Ashmore genealogy heraldry and family history resources

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Description

Ashmore, a parish in Dorset, contiguous to Wilts, 5 miles SE of Shaftesbury, and 9 from Semley station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order office, Fontmell Magna; telegraph office, Donhead St Andrew. Acreage, 2376; population, 228. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £180. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The Church of St Nicholas is in the Early English style, and was built on the site of the old one in 1874, and contains some fine stained glass windows.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5


Census

Below are links to all of the Ashmore census returns available online, with the dates the census' were taken
6th June 1841
30th March 1851
7th April 1861
2nd April 1871
3rd April 1881
5th April 1891
31st March 1901