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Has everyone forgotten about the IGI, or are we not allowed to mention this for some reason?  I found lots of my Whitchurch ancestors in there.

Failing that, you could contact Hampshire Record Office or Whitchurch library {part time opening only} with details of your enquiry.  I know that Whitchurch library have books of transcriptions of Parish Registers.

Good luck,

Grandma

P.S Forgot to tell you that there are buses from Andover or Basingstoke running every half hour which stop right by the lane that Fox Cottages are in.  Andover is nearer and would take about 15 mins on the bus. Bus number 76 and there are timetables in Andover bus station

I live not far  from this area.  My grandparents lived in one of the cottages before I was born.  They are a pair of cottages and the one nearest to the B3400 is being extended and looks as though it will be twice its former size.  Although there is a very recent "Private Road" notice I think there is still a public footpath there.

On the other side of the B3400 is Fox Farm and its outbuildings.  I think it belongs to the Middleton Estaste which is in the nearby village of Longparish.  I think there was a timber business  there in the 60s, but I'm not sure about now.

There is another large house further along the lane after you have passed the cottages.  Will try to find out about this one.  How I wish my mother were still alive.  (Don't we all?)  She would have known a lot about this area.

Wow! What a response.  Thank you so much everyone.  We will be working on all this info. A story passed down by the family was that the parents Edward and Jane died young (I think that there was a smallpox epidemic in Bethnal Green), and we think that John was put into some sort of naval training from a young age, so that may explain why we can't find him in 1901.

We cannot find death records for Edward and Jane.  I checked out the Jane in the asylum.  She was born in Bethnal Green but was living in Hertfordshire with her mother in a previous census, so she was born Jane Phillips, whereas Edward's wife was born Jane Vincent.

Many thanks again. 

Hampshire Grandma

There are several copies of this book in Hampshire libraries, but most of them can only be read in the libraries.  A few may be borrowed and your local library would be able to get a copy sent to them for you (for a very small charge)  if you live in England.

Sheila