The OPC is Sandy Mursell
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Eling (HAM) – Landford – Minstead (HAM) – Plaitford with Melchet Park – West Wellow
Websites of Interest
Bramshaw – Parish Council, history, Events and community news.
The Parish Church of St. Peter
St. Peter’s Gallery St. Peter’s Interior Gallery St. Peter’s Churchyard Gallery
Churchyard Memorials Survey Protestation Return 1641-1642
The OPC for this parish has taken photographs of many of the graves in the churchyard, these are being added slowly to the churchyard gallery. However if your relative is not published yet or you think a relative may be buried in the churchyard, Sandy Mursell is willing to send you a copy of any image of memorials stones that you may like relating to your relatives. Sandy may be contacted via the home page contact us drop down menu and selecting her name from the OPC list.
Church Supported Charities and Funding
Parish Registers held at Hampshire Record Office
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Parish History
The village of Bramshaw lies just inside the New Forest its name being a derivation of ‘bramble wood’. The village was split in two by a boundary line crossing the churchyard, placing half of the village in Wiltshire and the other half in Hampshire. The entire village moved to Hampshire jurisdiction by the “County of Southampton Act 1894” although the village parish councils of East and West Bramshaw continued to meet separately until 1932.
The parish includes the hamlets of Furzley, Brook and Fritham.
Civil Registration
1837 – Present New Forest Registration District
Buildings and Land
Crime and Legal Matters
Bastardy Examinations Horse Theft 1825 Convicts for Transportation 1830
Directories
Post Office 1875 Post Office 1855 Post Office Telephone 1940
Education
Emigration and Migration
Published in tables from the Poor Law Commissioners Annual Reports for 1835, 1836 and 1847-1848 the following may be of use for tracing missing ancestors. 6 paupers emigrated to Canada under an assisted emigration programme between April 1841 – January 1842 and 6 between January 1842 – December 1842.
Strays Index 1881 Victims of the Titanic Sinking 1912
Employment and Business
Sunday Mail Deliveries 1850 Wiltshire Society Apprentice – Arthur Mills 1863
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
Primitive Methodist Chapel
People and Parish Notables
Associations, Clubs, Organisations, Societies & Sporting Events
Wiltshire Friendly Society Membership 1837-1871
Bankruptcy Reports
Census Returns Transcripts
1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1901 1911 1921
Elections, Polls & Voting Lists
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Poll Book 1818 Poll Book 1865
Entertainment
Family Notices
Miscellaneous Items
News
People of Authority
High Sheriffs of Wiltshire 1062 – Present
People of the New Forest
Rose Champion de Crespigny – Gypsy Lifestyle Observations
Taxes
Tax List 1332 Falstone Day Book 1645-1653
Poor Law, Charity and The Workhouse
Overseers
Probate
Probate Index 1560-1881 (WSHC) National Probate Index 1858-1966
Inventories
Inventory of Goods & Money for the Estate of Nicholas Hatch 1701
Parishioners Wills
Sarah Hatch Proved 1760 Sarah Knight proved 1783
