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"ABBOT'S ANN, a parish and village partly in the hundred of Wherwell, partly in that of Lower Andover, union of Andover, in the county of Hants, 2½ miles to the S.W. of Andover. It lies on a branch of the river Test, and the Andover canal passes near it. The tything of Little Ann is included in it. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Winchester; value £645, in the patronage of Miss Burrough. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Here are national and infant schools, and a place of worship for Independents. The Rev. Thos. Best is lord of the manor. Bury Hill, in the tything of Little Ann, is a large double encampment, at the confluence of the Pillhill brook and the Anton river." [Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Cemeteries

• St Mary, Church of England

Church History

Church Records

• St Mary, Church of England

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• Hampshire Record Office Parish Registers: Chr 1561-1986, Banns 1754-1820, Mar 1561-1985, Bur 1561-1989

• Genuki Hampshire - Churches and their Records

Gazetteers

• A transcription of the section for Abbots Ann from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson ©2003.

Genealogy

• Genealogical Sources for Hampshire is an 88 page document from Hampshire Genealogy Society (pdf - 260 kb)
  they also provide Genealogy and Local History - useful links

History

• The history of St. Marys Church, Abbots Ann
• Article on the Robert Tasker Family at Abbots Ann
  Webpage produced by Museums and Archives, Recreation and Heritage Department, Hampshire County. Last update 20 January 2006

Maps

Taxation

• 1790 Poll Book* for Abbot's Ann lists: Freeholders - Rev Thomas Burrough and William Criswick

*Source: Hampshire (England), 1790. The POLL for the election of two knights for the County of Southampton to serve in the Parliament, to be holden at the City of Westminster, the 10th Day of August, 1790. Taken at Winchester, in the said County, in June, 1790 before George Dacre, Junr. Esq. Sheriff. vi, 88p, appendix. Reproduction of original from the Bodleian Library (Oxford). Electronic reproduction (Thomson Gale have made a facsimile from which I have made a transcription of names only), Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale, 2003.
• 1710 Poll Book^ for Ann Abbot lists: Freeholders - Richard Marshall and John Lamport

^Source: Hampshire (England), 1710. The POLL at the Election of Knights of the Shire for the County of Southampton, Anno 1710. 107p. Reproduction of original from the Bodleian Library (Oxford). Electronic reproduction (Thomson Gale have made a facsimile from which I have made a transcription of names only), Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale, 2003.

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