Stourton Caundle Dorset Family History Guide

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Stourton Caundle is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Alternative names: Caundle Haddon, Caundle Stourton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1670
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Independent/Congregational, and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CAUNDLE-STOURTON, a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset; 3½ miles SE of Milborne-Port r. station, and 4½ WNW of Sturminstor. Post Town, Stalbridge, under Blandford. Acres, 1,975. Real property, with Lydlinch, Wake, and Stock-Gaylard, £8,445. Pop., 395. Houses, 94. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £48. Patron, Sir H. A. Hoare, Bart. The church is ancient, and has a tower. Bishop Mew was a native.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CAUNDLE-STOURTON, a parish, in the union of Sturminster, hundred of Brownshall, Sturminster division of Dorset, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stalbridge; containing 394 inhabitants. It comprises by measurement 1962 acres: stone of good quality for building is quarried. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £50; patron and impropriator, Sir H. R. Hoare, whose tithes have been commuted for £21.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Dorset, Caundle Stourton – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for CaundleStourton, 1731-1879
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of CaundleStourton (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Caundle Stourton, 1670-1993
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of CaundleStourton (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

England, Dorset, Caundle Stourton – Manors ( 1 )
Estate survey in Stourton, Wiltshire, 1709-1754
Author: Manor of Stourton (Wiltshire)

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: Brownshall
  • Province: Canterbury