Gussage St Michael Dorset Family History Guide
Gussage St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Sutton.
Alternative names: Middle Gussage
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732
Nonconformists include: Protestant Dissenters and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Woodlands
- Long Crichel
- Tarrant Hinton
- Gussage All Saints
- Wimborne St Giles
- Moor Crichel
- Handley
- Edmondsham
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GUSSAGE-ST. MICHAEL, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; 5 miles W by S of Cranborne, and 6¼ NE of Spetisbury r. station.
It includes Sutton hamlet; and its post town is Gussage, under Cranborne. Acres, 2, 882. Real property, £2, 435. Pop., 311. Houses, 57. There are extensive ancient earthworks.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £393. Patron, Lord Portman. The church has an embattled tower, and is good.
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.
GUSSAGE ST MICHAEL
J. Heald Ward, rector
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: Wimborne
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pimperne
- Poor Law Union: Wimborne and Cranborne
- Hundred: Badbury
- Province: Canterbury