Shaftesbury St Peter, Dorset Genealogy
Guide to Shaftesbury St Peter, Dorset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Shaftesbury St Peter, Dorset | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Shaftesbury or Shaston Borough |
| County | Dorset, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Shaftesbury |
| Registration District | Shaftsbury |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1623 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1731 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Shaftesbury |
| Diocese | Salisbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset |
| Location of Archive | |
| Dorset History Centre | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
SHAFTESBURY, or Shaston, a borough and market-town, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Moncton-up-Wimborne, county of Dorset, 28 miles NNE from Dorchester, and 101 WSW from London, on the great road from London to Exeter. The town comprises the parishes of St. Peter, Holy Trinity, and St. James, including the liberty of Alcester. The parliamentary limits extend into Wiltshire. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyans.[1]
Also see: Shaftesbury St James, Shaftesbury Holy Trinity, and Shaftesbury St Rumbold.
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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Indexes | 1731-1880 | Ancestry[2] | 1623-1837 | Joiner[3] | |||||||||||||||
| 1623-1836 | findmypast[4] | ||||||||||||||||||
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, publ. London: 1848. Date accessed: 09 July 2013.
- ↑ 'Vital Records Index - British Isles - Collection List,' British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd ed., hosted at Genoot, accessed 14 April 2012.
- ↑ 'Search Marriage Records in Dorset,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 4 July 2012.
- ↑ 'Dorset Marriages,' Find My Past, accessed 28 July 2012.
