Chetnole, Dorset Family History Guide

Chetnole is a chapelry of Yetminster Ancient Parish in Dorset.

Alternative names: Yetminster St Peter

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1847
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Leigh
• Stockwood
• Yetminster
• Melbury Bubb

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHETNOLE, a chapelry in Yetminster parish, Dorset; on the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, near the Roman road from Dorchester, 2¾ miles N of Evershot r. station, and 6½ SSW of Sherborne. It has a post office under Sherborne. Acres, 877. Real property, £2, 137. Pop., 269. Houses, 48. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Yetminster, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is not 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

CHETNOLE, a chapelry, in the parish and hundred of Yetminster, union of Sherborne, Sherborne division of Dorset, 7 miles (S. W. by S.) from Sherborne; containing 222 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to St. Peter. A school is supported by endowment.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Chetnole, 1841-1891

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for Yetminster, 1579-1880 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Yetminster (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Chetnole, 1827-1993 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Chetnole (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Parish registers for Yetminster, 1677-1992 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Yetminster (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Probate records

Index to wills, 1615-1799 ; Original wills, 1654-1799 Author: Church of England. Prebendal Court (Yetminster and Grimston)

Probate inventories & Manorial excepts of Chetnole, Leigh and Yetminster Author: Machin, R.

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.

CHETNOLE

F. Murray Symonds, curate
E.F. Chadwick, Major 33rd Regt.
William Walden, churchwarden
Samuel Marsh, yeoman
James Roberts, yeoman
Benjamin John Jeffery, yeoman
John H. Jeffery, yeoman
John Neal, builder
George John Neal, builder
Alfred Pittman, tailor
William Bird, yeoman
William Banger, bootmaker
Thomas Banger, bootmaker
Elizabeth Sargeant, schoolmistress
William Harris, baker
Giles Short, yeoman
Alfred Bird, farmer
William Bird, farmer
Elias Bullock, grocer

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: Sherborne
• Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Yetminster and Grimston
• Diocese: Salisbury
• Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Shaftesbury
• Poor Law Union: Sherborne
• Hundred: Yetminster
• Province: Canterbury