Charlton Marshall Dorset Family History Guide

Charlton Marshall is a chapelry of Spetisbury Ancient Parish in Dorset.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1575
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHARLTON-MARSHALL, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; on the river Stour, near the Blandford railway, 2 miles S of Blandford-Forum. It has a post office, of the name of Charlton, under Blandford.

Acres, 2,100. Real property, £2,732. Pop., 553. Houses, 114. The property is divided among a few. Roman coins have been found. The parish is a meet for the Blackmoor barriers.

The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Spetisbury, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church was built in 1727; and contains a monument of Wake, the founder of the corporation for the sons of the clergy.

There is an Independent chapel.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

JENKINS, William, of Charlton, co. Dorset, wool stapler, & Lydia Dale, at [? Holdenhurst, or Christchurch ], 5 Apl., 1710. 

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Dorset, Charlton Marshall – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Charlton-Marshall, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Dorset, Charlton Marshall – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Charlton-Marshall, 1731-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Charlton-Marshall (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1583-1889
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Charlton Marshall (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Charlton-Marshall, 1575-1978
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Charlton-Marshall (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Charlton-Marshall – History ( 1 )
Blandford
Author: Smith, Peter

England, Dorset, Charlton-Marshall – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Miscellaneous overseer papers and account books, 1701-1893
Author: Charlton-Marshall (Dorset)

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Blandford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
  • Poor Law Union: Blandford
  • Hundred: Cogdean
  • Province: Canterbury