Winterbourne Whitchurch Dorset Family History Guide

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Winterbourne Whitchurch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Law Lee, Winterborne Whatcombe, and Lawlee.

Alternative names: Whitechurch, Whitchurch, Winterborne Whitechurch, Winterborne Whitchurch

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1599
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINTERBORNE-WHITCHURCH, a parish, with W.-Whatcombe hamlet and Law-Lee tything, in Blandford district, Dorset; 5 miles WSW of Spetisbury r. station, and 5¼ SW of Blandford. Post town, Blandford. Acres, 2,841. Real property, £3,781. Pop., 554. Houses, 103. The property is chiefly divided between two. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £97. Patron, the Bishop of S. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school. Samuel Wesley was vicar, but eventually ejected for non-conformity; and his sons, John and Charles, the founders of Methodism, were born here during his incumbency.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

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

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1843-1945
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterborne-Whitchurch (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Winterborne-Whitchurch, 1599-1993
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winterborne-Whitchurch (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Winterborne-Whitchurch – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Overseers’ accounts, 1791-1836
Author: Winterborne-Whitchurch (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: Coombs Ditch
  • Province: Canterbury