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.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

See Dorchester, Dorset Family History Guide

Dorchester Dorset view of St Peter's Church from Cornhill
Dorchester Dorset view of St Peter’s Church from Cornhill

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. 

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for St. Peter’s Church, Dorchester, 1730-1879 Author: Church of England. St. Peter’s Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1724-1926 Author: Church of England. St. Peter’s Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, 1559-1974 Author: Church of England. Holy Trinity Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Thompson, Peter; Dorset Record Office

Parish registers for St. Peter’s Church, Dorchester, 1653-1979 Author: Church of England. St. Peter’s Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Register of Burials in the Burial Ground of Holy Trinity Church, St. Peter’s Church and All Saints Church, Dorchester., 1857-1879 Author: Church of England. Holy Trinity Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Church of England. St. Peter’s Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire); Church of England. All Saints Church (Dorchester, Dorsetshire)

Directories

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