Dorchester All Saints, Dorset Family History Guide

Dorchester All Saints is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names:

Parish church: All Saints

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

See Dorchester, Dorset Family History Guide

Parish Records

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Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for All Saints Church, Dorchester, 1731-1879 Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1649-1885 Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire)

Parish chest and poor law records for All Saints’ Church, Dorchester, 1597-1836 Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

The parish register of Dorchester-All Saints Co., Dorset : baptisms, 1686-1812, marriages, 1654-1836, burials, 1685-1812 Author: Geijer, E. N.

Parish registers for All Saints’ Church, Dorchester, 1653-1970 Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Register of Burials in the Burial Ground of Holy Trinity Church, St. Peter’s Church and All Saints Church, Dorchester., 1857-1879 Author: Church of England. Holy Trinity Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Church of England. St. Peter’s Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire)

Computer printout of Dorchester, All Saints, Dorset, England

Military records – Militia

Militia papers, 1795-1808 Author: All Saints Parish (Dorchester, Dorset)

Occupations

Miscellaneous civil records, 1630-1841 Author: All Saints Parish (Dorchester, Dorset)

Poorhouses & Poor Law

Miscellaneous civil records, 1630-1841 Author: All Saints Parish (Dorchester, Dorset)

Parish chest and poor law records for All Saints’ Church, Dorchester, 1597-1836 Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Taxation

Parish chest and poor law records for All Saints’ Church, Dorchester, 1597-1836 Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Directories

An Address from the County of Dorset on the Elementary Education Bill, May 9 1870

To the Right Honourable The EARL de GREY and RIPON President of Her Majesty’s Privy Council and To the Right Honourable W. E. FORSTER MP Vice President

We the undersigned Clergy and Laity of the Archdeaconry and County of Dorset, accepting the principle of the Elementary Education Bill now before Parliament, by which in existing Schools perfect liberty of Religious Teaching is guaranteed to the Managers, together with perfect liberty of withdrawal from such Teaching to the Parents of the Children, do earnestly deprecate any Alteration in the Bill which may affect such principle.

At the same time we are prepared to concede, if necessary, the substitution for the so-called Conscience Clause, of an Enactment which shall confine the Teaching of the Formularies of any Denomination to the first part of the School Hours.

DORCHESTER ALL SAINTS

John Miller, M.A., clerk, Rectory
B. Lucas Watson, chaplain of the county gaol Dorchester
Alfred Spicer, church warden
James Andrews, bank manager
John James Besant, church warden
George Frost, hotel keeper
William Potter, tea dealer
William Parmiter, draper
C.G. Rumsey, bootmaker
William Slade, town councillor
Henry Spicer, proprietor of the Dorset County Chronicle
H.J. Amphlett, editor Dorset County Chronicle

Thomas W. Pearce, accountant
George Greening, saddler &c.
J.C. Holmes, stationer
Frederick William Seward, baker
Robert Hayward, butcher
James Drake, contractor
Joseph Barrett licensed, victualler
Alfred George Evans, chemist
Thomas Robinson, jun., draper
John M. Lush, bank manager
Alfred Atkins, editor Dorset County Express
George Stickland, grocer

William Bishop, clerk
Thomas Haviland Voss, plasterer
Edward Steele, draper
Thomas B. Medway, currier
George J. Wood, upholsterer
George Case, woollen draper
F.J. Holland, accountant

Source: An Address from the County of Dorset on the Elementary Education Bill, May 9 1870 by Dorset. Published by H. Spicer, Dorset County Chronicle Office, 1870.

Administration

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