Bradpole, Dorset Family History Guide

Bradpole is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names:

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1695
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRADPOLE, a parish in Bridport district, Dorset; on the Bridport railway, 1 mile NE of Bridport. Post Town, Bridport. Acres, 966. Real property, £5,324. Pop., 1,449. Houses, 270. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of St. Andrews, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £265. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was built in 1860; is in the early English style; and consists of nave, chancel, and vestry, with bell turret.

The Bridport workhouse is in Bradpole.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BRADPOLE (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Bridport, hundred of Beaminster-Forum and Redhone, Bridport division of Dorset, 1 mile (N. N. E.) from Bridport; containing 1357 inhabitants. It comprises 998a. 2r. 16p., of which 566 acres are arable, 182 meadow, 100 pasture, and 18 woodland.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £8. 13. 1½., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £199. A new church was consecrated in August 1846, containing 400 sittings, mostly free. The inhabitants formerly interred their dead at Bridport; but by a composition made in 1527, they were allowed to inter in their own churchyard, on paying annually a small acknowledgment to the rector of Bridport.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Bradpole, 1841-1891

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for Bradpole, 1731-1878 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bradpole (Dorsetshire)

Marriages at Bradpole, 1693-1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bradpole (Dorsetshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1695-1849 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bradpole (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Bradpole, 1695-1996 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bradpole (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

History

Seymours in Bradpole Author: Seymour, John

Directories

Kelly’s Directory of the Leather Trades 1880

BRADPOLE

Boot & Shoe Makers

Hoare William John

Lacey Frederick 

Parsons Thomas

Scadden William

Shuger William 

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.

BRADPOLE

Alexander Broadley, vicar, founder school and manager, and prebendary of Sarum
F. Baring Stainforth, clerk in holy orders
J.M.P. Montagu J.P. for Dorset, Downe Hall
W. Hounsell J.P. for Dorset, Wykes Court
Nicholas M. Loggin, Coneygar, church warden, solicitor
William Way, yeoman
G.S. Miller, churchwarden
George Hussey, overseer
William Gibbs, overseer
Mark Johnson, schoolmaster
John Gill, builder
Frederick Clarke, smith

Thomas Stone, innkeeper
John Seymour, master mariner
Thomas M. Hoare, baker
Isaac Hoare, cabinetmaker
John H. George, gardener
Thomas J. Legg, policeman
William Shugar, boot and shoemaker
Thomas Gibbs, farmer
George Chard, carpenter
Henry Hodder, coachbuilder
William Hoare, bootmaker
Charles Strong, twine finisher

John Cornick Gibbs, builder
George Boon, innkeeper
Henry Hemming, boot and shoemaker
James Foord, plumber
George Crabb, gardener
S.C. Chard, baker
John Matthews, gardener
Absalom Neal, comber
Charles Chard, carpenter
William Scadden, shoemaker
George Travers, servant

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: Bridport
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Bridport
  • Poor Law Union: Bridport
  • Hundred:
  • Province: Canterbury