isle of Wight [DO/M 36]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
HAMPSHIRE - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
HAMPSHIRE - DIRECTORIES
or HAMPSHIRE - POLL BOOKS
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at National Archives.
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at findmypast.com
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at the Origins Network
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court e.g. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
HAMPSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Hampshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Abbots Ann | Aldershot | Alresford, New | Alresford, Old | Alton | Alverstoke | Amport | Andover | Anmore | Arreton | Ashe | Ashmansworth | Avington | Baddesley, North | Barton Stacey | Basing | Basingstoke | Baughurst | Beaulieu | Bembridge | Bentley | Bentworth | Binstead by Alton | Binstead, Isle of Wight | Bishops Sutton | Bishops Waltham | Bishopstoke | Blendworth | Boarhunt | Boldre | Bonchurch | Bossington | Botley | Brading | Bradley | Bramdean | Bramley | Bramshaw | Bramshott | Bransgore | Breamore | Brixton | Brockenhurst | Brockhampton | Brooke | Broughton | Brown Candover | Bullington | Burghclere | Burley | Bursledon | Calbourne | Carisbrooke | Chale | Cheriton | Chilbolton | Chilton Candover | Chilworth | Christchurch | Church Oakley | Clanfield | Clatford, Upper | Cliddesden | Colmer | Compton | Coombe | Cowes | Cowes, East | Cowes, West | Crawley | Crondall
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Hampshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Deane | Dibden | Dogmersfield | Dummer | Durley | Eastrop | Eling | Ellisfield | Elson | Elvetham | Eversley | Ewhurst | Exbury | Exton | Faccombe | Fareham | Farnborough | Fawley | Fordingbridge | Forton | Frensham | Freshwater | Froxfield | Froyle | Gatcombe | Godshill | Goodworth Clatford | Gosport | Grateley | Greywell | Hale | Hamble le Rice | Hannington | Harbridge | Hartley Mauditt | Hartley Wespall | Hartley Wintney | Havant | Haven Street | Hayling, North | Hayling, South | Headley | Heckfield | Herriard | Highclere | Highcliffe | Holdenhurst | Holybourne | Hordle | Houghton | Hound | Hunton | Hursley | Hurstbourne Priors | Hurstbourne Tarrant | Hyde | Hythe
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Hampshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Ibsley | Isle of Wight | Itchen Stoke | Kings Sombourne | Kingsclere | Kingsley | Kingston | Kingsworthy | Knights Enham | Landport | Laverstoke | Linkenholt | Liphook | Litchfield | Longparish | Longstone | Lymington | Lyndhurst | Mapledurwell | Martyr Worthy | Mattingley | Medstead | Meon, East | Meon, West | Milford on Sea | Millbrook | Minstead | Monk Sherborne | Monxton | Morestead | Mottisfont | Mottistone | Nateley Scures | Netley | Newchurch | Newnham | Newport | Newtown | Niton | Northington | Northwood | Nursling | Nutley | Odiham | Overton | Pamber | Penton Mewsey | Popham | Portsea | Portsmouth | Preston Candover | Priors Dean | Ringwood | Rockbourne | Romsey | Ropley | Rotherwick | Rowner | Ryde
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Hampshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Sandown | Shalden | Shalfleet | Shanklin | Sherborne St John | Sherfield upon Loddon | Shirley | Shorwell | Silchester | Sopley & Burton Green | Southampton | Southwick | St Helens | St Lawrence | St Mary Bourne | St Nicholas | Steep | Steeple | Steventon | Stockbridge | Stoke Charity | Stoneham, North | Stoneham, South | Stratfield Saye | Stratfield Turgis | Sutton, Long | Swarraton | Sydmonton | Tadley | Tangley | Thorley | Thruxton | Tichborne | Timsbury | Tisted, East | Tisted, West | Titchfield | Tufton | Twyford | Tytherley, West | Up Nately | Ventnor | Vernham | Vernham Dean | Wallop, Nether | Wallop, Over | Waltham, North | Warblington | Warnborough, South | Weeke | Wellow | Wellow, East | Wellow, West | Weston Patrick | Weyhill | Wherwell | Whippingham | Whitchurch | Whitsbury | Whitwell | Wickham | Wield | Winchester | Winchester College | Winchfield | Winnall | Winslade | Wolverton | Wonston | Woodhay, East | Woodmancote | Wootton | Wootton St Lawrence | Worldham, East | Worldham, West | Worting | Yarmouth | Yateley | Yaverland
