Axminster, Dorset Genealogy

England Dorset  Dorset Parishes  Axminster

Guide to Axminster, Dorset family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Axminster, parish and market town, in the above hundred. Axminister is an ancient parish partly in Devon and partly in Dorset, and is on the river Axe, 25 miles NE. of Exeter and 144 miles SW. of London by rail.

Church Records
Abstracts of bishop's transcripts (1606-1636) are online at Internet Archive - free.

Abstracts of bishop's transcripts (1634-1635) are online at Internet Archive - free.