Holwell Dorset Family History Guide

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Holwell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Buckshaw.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Holwell Parish Records

Holwell 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.

HOLWELL

H.H. Wood, M.A., F.G.S., rector, rural dean
Bendall Littlehales, Esq,. Buckshaw, J.P. for Dorset
John L. Coombs, yeoman
Thomas Hayward, yeoman
Frederick Taylor, carpenter
John Warry
William Warry
John Flower, yeoman
James Drake, yeoman
Robert English, yeoman
Robert Antell, yeoman
William King, yeoman
Lewis W. Trim, yeoman
Silas Mullett, yeoman
Thomas Antell, yeoman
Isaac Coombs, yeoman
Herbert W. Ridout, dairyman
Eli Miles, yeoman
Robert Barter, yeoman
Benjamin Barter, farmer
James Barter, farmer
George Parsons, farmer
Henry White, corn dealer
William Antell, yeoman
Thomas Barter, farmer
Josiah Walden, basketmaker
William Longman, yeoman
Edward Davis, shoemaker
Albert Gawler, carpenter
Samuel Miller, yeoman
Sarah Barter, schoolmistress
George Cabell, Sunday teacher
William John Strangways King
Joseph Lewis, smith

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

HOLWELL, a parish in Sherborne district, Dorset; on a branch of the river Lidden, 5 miles SE of Sherborne r. station. It includes the hamlet of Buckshaw; and, till 1844, was part of Somerset. Post town, Sherborne. Acres, 2,356. Real property, £3,290. Pop., 495. Houses, 104. The property is subdivided.

The parish was part of Blackmore forest, and had, within its limits, the principal lodge of that forest. King John appears to have visited Holwell at several times, probably for hunting. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £456. Patron, Queen’s College, Oxford. The church, excepting the chancel, is later English. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

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

Administration

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