West Dean Hampshire Family History Guide

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West Dean is an Ancient Parish partly in Hampshire and partly in Wiltshire.

Alternative names: West Dean with East Grimstead

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1754
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DEAN (West), a parish in the districts of Stockbridge and Alderbury, and county of Wilts; on the Salisbury canal and the Salisbury railway, at Dean r. station and the boundary with Hants, 7¼ miles NW of Romsey.

It includes East Grimstead chapelry; and has a post office under Romsey. Acres, 4, 382. Real property, £3, 819. Pop., 446. Houses, 97. The property is divided among a few.

West Dean House, now pulled down, was a seat of the Evelyns, and of the first Duke of Kingston. A Roman pavement was found in the parish in 1741.

The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of East Grimstead, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rev. H. Glossop. The old church had monuments of the Evelyns and the Pierreponts; and the new church was built in 1866.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Wiltshire, West Dean – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Broughton area monumental inscriptions
Author: Hampshire Genealogical Society

England, Wiltshire, West Dean – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for West Dean, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Wiltshire, West Dean – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for West Dean, 1599-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Dean (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of East Grimstead (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for West Dean, 1754-1947
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Dean (Wiltshire); Church of England. Chapelry of East Grimstead (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, West Dean – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of West Dean, Wiltshire, England ; christenings, 1813-1875
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Wiltshire, West Dean – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Creed registers, ca. 1900-1925
Author: Alderbury and Salisbury Union (Wiltshire)

England, Wiltshire, West Dean – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments in West Dean, Wiltshire 1780-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Administration

  • County: Hampshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stockbridge
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Amesbury
  • Poor Law Union: Stockbridge
  • Hundred: Thorngate
  • Province: Canterbury