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Dorset Online Parish Clerk

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excellent website for researchers of families in Dorset.

Mormons website

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whatever your religion this website has a useful and large database of family records for the UK and US.

Somerset and Dorset Family History Society

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the society for family researchers in Somerset and Dorset, worth joining.

Commonwealth War Graves

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Search the debt of honour register for family members who died in military service.

Genealogy.com

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The web address above has links to useful forums dedicated to family names. Visit to the main site is also worthwhile..

The Dorset Page

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Interesting website with lots of useful information about the County of Dorset.

RAF 89th squadron

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Contains the history of the squadron in which my grandfather, Sidney Wareham, served in WW2 in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

RAF 2962 squadron

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Contains information about 2962 squadron in which my great uncle, Frank Wareham, served in WW2.

22nd Foot Regiment (Cheshires) - pocket history

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Matthias Horler's (senior) regiment (between 1841 and 1862). With info on the Scinde campaign in which he was involved. See also battle honours page for full account of Battle of Meeanee (also see other link below).

Great Dorset Steam Fair

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THE event in Dorset each year. A real treat.

RAF North Weald, Essex

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Battle of Britain history of the airfield where my grandfather Sidney Wareham was based between Sept 1940 and April 1942

Ancestry.co.uk

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Very useful site for family history records particularly for census records from the mid-19th century to 1901.

Horler One Name Study

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A website by Tony Meighan dedicated to the history and geneology of the Horler name and family.

Workhouse History Site

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As some of my ancestors had the lack of fortune to end up in a poor law workhouse here is a link to an excellent website on this type of institution. My great grandparents Matthias Horler and Minnie Say even met working at Bath workhouse!

Derrick (or Dirrick) family

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Information about the Derrick's of Ubley from whom I am descended through the Horlers and Says. Thomas Say married Anporria Derrick in Ubley in 1781. See information on ancestor Edmund Derrick on this site.


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