East Stoke Dorset Family History Guide
East Stoke is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: West Holme, Wogret, Wopgret, Highwood, and Binnegar.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1742
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- East Lulworth
- Coombe Keynes
- Wool
- Bere Regis
- Tyneham
- East Holme
- West Lulworth
- Steeple
- Winfrith Newburgh
- Wareham
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STOKE (East), a parish, with West Holme tything, in Wareham district, Dorset; on the river Frome, 2½ miles E of Wool r. station, and 3½ W by S of Wareham. Post town, Wareham. Acres, 3,273; of which 40 are water. Rated property, £3,122. Pop., 594. Houses, 130. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £326. Patron, Sir H. Oglander. The church was rebuilt in 1827, at a cost of £6,700. There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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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.
EAST STOKE
William V. Hennah, rector
Oliver W. Farrer, J.P., Binnegar
George Foot, churchwarden
Charles Jarvis, churchwarden
J. Sly, miller
J.W. Fyler, J.P., Heffleton
James Pearce, parish clerk
E.H. Goodwin, curate
William Henry Hennah, gentleman
John Widdecombe, schoolmaster
T.C. Widdecombe, schoolmistress
W. White, Esq., Stokeford
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: Wareham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Wareham and Purbeck
- Hundred: Winfrith
- Province: Canterbury