Introduction
My name is Deborah Carmichael
and I am the GENUKI on-line parish clerk for the West Dorset parishes of
Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Monkton Wyld, Symondsbury, Whitchurch Canonicorum
& Wootton Fitzpaine.
Anciently, these parishes
were part of the old Dorsetshire Hundred of Whitchurch.
View a contemporary area map from multimap
View Robert Creighton's 1830 map of Dorsetshire
View
a map of the old Hundred of Whitway (Whitchurch)
Uplyme, Chardstock, Dalwood,
Hawkchurch Stockland & Wambrook were also within the
Hundred of Whitchurch
& details about my record holdings for these parishes
can be found on my
Devon OPC website
After 1834 Lyme Regis was part of the Axminster
Poor Law Union.
Charmouth, Symondsbury, Whitchurch Canonicorum
& Wootton Fitzpaine
were part of the Bridport Poor Law Union
Find
Axminster & Bridport Workhouse & Poor Law Union on Workhouses.org
About GENUKI
On-line Parish Clerks
important
please read
I am a family historian & not affiliated with the church or local Parish Council in any way.
My focus is on the pre-20th century inhabitants of the above parishes.
I cannot reunite you with
long lost friends or trace living persons, try 192.com
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House history etc is
outside the scope of my endeavours,
enquiries of this nature
are better directed to the County Records Office or local history societies.
Please be aware that I do not live in the area.
All information supplied
is for the purpose of private study and research only.
About my Parish Resources
Records are available for look-up by contacting me.
I use primary source material
to make my transcriptions and indexes.
Remember, transcriptions
are subject to human error &
indexes should be regarded
as finding aids only,
so for verification
purposes I also recommend that
you check the original
source yourself.
Don't forget you can
search an ever-expanding on-line database of Dorset records
on the
Dorset OPC website
What's New?
More burials!
Links to on-line transcriptions
of Wootton Fitzpaine 1841, 1861 & 1871 census
& 1861 Symondsbury
census.
See the parish pages.
Links to on-line transcriptions
of 1838 Tithe Apportionments.
See the parish pages.
Links to on-line transcriptions
of Wootton Fitzpaine & Symondsbury marriages.
See the parish pages
Etiquette
important
please read this too
Sometimes life gets in the way of genealogy
& my inbox runneth over!
Please be patient. I'll get back to you as
soon as I can but
I can't necessarily guarantee a two week turn
around.
It may be stating the obvious, but it is courteous
to say
thank you if I send you information.
Without that acknowledgement please do not expect
any further assistance from me.
Look-up
Request Guidelines
important
please read this as well
I only offer free look-ups as they relate to the parishes & records named on this site.
Please limit your look-up request to one parish at a time.
When making your request help me to help you by providing as much specific detail as you can.
Please don't ask me to
undertake speculative surname searches in a parish
if you do not have any
known connection with that parish.
I do not undertake blanket
surname
searches for the purpose of one-name studies.
Click on
the parish name to see what's in the parish chest
This
page last updated 10 February 2005
