Cattistock, Dorset Family History Guide

Cattistock is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names: Cattistocke

Parish church: St. Peter and St. Paul

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1558
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CATTISTOCK, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the river Frome, and on the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, near Maiden-Newton station, 4¼ miles WSW of Cerne-Abbas. It has a post office under Dorchester. Acres, 3,009. Real property, £4,912. Pop., 510. Houses, 133. The property is subdivided. Cattistock House is the seat of the Farquharsons. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £500. Patron, Mrs. Still. 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

CATTISTOCKE (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Cerne, hundred of Cerne, Totcombe, and Modbury, Cerne division of Dorset, 9 miles (N. W.) from Dorchester; containing 549 inhabitants.

It is situated on the road from Dorchester to Yeovil, and comprises 2938a. 1r. 6p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13. 13. 9., and in the patronage of Mrs. Still: the tithes have been commuted for £510, and there is a glebe-house, with about 28 acres of land.

On a hill in the eastern part of the parish is an ancient circular fortification of about four acres, called the Castle, surrounded by a double rampart, with entrances at the north-east and west: towards the middle of the area the ground rises into a long barrow; and near the north entrance is a round tumulus, the top of which consists of flint stones.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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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.

CATTISTOCK

Keith H. Barnes, rector
H. Digby, Colonel, J.P. for Dorset
Frederick T. Salmon, curate
James Manley, schoolmaster
Thomas Nobbs, church warden
Alfred Wightman, churchwarden
Alexander Wightman, builder
Thomas Smith, yeoman
William Hann, farmer
George Riggs, miller
Henry Groves, yeoman
James Bowles, smith
William Dewdney, yeoman
Henry Nobbs, parish clerk
Samuel Lea, shoemaker
Charles Jones, mason
Edward Jones, builder
William Neale, tailor
William Nobbs, shoemaker

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: Dorchester
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
Diocese: Salisbury
Rural Deanery: Bridport
Poor Law Union: Cerne
Hundred: Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury
Province: Canterbury