Thread: Freemantle Park, Millbrook, hampshire

Hi Elaine,
Do you have the actual death cert? Is Freemantle Park Millbrook the place she died?
Is this your Hannah Moore, death Oct/Nov?Dec 1856 South Stoneham Hants 2c,35?
What is the address of the place of death on the cert you have?
If William Moore was present at the death then it would surely give the relationship(if he was her son) on the cert.
He may well have been with his mother whilst she was visiting friends or relations in Hants.
Or, might John Moore have had a brother William and it was this family whom Hannah was visiting.
I cannot see how the burial record will help much. It will give name/age/grave number and wife of John Moore.
A monumental inscription might give more info....if there was one.
I will go and have a look around.

Hi Elaine.
You are absolutely right.... some vicars comments are jolly helpful.
I have been trawling through the 1851 for Hampshire entries in hopes of something .
There was a William Moore 57(ag lab) and wife, Martha,daughters Mary 27 and Eliza 10 living at South Stoneham(all born there) on 1851.... but?
There were several William Moores (one in Havant and one in Alverstoke also so no luck there. (I was looking for one with a Leics link)
Wonder what your Hannah was doing there.... NOT on a day trip in 1856 that's for sure!
Hopefully someone will have access to the burial records.
What did she die of?
..... and did you find Gertrude Wills?

Poor Hannah,
Well she must have been staying somewhere all that time. Stoneham... or Hospital or?
Can you not e mail Hampshire Archives... they have the burial registers for all the churches in Southampton including Millbrook... some kind soul there might do you a look up since you have the death date and burial must have been soon after.
The 1921 census may answer questions about Grandad and Gertrude! Only another 10 years!!

I never made the connection.... Wills... of course cigarettes.
"Grandma was a Bryant"... Yes! I think it's funny too.
Are these related to Hannah Moore?
Whatever was Hannah doing in Freemantle Park? Was it a hospital?

Hi,
Freemantle Park House was a big house, now mostly demolished, officially in Millbrook Parish until 1865 when the church at Freemantle was built. I live opposite to what was Freemantle Park, the laundry buildings of which became and are now part of Freemantle School. Freemantle Park was the first private house in England to have an Orangery. I can help with its history if need be.
Your relative may have been a guest at, or visiting servants as a relation, in Freemantle Park when she died. If she died there at that time she would most likely have been buried in St Nicholas, Millbrook. That church no longer exists, nor its graveyard. It was demolished to make way for the dual carriageway into Southampton in the 1970's-80's. On a map the site is on the xroads junction with that road and Regents Park Road. Holy Trinity was not built until 1871 serving the growing population, so records for the time that you are looking at will not exist. Although services carried on in St Nicholas they ceased, once in 1889, and then completely in 1920, and the church was then disused.
Freemantle Christ Church was not built until 1865 when the whole of Millbrook Parish was carved up into new parishes.
Stoneham is the opposite side of Southampton with no connection to Freemantle at all, so I would not waste time looking at records in that parish. Stoneham did, however, give its name to the civil registration area for what is now part of Southampton and the New Forest.

Southampton City Records, on the whole, do not have records for other than for the city, and at this time Millbrook was not part of the city. Records, then, will probably be at Hampshire Records Office in Winchester.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you want anything on Freemantle Park and I will try to help.
Yours
Victoria