« Reply #22 on: Friday 01 April 11 18:52 BST (UK) »
Did your aunt write the place name down or are you spelling it as you heard it? I'm from Dorset originally and there are a lot of place names which are abbreviated locally. Perhaps you should be looking for a town or village in the Dorchester district which might be abbreviated and take into account local pronunciation.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott