Donhead St Mary with Charlton, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Donhead St Mary with Charlton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.

Other places in the parish include: Heystone, Ashgrove, Charlton, Dognal, Dognol, Haystone, and Ludwell.

Alternative names: Donhead St Mary, St Mary Donhead

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1678
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622

Nonconformists include: Christians, Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Melbury Abbas, Dorset
• Motcombe, Dorset
• Semley
• Tollard Royal
• Shaftesbury Holy Trinity, Dorset
• Berwick St John
• Donhead St Andrew
• Ashmore, Dorset
• Shaftesbury St Rumbold, Dorset

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DONHEAD-ST. MARY, a village and a parish in Tisbury district, Wilts.

The village stands on the river Nadder, ½ a mile NE of Donhead-St. Andrew village, and 1¾ SE of Semley r. station.

The parish includes also the tythings of Charlton, Dognol, and Haystone; and its post town is Donhead-St. Andrew, under Salisbury. Acres, 5,247. Rated property, £5,611. Pop., 1,482. Houses, 330. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Charlton, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £928. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is old but good, and has a pinnacled tower.

There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

Details	Place of Marriage
James Hascolle & An Farneham, both p. Dunhead, market daies 20 Jan. 1656/7	Mere

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Donhead-St. Mary, 1841-1891

Church Records

Baptisms, 1843-1932 Author: Shaftesbury and Gillingham Circuit (Wesleyan Methodist)

Births and baptisms, 1800-1837 Author: Bird Bush Chapel (Donhead-St. Mary, Wiltshire : Independent)

Bishop’s transcripts for Donhead-St. Mary, 1622-1880 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Donhead-St. Mary (Wiltshire)

Parish registers for Donhead-St. Mary, 1678-1970 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Donhead-St. Mary (Wiltshire)

Parish register printouts of Donhead-St. Mary, Wiltshire, England (Independent, Bird Bush Chapel) ; christenings, 1800-1837 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Taxation

Land tax assessments in Donhead-St. Mary, Wiltshire 1780-1876 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Wiltshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Wiltshire
• Civil Registration District: Tisbury
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
• Diocese: Salisbury
• Rural Deanery: Chalke
• Poor Law Union: Tisbury
• Hundred: Dunworth
• Province: Canterbury