Moor Crichel Dorset Family History Guide

Moor Crichel is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Manswood.

Alternative names: Crichel More, Critchell Moore, Critchill More, Moore Crichell, More Crichel

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1664
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Gazetteer of the British Isles 1887

Moore Critchell, par., Dorset, 6 miles SW. of Cranborne, 1705 ac., pop. 367; P.O., called More Critchell; Critchell House is the seat of Lord Alington.

Source: Gazetteer of the British Isles, Statistical and Topographical. Editor: John Bartholomew. Publisher, A. and C. Black. Published: 1887

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CRITCHELL-MOORE, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; on the Roman road from Old Sarum, 6 miles SW of Cranborne, and 6 N by E of Sturminster r. station.

It includes the hamlet of Manswood; and its post town is Long-Critchell, under Salisbury. Acres, 1,705. Real property, £2,084. Pop., 342. Houses. 67. The property is all in one estate. Critchell-Moore House is the seat of H. Sturt, Esq.

The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Long Critchell, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £371. Patron, H. Sturt, Esq. The church has monuments of the Uredales and others; and is good.

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.

CREW, Benjamin, of Moor Critchill, co. Dorset, husbandman, & Elizabeth Fry, 23 June, 1717. 

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Dorset, Critchell Moore – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts of Critchell Moore., 1731-1879.
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Critchell-Moore (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Critchell Moore, 1620-1958
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Critchell Moore (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

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.

CRITCHELL

Henry Gerard Sturt, M.P. for Dorset
Charles Percival Phinn, B.A., rector of Moor Critchell with Long Critchell
Charles Kail, yeoman, churchwarden
James Rossiter, yeoman
Edward Rossiter, yeoman
Henry Butler, farmer

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.

Administration

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