Margaret Marsh Dorset Family History Guide

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Margaret Marsh is a chapelry of Iwerne Minster Ancient Parish in Dorset.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1692
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MARGARET-MARSH, a parish in Shaftesbury district, Dorset; 4 miles NE of Sturminster-Newton r. station, and 4 SW of Shaftesbury. Post town, Shaftesbury, under Salisbury. Acres, 525. Real property, with Hartgrove, £2,730. Pop., 71. Houses, 15. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Iwerne-Minster, in the diocese of Salisbury.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Dorset, Margaret-Marsh Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Margaret Marsh., 1731-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Margaret Marsh (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Margaret-Marsh, 1682-1834
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Margaret-Marsh (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

Administration

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