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

MONCKTON, TARRANT (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Blandford, hundred of Monckton-up Wimborne, Wimborne division of Dorset, 4¼ miles (E. N. E.) from Blandford.

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

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
Tarrant Monkton with Tarrant Launceston parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

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.

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