Abbotsbury, Dorset, England Genealogy

Abbotsbury, Dorset, England
Type	Civil parish Ecclesiastical parish Registration sub-district Rural deanery
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred	Uggscombe
County	Dorset
Poor Law Union	Weymouth
Registration District	Weymouth
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Bridport
Diocese	Salisbury
Province	Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
Bishops Court	Court of the Bishop of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory)

 England    Dorset

Parish History

ABBOTSBURY, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Weymouth, Dorset. The village stands in a vale, about a mile from the sea, 7¼ miles W of the Weymouth railway, and 9 SW of Dorchester.

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

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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

Web sites

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