Sturminster Newton Dorset Family History Guide

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Sturminster Newton, also known as Sturminster Newton Castle and Bagber, is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Bagbere, Newton, and Bagber.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1681
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

The Cross, Sturminster Newton, Dorset
The Cross, Sturminster Newton, Dorset

Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Sturminster Newton. The index includes information from Calendar of Sussex Marriage Licences Recorded in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes August 1670 to March 1728-9 and in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

Marriage Allegations

Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

BARNS, William, of Sturminster, co. Dorset, barber, & Mary Foddergil [ ? Fothergill ], of Milford, w., 18 Aug., 1715. Daniel Gates, of M., gent., bondsman.

HORDLE, Harry, of Sturminster, co. Dorset, shoemaker, & Mary Read, of Holdenhurst, sp., at Ellingham, 9 Nov., 1730.

Calendar of Sussex Marriage Licences Recorded in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes August 1670 to March 1728-9

1701 Sept. 16 Thomas RANDOLL of Stormaster Newton Castle, co. Dorset, bachelor, & Elizabeth TYLER of Alfriston, maiden (All Saints, Lewes).

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STURMINSTER-NEWTON, a small town, a parish, and a hundred, in Dorset. The town stands on the river Stour, and on the Dorset and Somerset railway, 8½ miles NW of Blandford.

It dates from very early times; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office under Blandford, a r. station, two banking offices, two chief inns, a market house, remains of a castle and a market cross, a six-arched bridge, a church rebuilt in 1827, two dissenting chapels, a literary institution, national schools, a workhouse, charities £21, a weekly market on Thursday, and fairs on 12 May and 24 Oct.

The parish comprises 4,229 acres, and is in Sturminster district. Real property, with Hinton-St. Mary and Bagber, £13,205. Pop., 1,880. Houses, 410. The manor was given by Alfred to his son Ethelwald; passed to Glastonbury abbey, and to Queen Catherine Parr; and was given, by Elizabeth, to the Hattons.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £712. Patron, Lord Rivers.- The hundred contains 5 parishes; and is chiefly in Sturminster division, but partly in Shaston div. Acres, 12.120. Pop. in 1851, 4,462. Houses, 948.

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

Historical Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

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