Sway Hampshire Family History Guide

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Sway is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1841 from Boldre Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1839
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1839

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SWAY, a chapelry in Boldre parish, Hants; 2¼ miles SSW of Brockenhurst Junction r. station, and 4 NW of Lymington. It was constituted in 1841; and it has a post-office under Lymington. Real property, £1,458. Pop., 694. Houses, 150. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £120. Patron, the Bishop of W. There is a Baptist chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Hampshire, Sway – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Sway, 1839-1876
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Sway (Hampshire)

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

Administration

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