Whitcombe, Dorset Genealogy
Guide to Whitcombe, Dorset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Whitcombe, Dorset | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Culliford-Tree |
| County | Dorset |
| Poor Law Union | Dorchester |
| Registration District | Dorchester |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1762 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1732 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Dorchester |
| Diocese | Salisbury |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset |
| Location of Archive | |
| Dorset Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
WHITCOMBE, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; 2 miles SE of Dorchester railway station.[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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Indexes | 1780-1852 | findmypast[2] | |||||||||||||||||
Whitcombe parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| FREG = FreeREG - free[3] |
| whitcombe Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1762-1850 | 1733-1862 | 1762-1845 | |||
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: 12 July 2013.
- ↑ 'Dorset Marriages,' Find My Past, accessed 28 July 2012.
- ↑ 'Dorset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 10 January 2014.
