Minstead Hampshire Family History Guide

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Minstead is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Lyndhurst is a chapelry of Minstead.

Other places in the parish include: Minstead, London Minstead, Fritham, Castle Mallwood Walk, Canterton, Cadnam, Bolderwood Walk, and Alumn Green.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1682
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1687

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MINSTEAD, a village and a parish in New Forest district, Hants. The village stands 2¾ miles N by W of Lyndhurst, and 5 SW by W of Redbridge r. station; and has a post office under Lyndhurst, and two inns.

The parish includes the tythings of Minstead, London-Minstead, Cadnam, Canterton, and Fritham, and part of Emery-Down; also the whole of Bolderwood Walk, comprising 5,400 acres, and the greater part of Castle-Malwood Walk, comprising 3,250 acres. The total acreage, together with that of the small extra-parochial tract of Alumn-Green, is 12,800. Real property, £3,993. Pop., inclusive of Alumn-Green, in 1851,1,054; in 1861,927. Houses, 194. Pop., exc. of A. G., in 1861,905. The property is divided among a few.

The manor belongs to H. Compton, Esq. A triangular stone, near Stoney Cross, marks the site of the tree from which the arrow glanced that killed William Rufus.

The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Lyndhurst, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £650. Patron, H. Compton, Esq. The church appears to be of the 13th century, but has been much mutilated. Charities, £16.

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

FamilySearch

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

England, Hampshire, Minstead – Church records ( 7 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Minstead, 1687-1867
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Minstead (Hampshire)

Marriages of Minstead, Hampshire, England, 1688-1812
Author: Genealogical Society of Utah

Parish chest records of Minstead, Hampshire, 1641-1886
Author: Minstead (Hampshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1615-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Minstead (Hampshire); Blake, John, b. 1823

Parish registers for Minstead, 1682-1908
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Minstead (Hampshire)

Parish registers of Emery-Down, 1865-1978
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Emery-Down

Transcripts of Bishop’s transcripts, 1780-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Minstead (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Minstead – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Minstead, Hampshire, England ; marriages, 1688-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Hampshire, Minstead – Manors ( 1 )
The manor of Minsteed and Brooke
Author: Purkess, Ronda Mary

England, Hampshire, Minstead – 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, Minstead – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest records of Minstead, Hampshire, 1641-1886
Author: Minstead (Hampshire)

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

Administration

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