Coombe Keynes, Dorset Genealogy
Guide to Coombe Keynes, Dorset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Coombe Keynes, Dorset | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Sherborne |
| County | Dorset |
| Poor Law Union | Sherborne |
| Registration District | Sherborne |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1726 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1579 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Shaftesbury |
| Diocese | Salisbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Dorset Record Office | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
COOMBE-KEYNES, a parish in Wareham district, Dorset; 2 miles S of Wool railway station, and 5½ WSW of Wareham. Post town, Wool, under Wareham.[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]
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| Indexes | 1583-1836 | Joiner[2] | |||||||||||||||||
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: 05 July 2013.
- ↑ 'Search Marriage Records in Dorset,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 9 June 2012.
