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Situated on the south coast of England, Dorset is very rural and contains mainly small towns and villages. The county Town is Dorchester which was the home of Thomas Hardy. Other main towns include Poole, which has the second largest natural harbour in the world. It is also the home of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and famous for Durdle Door. Lyme Regis, with the Cobb made famous by Jane Austen in her novel “Persuasion”, is also the location for “the French Lieutenant’s Woman” by John Fowles.

The coastal areas of Lyme Regis and Chramouth are well known by fossil hunters; Mary Anning having discovered an icthyosaurus locally.

The Dorset is also said to be the home of Scouting, with the first scout camp organised by Sir Robert Baden Powell on Brownsea Island in August 1907.

Thomas Hardy, the writer, was born at Upper Brockhampton, near Dorchester.

Register Offices

The Dorset Registration Service has three main offices:

Bournemouth and Poole are now separate authorities and are not connected to the three main offices, they are therefore listed separately.

Certificate Ordering Information: Certificates - Dorset For You

For Dorset North Registration Districts contact
Blandford Office
Salisbury Road
Blandford
DT11 7LN

For Dorset East Registration District contact
Ferndown Office
King George V Pavilion
Peter Grant Way
Church Road
Ferndown
BH22 9EN

For Dorset South and West Registration District contact
Weymouth Office
The Guildhall
St Edmund Street
Weymouth
DT4 8AS

Certificate Orders can be placed by telephone and payment made by credit card at
01305 or 01202 225153.

Bournemouth

Bournemouth Register Office
The Town Hall
Bourne Avenue
Bournemouth
BH2 6DY
Email: linda.lovett@bournemouth.gov.uk

Bournemouth Register Office supply handwritten certificates, a full guide to scanned, handwritten and typed certificates can be found at BMD Certificates

If you can update this information then please do so here

Poole

The Register Office
The Guildhall,
Market Street,
Poole,
BH15 1NP
E-mail registrars@poole.gov.uk
Tel: 01202 633744

Record Office lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.

Record Office Lookup Contacts

Bournemouth/Christchurch library frequently queenbee
Poole library less frequently queenbee

Cemetery Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.

Cemetery Lookup Contacts

Bournemouth queenbee
Bournemouth Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required
Burton Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required
Christchurch queenbee (can do town centres easily, outside town, as and when)
Christchurch Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required
Holdenhurst Merry Monty Montgomery-For cemeteries a grave reference number is required

Photo Offers

Members that have offered to take photographs in particular areas. Please PM the member with your queries.

Links

Primary reference Links

County Record Office

GENUKI Dorset

Library Links

Local History Gateway Page

Dorset Online Parish Clerk

Dorset Look-up Exchange

Parish Register Look-up Exchange

Kingston Village OPC

IGI Dorset

Dorset Family History Society

Somerset and Dorset Family History Society

Countywide Interest

Dorset Churches

Dorset Historic Churches Trust

Dorset Marriages

Dorset Pages

Dorset Parish Registers Index

Dorset Poll Book 1807 A-K Transcriptions

Dorset Poll Book 1807 L-Z Transcriptions

Dorset Workhouses

Portland Year Book 1905

Some early Dorset Abstracts of Deeds

Southern Life (UK)

Southwest England Genealogical Indices

Village Index-Church Photographs

Visitation of Dorset 1623

West Country Newspapers

Specific Town-Village Interest

Abbotsbury

Belchalwell

Bere Regis Village

The Blackmore Vale Gillingham, Pulham, Sherbourne, Stalbridge & Sturminster Newton.

Briantspuddle, comprising Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle

Cerne Abbas Historical Society

Longfleet Genealogy and History

Osmington Family History

Radipole and Southill Genealogy

Swanage Genealogy Pages

Verwood Historical Society

Dorset Index- Weymouth and Portland- Genealogy

Weymouth-Dorset History and Genealogy Includes many of the surrounding villages as far as Abbotsbury to the West and Lulworth to the East

Winterbourne Came

Parish Records of Wyke Regis, Melcombe Regis and Weymouth

Maps & Photographs

Weymouth and Portland Photographs and Records

Dorset Coast Digital Archives

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 ==Links==
+'''Primary reference Links'''
 *[http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=2203 '''County Record Office''']
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 *[http://www.local-history.co.uk/Groups/dorset.html Local History Gateway Page]
-'''OPC'''
 *[http://www.dorset-opc.com/ Dorset Online Parish Clerk]
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 *[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carthorse/kingston_home.htm Kingston Village OPC]
+*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyDorset.htm#PageTitle IGI Dorset]
-'''Local History Society'''
+*[http://www.dorsetfhs.org.uk/ Dorset Family History Society]
+*[http://www.sdfhs.org/ Somerset and Dorset Family History Society]
-*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyDorset.htm#PageTitle IGI Dorset]
-*[http://www.dorsetfhs.org.uk/ Dorset Family History Society]
+'''Countywide Interest'''
-*[http://www.sdfhs.org/ Somerset and Dorset Family History Society]
+*[http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/ Dorset Churches]
+*[http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk Dorset Historic Churches Trust]
-'''Archives'''
+*[http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/uk/england/dorset.htm Dorset Marriages]
+*[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Dorset_Home.htm Dorset Pages]
 *[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engdorse/PRBT.html Dorset Parish Registers Index]
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 *[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Genealogy/info/dorset2.txt Dorset Poll Book 1807 L-Z Transcriptions]
-*[http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/uk/england/dorset.htm Dorset Marriages]
+*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/dor/dorset_workhouses.htm Dorset Workhouses]
 *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pbtyc/Portland/PYB/Contents.html Portland Year Book 1905]
-*[http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Dorset/visitations/index.html Visitation of Dorset 1623]
-*[http://www.paulhyb.homecall.co.uk/ Southwest England Genealogical Indices]
 *[http://www.geocities.com/myjacobfamilymiscellania/dorsetshiredeeds1 Some early Dorset Abstracts of Deeds]
+*[http://southernlife.org.uk/ Southern Life (UK)]
+*[http://www.paulhyb.homecall.co.uk/ Southwest England Genealogical Indices]
+*[http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/ Village Index-Church Photographs]
-'''Family and Social History'''
+*[http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Dorset/visitations/index.html Visitation of Dorset 1623]
-*[http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/england/dor/dorset_workhouses.htm Dorset Workhouses]
-'''Maps & Photographs'''
-*[http://www.druvox95.plus.com/Dorset.html Weymouth and Portland Photographs and Records]
-*[http://www.dcda.org.uk/ Dorset Coast Digital Archives]
-'''Countywide Interest'''
-*[http://southernlife.org.uk/ Southern Life (UK)]
-*[http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk The Dorset Historic Churches Trust]
 *[http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/paul001.html West Country Newspapers]
-*[http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/ Village Index-Church Photographs]
-*[http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/ Dorset Churches]
-*[http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Dorset_Home.htm Dorset Pages]
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+'''Maps & Photographs'''
+*[http://www.druvox95.plus.com/Dorset.html Weymouth and Portland Photographs and Records]
+*[http://www.dcda.org.uk/ Dorset Coast Digital Archives]