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Stinsford

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Stinsford St Michaels

The parish of Stinsford is made up of a number of hamlets and settlements at Higher and Lower Bockhampton, Stinsford, Bhompston, Higher Kingston, Kingston Maurward, Coker’s Frome, Frome Whitfield and Waterston Ridge. 

Perhaps because of the proximity of Dorchester, two miles away, there is now no shop, school or village hall and no pub.  

The beer-shop at Lower Bockhampton closed in the 1860s, the school in 1961 and the Post Office in 1970.


The parish is no longer dominated by the two great estates of Stinsford and Kingston Maurward. Much of the land is now occupied by Kingston Maurward College, a further education college.

The parish has five large country houses, Birkin House, Frome House, Kingston Maurward House, the Elizabethan Old Manor House and Stinsford House. In the past almost everyone who lived in the parish would have been employed on the land or as servants at these houses.

Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist, was born at Higher Bockhampton in 1840 and his birthplace is visited by many thousands of people from this country and abroad.

 

Thomas Hardy's Grave
Thomas Hardy's Heart Grave
Courtesy of Graham Naylor


The OPC for Stinsford is Kay Kearsey who has various transcriptions available (see below)

For further information please contact Kay by clicking on her name above, this will generate a correctly addressed email (please put Stinsford OPC in the subject line)

Kay is co-author (with Mike Cosgrove) of the "Book of Stinsford" (Halsgrove, 2008). It's A4 160 pages with loads of photos, maps etc. A few copies remain available, if anyone is interested please email Kay.


Census 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891
1901 - Stinsford
1901 - Frome Whitfield & Cokers Frome
Parish Registers Baptisms
1631-1699, 1700-1749, 1750-1799 1800-1829, 1830-1850, 1871-1901

Marriages
1579-1699, 1700-1752, 1752-1799, 1800-1837, 1838-1900, 1901-1919

Burials
1577-1696, 1713-1749, 1750-1780, 1781-1812, 1813-1837, 1838-1910
Monumental Inscriptions St Michael's Monumental Inscriptions
Other Records Dorset Militia Ballot List 1758
Examples of material available Stinsford and Bockhampton School:
Transcriptions of approximately 75% of log books and Manager’s Minute Books to 1862 - 1938. Admissions 1886-1895, 1919-1921 List of Headteachers, School group photos from 1920s and 1930s. Stinsford and Bockhampton School 1847-1961.
School Admissions 1866-1871

Bockhampton Manor Court Book 1750 to 1848 transcription includes names of tenants.

Overseers of the Poor accounts 1772-1803 - includes names of those receiving payments from the Overseers.

The ‘big’ houses in the parish - Kingston Maurward, Stinsford House, Birkin House and The Old Manor House.

The hamlets of Lower Bockhampton, including house histories, and Higher Bockhampton.

The parish during World War Two including reminiscences of evacuees from Southampton and London.
As part of my research I have a good collection of family trees for families from the parish using parish registers, census and school records.
Postcards Old postcards of Stinsford & Bockhampton
Links Photographs of Stinsford
Stinsford Parish Council
Records held at the Dorset History Centre
PE/STF
Registers
Christenings 1632-1638, 1644, 1656-1863. Marriages 1579-1641, 1662-2001. Burials 1577-1638, 1658-1696, 1713-1936. Banns 1824-1902.

Transcripts
Christenings 1631/2-1812, 1863-1995. Marriages 1579-1840. Burials 1577-1812.

Indexes
Christenings and burials 1813-1837.

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