Difference between revisions of "Dorset"

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Situated on the south coast of England, Dorset is very rural and contains mainly small towns and villages.

The county Town is Dorchester which was the home of Thomas Hardy. Other main towns include Poole, which has the second largest natural harbour in the world. It is the home of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and famous for Durdle Door.

Lyme Regis, with the Cobb made famous by Jane Austen in her novel “Persuasion”, is the location for “the French Lieutenant’s Woman” by John Fowles.

Resources

Primary Reference

County Record Office

County Library Service

Dorset Family History Society

Somerset and Dorset Family History Society

Dorset Look-up Exchange

Parish Register Look-up Exchange

Kingston Village OPC

Dorset Online Parish Clerk

Countywide Interest

Dorset Churches

Dorset Historic Churches Trust

Dorset Marriages

Dorset Online Parish Clerk

Dorset Pages

Dorset Parish Registers Index

Dorset Poll Book 1807 A-K Transcriptions

Dorset Poll Book 1807 L-Z Transcriptions

Portland Year Book 1905

Some Parish Registers and other Materials

Southern Life (UK)

Southwest England Genealogical Indices

Visitation of Dorset 1623

Specific Town and Village Interest

Abbotsbury

Bear Mead and Corfe Mead

Belchalwell

Bere Regis Village

The Blackmore Vale inc Gillingham, Pulham, Sherbourne, Stalbridge & Sturminster Newton.

Briantspuddle, Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle

Cerne Abbas Historical Society

Chardstock Web Museum by The Chardstock Historical Record Group

Christchurch Historical information and Photos

Langton Matravers Local History and Preservation Society

Longfleet Genealogy and History

Martinstown

Osmington Family History

Radipole and Southill Genealogy

Sturminster Newton OPC Project

Swanage Genealogy Pages

Upwey History Group

Verwood Historical Society

Dorset Index- Weymouth and Portland

Weymouth & Melcombe Regis OPC

Weymouth-Dorset History and Genealogy, Includes many of the surrounding villages

South Winterborne Local History - Winterborne Came, Winterborne Herringston and Winterborne Monkton

Maps and Photographs

Dorset Coast Digital Archives

Weymouth and Portland Photographs and Records

Register Office

The Dorset Registration Service has three main offices.

Bournemouth and Poole are now separate authorities and are not connected to the three main offices, they are therefore listed separately.

Certificate Ordering Information: Certificates - Dorset For You

North Dorset Registration Districts

Blandford Office
Salisbury Road
Blandford
DT11 7LN

East Dorset Registration District

Ferndown Office
King George V Pavilion
Peter Grant Way
Church Road
Ferndown
BH22 9EN

South and West Dorset Registration District

Weymouth Office
The Guildhall
St Edmund Street
Weymouth
DT4 8AS

Certificate Orders can be placed by telephone and payment made by credit card at 01305 or 01202/ 225153.

Bournemouth

Bournemouth Register Office
The Town Hall
Bourne Avenue
Bournemouth
BH2 6DY

Email: linda.lovett@bournemouth.gov.uk

Copy Certificate Information

Poole

The Register Office
The Guildhall,
Market Street,
Poole,
BH15 1NP
Tel: 01202 633744

Email: registrars@poole.gov.uk

Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.

Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts

Cemetery Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.

Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Bournemouth Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required
Burton Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required
Christchurch queenbee (can do town centres easily, outside town, as and when)
Christchurch Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required
Holdenhurst Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.

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-[[Image:dorset.jpg|250px|thumb|The famous Greyhound Pub submitted by Lady of leisure]]
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+|Situated on the south coast of England, Dorset is very rural and contains mainly small towns and villages.
+The county Town is Dorchester which was the home of Thomas Hardy. Other main towns include Poole, which has the second largest natural harbour in the world. It is the home of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and famous for Durdle Door.
+Lyme Regis, with the Cobb made famous by Jane Austen in her novel “Persuasion”, is the location for “the French Lieutenant’s Woman” by John Fowles.
+| style="width:250px" align="right"| __TOC__
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+|The coastal areas of Lyme Regis and Charmouth are well known by fossil hunters; Mary Anning having discovered an icthyosaurus locally.
+Dorset is said to be the home of Scouting, with the first scout camp organised by Sir Robert Baden Powell on Brownsea Island in August 1907.
+Thomas Hardy, the writer, was born at Upper Brockhampton, near Dorchester.
-==Register Offices==
-*The Dorset Registration Service has three main offices:
+'''County town:''' Dorchester
-Bournemouth and Poole are now separate authorities and are not connected to the three main offices, they are therefore listed separately.
+'''Other major towns:''' Poole, Weymouth
-Certificate Ordering Information: [http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=2417  Certificates - Dorset For You]
-=====For Dorset North Registration Districts contact=====
+'''[[Places_of_Worship:Dorset| Dorset Places of Worship]]'''
+'''[https://www.familytreeforum.com/forum/site-projects/regional-projects Regional Projects Forum]'''
+| [[Image: EnglandDorset.jpg|right|175px|thumb|Source: Wikipedia]]
+|}
+==Resources==
+'''Primary Reference'''
+*[http://212.104.140.176/index.jsp?articleid=385011 '''County Record Office''']
+*[http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=384949 County Library Service]
+*[http://www.dorsetfhs.org.uk/ Dorset Family History Society]
+*[http://www.sdfhs.org/ Somerset and Dorset Family History Society]
+*[http://sjdeez.tripod.com/Dorset/Dorset_Look-up_Exchange.htm Dorset Look-up Exchange]
+*[http://www.parishregisteruklook-upexchange.co.uk/parishregistersdg.htm Parish Register Look-up Exchange]
+*[http://www.kingstonopc.org.uk/ Kingston Village OPC]
+*[http://www.opcdorset.com/index.htm Dorset Online Parish Clerk]
+'''Countywide Interest'''
+*[http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/ Dorset Churches]
+*[http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk Dorset Historic Churches Trust]
+*[http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/uk/england/dorset.htm Dorset Marriages]
+*[http://www.dorset-opc.com/ Dorset Online Parish Clerk]
+*[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Dorset_Home.htm Dorset Pages]
+*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engdorse/PRBT.html Dorset Parish Registers Index]
+*[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Genealogy/info/dorset1.txt Dorset Poll Book 1807 A-K Transcriptions]
+*[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Genealogy/info/dorset2.txt Dorset Poll Book 1807 L-Z Transcriptions]
+*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pbtyc/Portland/PYB/Contents.html Portland Year Book 1905]
+*[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richardtravell/richardtravell/ Some Parish Registers and other Materials]
+*[http://southernlife.org.uk/ Southern Life (UK)]
+*[http://www.paulhyb.homecall.co.uk/ Southwest England Genealogical Indices]
+*[http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Dorset/visitations/index.html Visitation of Dorset 1623]
+'''Specific Town and Village Interest'''
+*[http://www.abbotsbury.co.uk/ Abbotsbury]
+*[http://www.eyemead.com/bearmead.htm Bear Mead and Corfe Mead]
+*[http://www.belchalwell.org.uk/ Belchalwell]
+*[http://www.bereregis.org/VillageHistory.htm Bere Regis Village]
+*[http://www.westcountrygenealogy.com/blackmore/ The Blackmore Vale inc Gillingham, Pulham, Sherbourne, Stalbridge & Sturminster Newton.]
+*[http://www.briantspuddle.info/ Briantspuddle, Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle]
+*[http://www.cerneabbashistory.org/ Cerne Abbas Historical Society]
+*[http://chardstockwebmuseum.org/ Chardstock Web Museum by The Chardstock Historical Record Group]
+*[http://www.xchurch.co.uk/ Christchurch Historical information and Photos]
+*[http://www.langtonia.org.uk/ Langton Matravers Local History and Preservation Society]
+*[http://www.geocities.com/longfleetconnections/ Longfleet Genealogy and History]
+*[http://www.martinstown.co.uk/ Martinstown]
+*[http://www.osmington-history.co.uk/ Osmington Family History]
+*[http://www.radipole-dorset.co.uk/genealogy.html Radipole and Southill Genealogy]
+*[http://www.sturminsternewton.net/ Sturminster Newton OPC Project]
+*[http://members.iinet.net.au/~suegar/swanage.htm Swanage Genealogy Pages]
+*[http://www.upweyhistorygroup.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm Upwey History Group]
+*[http://www.verwoodhistorical.org/index.htm Verwood Historical Society]
+*[http://www.druvox95.plus.com/Dorset.html Dorset Index- Weymouth and Portland]
+*[http://www.opcdorset.com/WeymouthMelcombeFiles/Weymouth-Melcombe.htm Weymouth & Melcombe Regis OPC]
+*[http://www.weymouth-dorset.co.uk/site-map.html Weymouth-Dorset History and Genealogy, Includes many of the surrounding villages]
+*[http://www.dths98.co.uk/james/winterborne/ South Winterborne Local History - Winterborne Came, Winterborne Herringston and Winterborne Monkton]
+'''Maps and Photographs'''
+*[http://www.dcda.org.uk/ Dorset Coast Digital Archives]
+*[http://www.druvox95.plus.com/Dorset.html Weymouth and Portland Photographs and Records]
+==Register Office==
+The Dorset Registration Service has three main offices.
+'''Bournemouth''' and '''Poole''' are now separate authorities and are not connected to the three main offices, they are therefore listed separately.
+Certificate Ordering Information: [http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=388468 Certificates - Dorset For You]
+'''North Dorset Registration Districts'''
 Blandford Office<br>
 Salisbury Road<br>
 Blandford <br>
-DT11 7LN
+DT11 7LN <br>
+'''East Dorset Registration District'''
-=====For Dorset East Registration District contact=====
 Ferndown Office<br>
 King George V Pavilion<br>
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 Church Road<br>
 Ferndown <br>
-BH22 9EN
+BH22 9EN<br>
+'''South and West Dorset Registration District'''
-=====For Dorset South and West Registration District contact=====
 Weymouth Office<br>
 The Guildhall<br>
 St Edmund Street<br>
 Weymouth <br>
-DT4 8AS
+DT4 8AS<br>
-Certificate Orders can be placed by telephone and payment made by credit card at<br>
+Certificate Orders can be placed by telephone and payment made by credit card at  01305 or 01202/ 225153.
-or 01202 225153.
+'''Bournemouth'''
-=====Bournemouth=====
 Bournemouth Register Office<br>
 The Town Hall<br>
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 Bournemouth <br>
 BH2 6DY<br>
-Email: linda.lovett@bournemouth.gov.uk
-=====Poole=====
-Poole Register Office<br>
-Civic Centre Annex<br>
-Park Road<br>
-Poole<br>
-BH15 2RN<br>
-Tel 01202 633744
-==Record Office and Cemetery Lookup Contacts==
-None listed at present
+Email: linda.lovett@bournemouth.gov.uk<br>
+[http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Residents/births/default.asp Copy Certificate Information]
-==Links==
+'''Poole'''
-*[http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=2203 COUNTY RECORD OFFICE]
+The Register Office<br>
+The Guildhall, <br>
+Market Street, <br>
+Poole, <br>
+BH15 1NP<br>
+Tel: 01202 633744<br>
-*[http://www.familia.org.uk/services/england/dorset.html LIBRARY LINKS]
+Email: registrars@poole.gov.uk<br>
-*[http://www.dorsetfhs.org.uk/ DORSET FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY]
+==Record Office & Archive Lookup Requests==
-*[http://www.sdfhs.org/ Somerset and Dorset FHS]
+Please read the [[Record Office Lookup - Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
-*[http://www.dorset-opc.com/ Dorset Online Parish Clerk]
+By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
-*[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/dorset.html Local History Gateway Page]
-*[http://www.druvox95.plus.com/Dorset.html Weymouth and Portland Photographs and Records]
+'''Record Office & Archive Lookup Contacts'''
-*[http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/ Village Index-Church Photographs]
+==Cemetery Lookup Requests==
-*[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Genealogy/info/dorset1.txt Dorset Poll Book 1807 A-K Transcriptions]
+Please read the [[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Terms and Conditions]] before requesting a lookup.
-*[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Genealogy/info/dorset2.txt Dorset Poll Book 1807 L-Z Transcriptions]
+By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as above.
-*[http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/10dors101/10dors101gazA.htm TOWN and VILLAGE MAPS]
-*[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Dorset_Home.htm Dorset Pages]
+'''Cemetery Lookup Contacts'''
+*Bournemouth [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required]
+*Burton [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required]
+*Christchurch [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=58 queenbee (can do town centres easily, outside town, as and when)]
+*Christchurch [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required]
+*Holdenhurst [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required]
-*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/dor/dorset_workhouses.htm Dorset Workhouses]
+==Photo Offers==
-*[http://www.druvox95.plus.com/Dorset.html Dorset Index - Genealogy] A miscellany of information, particularly about Weymouth and Portland, including some parish records and photos
+Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please send a private message to the member with your queries.
-*[http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk The Dorset Historic Churches Trust]
+*Bournemouth [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery]
+*Christchurch [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery]
+*New Forest [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery]
+*Isle of Purbeck [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery]
+*Poole [http://www.familytreeforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=24 Merry Monty Montgomery]
-*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engdorse/PRBT.html Dorset Parish Registers Index]
-*[http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/uk/england/dorset.htm Dorset Marriages]
-*[http://www.westcountrygenealogy.com/blackmore/ The Blackmore Vale]
-*[http://southernlife.org.uk/ Southern Life (UK)]
-*[http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/paul001.html West Country Newspapers]
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+Back to [[England]]