Winterbourne Anderson Dorset Family History Guide
ANDERSON (or WINTERBORNE ANDERSTONE) is a parish in the North Blandford petty sessional division, hundred of Coombs-Ditch, Blandford union and county court district, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of Dorset and rural deanery of Whitchurch second portion, 6 miles from Blandford and 4 south west from Sturminster Marshall station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, watered by the Winterbourne1.
Alternative names: Anderson, Anderstone, Anderstone Winterbourne, Winterborne Anderstone, Vifhache, Five Ash.
Parish church: St Michael
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1757
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include: PresbyterianÂ
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ANDERSON, or Anderstone-Winterbourne, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; on an affluent of the river Stour, 7 miles S of Blandford, and 7 WNW of Poole Junction r. station. Post Town, Winterbourne Kingston under Blandford. Acres, 570. Real property, £1,149. Pop., 62. Houses, 12. The chief residence is Anderson House. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £146. Patron, St. B. Tregonwell.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
Protestation Returns for Winterbourne Anderson
Note: Spelling is as in the original.
B.L. I.— Anderston Fiveasshe
A trew list of the names of every man in Anderston Fiveasshe of the age of eighteene yeares and upward, All and every of which according to order given to the minister and churchwardens of the same pish have taken the ptestation Feb. 23 and 27. 1641.
John Tregunwell, Esq.
Edmund Galton
Richard Speare
Robert Speare, collector
Thomas Thomas
Edward Moulan
Willia Gaoler
Thomas Spinney
James Highmore
Thomas Mullens
Richard Hawson
Thomas Talbot
Willia Freeland
George Fabin
Edward Howard
Thomas Murray
Willia Aman
George Ford
Samuel Highmore, Rect.
John Payne, thelder, Church Warden
Richard Cole, Church Warden
Thomas Whittie collector took the same ptestation at Blandford before Sir Francis Fulford Kt. Feb 18 1641.
So that in the parish of Anderston Fiveassh none hath refused.
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ANDERSON (or WINTERBORNE ANDERSTONE) is a parish in the North Blandford petty sessional division, hundred of Coombs-Ditch, Blandford union and county court district, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of Dorset and rural deanery of Whitchurch second portion, 6 miles from Blandford and 4 south west from Sturminster Marshall station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, watered by the Winterbourne.
The church of St Michael is a small edifice, without either tower or spire; but is now closed having fallen into decay. The register dates from the year 1650. The living is a rectory in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, tithes commuted for £120 yearly, with 4 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of John Tregonwell esq. and held by the Rev Thomas Hammond House M.A. of Worcester College Oxford. John Tregonwell esq. is lord of the manor and principal land owner. The soil is gravel; subsoil chalk. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 570 acres; rateable value £62;9 the population in 1871 was 80.
Parish Clerk, Robert Toomer
Letters through Blandford. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bere Regis.
House Rev. Thos. Hammond M.A. [rector]
House Edward farmer
Source: Kelly’s directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire (the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands). By Kelly’s directories, ltd · 1880
Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Blandford
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
- Diocese: Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Whitchurch
- Poor Law Union: Blandford
- Hundred: Coombs Ditch
- Province: Canterbury
1. Kelly’s directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire (the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands). By Kelly’s directories, ltd · 1880