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    Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries

    These volumes contain a wealth of information on families, places and events in
    Dorset and Somerset, and are of interest to both genealogists, and local historians.
    [ I have mentioned just a few of the articles for each volume. ]






  1. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Hugh Norris and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volumes 1 - 10 inclusive. Illusts, folding pedigrees, 10 volumes, in early qtr calf, marbled boards, leather labels on 5 volumes others have labels missing, one board almost loose, 5 volumes have splits to hinges though sound, edges of covers rubbed. Sherborne: J.C. Sawtell: 1890-1907. £150.00
    * Includes articles:- Chafy or Chaffe family; Druitt family; Templecombe; Selworthy Parish; Staple Fitzpaine; Stillingfleet family; Wool Parish Registers; Strode of Shepton Mallet; Henvill family; Venn family; Wick and Wycke; Woodyates; Keynsham Abbey; Barrington Court; Purbeck Quarrymen; Langport coins; Echyngham of Brianston; Hine family; Payne family; Poole Deeds; Roman villa; Brislington; Northover Register; Stone and Catash Hundred; Coker of Dorset; Dyke family; Riot at Dorchester; Poole Deeds; Roman villa; Brislington; Northover Register; Stone and Catash Hundred; Coker of Dorset; Dyke family; Riot at Dorchester; Somerset Dialect; Dorset Alehouse-Keepers and Tipplers; Heraldry of Tombs in Nunney Church; Highmore Family; Loders Church; Manor of Croscombe; Standerwick family; Dorset Standing Committee; Pleistocene Mammalia at Uphill; Huish; Dorset Mediaeval Bells; William Dyer, A Somerset Royalist in New England; Churchwardens' Accounts of Kingsdon, Somerset; Chichester family; Pole family of Shute; Langport Church Heraldry; Worth Matravers Registers; Wimborne Grammar School; Castle Cary Court Roll; Witchcraft in Dorset; Thick family; Cerne Abbas; Norton-sub-Hamdon Accounts; Clarke family; Fire at Weymouth; Witchcraft in Somerset; Stowell Register, Somerset; Swyre Register, Dorset; Berkeley of Bruton; Browne family; Isham family; Rolls or, Rolle, or Rawle family; Chilcott of Dorset; King of West Hall, Dorset; Bruton School Foundation Deed; Bruton Abbey; Fire at Blandford Forum; Drewitt of Cheddar; Gould family; Howard family; Llewellyn family of Wells; Milborne Port Register; Chewton Mendip Vicarage; Black Dog of Langport; Sherborne School; Squibb family; Yetminster Terrier; Somerset Fairs; Gillingham and Forest; Pounsett Family; Tyneham; Witham Friary; John Naper of West Baglake; Lovell heraldry; Leach family; Dorset Fishermen; Dorset Marriages; Somerset Manors; Yeoman family; Westcombe family; Clifton of Barrington; Dyer family; Hardys of Toller Whelme, etc.






  2. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 4. Illusts, 384pp, in 8 parts, with the original printed wraps, though without the part which contained the title and Index, which was issued separately, ink lines to spines of some parts. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. March 1894 - December 1895. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Chewton Mendip Vicarage; Black Dog of Langport; Sherborne School; Squibb family; Yetminster Terrier; Somerset Fairs, etc.






  3. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 5. Illusts, vii + 376pp, including index, untrimmed in later cloth, leather label on spine, covers lightly rubbed. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. 1897. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Worth Matravers Registers; Wimborne Grammar School; Castle Cary Court Roll; Witchcraft in Dorset, Thick family; Cerne Abbas; Norton-sub-Hamdon Accounts; Clarke family; Fire at Weymouth, etc.






  4. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederick William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 5. 376pp, complete in 8 parts, all with the original printed wraps. J.C. and A.T. Sawtell, Sherborne: March 1896 - December 1897. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Worth Matravers Registers; Wimborne Grammar School; Castle Cary Court Roll; Witchcraft in Dorset, Thick family; Cerne Abbas; Norton-sub-Hamdon Accounts; Clarke family; Fire at Weymouth, etc.






  5. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 6. 7 parts of 8 only. 7 parts all in the original printed wraps. J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. Sherborne: March, 1898-December, 1899. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Churchwardens' Accounts of Kingsdon, Somerset; Bruton Registers; Marnhull Terrier; Craucombe Deeds; Courtenay-Clyvedon, etc.






  6. Somerset and Dorset and Dorset, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 7. Illusts, 378pp, early half roan, cloth boards, edges rubbed, spine chipped, outer hinges split at head of spine. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. 1901. £20.00
    * Includes articles:- Poole Deeds; Roman villa, Brislington; Northover Register; Stone and Catash Hundred; Coker of Dorset; Dyke family; Riot at Dorchester; Somerset Dialect; Dorset Alehouse-Keepers and Tipplers; Heraldry of Tombs in Nunney Church; Highmore Family; Loders Church, etc.






  7. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 7. Illusts, iv + 378pp, complete in the original 8 parts in the printed wraps, handwritten notes to some spines. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell, March 1900 - December 1901. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Poole Deeds; Roman villa, Brislington; Northover Register; Stone and Catash Hundred; Coker of Dorset; Dyke family; Riot at Dorchester, etc.






  8. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 7. Illusts, iv + 378pp, untrimmed in early cloth. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell, March 1900 - December 1901. £20.00
    * Includes articles:- Poole Deeds; Roman villa, Brislington; Northover Register; Stone and Catash Hundred; Coker of Dorset; Dyke family; Riot at Dorchester, etc.






  9. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 8. Illusts, iv + 386pp, early binders cloth. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. 1903. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Blagdon Park, Cranborne; Kewstoke Reliquary; Somerset Poll Tax; Fane of Fivehead; Sydenham Pedigree; Dudderidge family; Vineyards in Dorset; Marshall Marriages; Gillingham family; Skeletons found at Huish Episcopi, etc.






  10. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 10. Illusts, 384pp, early library style qtr morocco, binders cloth, title and dates on spine, and number '10' in biro on spine. Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell. 1907. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Lovell heraldry; Leach family; Dorset Fishermen; Dorset Marriages; Somerset Manors; Yeoman family; Westcombe family; Clifton of Barrington; Dyer family; Hardys of Toller Whelme, etc, etc.






  11. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 11. 395pp, complete in 8 parts all in the original printed wraps. Sherborne: March 1908-December 1909. £14.00
    * Includes articles:- Bayliffe of Castle Cary; Beaminster deeds; Lillington Manor; Mere registers; Swinnerton-Dyer family; Stawell Monuments, etc.






  12. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors William Frederick Weaver and Chares Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 11. Illusts, 395pp, early binders cloth, covers lightly rubbed, title-page darkened. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell, 1909. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Terrier and Modus of Shillingston; Marwood and Blackaller Families; Bayliffe of Castle Cary; Beaminster deeds; Lillington Manor; Mere registers; Swinnerton-Dyer family; Stawell Monuments, etc.






  13. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederick William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 14. 368pp, complete in 8 parts, all in the original printed wraps. Sherborne: March 1914 - December 1915. £12.00





  14. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 14. Illusts, 368pp, early library style qtr morocco, cloth boards, lightly rubbed. Sherborne: J.C and A.T. Sawtell. 1915. £22.00
    * Includes articles:- Seats in Gillingham Church, Courtenay family, Loders, Clavill family, Dowderidge family, Estates of George Pitt; Rentals of the Estates of George Pitt; Hallett family of Stedcombe; Parsonage of Somerton, etc.






  15. Somerset and Dorset and Dorset, editors G.W. Saunders and Charles Hebert Mayo NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 15. 5 parts of 8 only. 5 parts all in the original printed wraps, lacks parts CXIV (114), CXVIII (118), and CXIX (119). Sherborne: March 1916 - December 1917. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Marnhull Tithes; Leachcraft in Dorset; Merriott Scratch Dials; Rev. John Collinson; Symonds Arms, Chardstock, etc.






  16. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 16, Parts 6 of 8, only. 6 parts in the original printed wraps, lacks parts, CXXIV (123), and CXXVI (126). Sherborne: March 1918 - September 1920. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Woborne Almshouse, Yeovil; Gorges Family of Wraxhall; Manor of Blackmoor in Cannington; Wreck on Chesil Beach in 1641; Henville Family, etc.






  17. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors Rev. G.W. Saunders and Rev. R.G. Bartelot NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 19. Illusts, 306pp, recent cloth. Sherborne: J.C. and A.T. Sawtell. 1929. £24.00
    * Includes articles:- Dorset Place Names; Milverton Fishery; Marke family; Turbervill family; Sticklepath; Uvedale family; Scratch Dials; Glastonbury Waters; Canon Mayo; Ower; King's School, Bruton; Dorset People in New England; Bonham Family; Hampreston Church Registers; Heirs of Sir William De Revny, etc.






  18. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 20. 9 parts of 12 only. 9 parts in the original printed wraps, lacks parts CLXV (165), CLXVIII (168), and CLXXI (171). Sherborne: March 1930 - December 1932. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Martocks Wardens Account (1675-1617); Somerset Ships; West Bay in July-August, 1690; Damer Family; Pitt Family, etc.






  19. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors G.W. Saunders and R.G. Bartelot NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 21. 10 parts of 12 only. 10 parts in the original printed wraps, lacks parts CLXXXIII (183), and CLXXXV (185). Sherborne: March 1933 - December 1935. £8.00
    * Includes articles:- Martock; Barry family; Anabaptists in Dorset; Blandford; Chard-Honiton Turnpikes; Maiden Castle Sports, etc.






  20. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries A SHORT INDEX TO SOMERSET AND DORSET NOTES AND QUERIES. Volumes 23 - 32. (1939/42 - 1986/90). Compiled by L.E.J. Brooke 26pp, original card covers. Creeds, Bridport: 1991. £4.00





  21. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors G.W. Saunders and Joseph Fowler NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 24. 16 parts of 17. 16 parts in the original printed wraps, one top wrap dusty, lacks part CCXVII (217). Sherborne: Sawtell March 1943 - December 1946. £12.00
    * Includes articles:- Manor of Tarrant Gunville; Payne family; Cloth Trade in Somerset; Dorset Wills; Kennet and Avon Canal; Dr, Claver Morris; Clare family, etc.






  22. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Part 247. 20pp, original wraps. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1951. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Paper Mill at Chewton Keynsham; Roman Farm at Catsgore, Somerton, etc.






  23. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Part 248. Pages numbered 21-40, original wraps. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1951. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Sherborne Abbey Church 1557-8; Ilchester as seen by John Skinner; Sherborne Abbey Bells; Robert Young, poet of Sturminster Newton, etc.






  24. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Part 249. Pages numbered 41-60, original wraps. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1951. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- St. Mary's, Sherborne Churchwardens' Accounts; Ilchester Mead; Letters of Rev. George Harbin to John and Margaret Bampfylde 1719-1744, etc.






  25. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Part 250. Pages numbered 61-80, original wraps. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1952. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Dorset Inventory from Syndercombe Papers; Paper Mills in Somerset, etc.






  26. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Part 252. Pages numbered 101-120, original wraps. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1952. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Taunton Mechanics Institute; Plague of 1665 in Sherborne; Windmills in Somerset, etc.






  27. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Part 254. Pages numbered 141-160, original wraps. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1953. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Henry de Bruton; Mormons in Taunton; Somerset and Dorset Waifs and Strays, etc.






  28. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Part 255. Pages numbered 161-180, original wraps top wrap partly faded. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1953. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Windmills in Somerset; Sherborne Cloth Trade; Decline in Sheep Farming in Dorset; Somerset and Dorset Waifs and Strays, etc.






  29. Somerset and Dorset NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 26. Index. 12pp, original wraps. Sherborne: Sawtells, 1955. £4.00





  30. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors T.J. Hunt and T.A. Brocklebank NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 29. 8 parts of 12, with Index volume. 9 parts and the Index volume all in the original printed wraps, lacks parts 289, 290, 291 and 292. Hammetts, Taunton: March 1968 - September 1973. £6.00
    * Includes articles:- Storm of 1824 in Dorset; Perambulation of Buckland Newton, 1758; Descent of Manors of Langford Budville and West Runnington; John Oldmixon and the Family of Admiral Blake; Bridport Shipping, etc.






  31. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET. Volume 31. March 1980 - September 1985. Illusts, 476 + 48 page Index, complete in 13 parts, all in the original printed wraps. Bridport: C.J. Creed, 1980-1986. £20.00
    * Includes articles:- Shipping in Weymouth; Dorset Windmills; History of Hutton; Shepton Mallet Riot of 1753; Poaching at Wiveliscombe; Orchardleigh Charters; Bridport Textile Industry; Thomas Hardy and the Dorchester Pouncys, etc.






  32. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 32. Part 323. Pages numbered:- 477-532, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 1986. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- William Barnes 8 articles; Brewcombe; Lichtenberg's letter to William Herschel, etc.






  33. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 32. Part 325. Pages numbered:- 569-604, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 1987. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- "Invasion" at Weymouth, 1804; Wells' Inns; The Belets; Ship Inn, Porlock, etc.






  34. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 32. Part 326. Pages numbered:- 605-640, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 1987. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Gateshouse, Baltonsborough; Iron Indusry in Mells and Nunney; Yeovil Household Goods, 1520, etc.






  35. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 32. Part 327. Centenary Issue. Pages numbered:- 641-688, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 1988. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- William Barnes and his wood-engravings; Russell of Weymouth; Wool-Bovington Railway, etc.






  36. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and others NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 35. Part 353 only. 48pp, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 2001. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Peirs family of Wells; Nonconformist Taylors of Bridport; John Fitzgerald Pennie, etc.






  37. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and others NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 35. Part 354 only. Pages numbered 49-92, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 2001. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Bishops Palace, Wells; Durnovaria, the Roman Name of Dorchester; Rodden Church in 1832, etc.






  38. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editor G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 35. Part 355 only. Pages numbered 93-136, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 2002. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Anti-vaccination movement in Weston-super-Mare; Cerne Abbas relic lists; Defrauding the customs in 1785, etc.






  39. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editor G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 35. Part 356 only. Pages numbered 137-184, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 2002. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Mystery of Mellifont Abbey; Robert Gambier at Stinsford; Seaside mesmerism, etc.






  40. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editor G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 35. Part 357 only. Pages numbered 185-232, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 2003. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- War Crimes in the Civil War; Dorset By-election of 1831, Bubwith's Almshouse, Wells, etc.






  41. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editor G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 35. Part 358 only. Pages numbered 233-284, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 2003. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- The Hayward; John Oker, organist at Wells Cathedral; Somerset Peasantry, 1846, etc.






  42. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editor G.J. Davies NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 35. Part 359 only. Pages numbered 285-336, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 2004. £4.00
    * Includes articles:- Portland Stone Trade, 1718-9; Dorset Mills in 16th and 17th century; Smugglers' Defiance, 1784, etc.






  43. Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, editors D.M.M. Shorrocks and others NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET Volume 35. The first 9 of 10 parts only, parts 353-361, original printed wraps. Creeds, Bridport: 2001-2005 £16.00
    * Includes articles:- Peirs family of Wells; Witham Friary Church; Mellifont Abbey; Portland Stone Trade; Lullington; Flower and Grange Family of Norton St. Philip, etc.


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