Find My Past Blog - Over 22,000 new Dorset parish records published

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We have just published 22,989 new parish records for Dorset on findmypast.co.uk: 1,533 baptisms, 8,084 marriages and 13,372 burials.

The Dorset Family History Society provided us with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

The table below gives details of each set of records:

Type of records Number of
recordsYears covered Parishes coveredBaptisms1,5331538-1839Okeford Fitzpaine</p>PorteshamMarriages8,0841546-1839Gillingham

Melcombe Regis

Portland

Gussage All Saints

Glanvilles Wootton

Lytchet Matravers

Fordington

Longbredy

Frampton

Okeford Fitzpaine

Fontmell Magna

Holnest

Halstock

Shipton Gorge

Bishops Caundle

Lydlinch

Licence

Hooke

Frome St QuintinBurials13,3721573-1749Chettle

Cranborne

Dorchester All Saints

Dorchester Holy Trinity

Dorchester St Peter

Gussage All Saints

Melbury Abbas

Okeford Fitzpaine

Portesham


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