Iwerne Minster Dorset Family History Guide
Iwerne Minster is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset. Margaret Marsh and East Orchard are chapelries of Iwerne Minster.
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Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1742
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
IWERNE-MINSTER, a village and a parish in Shaftesbury district, Dorset. The village stands near the head of the rivulet Iwerne, 3½ miles NE of Shillingstone r. station, and 5½ NW by N of Blandford-Forum; and has a post-office under Blandford.
The parish comprises 2, 984 acres. Rated property, £4, 634. Pop., 712. Houses, 159. The property is divided among a few. Iwerne House is the seat of the Bowers. Iwerne down lies on the N. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £306. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is partly Norman; and has nave, aisles, and chancel, with a spire 162 feet high. There are a Baptist chapel and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Directors of Companies
The following people were listed in the Directory of Directors 1881 as directors of companies who were either living in Iwerne Minster or the company was based in Iwerne Minster or both.
Wolverton – Lord Wolverton, P.C., 12 Carlton House terrace, S.W., and Iwerne, Blandford, Dorsetshire, is concerned in the following :-
British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company Limited (trustee)
London and North Western Railway Company (audit committee)
North British and Mercantile Insurance Co (extraordinary director)
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.
GOULDEN, Barnabas, of Iwerne, co. Dorset, yeoman, 40, w., & Mary Mellish, of Lyndhurst, 30, w., 25 Nov., 1767.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Dorset Historical Directories
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Shaftsbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Shaftesbury
- Hundred: Sixpenny Hadley
- Province: Canterbury