Tolpuddle, Dorset Family History Guide

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Tolpuddle is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.

Other places in the parish include: Park and Southover.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1718
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1732

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Tolpuddle Dorset Main Street
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TOLPUDDLE, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Dorchester district, Dorset; 3¾ miles N by E of Moreton r. station, and 7 ENE of Dorchester. Post town, Dorchester. Acres, 2,039. Real property, £2,726. Pop., 401 Houses, 80. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £240. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The chancel of the church was rebuilt in 1840.

There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

TOLPUDDLE, a parish, in the union of Dorchester, hundred of Piddletown, Dorchester division of Dorset, 7 miles (E. N. E.) from Dorchester; containing 368 inhabitants.

The parish comprises 1856 acres, of which 169 are common or waste; the soil is chalky.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £15. 7. 3½.; net income, £240; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford, whose tithes have been commuted for £400, and who have a glebe of 10 acres. The church is a small ancient fabric, built of rubble.

There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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.

HAMMET, Henry, of Tolpuddle, co. Dorset, 30, b., & Mary Ruffle, of Winnall, 22, sp., at W., 4 Sep., 1834. Aff.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Tolpuddle, 1841-1891

Church Records

Bishop’s transcripts for Tolpuddle., 1732-1880 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tolpuddle (Dorsetshire)

Churchwardens’ accounts, 1776-1916 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tolpuddle (Dorsetshire)

Parish registers for Tolpuddle, 1718-1994 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Tolpuddle (Dorsetshire); Dorset Record Office

History

The Book of the martyrs of Tolpuddle, 1834-1934 : the story of the Dorsetshire labourers who were convicted and sentenced to seven years’ transportation for forming a trade union

Pidela : an account of the village of Tolpuddle, Dorset, from early times Author: Wirdnam, Audrey

Administration

  • County: Dorset
  • Civil Registration District: Dorchester
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
  • Diocese: Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
  • Poor Law Union: Dorchester
  • Hundred: Puddletown
  • Province: Canterbury