Freemantle (Milbrook) Hampshire Family History Guide

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Freemantle, a chapelry in Millbrook Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: Christ Church

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1865
  • Bishop’s Transcripts:

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

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Freemantle Parish History

Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895

Freemantle, a chapelry in Millbrook parish, Hants, on Southampton Water. It is a suburb of Southampton, and has a post and money order office under Southampton; telegraph office, Southampton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £280 with residence. The church was built in 1865, and is in the Decorated English style, and cruciform. It was enlarged in 1874. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Freemantle House was a retreat of the poet Cowper in his early years. The estate around it has been built over.

Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FREEMANTLE, a chapelry in Millbrook parish, Hants; on Southampton water, and on the Southampton and Dorchester railway, 2 miles WNW of Southampton. It has a post office under Southampton. Pop., about 4,000. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Winchester. Value, £410. The church was built in 1865; and is in the decorated English style, and cruciform. Freemantle House here was a retreat of the poet Cowper, in his early years; and was the residence of Gen. Sir. G. H. Hewitt, Bart. The estate around it has been laid out for building purposes.

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

Freemantle Parish Records

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England, Hampshire, Freemantle – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Freemantle, 1865-1890
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Freemantle (Hampshire)

Parish registers for Freemantle, 1856-1884
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Freemantle (Hampshire)

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Administration

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