Tarrant Monkton with Tarrant Launceston, Dorset Genealogy

Guide to Tarrant Monkton with Tarrant Launceston, Dorset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
MONKTON, TARRANT (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Monkton-up-Wimborne, Wimborne division of Dorset, 4¼ miles ENE from Blandford.

TARRANT-LAUNCESTON, a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Pimperne, Blandford division of Dorset, 5¼ miles NE by E from the town of Blandford. The parish comprises, with Tarrant-Monkton, 3818 acres.

TARRANT-MONKTON with TARRANT-LAUNCESTON (All Saints) a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; 4 miles NE by E of Blandford railway station.

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.

Census records
Note: That FS Film no. 241340 as above is for Tarrant Monkton only, and FS Film no. 241336 is for Tarrant Launceston only, so there are two films for this location for 1841. See FHL catalogue for additional information.

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
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