Childe Okeford Dorset Family History Guide

Childe Okeford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Fiddleford.

Alternative names: Child Okeford

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1653
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Okeford Fitzpaine
• Sturminster Newton
• Manston
• West Orchard
• Shillingstone
• Belchalwell
• Hanford
• Iwerne Courtney
• Hammoon

Childe Okeford Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CHILD-OKEFORD, a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset, on the river Stour, and on the Central Dorset railway, near Shillingstone station, 3½ miles ESE of Sturminster. It has a post office under Blandford. Acres, 752. Real property, with Hanford, £4, 983. Pop., 783. Houses, 168. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £316. Patron, the Rev.E. North. The church is good; and there are charities, £15.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Dorset, Child-Okeford – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for Child-Okeford, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Where elm trees grew : Fiddleford in Dorset
Author: Hall, Olive A.

England, Dorset, Child-Okeford – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Child-Okeford., 1731-1878
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Child Okeford (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1841-1902
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Child Okeford (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Child Okeford, 1652-1973
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Child Okeford (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Administration

• County: Dorset
• Civil Registration District: Sturminster
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
• Diocese: Salisbury
• Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
• Poor Law Union: Sturminster
• Hundred: Redland
• Province: Canterbury