Melcombe Regis Dorset Family History Guide
Melcombe Regis is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Dorset, created in 1606 from a chapelry in Radipole Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Weymouth St Mary
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1595
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Christians, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Protestant Dissenters, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MELCOMBE-REGIS, a parish in Weymouth district, Dorset; within Weymouth borough, and including the modern and larger portion of Weymouth town. Acres, 1,548; of which 90 are water. Real property, £33,794; of which £500 are in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 5,273; in 1861, 6,498. Houses, 1,057.
The increase of pop. arose from the extension of the Great Western and the Southwestern railways to Weymouth, from the establishment of a regular packet service to the Channel Islands, and from the constructing of Government defence works and of the breakwater at Portland.
The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Radipole, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £298. Patron, the Rev. E. Hollond. A separate charge, designated St. John’s, was constituted in 1856, out of Melcombe Regis and Radipole; and the living of it is a p. curacy, of the value of £50, in the patronage of the Rector. Pop., in 1861, of the Melcome-Regis portion of St. John, 661; of the Radipole portion, 401.
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.
KENT, William, of Burghclere, co. Wilts, gent., b., son of Stephen and Betty Kent, bap. at Wanborough, co. Wilts, 11 Jan, 1801, & Mary Wood, of Holy Rood, Southampton, sp., dau. of Star and Elizabeth Wood, bap. at Melcombe Regis, co. Dorset, 18 Jan., 1797, at H. R., 25 Jan., 1823. Thomas Wood, of Southampton, gent., bondsman.
Lock, George, of Ringwood, w., & Philadelphia Dengate, of Melcombe Regis, co. Dorset, 21, sp., at R., 5 March, 1832.
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Weymouth
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Weymouth
- Hundred: Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Borough
- Province: Canterbury