Okeford Fitzpaine Dorset Family History Guide

Okeford Fitzpaine is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names: Fipenny

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1592
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Turnworth
• Ibberton
• Childe Okeford
• Fifehead Neville
• Sturminster Newton
• Manston
• Shillingstone
• Belchalwell
• Hammoon

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OKEFORD-FITZPAINE, a village and a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset. The village stands 1½ mile WSW of the river Stour and of Shillingstone r. station, and 6 NW of Blandford-Forum; is sometimes called Fipenny; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Blandford.

The parish comprises 2, 633 acres. Real property, with Shillingstone, £7, 311. Pop. of O.-F. alone, 685; Houses, 153. The manor belonged formerly to the Nicholes and the Fitz-Paynes, and belongs now to Lord Rivers. A circular single-trenched camp is on Bunbury Hill, 1½ mile N W of the village; and several British coins were found there in 1753. Bricks are made.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £491. Patron, Lord Rivers. The church is decorated English; and partly restored, partly rebuilt, in 1866; and comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with N porch and W tower. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and poors land yielding £10 a year.

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.

HARVEY, Ambrose, of Gosport, b., & Ann White, of Okeford – Fitzpaine, co. Dorset, sp., at Portsea, 19 May, 1732.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Dorset, Okeford Fitzpaine – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for Okeford Fitzpaine, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Where elm trees grew : Fiddleford in Dorset
Author: Hall, Olive A.

England, Dorset, Okeford Fitzpaine – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Okeford Fitzpaine., 1731-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Okeford Fitzpaine (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1764-1920
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Okeford-Fitzpaine (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Okeford-Fitzpaine, 1592-1983
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Okeford-Fitzpaine (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Okeford-Fitzpaine – History ( 1 )
A-Z of Dorset–Okeford Fitzpaine
Author: Buck, Anne

England, Dorset, Okeford-Fitzpaine – Land and property ( 1 )
Poor rates, 1839-1844, 1861-1865, 1871-1874, 1883-1887, 1889
Author: Okeford-Fitzpaine (Dorset)

England, Dorset, Okeford-Fitzpaine – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor rates, 1839-1844, 1861-1865, 1871-1874, 1883-1887, 1889
Author: Okeford-Fitzpaine (Dorset)

England, Dorset, Okeford-Fitzpaine – Taxation ( 1 )
Poor rates, 1839-1844, 1861-1865, 1871-1874, 1883-1887, 1889
Author: Okeford-Fitzpaine (Dorset)

Administration

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