Hampshire, Portsmouth Parish Registers Browse

The information available in these registers varies depending on the register type you are exploring and the date of the register. Generally, you can discover all or some of the following details:

Baptisms

• Name
• Age
• Birth year and date
• Baptism year and date
• Baptism place
• Denomination
• Residence
• Parents’ names

Marriages

• Name
• Age
• Birth year
• Marital status
• Denomination
• Occupation
• Residence
• Marriage year and date
• Licence or banns
• Place
• Spouse’s name
• Spouse’s age
• Spouse’s birth year
• Spouse’s marital status
• Spouse’s occupation
• Spouse’s residence
• Father’s and spouse’s father’s names and occupations
• Witnesses’ names

Burials

• Name
• Age
• Birth year
• Death year and date
• Burial year and date
• Burial place
• Denomination
• Occupation
• Residence
• Spouse’s first name(s)
• Father’s first name(s)
• Mother’s first name(s)
• Next of kin
• Next of kin relationship

The parish registers were for Church of England parish in the deaneries of Portsmouth, Gosport, Fareham, and Havant.

The majority of these records pertain to Anglican records, but there are a few that relate to other denominations: Congregational, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Unitarian, United Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist. All denominations were required to register life events with the established church until 1837.