Dewlish, Dorset Family History Guide
Dewlish is a chapelry of Milborne St Andrew Ancient Parish in Dorset.
Alternative names:
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1627
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DEWLISH, a parish, which is also a liberty, in Dorchester district, Dorset; on an affluent of the river Piddle, near a Roman way, 7 miles NNW of Moreton r. station, and 8 NE of Dorchester.
It has a post office under Dorchester; and is within 2 miles of Milborne-St. Andrew, which has a post office under Blandford. Acres, 2, 090. Real property, £2, 466. Pop., 458. Houses, 88. The property is divided among a few. Dewlish House is the seat of General Michel. A Roman pavement was found in the parish in 1740; and Roman coins and other relics have been found in a neighbouring double-ditched camp of 7 acres.
The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Milborne-St. Andrew, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
DEWLISH (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Dorchester, liberty of Dewlish, Dorchester division of Dorset, 7 miles (N. E.) from Dorchester; containing 389 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Milbourne St. Andrew: the vicarial tithes of Dewlish have been commuted for £100. The church is an ancient structure.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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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.
DEWLISH AND MILBORNE
J. Michel, Lieutenant-General, J.P.
J.C. Mansel, J.P., Longthorns
Christopher George Wheat, M.A., vicar
Charles Kent, yeoman
Joseph Fowler, yeoman
Henry Best, yeoman
Henry Lane, tailor, parish clerk
George Groves, yeoman
James Henry Wark, schoolmaster
Daniel Maidment, schoolmaster
John Standfield, yeoman
Frederick Standfield, yeoman
W.J. Besent, yeoman
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: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: Dewlish Liberty
- Province: Canterbury