Titchfield Hampshire Family History Guide

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Titchfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Crofton is a chapelry of Titchfield.

Other places in the parish include: Warsash, Swanwick, Stubbington, and Hook.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1590
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Particular Baptist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TITCHFIELD, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Hants. The village stands on the Titchfield river, 1¾ mile W of Fareham r. station, and 2½ NNE of the river’s influx to the Solent; is an ancient place; was long a market town; gives the title of Marquis to the Duke of Portland; and has a post-office under Fareham, and two annual fairs.

The parish includes Sarisbury district and Crofton chapelry, and Hook, Stubbington, Swanwick and Warsash hamlets: extends to the Solent; and comprises 15,407 acres of land, and 2,105 of water. Real property, £19,625. Pop., 4,043. Houses, 822. The property is much subdivided.

The manor belonged, at Domesday, to the Crown; was given, by Henry III., to Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for the founding of a Premonstratensian abbey; and went, at the dissolution of monasteries, to T. Wriothesley, afterwards created Earl of Southampton.

The abbey stood to the N of the town, was richly endowed, and is commonly known as Place House. T. House was built by Wriothesley out of the materials of the abbey; is described, in records of the time, as having been “righte statelie;” gave sumptuous entertainment to Edward VI.; afforded refuge, after his escape from Hampton Court, to Charles I.; was the birthplace and the early residence of the heroic wife of Lord William Russell, and is now represented by a picturesque lofty gatehouse, and by some other remains. West Hill, Holly Hill, Brooklands, and the Hook are chief residences.

The living is a vicarage, with Crofton chapelry, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £230. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of W. The church is variously Norman, early English, decorated, and perpendicular. The p. curacy of Sarisbury is a separate benefice. A chapel of ease is at Crofton; and there are two Independent chapels, a national and infant school, and charities £85.

The sub-district contains three parishes and an extra-parochial tract, and is in Fareham district. Acres, 21,136. Pop., 5,224. Houses, 1,054. The hundred is nearly identical with the sub-district, and is in Fareham division.

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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Titchfield National/Church of England Schools 1868-1931 Admissions

Titchfield National/Church of England Schools 1874-1914 Admissions

Titchfield National/Church of England Schools 1914-1925 Admissions

Titchfield National/Church of England Schools 1882-1914 Admissions

Titchfield National/Church of England Schools 1868-1931 Logs

Titchfield National/Church of England Schools 1874-1914 Logs

Titchfield National/Church of England Schools 1914-1925 Logs

Titchfield National/Church of England Schools 1882-1914 Logs

Administration

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