Corfe Mullen Dorset Family History Guide
Corfe Mullen is a chapelry of Sturminster Marshall Ancient Parish in Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Upton and Brackendale.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1651
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CORFE-MULLEN; a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; on the Roman road from Poole, near the river Stour and the Southampton and Dorset railway, 2½ miles SW of Wimborne-Minster.
It has a post office under Wimborne. Acres, 3, 086. Real property, £3, 335. Pop., 724. Houses, 165. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a vicarage, under the vicarage of Sturminster-Marshall, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £386. Patron, Eton College. The church was, not long ago, enlarged; and is good.
There is a Wesleyan chapel. A school has £40 from endowment; and other charities £80.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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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.
CORFE MULLEN
R.W. Plumptre, M.A., clerk
A. Kemp, M.A., clerk
J. Keats, schoolmistress
William Baverstock
J.C. King, church warden
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: Wimborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Sturminster Marshall
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – None, Post-1846 – Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Wimborne and Cranborne
- Hundred: Cogdean
- Province: Canterbury