Dorset Parish Records on Ancestry - how complete?

[ScottH]

Does anyone know how complete the Dorset marriage records on Ancestry are? I've found the marriage below in the indexes, but I can't seem to find it in the Dorset records.

Thomas Loveless
Sarah Hallett
District: Bridport
Year: 1875
Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Volume 5A
Page 717

A tree on Ancestry says they married at Baptist Chapel, Bradpole, Dorset on 4 April 1875, but unfortunately they've not uploaded any images or included any other details.

The other couple in the index are James Bowdidge Taylor and Catherine Manley, and they also seem to be missing. I'm guessing the records for where they married just aren't on Ancestry, rather than them being mistranscribed.

[nanny jan]

Hi,

According to their website;

"This database contains images of Church of England marriage records and banns in registers from parishes in Dorset County."

If they married in a Baptist Chapel then the records are probably not in the database.

Nanny Jan

[ScottH]

Thanks for the quick response.

[Redroger]

Firstly try the Dorset History centre to see if they have any Baptist Records; if not then Google Baptist records and the address of the Baptist church HQ in London will come up. They may be able to help. A slight digression; DON'T try looking for infant baptismal records. The Baptists baptise concenting adults only, and then by total immersion. Often, if a coastal congregation the baptisms took place in the sea, but a local river was often used too. A person being baptised according to these rites will be at least 14 years old.

[yondover]

The baptist chapel could be Chardsmead Baptist Chapel, Victoria Grove, Bridport this would have been in the Bradpole area until it was swallowed up by the expansion of Bridport. Have a relative being married there in the 1920's.

[toby webb]

  There certainly are omissions and perhaps yours is too.
     A hamlet just west of Dorchester known as Compton Abbas i.e. that makes 2 in Dorset. It is therefore  sometimes known as West Compton  to avoid confusion with the other Dorset Compton Abbas which is near Shaftesbury.
      Ancestry provides parish records for the Shaftesbury Compton Abbas but not the Dorchester
 Compton Abbas i.e.West Compton. Fortunately the Dorchester Archives have them.

Missing also is the parish of Symondbury from 1851 Census .
so Joseph Cleall 39 dairyman b. S. Perrott (HO107 1861  429  5) and family do not appear.