Hampshire records will be on Ancestry! - Page 2 - Genealogists' Forum

Phoenix · #11 27-01-23, 10:40

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Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts

Phoenix, I find that with Hampshire it is very difficult to do any meaningful research before the 1750s. There aren't any PRs on Ancestry.

Portsmouth was mercifully a borough, and there are wonderful records on FMP, but before 1814 it's impossible to identify families with any certainty, as a seaport just sucked in people from the surrounding countryside. I've spent many happy hours in the HRO, but was forced to conclude that I needed manorial records, as movement was often not to contiguous parishes, but to manors held by the same lord of the manor.

kiterunner · #12 21-03-23, 08:44

The card catalogue and "Recently Added and Updated" are showing Hampshire Baptisms 1813-1921, but I can't get the page to load at all. Usually with new databases I have to refresh a few times, but this is different. When they have sorted it out I will post the link. And hopefully the marriages and burials and pre-1813 PR's will appear soon too.

Phoenix · #13 21-03-23, 16:01

Yay

kiterunner · #14 21-03-23, 16:46

It has disappeared from the card catalogue and "recently added" now, so not so yay.

Phoenix · #15 21-03-23, 17:03

It's marriages pre 1780 that I want. One entire branch appears never, in a whole century, to have bothered with marriage. Never found anything so far, but you never know.

I thought they promised 2022 on this. I wonder what the problem is?

kiterunner · #16 21-03-23, 19:16

The baptisms have been added properly now.

Hampshire Baptisms 1813-1921

Phoenix · #17 21-03-23, 19:45

Thank you, Kite.

I feel I have to point out that Portsmouth, being a borough, has separate records to the county, which are on Find My Past.

kiterunner · #18 29-03-23, 22:51

Marriages should be coming soon - again, there is a link in the Recently Added and Updated and the Card Catalogue, but the page won't actually load at the moment.

kiterunner · #19 30-03-23, 16:38

And now the marriages have disappeared from the recently added and the card catalogue, so hopefully they will reappear soon and actually work.

kiterunner · #20 25-04-23, 17:14

Marriages 1754-1921 have (at last!) been added properly:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62423/