Chickerell Dorset Family History Guide

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Chickerell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Padington, Podington, Putton, East Chickerell, and Charlestown.

Alternative names: West Chickerell

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1699
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHICKERELL (West), a parish in Weymouth district, Dorset; on the coast, at the East Fleet, 3 miles NW by W of Weymouth town and r. station.

It includes the tythings of East Chickerell and Putton; and has a post office under Weymouth. Acres, 1,812; of which 280 are water. Real property, £2, 620. Pop., 660. Houses, 143. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £320. Patrons, the Duke of Cleveland and the Dowager Countess of Sandwich. The church is tolerable.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Dorset, West Chickerell – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for West Chickerell, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Dorset, West Chickerell – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for West Chickerell, 1731-1879
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Chickerell (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1729-1859
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Chickerell (Dorsetshire)

Marriages at Chickerell, 1723-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Chickerell (Dorsetshire)

Parish chest and poor law records for West Chickerell, 1775-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Chickerell (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for West Chickerell, 1699-1990
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Chickerell (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, West Chickerell – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
Overseers account books, 1775-1836
Author: West Chickerell (Dorset)

Parish chest and poor law records for West Chickerell, 1775-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of West Chickerell (Dorsetshire)

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Weymouth
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Dorchester
  • Poor Law Union: Weymouth
  • Hundred: Culliford Tree; Sutton Poyntz Liberty
  • Province: Canterbury