Alderholt, Dorset Family History Guide
Alderholt is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Dorset, created in 1849 from a chapelry in Cranborne Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Cranborne St James
Parish church: St James
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1849
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ALDERHOLT, a tything and a chapelry in Cranborne parish, Dorset. The tything lies on the verge of the county, 4½ miles E of Cranborne, and 5½ N of Ringwood r. station; and has a post office under Salisbury. Pop., 404.
The chapelry includes the tything, but is larger, and was constituted in 1849. Pop., 708. Houses, 145. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £105. Patron, the Vicar of Cranborne. The church was built by the Marquis of Salisbury.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
ALDERHOLT, a tything, in the parish and hundred of Cranborne, union of Wimborne and Cranborne, Wimborne division of Dorset; containing 404 inhabitants.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
The following transcriptions are available on the Dorset OPC pages:
Bishops’ Transcripts
Verwood and Alderholt, Bishops Transcripts
Baptisms 1731-1751, 1751-1778, 1780-1812, 1813-1824
1826-1836, 1836-1855, 1857-1879
Marriages 1731-1751, 1751-1778, 1780-1813, 1813-1835
1836-1841
Burials 1731-1751, 1751-1778, 1780-1813, 1813-1835
1836-1855, 1857-1879
Marriage Allegations
The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.
BAILEY, James, of Fordingbridge, blacksmith, 38, W., & Grace Lindsey, of the s., 35, sp., 22 Sep., 1766. Robert Bailey, of Aldersholt, co. Dorset, blacksmith, bondsman.
DYMOTT, John, of Alderholt, co. Dorset, husbandman, & Elizabeth Blunt, sp., at Ellingham, 29 Jan., 1727-8. Richard Blunt, of Alderholt, husbandman, bondsman.
Parish Records
The following transcriptions are available on the Dorset OPC pages:
Census
1841
1841 District 1 [Cranborne Town], District 2 [Holwell], District 3 [Alderholt], District 4 [Blagdon], District 4a [Boveridge], District 4b [Oakley, Monckton up Wimborne, Bellows Cross], District 5 [Verwood West], District 6 [Verwood East], Lunatic Asylum
1851 in 6 districts
11A [Cranborne], 11B [Alderholt], 11C [Holwell]
11D [Cranborne], 11E [Verwood], 11F [Verwood]
1861 in 6 districts
D11, D2 [Boveridge/Blagdon/Oakley/Monkton]
D3 [Alderholt], D4 [Holwell], D5 [Boveridge Heath]
D6 [Verwood]
1871 in 6 districts
District 1 [Cranborne], District 2 [Munkton up Wimborne/Oakley/Boveridge/Blagdon], District 3 [Alderholt] , District 4 [Holwell], District 5 [Three Legged Cross/Crab Orchard/Verwood], District 6[Verwood]
Wills
Wills proved in the Prerogrative Court of Canturbury
FamilySearch
Church Records
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.
ALDERHOLT
W Egerton Tapp, clerk in holy orders, Vicarage
George Churchill, Alderholt Park, J.P. for Dorset
Annie Light, schoolmistress
Edward Light
James Hibberd, farmer
Joseph Pope, farmer
George Hopkins, farmer
Henry Rose, smith
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: Wimborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pimperne
- Poor Law Union: Wimborne and Cranborne
- Hundred: Cranborne
- Province: Canterbury