Dummer Hampshire Family History Guide

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Dummer is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire.

Alternative names: Dummer with Kempshott

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1541
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Dummer Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Dummer. The index includes information from Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837

Marriage Licences and Allegations

The following have been extracted from Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens. Parishes without a named county are parishes within the county of Hampshire.

Banister, James, of Mattingley, 21, b., & Sarah Bamster, of Dummer, 21, at D., 25 June, 1826. Aff.

Billimore, Thomas, of Dummer, b., & Lucy Hutt, of Deane, 21,at D., 19 Apl., 1824. Aff.

Burge, William, of Dummer, labourer, & Elizabeth Goodchild, of the s., sp., at Sherborne, or St. John’s [ ? Winchester], 12 Feb., 1735.

Bye, George, of Dummer, 30, b., & Phyllis Bayly, of the s., w., at D., or Preston Candover, 20 Apl., 1691.

Cleeve, Richard, of Dummer, 21, b., & Amelia Taylor, of North Waltham, a minor, at N. W., 26 Aug., 1825 Aff.

Clement, James, of Dummer, 21, b., & Sarah White, of the s., 21, sp., at D., 28 June, 1812.

Clements, Thomas, of Dummer, farmer, 21, b., & Mary Wise, of Herriard, 21, sp., at H., 1 Oct., 1806.

Davies, Thomas, of Basingstoke, postboy, 27, b., & Martha Clear, of Dummer, 21, sp., at D., 15 Feb., 1800.

Dear, Richard, of Dummer, husbandman, 30, b., & Ann Smith, of the s., 30, sp., 2 Aug., 1765.

Dear, Richard, of Dummer, farmer, 21, b., & Sarah Goodman, of Cliddesden, 21, sp., at D., 17 Nov., 1800.

Digweed, Harry, of Steventon, yeoman, 36, b., & Jane Terry, of Dummer, 29, sp., at D., 23 Feb., 1808.

Dovey, Thomas, of North Waltham, farmer, 49, b., & Sarah Nash, of Dummer, 48, sp., at D., 13 Jan., 1796.

Drinkwater, William, of Dummer, 21, b., & Rebecca Searl, of South Stoneham, 21, sp., at S. 8., 21 Oct., 1829. Aff.

Dyer, John, of Kingsclere, 21, b., & Christian Boyd, of Dummer, 21, sp., at D., 15 Oct., 1828. Aff.

Eldridge, Philip, of Dummer, day labourer, & Elizabeth Daman, of the s., w., 3 Oct., 1734.

Field, John, of Dummer, husbandman, & Hannah Cobb, of Itchin Stoke, sp., at St. Maurice, Winchester, or I. S., 9 Oct., 1728.

Gager, Richard, of Dummer, blacksmith, 23, b., & Mary Diapper, of Itchen Abbas, 30, sp., 8 June, 1761.

Green, William, of Dummer, clothier, b., & Mary Tarrant, of Wonston, sp., at W., or Dummer, 29 Dec, 1710.

Harris, William, of East Sherborne, yeoman, 30, b., & Sarah Waterman, of Dummer, 25, sp., at D., 24 Feb., 1781.

Harwood, John, of Deane, & Eliza Terry, of Dummer, at D., 27 Sep., 1810. Charles Harwood, of Deane, bondsman.

Hole, John, of Crondall, carpenter, & Jane Freemantle, of Dummer, at Bradley, or Basingstoke, 26 Dec, 1723.

Holland, John, of Dummer, blacksmith, 23, b., & Elizabeth Lambert, of the s., a minor, with c. of her f., Peter Lambert, at D., 15 May, 1802. Charles Lambert, of the s., farmer, bondsman.

Holmes, John, of Dummer, labourer, 28, w., & Mary Osborne, of the s., 28, sp., at D., 7 March, 1797.

Hunt, Peter, of Dummer, yeoman, b., & Elizabeth Penton, of the s., sp., 16 July, 1716.

Hunt, Stephen, of Dummer, husbandman, & Mary Beckford, of Wootton St. Lawrence, sp., at Basingstoke, 9 Feb., 1723-4.

Kersley, Robert, of Ellisfield, husbandman, & Elizabeth Smith, of Dummer, sp., at Farley, 22 Jan., 1733.

Lasham, Richard, of Dummer, farmer, 31, b., & Elizabeth Attreed, of Steep, sp., a minor, with c. of her f., Jonas Attreed, of Godalming, co. Surrey, husbandman, at S., 11 May, 1799.

Lidderdale, John, of Dummer, lieut., 22, b., & Ann Pearce, of the s., 22, sp., at D., 17 Oct., 1800.

Lyford, Giles-King, of St. Thomas, Winchester, surgeon, 28, b., & Elizabeth Binfield, of Dummer, 22, sp., at D., 6 Aug., 1794.

Dummer Marriages 1541 to 1812

Hampshire Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 1. Edited by W. P.W. Phillimore. Published London 1899. Issued to the subscribers by Phillimore & Co. 36, Essex Street, Strand.

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DUMMER, a parish and a sub-district in Basingstoke district, Hants. The parish lies 2¼ miles from the Southwestern railway, 5 miles SW of Basingstoke; and has a post-office under Basingstoke. Acres, 2,180. Real property, £2,540. Pop., 400. Houses, 84. The property is divided among a few. Dummer House is a chief residence. The land is hilly.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £415. Patron, the Rev. W. Adams. The church is ancient; contains several brasses, one of them with a rhyming inscription; and is good. A school has £4 from endowment; and other charities £14. Whitfield and Hervey were familiar with this parish; and the latter wrote here some of his “Meditations.” The sub-district contains sixteen parishes. Acres, 32,377. Pop., 4,639. Houses, 948.

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

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Administration

  • County: Hampshire
  • Civil Registration District: Basingstoke
  • Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
  • Diocese: Winchester
  • Rural Deanery: Basingstoke
  • Poor Law Union: Basingstoke
  • Hundred: Bermondspit
  • Province: Canterbury