Michelmersh Hampshire Family History Guide

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Michelmersh is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Braishfield is a chapelry of Michelmersh.

Other places in the parish include: Awbridge.

Alternative names: Mitchelmersh

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MITCHELMERSH, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Romsey district, Hants. The village stands near the Andover and Southampton railway, and near the river Test or Anton, 3¾ miles N by W of Romsey; and has a post office under Romsey.

The parish contains also the hamlets of Awbridge and Braishfield. Acres, 3,983. Real property, £4,733. Pop. in 1851,1,202; in 1861,1,099. Houses, 245. The property is much subdivided. The scenery is beautiful.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £550. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church stands on an eminence; is an ancient structure of flint and stone; was recently restored; has a beautiful stained glass E window; and contains a carved oak pulpit, an early English font, an effigies of a knight in armour, and a tablet of 1538.

The p. curacy of Braishfield is a separate benefice. There are two Independent chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, a parochial school, and an education charity of £5 a year.

The sub-district contains also five other parishes and an extra-parochial tract in Hants, and two parishes and an extra-parochial tract in Wilts. Acres, 18,427. Pop., 3,976. Houses, 862.

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

Parish Records

School Records

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Michelmersh Board/Council School 1877-1924 Admissions

Michelmersh Board/Council School 1877-1924 Logs

Administration

  • County: Hampshire
  • Civil Registration District: Romsey
  • Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of Michelmersh with Braishfield, Post-1844 – Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
  • Diocese: Winchester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Somborne
  • Poor Law Union: Romsey
  • Hundred: Thorngate
  • Province: Canterbury