Category Archives: transcription

Milton Abbas Poor House

Posted on September 10, 2025 by miltonabbashistorygroup

©Bryan Phillips Sep 2025 I was reading the latest issue of The Local Historian August 2025 about ‘Galloping’ Head, a man who had been appointed Assistant Poor Law Commissioner for Kent in 1834. It was his job to meet all the … Continue reading →

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1921 Census

Posted on May 4, 2025 by miltonabbashistorygroup

©Bryan Phillips May 2025 Our member and group secretary, Deborah Paterson, has carried out an enormous amount of work on the 1921 Census. This is not available on opc.dorset (nor is the 1911 Census). She has used the original Census … Continue reading →

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Will of Edward Damer, 1703

Posted on July 22, 2024 by miltonabbashistorygroup

©Bryan Phillips Jul 2024  Wills and inventories are a marvellous source of information for local and family historians. Our super transcriber Shirley Chick has just completed the will of Edward Damer 1703. This gives a wealth of information on the … Continue reading →

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D-Day and the 1939 Register

Posted on May 21, 2024 by miltonabbashistorygroup

©Bryan Phillips May 2024  With the 80th anniversary of D-Day the Milton Abbas Local History Group have the resources to track the people involved from Milton Abbas. We have Why not share your findings with us? Contact us.

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The Sale of Hilton manor to Lord Milton 1784

Posted on April 7, 2024 by miltonabbashistorygroup

© Bryan Phillips Apr 2024 We have obtained some high resolution images of the deed of sale of the village of Hilton to Lord Milton. This was dated 15 May 1784, and there are twenty large pages of it. One … Continue reading →

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Evidence from local Parish Registers

Posted on October 6, 2023 by miltonabbashistorygroup

Turnworth 1747 Whipping boys at Rogationtide perambulations There is a great deal of evidence of how people lived and played in records, sometimes in surprising places. It is always good practise to view the original documents rather that transcriptions by … Continue reading →

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The Hilton Controversy 1848

Posted on July 18, 2023 by miltonabbashistorygroup

Thanks to Samantha Fiander for finding some thirteen letters and editorials published in The Times between 26 October and 29 November 1848 concerning the typhus epidemic in Hilton during that year. This search was prompted by the article in the … Continue reading →

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Milton Abbas Grammar School

Posted on July 10, 2023 by miltonabbashistorygroup

We have collected all the leases for the grammar school in Milton Abbas which are in the Dorset History Centre. These 34 leases from 1616 to 1774 prove that the feoffees of the school were active in the management of … Continue reading →

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Dark Days of Georgian Britain

Posted on June 3, 2023 by miltonabbashistorygroup

I have just finished reading this book. I have to say that it was one of the most difficult books I have ever read – not because of its difficulty, erudition or academic depth – but because of the sheer … Continue reading →

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Milton Abbas Grammar School

Posted on February 28, 2023 by miltonabbashistorygroup

Our progress so far – we have collected all the leases for the grammar school in Milton Abbas which are in the Dorset History Centre. These 34 leases from 1616 to 1774 prove that the feoffees of the school were … Continue reading →

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