East Lulworth Dorset Family History Guide
East Lulworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1635
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LULWORTH (EAST), a village and a parish in Ware ham district, Dorset. The village stands 1 mile from the coast, 3¼ SSE of Wool r. station, and 5½ SW of Wareham; and has a post-office under Wareham. The parish, with West Lulworth, comprises 4,364 acres; of which 25 are water. Real property of E. L. alone, £2,285. Pop., 453. Houses, 88. The property belonged to the Lulworths; passed to the Newburghs, the Howards, and the Welds; and belongs now to Joseph Weld, Esq.
Lulworth Castle, the seat of Mr. Weld, was originally built in 1146; was rebuilt in 1588-1641, chiefly out of the ruins of Bindon abbey; is a cube of 80 feet, with two round corner towers, each 110 feet high; commands a beautiful sea-view, through a gap in a range of chalk hills; was visited by James I., Charles II., and George III.; gave an asylum, in 1830, to Charles X. of France, when driven from his throne; contains a state bedroom, some family portraits by Lely, and others in pencil by Hussey; and stands in a park of about five miles in circuit, amid a very secluded tract of country, adjacent to a sequestered and very romantic reach of coast.
A modern chapel is connected with the castle, but stands apart from it; and contains an illuminated psalter of the time of Edward I., a copy of Raphael’s picture of the Transfiguration, and an altar decorated with porphyry, alabaster, and Italian marble. A trappist monastery stood in the grounds prior to the peace of 1815. A tradition ascribed variously to Lulworth and to Painshill gave rise to O’Keefe’s comedy of “The London Hermit, or Rambles in Dorsetshire. ”There are a treble-ditched camp of 5 acres, and several barrows.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £109. Patron, J. Weld, Esq. The church was recently rebuilt; but retains an ancient embattled tower, and some memorials of the Weld family. There are a school with £5 a year from endowment, and charities £56.
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.
HAIME, William, of East Lulworth, co. Dorset, bricklayer, 21, b., & Eleanora Gibson, of Portsea, 21, sp., at P., 2 July, 1801.
Parish Records
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Dorset Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Wareham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Wareham and Purbeck
- Hundred: Winfrith
- Province: Canterbury