Bramshaw Hampshire Family History Guide

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Bramshaw is an Ancient Parish partly in Hampshire and partly in Wiltshire.

Other places in the parish include: Fritham, Eyeworth Walk, Eyeworth Lodge, Castle Malwood Walk, Bramble-Hill Walk, and Amberwood Cottage.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1597
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1597

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRAMSHAW, a parish in the district of New Forest, and counties of Hants and Wilts; 5 miles SSW of Dunbridge r. station, and 6½ NNW of Lyndhurst. It includes the hamlets of Fritham and Furzley; and has a post office under Lyndhurst. Acres, 3,560. Real property, with West Wellow, £3,194. Pop., 746. Houses, 167. The property is subdivided. Bramshaw House is a chief residence. The Hants portion, amounting to 1,960 acres, is all in the New Forest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £161. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church is a neat, ancient, modernized structure, said to have been built by the Conqueror; and has a square, brick, ivy-clad tower.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Hampshire, Bramshaw – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Bramshaw, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Hampshire, Bramshaw – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bramshaw, 1597-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bramshaw (Hampshire)

Church records
Author: Romsey Circuit (Hampshire : Wesleyan Methodist)

Parish chest records of Bramshaw, Hampshire, 1813-1921
Author: Bramshaw (Hampshire)

Parish registers for Bramshaw, 1597-1925
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bramshaw (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Bramshaw – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Bramshaw, Wiltshire, England ; christenings, 1598-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Hampshire, Bramshaw – Court records ( 1 )
Court records, 1590-1592
Author: Church of England. Dean and Chapter of Sarum. Peculiar Court

England, Hampshire, Bramshaw – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest records of Bramshaw, Hampshire, 1813-1921
Author: Bramshaw (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Bramshaw – Probate records ( 1 )
Original wills, administrations and inventories, 1625-1638
Author: Church of England. Dean and Chapter of Sarum. Peculiar Court

England, Hampshire, Bramshaw – Schools ( 1 )
Once there was — the village school
Author: Merson, Elizabeth

England, Hampshire, Bramshaw – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Bramshaw, 1799-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Hampshire)

Land tax assessments in Bramshaw, Hampshire 1781-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Hampshire)

School Records

Admission and Log Books

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Search Bramshaw Council / County Primary School Records

Search Fritham National/Church of England School, Bramshaw Records

Administration

  • County: Hampshire
  • Civil Registration District: New Forest
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Amesbury
  • Poor Law Union: New Forest
  • Hundred: Redbridge
  • Province: Canterbury