West Stafford Dorset Family History Guide
West Stafford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Frome Billett.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1731
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STAFFORD (West), a parish, with a village, in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the Southampton and Dorchester railway, 2 ¼ miles S by E of Dorchester. It has a post-office under Dorchester. Acres, 984. Real property, £2,205. Pop., 220. Houses, 44. S. House was the seat of the Goulds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £303. Patron, Mrs. E. Floyer. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Directors of Companies
The following people were listed in the Directory of Directors 1881 as directors of companies who were either living in West Stafford or the company was based in West Stafford or both.
Floyer – Mr John Floyer, M.P., 5 Old Palace yard, S.W., and West Stafford, Dorsetshire, is a director of the University Life Assurance Society
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Dorchester
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: Culliford Tree
- Province: Canterbury