East Orchard Dorset Family History Guide

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East Orchard is a chapelry of Iwerne Minster Ancient Parish in Dorset.

Alternative names: East Orchards, Hartgrove

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1785
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ORCHARD (East), a parish in Shaftesbury district, Dorset; on an affluent of the river Stour, 3 miles N by E of Shillingstone r. station, and 4¼ SSW of Shaftesbury. Post-town, Iwerne-Minster, under Blandford. Acres, 860. Real property, with West Orchard, £3, 369. Pop. of E. O. alone, 227. Houses, 54. The living is a vicarage, united with Margaret-Marsh, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £174. Patron, the Vicar of Iwerne-Minster. The church was rebuilt in 1860, at a cost of £720; and is in the early English style.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

England, Dorset, East Orchard – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for East Orchard, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Dorset, East Orchard – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for East Orchard and West Orchard., 1731-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of East Orchard (Dorsetshire); Church of England. Parish Church of West Orchard (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1808-1920
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of East Orchard (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for East Orchard, 1782-1954
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of East Orchard (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, East Orchard – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Surveyors’ accounts, 1781-1855
Author: East Orchard (Dorset)

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Shaftsbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
  • Poor Law Union: Shaftesbury
  • Hundred: Sixpenny Hadley
  • Province: Canterbury