Dorsington, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Dorsington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire. Dorsington was transferred to Warwickshire in 1931. Dorsington Ancient Parish was abolished in 1964 with the creation of Pebworth with Dorsington Ecclesiastical Parish.

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin: 1593

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Welford
• Marston Sicca
• Pebworth

Dorsington Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Dorsington, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1599-1812

Dorsington, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1891

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Dorsington, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1870

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Dorsington, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1871

Parish History

Dorsington 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].

Dorsington 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

Poll Book 1834, Eastern Division Gloucestershire The Poll at the Election of a Knight of The Shire to serve in Parliament for the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucestershire taken August 11th and 12th 1834 before Harry Edmund Waller, Esquire, High Sheriff. Candidate Christopher William Codrington, Esquire, and Charles Hanbury Tracy Leigh, Esquire. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

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

Dorsington Directory Transcriptions

Dorsington Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

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