Turners Puddle

Baptisms 1580 to 1812

Transcribed from the Parish Registers and microfilms of the Bishop's Transcripts held at the Dorset History Centre and donated to the Dorset OPC Project by Kim Parker

Arranged according to the Gregorian Calendar, with the Julian year indicated to the left of the forward slash (/) in those years when the Julian Calendar, which ran from March 25th to March 24th, was in use (i.e. prior to 1752, 1751 being the transition year).

The Turnerspuddle Registers are very patchy, significant chunks having been lost. Ecclesiatically, Turnerspuddle was was in the jurisdiction of the Dean of Sarum rather than the Archdeaconry of Dorset. This is a boon for genealogists, since the BTs of this Parish were not deposited at Blandford Forum where the Archdeaconry of Dorset stored its BTs and which were destroyed in the great fire that swept through that town in 1731. Coverage is, however, incomplete.

With special thanks to Mrs Gill Neal of the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre who consulted the original 1673/4 BT to check the name of a child obscured by a fold in the parchment (Francis, son of Abel & Bridget Fancy).

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