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Kingston in the Purbeck Hills

Part of the Dorset Online Parish Clerk network

DORSET OPC

Welcome to the website for Kingston, a delightful village in the Purbeck Hills of Dorset.


Whether you are just looking to visit Kingston for the day, or you are researching your family history, you will find a wealth of information on this site including photographs old & new, historic postcard views, baptism, marriage and burial records, census entries, wills and probate records and much much more besides.


The information on this website, hosted by Martin White as part of the Dorset Online Parish Clerk network, is provided for personal use and private research only. None of the information may be used for commercial purposes.


Welcome

Added in April 2013

•  Guestbook message: Norman Wells - researching the DOREY family


Added in March 2013

•  Families: The BARNES Family - ‘printer-friendly’ pdf version added

•  Families: The BUGLER Family - ‘printer-friendly’ pdf version added

•  Families: The HUNT 1 Family - ‘printer-friendly’ pdf version added

•  Families: The LOXSTON Family - ‘printer-friendly’ pdf version added

•  Families: The MEDD Family - ‘printer-friendly’ pdf version added

•  News from Kingston :  March 2013

•  Probate: Alice DOREY nee TATCHELL died 9 August 1951

•  Probate: Richard HOLLAND died 10 July 1887

•  Probate: John LANGTREE died 26 December 1933

•  Probate: Sarah Elizabeth LANGTREE nee EDWARDS died 13 May 1953

•  Probate: Harriet Deborah MILLER died 29 August 1947

•  School: Photograph of schoolchildren on see-saw in 1946 courtesy of Belinda Norman


Added in February 2013

•  Families: The BARNES Family - information and photographs courtesy of Judy Forgan

•  News from Kingston :  February 2013


Added in January 2013

•  News from Kingston :  January 2013

•  Probate: William Charles COOPER died 8 April 1962



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The see-saw at Kingston School in 1946

Many thanks to Belinda Norman for sending in this photograph

From left to right:

Margaret PEARSON, Rene DAMER, Colin SANSOM, Miss HARE, Dorothy SQUIRES, Gwen COOPER, Maurice GALE, Margaret WHITE.