Sturminster Marshall, Dorset Genealogy

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Sturminster Marshall

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

Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
Type	Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Cogdean
County	Dorset
Poor Law Union	Wimborne and Cranborne
Registration District	Wimborne
Records begin
Parish registers: 1562
Bishop's Transcripts: 1813
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Whitchurch
Diocese	Salisbury
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Peculiar of Sturminster Marshall
Location of Archive
Dorset Record Office

Parish History

STURMINSTER-MARSHALL (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wimborne and Cranborne, hundred of Cogdean, Wimborne division of Dorset, 5 miles (W.) from Wimborne-Minster; containing, with the chapelries of Lytchett-Minster, Corfe-Mullen, and Hamworthy. Each of the three chapelries contains a chapel of ease.

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

Sturminster Marshall parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FS PRs = England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001 (FamilySearch) - free

FS = FamilySearch - free

FREG = FreeREG - free

OPC = Dorset Online Parish Clerks - free

ANC 1 = Dorset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 (Ancestry) - ($)

ANC 2 = Dorset, England, Church of England Records (Ancestry) - ($)

FMP = Dorset Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (FindMyPast) - ($)

MyH PRs = England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-1936 (MyHeritage) - ($)

TGEN = Dorset Parish Records (TheGenealogist) - ($)

IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free

FS Catalog PRs = FamilySearch Catalog Parish registers - free

FS Catalog BTs = FamilySearch Catalog Bishop's transcripts - free

Sturminster Marshall Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FS PRs	1538-2001		1538-2001		1538-2001
FS	1538-1975		1538-1973		1538-1991
FREG	1561-1599, 1690-1812		1561-1649, 1690-1812		1678-1812
OPC	1563-1880		1563-1812		1563-1812
ANC 1	1538-1812		1538-1812		1538-1812
ANC 2	1813-1906		1813-1921		1813-2010
FMP	1695-1837		1562-1836		1746-1812
MyH PRs	1538-1936		1538-1936		1538-1936
TGEN	1831-1842				1580-1854
IGI
FS Catalog PRs
FS Catalog BTs

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

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
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