West Lulworth

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Can you help identify people in this photograph?

The following photograph was taken at the boathouse in the Cove and has been sent to us by Victoria Thorpe who has identified her great grandfather, the first Robert Orchard Williams (1859-1926) and his brother Henry William Williams (1862-) known as ‘Bill’.  

Can you name any of the other people pictured? What was the event? When did it take place?

Please email info@westlulworth.org.uk with any information you have

Welcome to the West Lulworth OPC website, hosted by Martin White, as part of the Dorset OPC network.

The aim of this site is to provide historical information about West Lulworth and the people who have lived here over the centuries. As well as making information from old parish registers and census returns available, we include old postcard views and photographs, and lots more besides.

If you have any information about West Lulworth which you would like to share, be it stories or old photographs etc., please email us at info@westlulworth.org.uk  

The information on this website is provided for private research only. None of the information may be used for commercial purposes.

See our sister sites for East Lulworth and Tyneham.

Welcome

Introduction to West Lulworth

West Lulworth is a coastal parish surrounded by Chaldon Herring on the west and then Winfrith Newburgh and East Lulworth. The village is close to the shore and the renowned circular bay called Lulworth Cove. The Church of the Holy Trinity has registers dating form the 16th century, there is also a Congregational Chapel built in 1835. St Andrews, Burngate, Bindon Hill and Belhuish are hamlets in the parish. There is a school built in 1862 and a Coastguard Station. Population in 1891 was 464.
                                                                                           Information from Kelly's Directory 1895

Latest updates to site

Added in May 2012

• Probate Records after 1858:

Charles Emanuel BAGG died 15 February 1928

James DICKER died 15 June 1938

Francis Edward HARVELL died 12 March 1934

Selina Arabella KIDD (nee READ) died 19 March 1932

Eliza Matilda Maria Anna MEAD died 4 May 1888

George Derham REEKS died 1 April 1938

Edward Joseph SNELLING died 29 January 1898

Fanny TUCKER died 9 December 1927

William TUCKER died 3 March 1917

Added in April 2012

• Guestbook message - Penny Florey

Added in March 2012

• Electors: 1921

• Graveyards: Old - layout plan, indexes and inscriptions courtesy of Mike Halsall

• Guestbook message - Mrs Anne Loader

• Kelly’s Directory - 1931
• Maps - Village Trail
• Probate Records after 1858:

      Matilda Meaden died 16 June 1934

      Mary Anne Frances Wordsworth died 2 September 1938

Added in February 2012

• Families - The Williams Family courtesy of Victoria Thorpe

Victoria Thorpe’s great grandmother, Amy Williams, was born Amy Esther James in Paddington, West London on 30 January 1863. She became nursemaid to the wealthy Hambro family of London bankers in the early 1880’s and accompanied them on holiday to Lulworth. There she met Robert Orchard Williams and on 27 November 1884 they married and moved into a cottage adjoining the Castle Inn.

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1914 ELECTORS

BAPTISMS* FROM 1837 to 1905

*These are currently being checked and are available for look up now by emailing info@westlulworth.org.uk

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