Portland Churches

Time to get back to Portland.

I wished that I was within a short drive of Portland today.  When I was looking up the date for the demise of St.Andrew's church I found out all kinds of interesting things, and the hikes along the coast look spectacular.  Apparently there is a pirate cemetery beside the St.Andrew's ruins, though the gravestones are illegible.

Here are some key dates regarding the churches, those essential repositories of all information genealogical, which I found on a helpful site titled "Chronology of the Island of Portland 700 - 1905 AD": (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pbtyc/Portland/PYB/Chronology.html.)


1475. St. Andrew's Church dedicated.
1676. This is the earliest date decipherable on a tombstone in the old St. Andrew's Churchyard. The name on the stone is Attwooll.
1752. Last recorded burial in St. Andrew's Churchyard.
1754. St. George's Parish Church was begun in this year.
1756. Services transferred from the old St. Andrew's Church to the " Tabernacle" for ten years.
1764. The new church of S. George was completed.
1766 (July 29th). St. George's Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Bristol. King George II gave £500 to the Church. The register at St. George's Church dates from this year.