Exbury Hampshire Family History Guide

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Exbury is a chapelry of Fawley Ancient Parish in Hampshire.

Other places in the parish include: Lepe and Leap.

Alternative names: Exbury and Lepe, Exbury and Leap

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1755
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EXBURY, a parish in New Forest district, Hants; at the mouth of the river Beanlieu, nearly opposite Cowes, 4 miles SW of Fawley, and 7½ ENE of Lymington r. station.

It includes the tything of Lepe, and has a post office under Southampton. Acres, 3, 066; of which 660 are water. Real property, £2, 568. Pop., 573. Houses, 69. Exbury House is the seat of the Mitfords. White brick-clay is found.

The living is a vicarage, under the rectory of Fawley, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £325. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is a recent structure of white brick; and contains a monument to Mitford the historian.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Hampshire, Exbury – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Exbury, 1707-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Exbury (Hampshire)

Parish registers for Fawley, 1678-1876
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Fawley (Hampshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Exbury (Hampshire)

Transcripts of Bishop’s transcripts, 1707-1708, 1780-1803
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Fawley (Hampshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Exbury. Transcripts of Bishop’s transcripts, 1780-1803

Transcripts of Bishop’s transcripts, 1803-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Fawley (Hampshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Exbury (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Exbury – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Manorial records of Bistern and Crow, and other manors, 1591-1849
Author: Manor of Bistern and Crow. Court (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Exbury – Probate records ( 1 )
Original wills, 1593-1707
Author: Church of England. Peculiar Court (Fawley with Exbury, Lepe, Cadlands, Ower, Holbury, Langley, Stanswood, Bursash …

England, Hampshire, Exbury – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Exbury, 1799-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Hampshire)

Administration

  • County: Hampshire
  • Civil Registration District: New Forest
  • Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of Fawley with Exbury, Lepe, Cadlands, Ower, Holbury, Langley, Stanswood, Burash, Hardley, Stone, Hythe, and Brickmerston, Post-1844 – Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
  • Diocese: Winchester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, 1845-1856 – Southampton, Post 1855 – Fawley
  • Poor Law Union: New Forest
  • Hundred: Bishop’s Waltham
  • Province: Canterbury