Hampreston, Dorset Genealogy

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

Parish History
HAMPRESTON (All Saints), a parish, partly within the liberty of Westover, S division of the county of Southampton, but chiefly in the hundred of Cranborne, union of Wimborne and Cranborne, Wimborne division of the county of Dorset, 3½ miles ESE from Wimborne. There are a place of worship for Independents, and a Roman Catholic chapel. A convent has been established for 30 nuns under the superintendence of an abbess. This parish anciently formed part of that of Wimborne, from which it was separated about the year 1440. It is situated on the navigable River Stour, which is its southern boundary, and between the roads leading respectively from Southampton to Exeter and Poole.

The parish borders Hampshire, where a small part of the parish extended before the border change in 1974. The civil parish was renamed Ferndown in 1972. Hamlets within the parish include Stapehill and Longham.

The church was originally a Chapelry of Wimborne Minster, before becoming a parish of itself from 1440.

HAMPRESTON, a parish in the district of Wimborne, and counties of Dorset and Hants; on the River Stour, near the Southampton and Dorchester railway, 3¼ miles ESE of Wimborne Minster. Pop., 1,115. There are two dissenting chapels.

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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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Church of England
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Hampshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Hampshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census Records
Transcriptions from Hampreston OPC • 3

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.

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Websites

 * Hampreston - Dorset OPC