Hammoon Dorset Family History Guide

Hammoon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1657
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HAMMOON, a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset; on the river Stour; 2 miles E of Sturminster Newton r. station. Post town, Sturminster Newton, under Blandford.

Acres, 677. Real property, with Manston, £4, 585. Rated property of H. alone, £1, 394. Pop., 74. Houses, 17. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £233. Patron, G. Meech, Esq. The church is old, but good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Dorset, Hammoon – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Hammoon, 1731-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hammoon (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1716-1902
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hammoon (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Hammoon, 1656-1963
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hammoon (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Hammoon – Occupations ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1716-1836
Author: Hammoon (Dorset)

England, Dorset, Hammoon – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1716-1836
Author: Hammoon (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.

HAMMOON

D.H. Sawyer, clerk in orders
William Coate, churchwarden
John Coate, yeoman
Henry White, carpenter
Katherine Sawyer

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: Sturminster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Pimperne
  • Poor Law Union: Sturminster
  • Hundred: Pimperne
  • Province: Canterbury