Catherington Hampshire Family History Guide
Catherington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Catherine
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1602
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1781
Nonconformists include: Independent Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CATHERINGTON, a village, a parish, and a district in Hants. The village stands about a mile NNW of Horndean, under Catherington down, near Bere forest, 3¼ miles NW by W of Rowlands Castle r. station, and 5½ NNW of Havant. The parish comprises 5,139 acres. Post Town, Horndean. Real property, £7,265. Pop., 1,151. Houses, 231. The property is subdivided. Catherington House is the seat of the Rev. N. Pearse.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £280. Patron, G. Pritchard, Esq. The church is early Norman; has a massive tower; and contains a fine old monument of Chief-Justice Hyde. Charities, £16.
The district includes only the subdistrict of Horndean, containing the parishes of Catherington, Blendworth, Chalton, and Clanfield, and the ville of Waterloo. Acres, 10,561. Poor-rates in 1866, £1,802. Pop. in 1861, 2,497. Houses, 502. Marriages in 1866, 22; births, 95, of which 2 were illegitimate; deaths, 47, of which 11 were at ages under 3 years, and 3 at ages above 85 years. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 163; births, 776; deaths, 478.
The places of worship in 1851 were 6 of the Church of England, with 1,340 sittings; and 5 of Independents, with 510 s.
The schools were 5 public day schools, with 200 scholars; 4 private day schools, with 88 s.; and 9 Sunday schools, with 457 s.
The workhouse is in Catherington.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CATHERINGTON (St. Catherine), a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Finch-Dean, Petersfield and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 6¾ miles (S. W. by S.) from Petersfield; containing 1003 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 5035 acres, of which 2800 are arable, 1400 pasture, 615 woodland, and 95 common or waste.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £9. 5. 10., and in the gift of J. Hayward, Esq.: the great tithes, belonging to Sir L. Curtis, Bart., have been commuted for £614, and those of the incumbent for £280; there is a glebe of 2 acres. The church, situated on an eminence, has some rich Norman arches, and contains a monument to Nicholas Hyde, chief justice of the court of queen’s bench: a gallery was erected in 1834.
The poor law union comprises 5 parishes or places, and contains a population of 2356.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Hampshire
- Civil Registration District: Catherington
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Droxford
- Poor Law Union: Catherington
- Hundred: Finchdean
- Province: Canterbury