Dorchester & Fordington Updates
made since January 2018

November 2024 (50 Records added this month)

19th - 1757 Map of Encampment near Dorcheste, added to Maps added to Maps Section

16th - History of Top O’ Town House Dorchester / West Fordington, by Richard Smith

15th - Fordington Manor - 1565 Inquiry into the conduct of the Steward of Fordington Manor, Thomas Carewe Transcribed by Peta Winzar (Note:- Important document as it predates the start of parish registers with 5 images of the original document - nine witnesses to the inquiry gave their ages, allowing us to calculate their year of birth, and seventeen others are mentioned by the witnesses).

13th - 17th - Will and Inventory of Robert TAPP - 1582 Husbandman of Fordington (with images and background to the family - Wife Alice & 6 children)

12th - Update to The BARNES Family (1500-1660) Tenant Farmers in Fordington (To include research showing John BARNES I (d.1567) was born ~1512)

11th - Update to Biography of HUNT Family of Fordington & Dorchester from 1587 (To include research showing Ambrose HUNT I (d.1587) was born ~1512)

10th - Further update to Biography of Captain Anthony EAMES (1595-1661/2) Churchwarden & Constable of Fordington (Now includes research proving Anthony Eames grandparents were John and Joan EAMES and that John EAMES was born ~1512)

9th - Will of William STEPHENSON (1792-1848) , Clock and Watchmaker of Dorchester (with picture of one of his long case clocks)

October 2024 (480 Records added this month)

31st - Biography of Alfred POPE (1842-1934) Solicitor, Brewer, Alderman, Magistrate and Mayor of Dorchester in 1878 and 1886 (Also updated links with Eldridge Pope Brewery file)

29th - Dorset County Gaol at Dorchester - 2nd Prison Register 1809-1827 95 Records for Dorchester + 104 for Fordington [Note:- Transcribed Dorchester and Fordington residents only - in date order but with an Alphabetical Index with a link to the Register entry and an indication of year of birth where known , whether Dorchester or Fordington, marital status, and offence. Many entries linked to other information on the site]

26th - Postcards and Pictures of West Walks, Dorchester (With links to more information)

20th - Fordington Manor Survey- 1607 (Kindly transcribed by Helen M Ford - Lists 85 tenants - Remarks Column added by Mike Russell OPC - Comments and links to other surveys will be added over time )

17th - Update to Fordington - Church Officials (Now added Rev.R.G.Bartelot's listing of Church Wardens for St Georges Church from 1552)

17th - Fordington Manor Survey- 1650 West Mills (Survey of Messuages & Mills situate in the Parish of Holy Trinity Dorchester ats in the Parish of Fordington)

17th - Will of Richard BOON (BUNE) 1567 (Transcribed by Helen M Ford)

17th - Will of Henry HOWMAN (d.1588) of Portland (Transcribed by Helen M Ford - Linked to her research into the ancestry of Margery EAMES the wife of Anthony EAMES)

15th - Postcards and Pictures of South Walks, Dorchester [Further update 23rd Oct 2024 with another Postcard for 1896]

15th - History of West Walks and West Walk House, Dorchester by Richard Smith

14th - History of 'South Lodge' South Walks, Dorchester by Richard Smith

13th - Update to Will of Roger KETE [KEATE] Gentleman of Fordington - 1620 [Notes updated, and links added, with more information about his family and beneficiaries]

12th - Further update to Biography of Captain Anthony EAMES (1595-1661/2) Churchwarden & Constable of Fordington (General update to the text to take account of conclusions reached following receipt of the papers now attached as Annex A and Annex B)

12th - Will of John INGRAM ( d.1602/3) of Fordington - (Transcribed by Helen M Ford )

11th - Fordington Burials 1640-1663 (Burial records for this period have not survived but we know from Wills etc the names of 11 people so far who would have been buried at St Georges church during this period. This listing will be expanded over time but is designed to aid searching, give as accurate an estimate of when they died, and provide a link to any transcribed Wills etc.)

10th - Will of Henry HOWMAN the Elder ( d.1640) Yeoman of Fordington - (Transcribed by Helen M Ford )

10th - Update to Fordington Burials 1626-1639 (transcriptions improved, more links added)

10th - Update to Fordington Baptisms 1626-1639 (transcriptions improved, more links added)

9th - Update to Fordington Burials 1600-1625 (7 Images added for burial years 1614 to 1621, transcriptions improved, more links)

9th - Update to Fordington Baptisms 1600-1625 (7 Images added for baptism years 1614 to 1621, transcriptions improved, more links)

8th - Further update to Biography of Captain Anthony EAMES (1595-1661/2) Churchwarden & Constable of Fordington (Addition of Annex B a paper written and compiled by Helen M Ford dated Sep 2024 entitled "Margery, the wife of Anthony EAMES of Fordington and Plymouth Colony" Link to Summary - This includes a proposed Pedigree Chart)

September 2024 (52 Records added this month)

29th - A Long Lost Dorchester property - "Westfield House" in Cornwall Road by Richard Smith

22nd - A History of 'Culliford House' Icen Way, Dorchester by Richard SMITH

14th - Research Document - Pilgrims of Fordington - The ROSE Family (Thomas ROSE & Anne EAMES married Fordington 1618/19 - Pilgrims 1634?)

14th - Significant update to Biography of Captain Anthony EAMES (1595-1661/2) Churchwarden & Constable of Fordington (Changes include: Access to Paper by Michael D Pierce dated Aug 7th 2024 as Annex A: Change to Genealogical note 36 with research and change in the date of the sailing of the 'Recovery of London' from 31st Mar 1633 to 31st March 1634; An update to comments about Burials at Fordington for the year 1633 and addition of an actual image of the return; Access to a the newly transcribed Will of Richard BISHOP who was buried at Fordington in Nov 1633 together with Image of the Inventory of his goods which is signed by Anthony EAMES and dated 17th Dec 1633 proving he could not have sailed in March of that year and details of a study published in 1953 about the Port Books relating to Weymouth and confirming the sailing of the Recovery to be in 1634 not 1633. Acknowledgment of the research in America that the Abigail who married Charles Stockbridge was the daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Pierce and that there is no actual evidence of Anthony Eames having a daughter named Abigail)

13th - Update to Fordington Wills Index (1401-1955) (Lots more links to other records )

12th - Will and Inventory of Richard BISHOP (bur 1633) Husbandman of Fordington Added (Images with Transcriptions)

12th - Update to Fordington Burials 1626-1639 ( Image of the 1633 Composite Births, Marriages and Burials return added to the text and comments revised for this year)

11th - Addition of Appendix A to the Biography of Captain Anthony EAMES (1595-1661/2) Churchwarden & Constable of Fordington - Paper (written by Michael D Pierce) about Captain Michael Pierce of Scituate And Thomas Pierce of Charlestown.

11th - Update to Town Criers & Bill Posters of Dorchester   (Now contains an explanation of different roles of Court Criers, Town Criers and Church Bellringers in Dorchester)

10th - Update to Dorchester Poor Law - Bastardy Orders (This file now contains some images from All Saints Churchwarden accounts 1810-1828 (See updates below) relevant to fathers paying for maintenance of their base born children.)

9th - Update to All Saints Burials 1814-1837 (I have added details from the Churchwarden Accounts to 26 of the burials of the funeral expenses paid for by the churchwardens out of the poor rate.)

9th - Update to All Saints Baptisms 1813-1837 (I have added info from the Churchwarden Accounts which reveals the names of the fathers of 9 base born children, 7 baptised at All Saints Church, one at Holy Trinity and one where no baptism located).

26th - Dorset Court Criers (Compiled by Richard Smith)

24th - Trade Directory 1791 for Dorchester & Fordington (Provides the trade for 201 of the principal inhabitants of Dorchester and Fordington)

12th - Biography of Amyatt Ernie BROWN (1831-1901) (Also known as Capt Amyatt E.AMYATT) Chief Constable of Dorset

July 2024 (290 Records added this month)

30th - 'A History of Wollaston House' Acland Road Dorchester by Richard SMITH

26th - Update to Fordington Poor Law and Apprenticeship Records (2 Bastardy orders transcribed & added for year 1808 for Mary Fudge v James Stevens both of Fordington and Jane PEARCE of Tolpuddle v James MILFORD of Fordington- new total 106)

21st - Dorset County Gaol at Dorchester - Prison Register 1782-1808 43 Records for Dorchester + 72 for Fordington [Note:- Transcribed Dorchester and Fordington residents only - in date order but with an Alphabetical Index with a link to the Register entry and an indication of year of birth where known , whether Dorchester or Fordington, marital status, and offence. Many entries linked to other information on the site]

7th - Update to Poor Law Removal Orders  (new appeals added against a removal orders for the removal of (1) Alice WARREN widow of Richard WARREN, William her son, Mary his wife and their children from All St's Dorchester to Holwell Dorset with genealogical notes and links to other records & (2) Thomas BURT and his wife Mary and daughter Ann age abt 14 from Winfrith Newburgh to St Peter's in Dorchester (3) Jane COOMBS out of Wimborne Minster to St peters Dorchester )

6th - Update to Dorchester Church Officials File (Now also contains a complete list of Chaplains appointed to administer at the Dorset County Gaol and House of Correction in Dorchester from its inception in 1773 to 1929)

1st - Dorchester Prison: Admission Records 1868-1879 (where resident of Dorchester or Fordington) [Lists:- name, offence, parish, trade, age, description, marital status, number children, identification marks, Number times arrested] [Note:- 74 records for Dorchester and 95 records for Fordington]

June 2024 (229 Records added this month)

18th - Dorchester Prison: Admission Records 1858-1868 (where resident of Dorchester or Fordington) [Lists:- name, offence, parish, trade, age, description, marital status, number children, identification marks, Number times arrested] [Note:- 60 records for Dorchester and 137 records for Fordington]

2nd - Update to Town Criers & Bill Posters of Dorchester   [Note:- Information about Robert (Bob) WALKER who was Town Crier from 1978-1996 now added following research by Richard Smith.]

2nd - St Peters Dorchester Banns of Marriage 1896-1901 [Note:- Banns for St Peters Church only survive from 1896 (31 Records added) ]

May 2024 (620 Records added this month)

29th - Update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (127 marriages added, mainly in the 1890's - now totals 1,338 records)

29th - Update to Holy Trinity Dorchester  Marriage Banns 1853-1900 (51 records for the years 1896 to 1900 inc added - now totals 555 records)

24th - Update to All Saints Dorchester Marriage Banns 1825-1900 (File updated & extended to cover Banns for 1896-1900 inc- 37 Records added now totals 416 Records)

22nd - Update to St Peters Dorchester Baptisms 1851-1900, - (107 new baptisms added for years 1896 to 1900 inc)

20th - Update to Holy Trinity Baptisms 1851-1900 (129 new baptisms added for years 1896 to 1900 inc, now totals 1,724 records)

5th - Update to All Saints Baptisms 1851-1900 (84 new baptisms added for years 1896 to 1900 inc - now totals 980 records)

4th - Update to West Fordington Christchurch Banns of Marriage (85 Banns added --including information from their actual marriage -- for years 1896-1900 inclusive - total now 548 Banns. Note: As Christchurch was situated next to West Fordington Barracks many of the participants were soldiers who came from outside the Parish or married brides at Christchurch from surrounding parishes )

April 2024 (1,096 Records added this month)

28th -Update to Fordington Strays File (1577-1927) (37 marriages and have been added mainly in the 1890's, now totals 804 records)

28th - Update to Fordington St George  Marriage Banns 1852-1900 File extended from 1885 to 1900 inc - 126 records added for 1886 to 1900 (now has a total of 737 Records)

21st  - Update to Fordington Burials 1866-1900, (632 Burials added for the years 1896-1900 inc )

16th - Update to West Fordington Christ Church Baptisms 1881-1900 (278 new baptisms added for years 1896-1900 inc - now totals 1,205 baptisms)

12th - Complete Revision of Union Arms Inn at 8/9 Cuckold's Row (now Holloway Road) Fordington - 1839-1978 (Lot more information about 3 successive buildings on the same site and landlords since 1839)

9th - Fire 1841 Fordington - 2nd Sep 1841 - 23 Houses inc 'Ansty's bakehouse', and 'Union Arms Inn' destroyed (Links provided to 6th June1841 Census with names of the families affected)

February 2024 (97 Records added this month)

25th - Survey of the Manor of Fordington - Listing of Tenants -1600 (Access to an alphabetical listing of Tenants - now includes 78 links to wills, later surveys etc, burials where located have also been linked back to the survey)

22nd - Military Service Records - 1756-1900 (95 Records) A further 17 soldiers added to this listing that gave either Dorchester or Fordington as their place of Birth compiled from Records held by the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

14th - Inquisition of Hermitage - 1598 (Hermitage is a Tything within the Manor of Fordington - It names a number of people in Fordington serving as Reeve in previous years)

12th - Update to Biography of Thomas GRIGG (1857-1932) Photographic Artist of Dorchester (A great photograph taken by Thomas Grigg in 1905 of George Kail HENDERSON (1853-1926) and his wife Eliza Jane JESTY (1854-1929) has been added as Photograph 11b)

January 2024 (44 Records added this month)

29th - Will of William COSENS ( d.1587) Husbandman of Fordington - Relict Margaret - Administration by son Robert 1579

26th - Survey of the Manor of Fordington - 1650 - West Mills (Transcription kindly provided by Peta Winzar)

23rd - The BARNES Family (1500-1660) Tenant Farmers in Fordington

11th - Will of John WINDSOR (d.1583) the Elder Husbandmen of Fordington - Relict Alice

December 2023 (83 Records added this month)

17th - Map of Dorset 1830-1843   (James Pigot & Co's British Atlas )

16th - Map of Dorchester Area 1805-1874    (Cassini Old Map Series1805 and 1874)

13th - Update to Biography of Captain Anthony EAMES (1595-1661/2) Churchwarden & Constable of Fordington (Transcription of the Surveys of Fordington Manor in 1600 and 1650 has provided more background to his parents and siblings life in Fordington prior to his emigration to America)

10th - Survey of the Manor of Fordington - Listing of Tenants -1600 (Access to an alphabetical listing of Tenants - includes year copyhold granted, whether whole or half place or farthinghold with rent and comments)

10th - Survey of the Manor of Fordington - 1600 (Transcription kindly provided by Peta Winzar now provides a list of 78 tenants holding copyhold land in Fordington by custom of the manor in the year 1600)

10th - Notes on Fordington Manor by Henry Joseph Moule (1825-1904) published 1892 (Description of the ancient customary land tenure, management of crops and stock, that ended in the 1870s)

10th - Will of Henry JOLLIFFE( d.1580) of Fordington - Relict Emme

5th - Will of John HENNING (1532-1617) Gentleman of Poxwell and High Sheriff of Dorset in 1609/10 - His father was Mayor of Dorchester in 1570 (Link to an updated account of his life)

November 2023 (11 Records added this month)

27th - L/A and Inventory of Roger WINDSOR (bur.1680) of Fordington - Relict Elizabeth - 1680

25th - Update to Biography of Arthur William CHRISTOPHER Signal Fitter of Essex from the House of CHRISTOPHER - (revised text for his daughter Minnie Amelia CHRISTOPHER (1894-1972) with 2 more pictures)

25th - Will of William BUNN (bur.1680) Yeoman of Fordington - Relict living - name unknown as L/A and Probate missing

24th - Update to Town Criers & Bill Posters of Dorchester A new section has now been added to include "Bill Posters" of Dorchester 1881-1839 from Info supplied by Richard Smith.

24th - Will of Agnes BARNES (bur.1591) Widow of Fordington - widow of Robert BARNES (bur.1588) husbandman of Fordington

24th - Will of John BARNES (bur.1567) husbandman of Fordington - Relict Christian BARNES

24th - Will of John BARNES (bur.1609) husbandman of Fordington - Relict Maud BARNES

24th - Will of Robert BARNES (bur.1588) husbandman of Fordington - Relict Agnes BARNES (bur 1591)

24th - Update to the Will of William BARNES (1587-1660) Yeoman of Fordington - Son of William BARNES Senior (1545-1620) - Now linked to Survey of Fordington Manor in 1650

24th - Will of Edith BUNN (bur.1654) Widow of Fordington - widow of Robert BUNN (bur. 1639) - Linked to Survey of Fordington Manor in 1650 with info on their 8 children

September 2023 (164 Records added this month)

18th - Survey of the Manor of Fordington - 1615b (Direct Access to Listing of Tenants - includes size of plot, rents, lives with ages, imputed birth year, comments and links to other information)

15th - Survey of the Manor of Fordington - 1650 (Transcription kindly provided by Peta Winzar now provides a list of 82 tenants holding land in Fordington by custom of the manor against a number of lives.)

14th - Update to Biography of Captain Anthony EAMES (1595-1661/2) Churchwarden & Constable of Fordington (Transcription of the Survey of Fordington Manor in 1615 has provided lot more background to his parents and siblings life in Fordington prior to his emigration to America)

14th - Survey of the Manor of Fordington - 1615a (Transcription kindly provided by Peta Winzar now provides a list of 82 tenants holding copyhold land in Fordington by custom of the manor against a number of lives.)

August 2023 (503 Records added this month)

30th - Town Criers of Dorchester 1875-1913

25th - Update to Fordington St George Baptisms 1881-1900 (baptisms 1896-1900 inc added, 451 new records new total 1527)

9th - Update to West Fordington Christ Church Marriages 1847-1895 (52 new records added for years 1896-1900 now totals 340 marriages)

July 2023 ( 243 Records added this month)

22nd - Update to Fordington St George Marriages 1860-1900 (86 Marriages added for the period 1896 to 1900 inc.)

20th - Will of Samuel WINZAR (1683-1761) Ironmonger and Blacksmith with links to more information about his family

17th - The BARTLETT Family, Marriages in Dorchester and Fordington- (155 Marriages located with links to more information on most of them)

June 2023 ( 61 Records added this month)

24th - 9th - Update to All Saints Marriages 1800-1900 (28 new marriages added for years 1896 to 1900 inc now totals 525 records)

20th - Update to Holy Trinity Marriages 1800-1900 (33 marriages added for years 1896 -1900 inc - now has 794 marriages)

Mar 2023 ( 49 Records added this month)

20th - Update to Protestant Dissenters file Wesleyanism in Dorchester (1823-1932) (Now added from newspaper reports 49 Wesleyan Marriages that took place at the Chapel in Dorchester between 1841-1903)

Feb 2023 (185 Records added this month)

[NOTE:- A large exercise has now been completed to improve the information available in the "Strays" Files for both Dorchester and Fordington concentrating on Marriages of People who married elsewhere. In most cases a full transcription taken from original images on Ancestry.com is now available and I have included the image ref number for ease of identification for members. All Marriage Banns files have as a consequence been updated to include reference to where the marriage actually took place. In most cases I have simply confirmed it was in the appropriate parish (i.e. All Saints; Holy Trinity, or St Peters in Dorchester or St George {FStG} or Christchurch in Fordington ) and added the actual date they married. Where the marriage was outside of these parishes I have added the full transcription to the appropriate 'Strays File' which as shown below added 237 marriages. Discrepancies between the original spelling used (or transcribed for indexing) between the banns and the marriage also resulted in changes to some original marriage transcriptions in a dozen or so cases which should improve searching.]

16th - Update to St Peters Dorchester Marriages 1801-1900, - (22 new marriages added for years 1896-1900 inc - file now has 546 marriages)

16th - Further update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (61 new marriages added - now totals 1,272 records)

2nd -Update to Fordington Strays File (1577-1927) (94 marriages and 8 burials and baptisms have been added, now totals 767 records)

Jan 2023 (144 Records added this month)

20th - Revision to Biography of Rev. Arthur Evans Moule (1836-1918) Missionary & Archdeacon of Mid China (Now includes information about his 9 children, more images and links to other relevant material)

2nd - Update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (144 marriages added - now totals 1,211 records)

Dec 2022 (49 Records added this month)

Nov 2022 (130 Records added this month)

18th - Update to All Saints Dorchester Marriage Banns 1825-1895 (File updated & extended to cover Banns for 1891-1895 inc- 30 Records added now totals 379 Records)

5th - Update to West Fordington Christchurch Banns of Marriage (100 Banns added --including information from their actual marriage -- for years 1891-1895 inclusive - total now 463 Banns. Note: As Christchurch was situated next to West Fordington Barracks many of the participants were soldiers who came from outside the Parish or married brides at Christchurch from surrounding parishes )

Oct 2022 (39 Records added this month)

15th - Fire at St George's Church Fordington - 1912

1st - Update to Fordington St George  Marriage Banns 1852-1885 File extended from 1880 to 1885 inc - but years 1881 ton 1893 are missing. 38 records added for 1884 and 1885 (now has a total of 611 Records)

Sep 2022 (226 Records added this month)

26th - Update to St Peters Dorchester Marriages 1801-1895, - (28 Marriages added for years 1891-1895 inc - file now has 524 marriages)

16th - Update to Holy Trinity Marriages 1800-1895 (39 marriages added for years 1891 -1895 inc)

9th - Update to All Saints Marriages 1800-1895 (15 new marriages added for years 1891 to 1895 now totals 497 records)

8th - Update to St Peters Dorchester Baptisms 1851-1895, - (133 new baptisms added for years 1891 to 1895 inc)

8th - Extensive Revision to Biography of Thomas GRIGG (1857-1932) Photographic Artist of Dorchester (Research into local newspapers has resulted in better information about changes in location of his Studio and home address. More photographs and extracts from newspapers added and hopefully better dating of photographs)

7th - Update to Fordington Poor Law and Apprenticeship Records (11 Apprenticeship records added dating between 1733 and 1825 - new total 104)

5th - Dorchester Co Members File (1624-1626) - Account of the life ancestry and descendants of  Rev John GALTON vicar of East Lulworth and Coombe Keynes added to listing

July 2022 (528 Records added this month)

29th- Update to Will of William SPARKS Fellmonger of Fordington 1740 (Extensive new section of Research Notes about his ancestry including extracts from Puddletown Parish Register for SPARKES surname.)

22nd - Update to Holy Trinity Baptisms 1851-1895 (113 new baptisms added for years 1891 to 1895 inc, now totals 1,595 records)

17th - Update to Glossary (22 entires added since Feb 2021 now has 723 entries ) + Section added for "The Great Western Hotel" in West Fordington.

14th - Update to All Saints Baptisms 1851-1895 (63 new baptisms added for years 1891 to 1895 inc - now totals 896 records)

7th - Update to West Fordington Christ Church Baptisms 1881-1895 (330 new baptisms added for years 1891-1895 now totals 927 baptisms)

May 2022 (42 Records added this month)

13th - Update to West Fordington Christ Church Marriages 1847-1895 (42 new records added for years 1891-1895 now totals 288 marriages)

April 2022 (293 Records added this month)

9th - Update to Fordington St George Baptisms 1881-1895 (baptisms 1891-1895 added 293 new records)

16th - Update to Biography of Captain Anthony EAMES (1595-1661/2) Churchwarden & Constable of Fordington (Change in death date from 1686 to 1661/2 + comments + many more genealogical notes and 3 extra images of documents )

March 2022 (333 Records added this month)

17th - Update to Fordington People in historical documents & Newspapers 1614-2010 (42 records added reporting inquests on the deceased, which have also been linked to burials - total now 499 Records)

15th  - Update to Fordington Burials 1866-1895, (291 Burials added for the years 1891-1895 inc )

February 2022 (90 Records added this month)

23rd - Update to Fordington St George Marriages 1860-1895 (89 Marriages added for the period 1891 to 1895 inc.)

3rd - INDEX to The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John HUTCHINS - Extract for Dorchester. The index has now been updated to include the 29th and final sub division relating to 'Dissenting Congregations with Hutchins brief notes on The Town Hall; banks, newspapers; railway stations, The Workhouse; schools; cemetery; races; the Dorset County Hospital; The Dorset County Museum and the Militia Stores and Barracks.

January 2022

December 2021 (17 records added this month)

11th   GIFTS made to the town of Dorchester for the Relief of the Poor 1614-1731 (Extracted from "The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset" by John Hutchins)

November 2021 (187 records added this month)

16th - The CHURCHILL Family of Colliton House, Dorchester and Muston Manor, Piddlehinton, Dorset (Account of life of John Churchill (1568-1621) now includes a transcription of his tripartite Indenture dated 1599 gifting £100 to the benefit of poor artificers of Dorchester.)

2nd - 22nd - Update to Fordington Strays File (1577-1927) (71 marriages and burials have been added, now totals 665 records)

2nd - Update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (16 marriages added - now totals 1,034 records)

1st - The LAKE Families of Dorchester and Fordington (29 Families with links to more information about each of them concerning their ancestry and descendants)

July 2021 (78 records added this month)

22nd - Military Service Records - 1756-1900 (78 Records) Soldiers that gave either Dorchester or Fordington as their place of Birth. Compiled from a range of surviving documents at National Archives and Royal Hospital Pension Records)

June 2021 (119 records added this month)

30th  - Update to Fordington Burials 1813-1836, (Additional info from the Overseers of the Poor Accounts added to 53 burials between 1813 and 1822)

20th - Update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (66 marriages added, many from Stinsford - now totals 1,018 records)

May 2021 (2 records added this month)

8th - Map of West Fordington Barracks - 1886

8th - Trial and Execution of William KENNEDY (1811-1830) (3 separate accounts of the trial with links to other information about some of the people mentioned)

April 2021 (2 records added this month)

27th - Will of William STANTON Clothier and owner of Loud's Mill Fordington together with information about his family

16th - Will of William BOWER Gentleman, Bailiff, Capital Burgess, Alderman and Mayor of Dorchester in 1806, 1812 & 1822, Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset and Lieutenant Colonel of the Dorset Volunteers- Transcription of extensive Will dated 1827 proved 1829 and sale particulars of Fordington Brewery and 16 Public Houses in Dorchester and Weymouth. together with links to his family

February 2021 (90 records added this month)

11th -Update to  Hayne Family of Dorchester Mercers from the 14th Century (Documents located - see year 1660 - at National Archives concerning Colonel James HAYNE who sold part of the Manor of Fordington to Richard FINCHER Quartermaster General in the Parliamentary Army who was imprisoned in the Tower and later helped in the restoration of Charles II - Also corrections made to Marriage of John Hayne and Elizabeth Palmer in 1817 and a new section added under the year 1807]

January 2021 (98 records added this month)

December 2020 (2 records added this month)

November 2020 (70 records added this month)

October 2020 (27 records added this month)

September 2020 (44 records added this month)

August 2020 (316 records added this month)

July 2020 (25 records added this month)

June 2020 (51 records added this month)

27th - Update to Holy Trinity Baptisms 1618-1669 Missing page in Register located (30 new baptisms added for years 1653 and 1654)
25th - Update to the Biography of Horatio MOULE (1805-1886), Chaplain of St Paul's Cathedral Calcutta [More information added about his son Horatio Fredrick D'Oyly Moule (1843-1925)]
22nd - Update to Fordington Strays File (1577-1927) (stray marriage from Cheselbourne added, now totals 594 entries)
22nd - Update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (5 stray marriages added from Cheselbourne)
22nd - Protestant Dissenters Wesleyanism in Dorchester (1823-1932) Includes 13 baptisms for Dorchester Families carried out between 1823-1831 at the Wesleyan Chapel in Conygar Lane Weymouth prior to Dorchester having it's own circuit, and 73 baptisms held at Wesleyan Chapel in North Square Dorchester from 1831-1837 - many for families from surrounding parishes
20th - Update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (Considerable background information added about the BESANT and ENSOR Families of Dorchester with many links to other records relating to them)

May 2020 (44 records added this month)

7th - Update to Biography of Thomas GRIGG (1857-1932) Photographic Artist of Dorchester ( another photograph and text added of George Hoddinott (1839-1919)
6th - Will of Thomas KNAPTON the Younger (1662-1725) Keeper of the Dorchester Gaol: Mayor Dorchester 1713: Maltster
6th - Update to Glossary (22 entires added and updates to many references to Inns taverns etc)
6th - Update to The PITFIELD Families of Fordington from 1685 (Links to Knapton Family and more information about origins in Wiltshire)
6th - The KNAPTON Family of Fordington & Dorchester (1627-1754) Originating from Wiltshire before 1597
5th - Update to Mayors of Dorchester, (1629-2018) (Mayors for 2013-2018 added + Link to biography of Nicholas Gould MP Mayor 1680)
3rd - Biography of Nicholas GOULD [1635-1691] MP 1679, Mayor 1680 [Link to History of Parliament Website]
3rd - Biography of John PARKINS [1571-1640] MP 1621, Mayor 1629) [Link to History of Parliament Website]

April 2020 (11 records added this month)

20th - Update to the History of The Baptist Church in Dorchester & Fordington (1645-2017) - ( Marriage of John Hoddinott to Maria Emily Butt/Brownsea in 1875 added together with baptisms of their 11 children to the Dorford Chapel Registers)
20th - Update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (2 marriages + a burial added with 7 baptisms attached to 1 marriage, Hoddinott - now totals 952 records)
20th - Update to Biography of Thomas GRIGG (1857-1932) Photographic Artist of Dorchester ( another photograph and text added of William Uruah Hoddinott)

February 2020 (156 records added this month)

18th - Update to St Peters Dorchester Baptisms 1851-1890, - (156 new baptisms added for years 1886 to 1890 inc)

January 2020 (1,039 records added this month)

26th - Update to Holy Trinity Baptisms 1851-1885 (125 new baptisms added for years 1886 to 1890 inc, now totals 1,482 records)
20th - Update to All Saints Baptisms 1851-1890 (57 new baptisms added for years 1886 to 1890 inc - now totals 833 records)
19th - Update to Fordington Christchurch Baptisms 1881-1890 (314 Baptisms added for years 1886-90 inclusive - total now 597 baptisms)
19th - Update to History of Christchurch West Fordington (Account of the life of Rev. William John BETTS (1841- 1913) B.A. - served as a temporary curate at Christchurch June 1889 - Nov1890 added)
9th - Update to Fordington St George Baptisms 1881-1890 (baptisms 1886-1890 added 402 new records)
6th - Update to Dorchester Strays File (1593-1998) (18 entries added - now totals 949 records)
6th - 1861 Census Dorset County Prison St Peters Parish Dorchester (Note:- 122 Entries)