Hilfield Dorset Family History Guide

Hilfield is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Dorset, created in 1850 from a chapelry in Sydling St Nicholas Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Hillfield

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1849
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1851

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Leigh
• Upcerne
• Hermitage
• Holnest
• Batcombe
• Minterne Magna
• Lillington

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HILFIELD, or HILLFIELD, a parochial chapelry in Dorchester district, Dorset; 3 miles ENE of Evershot r. station, and 3½ NW by N of Cerne-Abbas. Post town, Cerne, under Dorchester. Acres, 1, 584. Real property, £1, 564. Pop., 111. Houses, 23. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to-Charles Cousin, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £52. Patron, the Vicar of Sydling. The church is good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Dorset, Hilfield – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Hilfield., 1851-1880
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hilfield (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1846-1903
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hilfield (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Hilfield, 1849-1999
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Hilfield (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

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.

HILFIELD

E. Nares Henning, 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: Dorchester
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
• Diocese: Salisbury
• Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
• Poor Law Union: Cerne
• Hundred: Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury
• Province: Canterbury