Evershot Dorset Family History Guide

Evershot is a chapelry of Frome St Quintin Ancient Parish in Dorset.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1694
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EVERSHOT, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Beaminster district, Dorset. The village stands near the head of the river Frome, and near the Dorchester and Chippenham railway, 8 miles S by E of Yeovil; has a station on the railway, and a post office under Dorchester; was once a market town; and has still a fair on 12 May.

The parish comprises 1, 409 acres. Real property, £2, 574. Pop., 595. Houses, 118. The property is divided among a few. Melbury Hall here, the seat of the Earl of Ilchester, is a very ancient building, partly Gothic, partly Grecian, and stands in a fine park.

The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Frome-St. Quintin, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is very good. A grammar school has £70 from endowment; and other charities have £23. The sub-district contains also eight other parishes. Acres, 16, 317. Pop., 2, 874. Houses, 614.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Dorset, Evershot – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Evershot, 1732-1879
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Evershot (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Evershot, 1694-1973
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Evershot (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Evershot – History ( 2 )
A-Z of Dorset–Evershot
Author: Buck, Martin

Spotlight on Evershot
Author: Nineham, Alan

England, Dorset, Evershot – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Overseers account books, 1704-1788, 1819-1836
Author: Evershot (Dorset)

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.

EVERSHOT

Edward Collins, rector
John J. Clapcott, surgeon
Henry J. Greenhill, clerk in holy orders
Arthur Martin, churchwarden
Joho Trenchard, churchwarden
Arthur J.M. Martin, gentleman
Charles Henry Baskett, solicitor
Thomas Rothwell, schoolmaster
E.G. Foot, schoolmistress
William Kellaway, farmer
Elizabeth Kellaway, schoolmistress
E.J. Ryan, school teacher
C.P. Baskett, law clerk
William Fry, law clerk
M. Squire, schoolmistress
E. Lake, schoolmistress

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: Beaminster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
  • Poor Law Union: Beaminster
  • Hundred: Tollerford
  • Province: Canterbury