Turnworth Genealogical Records
Turnworth Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Baptism registers are the primary source for birth documentation before 1837, though are relevant to the present. They record the date a child was baptised, their parents' names, occupations, residence and more.
Records of baptism for people born in and around Turnworth between 1700 and 1872. Details include child's name, parents' names and dates of birth and/or baptism.
Original images of baptism registers, searchable by a name index, covering almost all Dorset parishes.
Transcriptions of baptisms in Dorset covering most Anglican parishes.
Turnworth Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Marriage registers are the primary source for marital documentation before 1837, though are relevant to the present. They typically the record marital status and residence of the bride and groom.
Marriage records from people who married at Turnworth between 1570 and 1812. Lists an individual's abode, marital status, father's name, age and signature
Marriage records from people who married at the church between 1838 and 1932.
Original images of marriage registers, searchable by a name index, covering almost all Dorset parishes.
Turnworth Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Burial records for people buried at Turnworth, detail the deceased's name, residence and age from 1570 to 1812. Some records may contain the names of relations, cause of death and more.
Burial records covering those buried at St Mary, Turnworth_. This resource is an index and may not include all the details that were recorded in the burial registers from which they were extracted.
Original images of burial registers, searchable by a name index, covering almost all Dorset parishes.
Transcriptions of burials from 234 parishes in Dorset.
Turnworth Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
A full name index, connected to original images of the registers. These records list those who were eligible to vote and may give a description of an individual's property.
A list of freeholders in the county, with their residence, the name of their tenants and the location of their freehold.
Transcriptions of hearth tax records for the county of Dorset.
Newspapers Covering Turnworth
Fully text-searchable articles from a local newspaper covering the Sherborne district. It includes family announcements, obituaries, court proceedings, business notices and more.
A politically independent newspaper, covering the affairs of Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. It includes family notices.
A regional newspaper covering the counties of Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire Hampshire and Berkshire. It covers local and national news, family announcements, business news, legal proceedings and more.
A liberal newspaper covering the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. It includes family notices.
A regional newspaper including news from the Dorset area, family announcements, business notices, advertisements, legal & governmental proceedings and more.
Turnworth Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
An index to 295,609 wills of people who lived in or were connected to Devon. The wills they reference can contain a great deal of genealogical information.
An index to Gloucestershire wills from Bristol and Gloucester Diocese.
An index linked to original images of wills, administrations and inventories proved in Dorset courts. Documents contain much genealogical information.
An index to estate administrations performed by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. The index covers the southern two thirds of England & Wales, but may also contain entries for northerners.
Turnworth Immigration & Travel Records
An index linked to original images of documents for vagrants. These records were draw up for poor people who moved to parishes where their presence was unwanted. They contain much genealogical information.
Indentures and other records that recorded the transportation of Dorset men and women to the colonies.
Details of individuals who left Dorset for New England.
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
Turnworth Military Records
An index linked to original images of lists men eligible to serve in the militia. Records may include name, residence, occupation, age, height, marital status, disabilities and family details.
A list of Dorset-men who were in the military and registered to vote as absent.
A list of names found on World War One monuments in Dorset, with some service details.
A list of names found on World War Two monuments in Dorset, with some service details.
A searchable list of over 100,000 British Army POWs. Records contains details on the captured, their military career and where they were held prisoner.
Turnworth Court & Legal Records
Over 60,000 documents relating to prisoners held at Dorchester Prison. The collection includes admission and discharge books and photographs of the latter prisoners.
Documents relating to the licensing of alehouses. Contains details on the proprietor, establishment and conditions of the licence.
Original images of Dorset parish records. Including: poor rates, overseers, churchwardens, vestry, incumbents' and other records.
The records document Quarter Session judges’ decisions in matters that include settlement inquiries, highway rates, criminal trials, registers of settlement, orders of removal, bastardy examinations, apprenticeships, licensing, contracts, lists of justices, and other matters related to the business of running the county.
Original images of Dorset parish records. Including: poor rates, overseers, churchwardens, vestry, incumbents' and other records.
Turnworth Taxation Records
Maps delineating fields in Dorset, which are referenced to documents recording field names, land owners, occupiers, land use and land size.
Digital images of 18th and 19th century records that record landowners and their tenants. The taxable value of the land is given, and sometimes a description of the property. These records can be searched by names and place indices.
Transcriptions of hearth tax records for the county of Dorset.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
This vital collection details almost 1.2 million properties eligible for land tax. Records include the name of the landowner, occupier, amount assessed and sometimes the name and/or description of the property. It is a useful starting point for locating relevant estate records and establishing the succession of tenancies and freehold. Most records cover 1798, but some extend up to 1811.
Turnworth Land & Property Records
A full name index, connected to original images of the registers. These records list those who were eligible to vote and may give a description of an individual's property.
Maps delineating fields in Dorset, which are referenced to documents recording field names, land owners, occupiers, land use and land size.
Digital images of 18th and 19th century records that record landowners and their tenants. The taxable value of the land is given, and sometimes a description of the property. These records can be searched by names and place indices.
A list of freeholders in the county, with their residence, the name of their tenants and the location of their freehold.
A list of Dorset-men who were in the military and registered to vote as absent.
Turnworth Directories & Gazetteers
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key contemporary and historical facts. Each place has a list of residents and businesses. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions.
An exhaustive gazetteer, containing details of settlement's history, governance, churches, postal services, public institutions and more. Also contains lists of residents with their occupation and address.
Turnworth Cemeteries
An index to vital details engraved on gravestones and other monuments across the county of Dorset.
An index to inscriptions found on 56,608 gravestones and monuments in Dorset. The index includes details of relationships.
An index to inscriptions found on over 11,500 gravestones in Dorset. The index includes details of relationships.
Photographs and descriptions of Dorset' most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Turnworth Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Turnworth Histories & Books
Selected issues of a periodical which contains many historical and genealogical tracts relating to the counties of Somerset and Dorset.
A history of Catholicism in South West England with biographies of noted Catholics. Contains details of the Dominican, Benedictine, and Franciscan orders.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Photographs and images of churches in Dorset.
Short profiles of Dorsetshire churches, containing photographs and bibliographies.
Turnworth School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Turnworth Occupation & Business Records
A collection of nearly 60,000 documents including crew lists, ship agreements and log books for Dorset. Records may contain information of a sailors birth, life, duties and discipline.
Abstracts of apprenticeship indentures initiated by parishes in Dorset. These records provide details on parents' names and occupations.
Over 3,300 documents relating to bounties offered to farmers by the government to grow hemp & flax.
An article describing the life of labourers in Dorset in the 19th century. Includes details on hiring practices and poverty.
An introduction to smuggling in Dorset & Hampshire.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Turnworth
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Turnworth Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Photographs and descriptions of Dorset' most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Over 600 pedigrees for English and Welsh families who had a right to bear a coat of arms.
Turnworth Church Records
The parish registers of Turnworth are a collection of books essentially documenting births, marriages and deaths. Their records can assist tracing a family as far back as 1570.
The parish registers of Turnworth are a collection of books documenting baptisms, marriages and burials from 1700 to 1872.
Original images of Dorset parish records. Including: poor rates, overseers, churchwardens, vestry, incumbents' and other records.
Abstracts of apprenticeship indentures initiated by parishes in Dorset. These records provide details on parents' names and occupations.
Original images of parish registers, searchable by a name index, covering almost all Dorset parishes.
Biographical Directories Covering Turnworth
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
A directory containing lengthy biographies of noted British figures. The work took over two decades to compile. Biographies can be searched by name and are linked to images of the original publication.
Turnworth Maps
Maps delineating fields in Dorset, which are referenced to documents recording field names, land owners, occupiers, land use and land size.
A collection of digitalised maps covering the county.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Turnworth Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Historical Description
TURNWORTH is a parish, 3 miles north from Shillingstone station, on the Midland and South Western Junction railway, and 6 miles west from Blandford, in the Northern division of the comity, Blandford petty sessional division, union and county court district, forming, with the parishes of Belchalwell and Shillingstone, a detached portion of that part of the hundred of Cranborne which is in the, West Shaston petty sessional division, being locally in the hundred of Pimperne, rural deanery of Whitchurch (Milton portion), archdeaconry of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a small edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays and north aisle, with a square embattled south-western tower containing 3 bells: it was originally built in the 13th century, and with the exception of the tower was rebuilt in 1869, in memory of William Parry-Okeden esq. : there are two stained windows, and some memorial tablets to the Okeden and Twinyhoe families: the church affords 140 sittings. The register dates from the year 1573, and there is a list of vicars and rectors from the 14th century to this date. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £139, net £120, with residence and 22 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Thomas Perkins M.A. of Christ’s College, Cambridge, and F. R. A. S. Turnworth House, the seat of Lieut.-Col. Uvedale Edward Parry-Okeden J.P. lord of the manor and sole landowner, is a handsome and commodious mansion, pleasantly situated in a valley and surrounded by scenery of a most picturesque description. The soil is light; subsoil, chalk. The crops are wheat and oats, and there is excellent pasture land in the neighbourhood. The area is 1,176 acres; rateable value, £692; the population in 1891 was 111.
Parish School (mixed), built in 1869, with clock, & house for mistress, for 40 children; average attendance, 20.
Most Common Surnames in Turnworth
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Cranborne Hundred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bolt | 10 | 1:12 | 10.31% | 437 |
| 2 | Chamberlain | 8 | 1:14 | 29.63% | 1,174 |
| 2 | Tory | 8 | 1:14 | 47.06% | 1,539 |
| 4 | Wheeler | 7 | 1:16 | 3.03% | 172 |
| 5 | Green | 6 | 1:19 | 0.88% | 20 |
| 5 | Giles | 6 | 1:19 | 6.12% | 432 |
| 5 | Snook | 6 | 1:19 | 3.21% | 222 |
| 5 | Rawles | 6 | 1:19 | 5.17% | 361 |
| 9 | Hunt | 5 | 1:23 | 0.65% | 12 |
| 9 | Gillingham | 5 | 1:23 | 1.36% | 81 |
| 11 | Williams | 4 | 1:29 | 0.63% | 26 |
| 11 | Thomas | 4 | 1:29 | 1.20% | 104 |
| 11 | Knight | 4 | 1:29 | 1.06% | 80 |
| 11 | Hart | 4 | 1:29 | 1.19% | 102 |
| 11 | Butt | 4 | 1:29 | 1.64% | 162 |
| 11 | Hiscock | 4 | 1:29 | 1.42% | 131 |
| 17 | James | 3 | 1:38 | 0.56% | 39 |
| 17 | Wells | 3 | 1:38 | 2.88% | 407 |
| 19 | Harding | 2 | 1:58 | 0.72% | 136 |
| 19 | Gilbert | 2 | 1:58 | 1.56% | 319 |
| 19 | Goddard | 2 | 1:58 | 0.88% | 177 |
| 19 | Crees | 2 | 1:58 | 14.29% | 1,745 |
| 23 | Cooper | 1 | 1:115 | 0.35% | 128 |
| 23 | Hamilton | 1 | 1:115 | 2.78% | 959 |
| 23 | Blake | 1 | 1:115 | 0.95% | 404 |
| 23 | Hayward | 1 | 1:115 | 0.32% | 114 |
| 23 | Littlewood | 1 | 1:115 | 33.33% | 4,444 |
| 23 | Burridge | 1 | 1:115 | 0.78% | 316 |
| 23 | Trowbridge | 1 | 1:115 | 0.53% | 218 |
| 23 | Kingsbury | 1 | 1:115 | 0.88% | 373 |
| 23 | Bristowe | 1 | 1:115 | 12.50% | 2,498 |
| 23 | Fenimore | 1 | 1:115 | 100.00% | 6,158 |