This page is for who would like to publish their research. We can add a new page for each note which we receive. If you wish to publish in this way please contact: information@dorchester-association.co.uk
001 – Dorchester Pubs – Thursday 28th May 2009
002 – The Second Tribe – Tuesday 25th August 2009
003 – History On The Doorstep – Wednesday 30th September 2009
004 – Who Spoke Welsh? – Friday 14th December 2012
005 – Brigadier Charles Woodhouse – Friday 14th December 2012
006 – Dorchester Blue Plaques – Thursday 28th February 2013
007 – Dorchester’s Friary and its MP owners – 28th March 2021
008 – Dorchester Radio Station booklet – 19th May 2022
009 – Celebrating the Dorchester Company – 29th February 2024
010 – The Cerne Giant – Our Dorset icon – 8th April 2024
This new section is for those who have forebears from Dorchester and its environs and who wish to share some element of their family history.
We start with the Pitfield family, who have links with Fordington. Michael Pitfield writes “I can tell you that many poorer members of the family in the 19th century lived in Mill Street and were mainly agricultural labourers while the wives and daughters were laundresses. There were also a number of illegitimate children and child deaths. Mary Pitfield referred to in para two of the below, who was transported, lived in Mill Street. George John Pitfield, publican of The Bull’s Head was my great-grandfather.”
Photographs copyright Michael Pitfield.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fordingtondorset/genealogy/Files/PitfieldFamily.html
George Pitfield. Innkeeper of the Union Arms, Fordington, and his son, George John Pitfield with his wife Alice Mary, Innkeepers of The Bulls Head, Fordington.
For those with an interest in the Pitfield family, an extensive genealogy put together by Hugh Pitfield, is available here for download.
See also Michael Pifield’s blog about Mary Pitfield. “Crime – or was it poverty? – and Punishment”.
https://sdfhs.org/category/blog/