Portswood Hampshire Family History Guide

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Portswood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1847 from a chapelry in South Stoneham Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: St Denys

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1867
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PORTSWOOD, a tything and a chapelry in South Stoneham parish, Hants. The tything lies on the South-western railway and on the Southampton and Netley railway, within Southampton borough, 2 miles NNE of Southampton town; and has a post-office under Southampton, and a station with telegraph on the S and Netley railway. Real property, £12, 554. Pop. in 1851, 1, 207; in 1861, 3, 546. Houses, 678. The increase of pop. arose from connexion with Southampton, and from the sale of a large landed estate, in lots, for building purposes.

The chapelry is less extensive than the tything, was constituted in 1848, and was divided into two in 1867. Pop. in 1861, 2, 336. Houses, 438. The livings are p. curacies in the diocese of Winchester. Values, £270, and £170. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The first church was built in 1847, at a cost of £4,000, and enlarged in 1856, at a cost of £1,000; and has a tower and spire. The second church was built in 1868, at a cost of More than £5,000.

There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Bible Christians, and a national school.

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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Portswood School 1899-1905 Admissions & Logs

Portswood School 1905-1914 Admissions & Logs

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: Southampton Borough
  • Province: Canterbury