Dorset

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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.

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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

Poole

Poole Register Office
Civic Centre Annex
Park Road
Poole
BH15 2RN
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

Links

• COUNTY RECORD OFFICE

• LIBRARY LINKS

• Local History Gateway Page

OPC

• Dorset Online Parish Clerk

Local History Society

• DORSET FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

• Somerset and Dorset FHS

Archives

• Dorset Parish Registers Index

• Dorset Poll Book 1807 A-K Transcriptions

• Dorset Poll Book 1807 L-Z Transcriptions

• Dorset Marriages

Family and social history

• Dorset Workhouses

Maps & Photographs

• TOWN and VILLAGE MAPS

• Weymouth and Portland Photographs and Records

Countywide interest

• Southern Life (UK)

• The Dorset Historic Churches Trust

• [http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.mansfield1/paul001.html West Country

Newspapers]

• Village Index-Church Photographs

• Dorset Pages

Specific Town Village interest

• Dorset Index - Genealogy A miscellany of information, particularly about Weymouth and Portland, including some parish records and photos

• Sturminster Newton OPC project

• The Blackmore Vale

• Parish Records of Wyke Regis, Melcombe Regis and Weymouth

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