Dear David, I beleive that the LDS Church filmed the BTs for St. James, Poole (baptisms 1802 - 1880 & marriages 1841 - 1846) and you can access them on their Family Search site. A better link yo them would be via Hugh Wallis' pages - see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryEngland.htm You will see that they have also filmed some of the Poole non-conformist records including Skinner Street Independant (baptisms 1741 - 1847), Hill Street Presbyterian (baptisms 1760 - 1837), Hill Street Baptist (baptisms 1787 - 1837) & Chapel Lane Weslyan (1809 - 1837) and it might be worth checking these also. I don't believe that any earlier BTs exist though. If you prefer, you could view the films at one of their Family History Centres (if you pre-book them). You could also contact Dorset Family History Society - see www.dorsetfhs.org.uk as they have the Poole St. James parish records from 1653 on microfiche. Otherwise it means contacting Dorset History Centre (Dorset County Records Office) who have the original records filmed on microfiche from about 1558 - see www.dorsetforyou.com/archives Regards Vanessa Dorset ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Pike" <dapike@mun.ca> To: <dorset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 12:50 PM Subject: [DOR] Bishops Transcripts for Poole ? > > > Does anybody happen to know if Bishops Transcripts exist for Poole (St > James), and if so, where might they be? > > Many of the pre-1700 entries in the parish register are lost (numerous > pages appear to have been destroyed by mould), so I'm hoping that BTs > might still preserve the information. > > Thanks, > > - David. > > > *************************************** >