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Guide to Athelhampton, Dorset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Athelhampton, Dorset | |
|---|---|
| Type | Civil parish Ecclesiastical parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Piddletown |
| County | Dorset |
| Poor Law Union | Dorchester |
| Registration District | Dorchester |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Whitchurch |
| Diocese | Salisbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset |
| Bishops Court | Court of the Bishop of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory) |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
ADMISTON, or Athelhampton, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the River Piddle, 5 miles NW of Moreton railway station, and 6 NE of Dorchester. Post town, Piddletown under Dorchester.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church records[edit | edit source]
| Earliest | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1813-1906 | Ancestry[3] | 1813-1921 | Ancestry[4] | 1813-1979 | Ancestry[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Indexes | 1693-1837 | findmypast[6] | 1744-1845 | OnlineParishClerks | 1692-1837 | findmypast[7] | |||||||||||||
| 1733-1879 | FreeREG[8] | 1744-1845 | FreeREG[8] | 1693-1848 | findmypast[9] | ||||||||||||||
| 1733-1855 | OnlineParishClerks | 1744-1835 | Joiner[10] | 1732-1879 | FreeREG[8] | ||||||||||||||
| 1755-1848 | findmypast[11] | 1732-1879 | OnlineParishClerks | ||||||||||||||||
Athelhampton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FREG = FreeREG - free[12] |
| Athelhampton Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1733-1879 | 1744-1845 | 1732-1879 | |||
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Dorset Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales publ. London and Edinburgh: 1870. Date accessed: 03 July 2103.
- ↑ Dorset, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.
- ↑ Dorset, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.
- ↑ Dorset, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.
- ↑ Dorset, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-2001, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.
- ↑ 'Dorset Baptism Index,' Find My Past, accessed 21 May 2012.
- ↑ 'Dorset Burial Index,' Find My Past, accessed 21 May 2012.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Dorset Coverage in FreeReg, FreeREG, accessed 15 April 2012.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage,' Find My Past, accessed 11 April 2012. For a breakdown of missing years, see 'National Burial Index - Coverage: Dorset,' Federation of Family History Societies, accessed 23 April 2012.
- ↑ 'Search Marriage Records in Dorset,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 21 May 2012.
- ↑ 'Dorset Marriages,' Find My Past, accessed 21 May 2012.
- ↑ 'Dorset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 10 January 2014.
