Cranborne with Boveridge Dorset Family History Guide
Cranborne with Boveridge is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Three Legged Cross, Monckton up Wimbourne, Monckton up Wimborne with Oakley and Bello Cross, Monckton up Wimborne, Holwell, Fairwood, Cripplestyle, Crindall, Crendell, Cranborne St Michael and All Angels, Cranborne Borough Priory, Boveridge, Blagdon, Bellows Cross, Verwood, Monkton up Wimborne, and Three Cross.
Alternative names: Cranborne
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Cranborne with Boveridge
- Parish registers: 1602
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Cranborne St Michael and All Angels
- Parish registers: 1840
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Horton
- Martin, Wiltshire
- Alderholt
- Harbridge, Hampshire
- Wimborne Minster
- Pentridge
- West Parley
- Wimborne St Giles
- Damerham, Wiltshire
- Ringwood, Hampshire
- Edmondsham
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CRANBORNE, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Dorset. The town stands in Cranborne Chase, near the boundary with Wilts; 7 miles NW of Ringwood r. station, and 9 NNE of Wimborne-Minster.
It dates from ancient times; is well-built; has a post office under Salisbury, two inns, a church, a Wesleyan chapel, and an alms-house; and gives the title of Viscount to the Marquis of Salisbury.
The church belonged to a Benedictine priory; is partly Norman; and has a carved pulpit, and monuments of the Hoopers. The priory was founded in 980; and had originally an abbey-status, but became subject, in 1102, to Tewkesbury. The priory-house continued to stand till 1703.
Markets are held on Thursdays; and fairs, on 24 Aug. and 6 Dec. The parish includes also the tythings of Alderholt, Holwell, Blagdon, Boveridge, Verwood, and Monckton-up-Wimborne. Acres, 13, 730. Real property, £8, 603. Pop., 2, 656. Houses, 554.
The manor belonged, about 950, to Aylward de Meau; went, sometime afterwards, to the Crown; was given by William Rufus to Robert-Fitz-Hamon; passed to the Earl of Gloucester and the Earls of March; and belongs now to the Marquis of Salisbury. St. Giles’ Park, 1 mile S of the town, is the seat of the Earl of Shaftesbury.
Remains of a circular double-ditched ancient camp of 6 acres, are on Castle-Hill. Much of the parish is hilly and of small value.
The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacies of Boveridge and Verwood, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £151. Patron, the Marquis of Salisbury. Charities, £92. The vicarage of Aldersholt is a separate benefice. Bishop Stillingfleet was a native.
The sub-district contains thirteen parishes, part of another parish, and an extra-parochial tract; and is in the district of Wimborne. Acres, 45, 437. Pop., 7, 624. Houses, 1, 572.
The hundred contains eleven parishes, and parts of three others; and is chiefly in Wimborne division, but partly also in Sturminster, Shaston, and Blandford divisions. Acres, 34, 088. Pop., 7, 365. Houses, 1, 508.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Marriage Allegations
The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.
BARNS, Henry, of Ham-Preston , co. Dorset, bricklayer, & Jane Hurdle, at Ellingham 31 Oct. , 1728. William Hurdle, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, bondsman.
BAVERSTOCK, John, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, husbandman, & Elizabeth Ranger, of Ibsley, at Ellingham, 1726.
BESSANT, William, of Ringwood, fellmonger, w., & Sarah Rooke, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, at [ ? Winchester ], 3 March, 1708-9.
BLAKE, John, of Milton, gent., & Abigal Garret, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, at Breamore, Ibsley, Fordingbridge, or Harbridge, 23 Nov., 1703.
BLANDFORD, Joseph, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, husbandman, & Martha Carpenter, of Ringwood, w., at Ellingham, 1 March, 1731.
COLES, John, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, farmer, 21, b., & Sarah Bissell, of Fording bridge, 21, sp., at F., 20 Sep., 1814. Richard Coles, of Hakwill Mill, miller, bondsman.
CONEY, Andrew, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, mason, & Anne Day, of Hale, 13 Feb., 1720-1.
DUELL, William, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, yeoman, & Betty Loxy [ sic in bond,
Loxly in Aff:], of Hale sp., 11 May, 1772. James Duell, of H., yeoman, bondsman.
Dymort, William, of Gorley, in the p. of Fordingbridge, husbandman, & Deborah Moyle, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, sp., at Ellingham, 24 Oct., 1728. William Moyle, of Harbridge, husbandman, bondsman.
DYMOTT, William, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, 21, b., & Hannah Kelleway, of Fordingbridge, 21, sp., at F., 23 Feb., 1787.
Galton, Richard, of Edmondsham, co. Dorset, & Mary Needle, of Cranbourne, in the same co., w., at Ellingham, 7 Aug., 1720.
HAYWARD, Thomas, of Crendal, in the p. of Cranborne, co. Dorset, yeoman, &
Mary Ellis, of Ellingham, sp., at E., 22 May, 1731.
HEAD, Joseph, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, 20, b., with c, of his f., Richard Head, of Harbridge, & Jane Cutler, of Fordingbridge, a minor, with c. of her f., James Cutler, at F., 14 May, 1786.
HOOPER, John, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, & Mary Triphook, of Fordingbridge, sp., at Ellingham, 13 Sep., 1737.
James, Richard, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, farmer, w., & Mary Brown, of Fordingbridge, 21, sp., at F., 2 Nov., 1808. John Hannen, of the s., innkeeper, bondsman.
King, George, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, husbandman, & Susannah Garrett, at Ellingham, 3 May, 1724.
KING, Richard, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, labourer, w., & Mary Dixon, of Hale, sp., at H., 9 June, 1731.
LOCKIER, William, of Verwood, in the p. of Cranborne, co. Dorset, husbandman, & Mary Ketcher, of Ringwood, w., at Ellingham, 15 Sep., 1725.
LOCKYER, Thomas, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, gent., w., & Constant [sic] Curry, of Alverstoke, 21, sp., at A., 28 Apl., 1795.
LYNE, John, of Ringwood, merchant, & Joan Foreman, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, w. , at Ellingham, 11 Dec., 1725.
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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.
CRANBORNE
J. H. Carnegie, vicar, prebendary and rural dean
James Oram, yeoman
Jobn Gore Porter, yeoman
George Ford, yeoman, Verwood
James Clark, grocer
Joseph Waters, yeoman
Henry Flower, yeoman
William Newman, farmer
James Cole, yeoman, Holwell
W.J. Tink, maltster
J.H. Tink, farmer, Monckton
William Goodfellow, cordwainer
A. Cript, plumber
T.A. Viney, grocer
T.W. Wake Smart, M.D.
Arthur F. Van, M.R.C.S.
Edwin Adams, draper
Thomas G. Bell, relieving officer
Thomas Adams, tailor
William Head, gardener
Aaron Hibberd, butcher
J.S. Kerley, joiner
George Ball, stationer
Thomas Coffin, baker
David Bowles, bootmaker
Frederick Penny, cooper
George Butt, saddler
William Flemington, blacksmith
William Hayter, thatcher
John Barber, bailiff
Henry Kilford, builder
Tom Still, tailor
Joseph Still, cooper
William Hutchinson, baker
George Shave, groom
John Green, carpenter
William Stanford, yeoman
Edward Lonnen, yeoman
James Vincent, bricklayer
John Coombs, carpenter
Frederick Longman, smith
Moses Longman, smith
Manoab Adams, parish clerk
Chandoss Adams, bootmaker
Robert Cressy, bootmaker
John Percy, grocer’s assistant
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 Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pimperne
- Poor Law Union: Wimborne and Cranborne
- Hundred: Cranborne; Monkton up Wimborne
- Province: Canterbury