Iwerne Stepleton Dorset Family History Guide

Iwerne Stepleton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names: Iwerne Steepleton, Steepleton Iwerne, Steepleton Preston

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1755
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1760

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Tarrant Gunville
• Stourpaine
• Hanford
• Iwerne Courtney

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

IWERNE-STEEPLETON, or PRESTON, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; on the rivulet Iwerne, 27½ miles E of Shillingstone r. station, and 3½ NW of Blandford-Forum. Post town, lwerne-Courtnay, under Blandford. Acres, 773. Real property, £773. Pop., 59. Houses, 9. Steepleton House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £81. Patron, Lord Rivers. The church is ancient.

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.

GOULDEN, Barnabas, of Iwerne, co. Dorset, yeoman, 40, w., & Mary Mellish, of Lyndhurst, 30, w., 25 Nov., 1767.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Dorset, Iwerne-Steepleton – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Iwerne-Steepleton., 1760-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Iwerne-Steepleton (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Iwerne-Steepleton, 1755-1987
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Iwerne-Steepleton (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Administration

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