Holwell

Registers Notes

Register 2, MIC/R/596, Dorset History Centre

1803 August – The Vane upon Holwell Tower was given by Benjamin Freeman Coleman Esq

cost Seven Guineas.

1806 April 29 – A Painting of the King’s Arms was placed in the Parish Church of Holwell given by Henry Daubney Esq of Buckshaw.

1809 April 30 – William Sargeant was chosen by the Rector Parish Clerk, and this Choice was signified by the Minister to the Parishioners on the following Sunday, as directed by the ? Canon.

1809 May 14 – James Gray was chosen Clerk by the Rector in the room of William Sargeant, resigned.

Taken 1811

61 Inhabited Houses

68 Families

4 Houses building

49 Families employed in Agriculture

6 Families employed in Handicraft or Trade

13 Families not employed in either Agriculture Handicraft or Trade

158 Males

186 Females

344 Total                    N.B. Children included in the lists – 169

Rectors of Holwell (list continued over the years)

Newspaper cutting  (following 1812 bapts and 1812 burs)

“A Witness at Fontenoy – The following interesting announcement is culled from the ‘Bristol Journal’ of August 25^th 1804: - At Holwell, Dorset, Martha Ross, aged 97. She was with her husband in the hottest of the battle in May, 1745, at Fentenoy (sic), under William Duke of Cumberland, and was particularly noticed by the Duke for her intrepidity, and assistance to the wounded and slain.”

22.12.1811 buried William Gillingham age 66

“He was found dead on Tuesday Morning the 17^th Inst: on the Turnpike road opposite Cerne with a wound on the bridge of his nose, which must have occasioned his death. Verdict of the Coroner’s Inquest Wilful Murder against some Person or Persons unknown. Sir John Wyldbore Smith Bart, as acting Magistrate for the Subdivision of Cerne, offered a reward of Twenty five Pounds for Discovery.”

Memorandum (follows 1812 burials)

The Altar Tomb in Holwell Church Yard to the Memory of Robert Bridgi/es who died 9^th April 1607 was repaired by Benjamin  Freeman Coleman the 11^th July 1816 – and again repaired in July 1822.

1817

In the beginning of the year 1817, the old Galery of Holwell Church was raised about 20 Inches; the two under-galeries were erected for the exclusive use of the Holwell Sunday School; and kneeling boards were placed in all the single Pews. The expences of this alteration were defrayed in the manner following:

Costs

To rough timber         £3.3.6

By rough timber given by Joseph Daubeny Esq

To Bill of Miles the carpenter, of Buckshaw House to the value of          £3.3.6

including accounts of Sawyers, and by surplus rough timber given by Blacksmith, and 303 feet of elm board, Joseph Daubeny Esq of Buckshaw House,

and 60 feet of deal board         £20.1.7 ½

to the value of            16s 6d

To Bill of Miles the carpenter by donation of William Warry Esq of Holwell £4

for kneeling boards   £3.3.0

By donation of Benjamin Freeman Coleman Esq           £6

To Knight for pointing the panels by donation of a friend            £1

of the two doors of the under-galeries 5s   By donation from anonymous          £12.6.1 ½

To the parish clerk of Holwell for frequently            £27.6.1 ½

cleaning out the Church during these reparations             3s

            £27.6.1 ½

Holwell Parochial Register

Original document PE/HOW IN 3/3

William Edward Long

Date of ordination Deacon 1889; Priest 1890; by Bishop of Oxford; date of institution 1890; University Degree Oxford M.A.; previous curacy or preferment Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford

               Churchwardens

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