Stoke Abbott Dorset Family History Guide

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Stoke Abbott is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names: Stoke Abbas, Stoke Abbots, Stoke Abbot

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Presbyterian.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STOKE-ABBAS, or S.-Abbot, a parish, with a village, in Beaminster district, Dorset; 5 miles N of Bridport r. station. It has a post-office under Bridport. Acres, 2,303. Real property, £4,526. Pop. in 1851, 826; in 1861, 703, of whom 96 were in the Beaminster workhouse. Houses, 137. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £420. Patron, New College, Oxford. There are a dissenting chapel and a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STOKE-ABBAS (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Beaminster, Bridport division of Dorset, 2 miles (W. by S.) from Beaminster; containing 808 inhabitants. The parish comprises 2303a. 2r. 5p. Here is a stone-quarry, for building purposes, and for burning into lime. From 15 to 20 persons are engaged in a twine manufactory; and a sailcloth, twine, and shoe-thread factory employs 60 or 70 hands.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £9. 15., and in the gift of New College, Oxford: the rectorial tithes have been commuted for £420, and some impropriate tithes for £15. 11.; there is a glebe-house, and the glebe contains 60 acres. The church is a small ancient building with a tower. The Rev. W. Crowe, late public orator of the university of Oxford, was for some time rector.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Registers

Marriages at Stoke Abbot 1560 to 1812 Dorset Parish Registers: Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and Edmund Nevill, B.A., F.S.A. Vol 6. 1912. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Administration

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