Tarrant Monkton with Tarrant Launceston, Dorset Family History Guide
Tarrant Monkton with Tarrant Launceston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Tarrant Launceston.
Alternative names: Tarrant Monckton, Tarrant Monkton
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1564
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Winterbourne Clenstone
- Charlton Marshall
- Tarrant Rushton
- Long Crichel
- Tarrant Rawston
- Blandford St Mary
- Pimperne
- Tarrant Hinton
- Winterbourne Whitchurch
- Langton Long
- Moor Crichel
Parish History
Tarrant Monkton
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TARRANT-MONCKTON, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; 4 miles NE by E of Blandford r. station. Post town, Blandford. Real property, £1,594. Pop., 243. Houses, 55. The living is a vicarage, united with T.-L., in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £120. Patron, J. J. Farquharson, Esq.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
MONCKTON, TARRANT (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Monckton-up-Wimborne, Wimborne division of Dorset, 4¼ miles (E. N. E.) from Blandford; containing 246 inhabitants. This place derived its name from a monastic establishment which existed here, and the adjunct denotes its situation on the river Tarrant. The parish is in a valley; the soil is light and chalky, and the chief agricultural produce is wheat, barley, and turnips. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Tarrant-Launceston annexed, valued in the king’s books at £17. 16. 8.; net income, £55; patron and impropriator, J. J. Farquharson, Esq., whose tithes have been commuted for £500, and who has a glebe of 56 acres. There are 2½ acres of vicarial glebe.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Tarrant Launceston
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TARRANT-LAUNCESTON, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; 4 miles NE of Blandford r. station. Post town, Blandford. Acres, with T.-Monckton, 3,818. Real property of T.-L. alone, £1,188. Pop., 107. Houses, 20. The living is annexed to T.-Monckton.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
TARRANT-LAUNCESTON, a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Pimperne, Blandford division of Dorset, 5¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from the town of Blandford; containing 123 inhabitants. The parish comprises, with Tarrant-Monckton, 3818 acres, of which 119 are common or waste land. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Tarrant-Monckton.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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.
Birt, George, of Tarrant-Monkton, co. Dorset, yeoman, 24, b., & Mary Brixey, of Ringwood, 24, sp., at R., 6 June, 1777.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Tarrant Monckton, 1841-1891
Census returns for Tarrant Launceston, 1841-1891
Church Records
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Miscellaneous civil records, 1797-1832 Author: Tarrant-Monckton (Dorset)
Public records
Miscellaneous civil records, 1797-1832 Author: Tarrant-Monckton (Dorset)
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Blandford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Pimperne
- Poor Law Union: Blandford
- Hundred: Monkton up Wimborne; Pimperne
- Province: Canterbury