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Over 22,000 new Dorset parish records published
We have just published 22,989 new parish records for Dorset on findmypast.co.uk: 1,533 baptisms, 8,084 marriages and 13,372 burials.
The Dorset Family History Society provided us with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.
The table below gives details of each set of records:
| Type of records | Number of records |
Years covered | Parishes covered |
| Baptisms | 1,533 | 1538-1839 | Okeford Fitzpaine
Portesham |
| Marriages | 8,084 | 1546-1839 | Gillingham
Melcombe Regis Portland Gussage All Saints Glanvilles Wootton Lytchet Matravers Fordington Longbredy Frampton Okeford Fitzpaine Fontmell Magna Holnest Halstock Shipton Gorge Bishops Caundle Lydlinch Licence Hooke Frome St Quintin |
| Burials | 13,372 | 1573-1749 | Chettle
Cranborne Dorchester All Saints Dorchester Holy Trinity Dorchester St Peter Gussage All Saints Melbury Abbas Okeford Fitzpaine Portesham Wyke Regis |
Find your Dorset ancestors in our parish records collection.
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