Ashley Hampshire Family History Guide

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Ashley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1725
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Ashley Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Ashley. The index includes information from Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837 and The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Marriage Licences and Allegations

The following have been extracted from Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens. Parishes without a named county are parishes within the county of Hampshire.

Bellenger, Thomas, of Ashley, husbandman, & Martha Humber, of the s., sp., at A., Michelmersh or Houghton, 1 Aug., 1729

Bower, George, of Vernham Dean, cordwainer, b., & Anne Young, of Ashley, sp., at A. or Farley Chamberlayne, 26 May, 1729

Bransden, Thomas, of Sparsholt, yeoman, w., & Joane Cook, of Ashley, 30. at Ashley Broughton, 8 Nov., 1703.

Coles, Henry, of Ashley, yeoman, 21, b., & Jane Young, of Little Somborne, 21, sp , at King’s Somborne, 23 Nov., 1814

Cook, Robert, of Ashley, labourer, 22, b., & Ann Hamilton, of Little Somborne, 21, sp., at L. S., or King’s S., 29 Apl., 1777.

Cropp, Robert, of Stoke Charity, yeoman, w., & Mary Sutton, of King’s Somborne, or Ashley, 27 Oct., 1730.

Gaiger, James, of Ashley, carter, 30, b., & Mary-Ann Bennett, of the s., 21, sp., at A., 23 Apl., 1811

Gaiger, Thomas, of Ashley, 40, w., & Martha Weeks, of the s., 40, w., at A., 11 Nov., 1811.

Goodall, Joseph, of Over Wallop, yeoman, 27, b., & Elizabeth Gaiger, of Ashley, 26, sp., at A., 21 Jan., 1795. Thomas Gaiger, of the s., yeoman, bondsman.

Headach, John, of Stockbridge, collar maker, 22, b., & Dinah Smith, of Ashley, 22, sp., 9 Apl., 1763.

Lane, Elijah, of Crawley, 21, b., & Sarah Rombold, of Ashley, 20, sp., with c. of her m., Sarah Rombold, of the s., w., at A., 13 Jan., 1827. Aff

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.

Astin Edward Ashley maltster June 12 1838

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASHLEY, a parish in Stockbridge district, Hants; 2 miles E of the Andover railway, and 7 W of Winchester. Post Town, Stockbridge under Winchester. Acres, 1,857. Real property, £1,811. Pop., 104. Houses, 24. The property is subdivided. There are vestiges of Roman camps, and a Danish entrenchment. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £329. Patron, the Rev. James Hannay. The church is Norman, has a very small chancel arch, and was restored in 1858.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Hampshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stockbridge
  • Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
  • Diocese: Winchester
  • Rural Deanery: Somborne
  • Poor Law Union: Stockbridge
  • Hundred: Buddlesgate
  • Province: Canterbury