Dorchester St Peter, Dorset Family History Guide
Dorchester St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1730
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
See Dorchester, Dorset Family History Guide
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.
DURDEN, John, of St. Peter’s, Dorchester, co. Dorset, plumber and glazier, 32, b.,
& Frances Witt, of All Saints, Southampton, 21, sp. , at A.S., 2 Sep., 1818. John Witt, of the s., merchant’s clerk, bondsman.
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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.
DORCHESTER ST PETER
Edmund Ward Pears, rector
John F. Hodges, jun., churchwarden
G. Curme, surgeon
G.J. Andrews, churchwarden, solicitor
George J.G. Gregory, surveyor
Charles Good, accountant
Thomas Coombs, solicitor
Thomas C.W. Saunders, jeweller
Herbert W. Hodges, B.A., Oxon
Henry Bascombe, draper
Joseph Lock
John Boniface, draper
Henry Durden, chemist
William How, chemist
Joseph Barter, watchmaker
Henry Wellspring, musician
William Manfield, lay rector of St Peter’s, Portisham
William Durden, plumber
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: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: Dorchester Borough
- Province: Canterbury