Hampreston Dorset Family History Guide

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Hampreston is an Ancient Parish partly in Dorset and partly in Hampshire.

Other places in the parish include: Long Ham, Longham, Stapehill, Little Canford, and Ferndown.

Alternative names: Ferndown

Parish church: St Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1617
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish Registers

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

BARNS, Henry, of Ham-Preston , co. Dorset, bricklayer, & Jane Hurdle, at Ellingham 31 Oct. , 1728. William Hurdle, of Cranborne, co. Dorset, bondsman.

Hampreston Parish Records

Hampreston Poor Law Apprenticeship Records, 1623-1898

Historical 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.

HAMPRESTON

Thomas M. Patey, B.A., clergyman
Beth Seymour, yeoman
G. Belben, churchwarden
John Dunning, churchwarden
Russell Patey, gentleman
Henry B. Patey, gentleman
Tom Clarke, yeoman
J.W. Berrett, yeoman
Henry Berrett, grocer
William A. Baker, gentleman
James Hiscock, parish clerk
Francis Bastable, dairyman

Thomas Jeffery, groom
George King, carpenter
George Stunt, labourer
Robert Loader, carter
James Elbey Dunning Smith, grocer
Robert Weeler, labourer
Henry J. Plowman, painter
Henry Pike, carpenter
James Froud, builder
Charles Froud, builder
William Hurrl, carpenter
Robert Garland, miller

John Garland, miller
George Garland, miller
Levi Riggs, labourer
Henry Geavis, labourer
George Whitly, carter
Harry Obin, butcher
William Clarke, yeoman
George Hall, servant
H. Pardy, innkeeper
Frederick Amey, carpenter
John Burbidge, gardener
William Burbidge, carpenter
John Blanshard, shoemaker
John Frampton, labourer
Francis Pike, cabinetmaker
James Osmond, labourer

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.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HAMPRESTON, a parish in the district of Wimborne, and counties of Dorset and Hants; on the river Stour, near the Southampton and Dorchester railway, 3¼ miles ESE of Wimborne Minster. It includes the hamlet of Longham, which has a post office under Wimborne. Acres, 4,948. Pop., 341. Houses, 295. Pop. of the Dorset portion, 1,115. Houses, 246. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to Ainlfus, the Conqueror’s chamberlain.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £282. Patrons, the Rev. H. T. Glyn and others. The church is early and later English; and was enlarged in the early part of the present century. There are two dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic convent, two national schools, and charities £50.

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

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: Cranborne
  • Province: Canterbury