Wareham, Dorset Genealogy

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

Parish History
Wareham, market town, Dorset, between the River Piddle and the River Frome, near their influx to a creek of Poole harbour, 15 miles E of Dorchester and 123½ miles SW of London. The town comprises parts of the parishes of Wareham Holy Trinity, Wareham Lady St Mary, and Wareham St Martin. .

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
BIVRI includes baptisms from Wareham St Martin 1731-1824, Wareham St Mary 1731-1880, and Wareham Holy Trinity 1731-1824.

Wareham Lady St Mary parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Wareham St Martin parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Wareham Holy Trinity parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain