Dorsington, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Dorsington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin: 1593

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Welford
• Marston Sicca
• Pebworth

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DORSINGTON, a village and a parish in the district of Stratford-on-Avon, and county of Gloucester. The village stands near the river Avon, and near the boundary with Worcester and Warwick, 2¾ miles W of Milcote r. station, and 4½ SW of Stratford-on-Avon. It was nearly all burned in 1754.

The parish comprises 910 acres. Post town, Long Marston, under Stratford-on-Avon. Real property, £1,282. Pop., 118. Houses, 25. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £199. Patron, J. Harward, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1758.

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

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Dorsington (St. Peter), a parish in the union of Stratford-on-Avon, Upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, E. division of the county of Gloucester. 6 miles (S. W.) from Stratford; containing 141 inhabitants.

The manor, which is of great antiquity, was held at the Domesday survey by Royer de Belmont, from whom it descended to his eldest son, afterwards Earl of Warwick. The parish comprises about 1200 acres, chiefly arable; the soil is stiff clay; the surface is generally level, and a spring of remarkably pure water, called Udwell, supplies the whole of the district.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £12. 19. 2.; net income, £199; patrons, E. H. Fielden and Wm. Lawrance, Esqrs. The tithes were commuted for land in 1776; the glebe comprises 230 aces, valued at £199 per annum. The church was burnt down in 1754 by an accidental fire, which also destroyed the greater part of the village, and was rebuilt of brick, with a small square tower: the chancel has a modern painted window, presented by the Rev. R. Lawrance, the rector, who has also repaired the glebe house.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

Poll Books

Transcriptions

Poll Book 1834, Dorsington

Below are the names of those that voted in the election of August 1834 between Christopher William Codrington, Esquire, and Charles Hanbury Tracy Leigh, Esquire.

Poll Book of the Election, August 1834 for the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucester.

Campden Polling District

Dorsington Parish

Name	Residence
Hodges James	Bragginton
Hodges John	Mastow Green Evesham
Hodges Richard	Dorsington
Sansom John	Dorsington
Westcomb T. Samuel	Dunnington Warwickshire

Parish Registers

Marriages at Dorsington 1602 to 1812

Note. – The first volume is of parchment, and contains the marriage entries (mixed) with baptisms and burials, from 1602 to 1754, and the second one, of paper, those from 1754 to 1812. These have been copied by the Rev. J. Harvey Bloom, by permission of the Rev. W. L. Smith, M.A., late Rector, and are now printed under his supervision.

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. III. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 36, Essex Street, Strand, London. 1898.

Marriages at Dorsington 1602-1812 – UK Genealogy Archives

Transcriptions

Dorsington Marriages 1756 to 1812

Volume II (1756 to 1804)

George Milward & Ann Hemming, 26 June 1756

Robert Woodward & Eleanor Days, 25 Sept. 1760

John Knight & Alice Hadland, 19 Oct. 1760

Thomas Gloucester & Eliz. Clemenger, 13 May 1761

John Holtham & Mary Osborne, w., lic., 18 Feb. 1765

Thos. Gibbs, of Welford, & Mary Brain, lic., 11 July 1765

Wm. Osborn & Betty Yeates, lic., 1767

Thos. Morgan, of Clifford, & Anne Millard, lic., 1769

Wm. Harris & Anne Paddock, 1769

Edward Lightfoot, of Hansworth, co. Stafford, & Esther Haines, lic., 23 Apr. 1770

Joseph Steward, of Feckenham, co. Worc., & Anne Gloucester, 7 June 1773

Richard Dennis & Eliz. Wollerson, 21 June 1773

John Wimblett & Mary Darby, 9 Jan. 1774

John Tandy & Hannah Goode, 16 Oct. 1775

John Hopkins, of Arrow, co. War. & Sarah Heming, lic., 15 Oct. 1775

Wm. Ainge, of Child’s Wicken [sic], & Anne Payton, 25 Nov. 1775

Caesar Kings & Anne Reade, 1778

Thomas Huxley and Mary Heritage, 6 Sept. 1778

Samuel Gibbes, of Orston-Candle, co. War., & Eliz. Heming, lic., 29 Sept. 1778

Thomas Harborn & Mary Cooper, 9 Apr. 1780

George Mills & Eliz. Church, 11 Oct. 1780

Francis Chursley, of Pebworth, & Jane Showell, 13 Oct. 1784

Thos. Harris & Mary Ainge, 21 Oct. 1784

William Dyer & Sarah Goff, lic., 12 Oct. 1785

John Davis & Rebecca Harwood, 22 Mar. 1789

John Smith & Mary King, 6 Oct. 1792

John Cleminger & Eliz. Kite, (after the 16th)* Feb. 1793

Wm. Davis & Elizabeth Skellit, 27 Nov. 1794

Wm. Ellis, w., & Sarah Heath, w., lic., 21 June 1802

Thos. Clemens, w., & Ann Kite, (after June 13)* 1802

Wm. Harris & Elizabeth Yates, (after Sept. 12)* 1803

Joseph Fletcher & Eliz. Hands, lic., 3 Dec. 1803

Thos. Kite & Mary Roberts, 13 Oct. 1804

John Gun & Sarah Richardson, 28 Oct. 1804

John Field, of Haselor, co. War., & Sarah Hands, lic., 25 Dec. 1804

* The last date of publication of Banns.

[End of Vol. II]

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol III. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 36, Essex Street, Strand, London. 1898.

Dorsington Marriages 1602 to 1754

Thomas Rutter & Margerie Ladbrooke, 25 Feb. 1602

William Bowyne & Elizabeth Cartwright, 18 Sept. 1603

Thomas Baylis & Joane Nichols, 5 Nov. 1607

Giles Bathoe & Ann Hickes, 28 Sept. 1609

Henry Meddows & Joane Dane, 9 May 1634

Henry Chamberlaine & Joane Bradshawe, 29 Sept. 1634

Richard Gregg & Francis Mills, 6 July 1636

William Jackson & Merioll Rutter, 25 Nov. 1640

John Butler & Sarah Kinman, 26 Sept. 1673

Edward Freeman & Anne Clifton, 6 Oct. 1674

Wm. Roggers, alias Hamson, & Mary Canning, 3 May 1675

John Darke & Anne Webb, 27 Oct. 1677

Thos. Horne & Anne Neville, 30 Sept. 1680

Francis Handy & Alice Vernon, 16 June 1680

Thomas Hemming & Dorothy Collett, 21 Oct. 1680

John Payn & Sarah Varney, 27 Sept. 1685

William Knight & Margaret Alexander, alias Weaver, 1 June 1687

Thos. Collet & Susanna Roberts, 12 July 1687

John Cooper & Alice Handy, 15 June 1690

Rich. Bosely & Sarah Bickerstaffe, 14 Dec. 1690

Anthony Goodwyn, alias Clarke, & Eliz. Hemming, 9 Jan. 1692

Thomas Phillips & Elizabeth Slatter, 17 Apr. 1693

Richard Goodwyn & Jane Milward, 12 Aug. 1693

Richard Hemmings & Mary Goodwyn, 26 Nov. 1695

Thomas Hemmings & Mary Hastings, 9 June 1696

Richard Hemmings & Elizabeth Mealings, 5 Oct. 1696

Richard Slatter & Anne Nichols, 9 Nov. 1698

Thomas Howes & Elizabeth Martin, 23 Feb. 1701

Samuel Hemmings & Martha Chamberlaine, 8 May 1701

Joseph Campden & Anne Hobbins, 23 Oct. 1701

William Blundel & Elizabeth White, 21 May 1702

John Cooper & Mary Jones, 29 Sept. 1703

John Cleminger & Anne Ingles, 9 Apr. 1705

Wm. Mealinge & Elizabeth Burston, 3 June 1705

Zachary Lane & Elizabeth Durham, 14 Oct. 1705

Mr. John Gilsthorpe & Mrs. Alice Yeate, 10 Oct. 1706

Thomas Snedwell & Sarah Hemming, 12 Feb. 1707

Edward Oakley & Mary Cambden, 15 Apr. 1708

Wm. Harrison & Anne Woodward, 24 May 1708

John Jones & Elizabeth Hobbins, 15 Aug. 1709

William Milward & Sarah Snedwell, 14 Feb. 1709

Thos. Morris & Elizabeth Mealing, 5 Dec. 1713

Charles Quiney & Ann Price, 18 May 1714

Wm. Ainge & Mary Shakle, 23 Sept. 1714

Samuel Smith & Alice Cooper, 22 Oct. 1716

John Goodwin & Mary Rose, 7 Nov. 1716

Francis Heming & Eliz. Mealing, 30 Nov. 1716

Piercey Phips & Mary Pasten, 7 May 1723

Thomas Claxton & Anne Martin, 23 Apr. 1724

The Rev. Mr. Milward & Mrs. Anne Paston, 7 Oct. 1724

John Bolton & Mary Cooper, 27 Dec. 1724

Thos. Cooper & Eliz. Rushall, 18 Oct. 1726

Wm. Harfand & Mary Simonds, 9 July 1727

Robert Frogley & Rachel Bub, 26 Feb. 1730

Richard Cocks & Mary Sanson, 22 Oct. 1732

George Richardson & Mary Cambden, 26 Dec. 1733

Thomas Barnet & Mary Rogers, 29 Sept. 1734

William Wilden & Anne Richardson, 24 Dec. 1734

John Cleminger & Elizabeth Freeman, 28 Sept. 1735

Thos. Tims & Ann Cleminger, 23 Nov. 1735

Wm. Rogers, alias Harrison, & Ann Welles, 29 May 1737

Mathew Leyton & Jane Hicock, both of Temple Grafton, 2 Oct. 1739

Wm. Rogers, alias Harrison, junior, & Katherine Slade, 21 Dec. 1739

John Weston & Sarah Morris, 24 Sept. 1742

John Webb & Elizabeth Ainge, both of Long Marston, 7 Apr. 1743

Thos. Wimlett & Sarah Jobsons, 4 Nov. 1744

Sam. Sheldon & Mary Weston, both of Long Marston, 27 Dec. 1744

John Day & Anne Whitford, both of Long Marston, 15 Dec. 1746

Wm. Churchley & Elizabeth Hadden, 29 June 1747

Caesar Kings & Sarah Copestick, 10 Feb. 1747

Thomas Young & Mary Denis, 13 Feb. 1754

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. III. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 36, Essex Street, Strand, London. 1898.

Directories

Dorsington Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856

Dorsington is a township, village, and parish, 4 miles from Honeybourne station, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line of railway, 6 miles from Broadway, 26 from Gloucester, and 6 from Campden, in the upper division of the Hundred of Kiftsgate, bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol, and Union of Stratford-on-Avon. The church is a small brick building, rebuilt in 1754, the old church having been destroyed by fire, having a tower, aisle, nave and 2 bells. The living is a rectory, of the value of £300 per year; the Rev. Richard Barber is the present incumbent. The acreage contained in the parish is 933 acres, and the rateable value £1,048. The population, in 1851, was 115.
Bragginton is a farm.

Barber Rev. Richard, M.A., Rectory

Hodges Mrs. Elizabeth

Traders
Farr Charles, blacksmith
Hodges John, farmer, Bragginton
Hopkins Richard Nicholls, farmer
Sheaf Henry, farmer
Taplin Edward, shopkeeper

Letters are received through Long Marston. The nearest money order office is at Campden.

Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol.  Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856.

Administration

• County: Gloucestershire
• Civil Registration District: Stratford on Avon
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
• Rural Deanery: Campden
• Poor Law Union: Stratford on Avon
• Hundred: Kiftsgate
• Province: Canterbury