Bourton Dorset Family History Guide
Bourton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Dorset, created in 1847 from a chapelry in Gillingham Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Gillingham St George
Parish church: St George
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1812
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BOURTON, a chapelry in Gillingham parish, Dorset; on the verge of the county, 2½ miles SW of Mere, and 3 NNW of Gillingham r. station. It has a post-office under Bath. Acres, 828. Real property, with Silton, £5,415. Pop., 921. Houses, 210. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £90. Patrons, Trustees. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BOURTON, a chapelry, in the parish and liberty of Gillingham, union of Mere, Shaston division of Dorset, 2½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Mere; containing 901 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar and Inhabitants; net income, £50. The chapel has been enlarged within the last few years. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Dorset Historical Directories
Directory Transcriptions
Kelly’s Directory of the Leather Trades 1880
BOURTON
Boot & Shoe Makers
Lush John
Lush Samuel
Pitman James
Boot & Shoe Thread Manufacturer
Maggs Oliver
Kelly’s Directory of Dorsetshire 1880
BOURTON is a parish, on the river Stour, 3 miles south west from Mere, 4 north west from Gillingham railway station, 4 east from Wincanton railway station, and 9 north west from Shaftesbury, in the liberty of Gillingham, West Shaston petty sessional division, Shaftesbury county court district, Mere union, Shaftesbury rural deanery first portion, Dorset archdeaconry, and Salisbury diocese. At the north end of Bourton the counties of Dorset, Somerset and Wilts meet; the place is marked by a boundary stone.
Here are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans. There are a few small charities.
Here are an iron foundry and boiler and agricultural implement manufactory of some celebrity and extent, two manufactories for flax and shoe thread, sack and sacking manufactory, a tannery, two brick and tile works, which give employment to a great number of hands; also two quarries, yielding blue and sand stone suitable for building purposes. Connected with Mr Oliver Maggs’s flax and shoe thread factory, is a water wheel about 60 feet in diameter, constructed of iron.
Parish Clerk Jacob Maidment
Parochial School Miss Rogers mistress
PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Bamford Samson
Batley Rev Beynon MA Chaffeymoor grange
Butt Clement Glover Rev George MA Vicarage
Hindley Edmund Samuel
Maggs Oliver
Maggs Uriah
Miles Mrs
Millard Mrs
Moody Robert
Read John
Standerwick Mrs
COMMERCIAL
Bell Luke tailor
Charlton Henry bricklayer
Churchill Edward beer retailer
Collins John blacksmith
Dowding Hannam farmer Manor farm West Bourton
Dowding Thomas farmer Blackwater
Eavis Thomas wheelwright
Edmunds Charles horse breaker
Edwards Charles pig dealer
Edwards William farmer
George James Robert coal merchant
Green Charles baker & wood haulier
Hallett Robert farmer
Hannam Charles farmer West Bourton
Hart Henry grocer & draper
Hindley Edmund Samuel engineer millwright iron founder boiler & agricultural implement manufacturer Bourton foundry & offices at 37 Walbrook London ec
Ings John beer retailer
Jeffery Esau Red Lion
Jukes James farmer
Knapton Henry dairyman
Knapton James George farmer
Knapton Samuel farmer
Longman George farmer
Lush John boot & shoe maker grocer stationer & post office
Lush Samuel beer retailer shoe maker
Maggs Oliver brick makr & flax spinner
Maggs Uriah flax spinner
March Henry farmer & shopkeeper
Meaden Henry collector of poor rates
Pitman James shoe maker
Pitman Samuel brick & tile maker
Read John farmer
Welch Joseph shopkeeper & baker
Williams George blue & sand stone quarry worker
Willis Charles farmer
Source: Kelly’s directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire (the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands). By Kelly’s directories, ltd · 1880
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Mere
- Probate Court: Court of the Royal Peculiar of Gillingham
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
- Poor Law Union: Mere
- Hundred: Gillingham Liberty
- Province: Canterbury