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Stratton, Dorset
Type	Ecclesiastical Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	George
County	Dorset
Poor Law Union	Dorchester
Registration District	Dorchester
Records begin
	Parish registers: 1561
	Bishop's Transcripts: 1591
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Whitchurch
Diocese	Salisbury
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
Location of Archive
	Dorset Record Office
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England Dorset Dorset Parishes

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

Parish History[edit | edit source]

STRATTON, (St. Mary) a parish, with two hamlets, in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the river Frome and on the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, 3½ miles NW of Dorchester.^[1]

STRATTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Dorchester, hundred of George, Dorchester division of the county of Dorset, 3½ miles (N. W.) from Dorchester; .^[2]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Online Stratton, Dorset Genealogy Parish Register Images and Indexes
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
Earliest	1560		1562		1560
Images	1560-1819 Ancestry baptisms, marriages, and burials^[3]
	1813-1906	Ancestry^[4]	1813-1921	Ancestry^[5]	1813-1999	Ancestry^[6]
Indexes	1813-1879	Ancestry^[7]	1562-1837	Joiner^[8]
			1562-1836	PRTSociety^[9]
			1654-1775	findmypast^[10]
			1813-1836	findmypast^[11]

Stratton, Dorset Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

FREG = FreeREG - free^[12]

Stratton, Dorset Genealogy Online Parish Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
FREG			1562-1836

Census records[edit | edit source]

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 FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Probate records[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England Wales,, publ. London and Edinburgh: 1870.Date accessed: 10 July 2103.
↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, publ. London: 1848. Date accessed: 10 July 2103.
↑ Dorset, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.
↑ Dorset, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.
↑ Dorset, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.
↑ Dorset, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-2001, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.
↑ 'Vital Records Index - British Isles - Collection List,' British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd ed., hosted at Genoot, accessed 14 April 2012. Bishop's transcripts.
↑ 'Search Marriage Records in Dorset,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 4 July 2012.
↑ 'Dorset,' Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 31 July 2012.
↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net, accessed 5 July 2012.
↑ 'Dorset Marriages,' Find My Past, accessed 28 July 2012.
↑ 'Dorset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 10 January 2014.

[1] John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England Wales,, publ. London and Edinburgh: 1870.Date accessed: 10 July 2103.

[2] Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, publ. London: 1848. Date accessed: 10 July 2103.

[3] Dorset, England, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1538-1812, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.

[4] Dorset, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.

[5] Dorset, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.

[6] Dorset, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-2001, courtesy: Ancestry (£). Partially indexed.

[7] 'Vital Records Index - British Isles - Collection List,' British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd ed., hosted at Genoot, accessed 14 April 2012. Bishop's transcripts.

[8] 'Search Marriage Records in Dorset,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 4 July 2012.

[9] 'Dorset,' Parish Register Transcription Society, accessed 31 July 2012.

[bmi-10] 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net, accessed 5 July 2012.

[11] 'Dorset Marriages,' Find My Past, accessed 28 July 2012.

[12] 'Dorset Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 10 January 2014.

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