Hinton St Mary Dorset Family History Guide

Hinton St Mary is a chapelry of Iwerne Minster Ancient Parish in Dorset.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1581
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Hinton St Mary Church Dorset
Hinton St Mary Church Dorset

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HINTON-ST. MARY, a village and a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset. The village stands near the river Stour, 1¼ mile N of Sturminster-Newton r. station; and has a post-office under Blandford.

The parish comprises 982 acres. Real property, with Sturminster and Bagber, £13, 205. Pop., 342. Houses, 73. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy, under the vicarage of Iwerne-Minster, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, not reported. Patron, the Vicar of Iwerne-Minster. The church is good; and has a tower and some very old monuments.

There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a national school, and charities £9.

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

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.

CASTLEMAN, Richard, of Gosport, gent., 21, b., & Mary Aslatt, of Alresford, 21, sp., at A., 3 June, 1788. James Castleman, of Hinton St. Mary, co. Dorset, bondsman. 

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

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

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1789-1922
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hinton St Mary (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Hinton-St. Mary, 1581-1983
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Hinton-St. Mary (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Hinton-St. Mary – Occupations ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1836-1898
Author: Hinton-St. Mary (Dorset)

England, Dorset, Hinton-St. Mary – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records, 1836-1898
Author: Hinton-St. Mary (Dorset)

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Sturminster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Shaftesbury
  • Poor Law Union: Sturminster
  • Hundred: Sturminster Newton
  • Province: Canterbury