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Affpuddle, Dorset
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St Laurence's Church, Affpuddle
Type Civil parish
Ecclesiastical parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Hundredsbarrow
County Dorset
Poor Law Union Wareham & Purbeck PLU
Registration District Wareham
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Whitchurch
Diocese Salisbury
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
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Parish History

AFF-PUDDLE, a parish in Wareham district, Dorset; on the river Piddle, 4 miles N of Moreton r. station and 8 ENE of Dorchester. It contains the hamlet of Pallington and the tything of Bryants-Puddle.[1]

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records

Online Affpuddle, Dorset Parish Register Images and Indexes
 
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Earliest
1720
1720
1705
Images
1720-1819 Ancestry baptisms, marriages, and burials[2]
1813-1879 Ancestry[3] 1813-1909 Ancestry[4] 1813-1939 Ancestry[5]
Indexes 1728-1850 FindMyPast[6] 1731-1837 FindMyPast[7] 1705-1970 FindMyPast[8]
1731-1880 OnlineParishClerks 1736-1837 Joiner[9] 1722-1837 FindMyPast[10]
1736-1849 OnlineParishClerks 1731-1880 OnlineParishClerks

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records

Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 241336. To view these census images online, they are available through the following websites for a fee ($) or free:

  • FamilySearch has some of the British Censuses available.
  • FindMyPast ($) has all available census records including images, and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and some public and academic libraries.
  • Ancestry.co.uk ($) has now all available census records but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and at numerous public and academic libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com.
  • The Genealogist.co.uk ($) has all available censuses and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
  • FreeCen is a UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.


Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Dorset Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Web sites

References

  1. ↑ Wilson, John M., Affpuddle Dorset, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, publ. London and Edinburgh: 1870-72;
  2. ↑ Dorset, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, courtesy: Ancestry ($). Partially indexed.
  3. ↑ Dorset, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, courtesy: Ancestry ($). Partially indexed.
  4. ↑ Dorset, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921, courtesy: Ancestry ($). Partially indexed.
  5. ↑ Dorset, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-2001, courtesy: Ancestry ($). Partially indexed.
  6. ↑ 'Dorset Baptism Index,' Find My Past, accessed 21 May 2012.
  7. ↑ 'Dorset Marriages,' Find My Past, accessed 21 May 2012.
  8. ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage,' Find My Past, accessed 11 April 2012. For a breakdown of missing years, see 'National Burial Index - Coverage: Dorset,' Federation of Family History Societies, accessed 23 April 2012.
  9. ↑ 'Search Marriage Records in Dorset,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 21 May 2012.
  10. ↑ 'Dorset Burial Index,' Find My Past, accessed 21 May 2012.
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