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Guide to Great Moulton, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Great Moulton, Norfolk | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Depwade |
| County | Norfolk |
| Poor Law Union | Depwade |
| Registration District | Depwade |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1560 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1705 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Depwade |
| Diocese | Norwich |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk |
| Location of Archive | |
| Norfolk Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
MOULTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Depwade, E. division of Norfolk, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Long Stratton. The parishes of Great and Little Moulton were formerly distinct, but on the demolition of the church of the latter (All Saints) in 1570, they were united. [1]
Great Moulton St Michael or Moulton St Michael is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Registration District:
- Depwade
Church records[edit | edit source]
Great Moulton, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Great Moulton, Norfolk Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1725-1880 | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | |||
| FS ATs | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | 1725-1812 | |||
| FS BTs | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined | Undefined |
| TIN | 1813-1880 | |||||
This parish's registers do not appear on FamilySearch as no microfilm for the parish is held
A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:
Archdeacons transcripts, 1725-1812 Contains records for St. Michaels Church and All Saints Church. Great Moulton was also know as Moulton-St. Michael. All Saints Church may have served both Great Moulton and Little Moulton. Little Moulton was a hamlet in the parish of Great Moulton, and may have been annexed to Great Moulton.
| Content |
Film |
| Baptisms, burials and marriages 1725-1812 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1526807 Item 7 |
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Union[edit | edit source]
See also England Norfolk Poor Law Union Records - FamilySearch Historical Records
Non-Conformist Chapel[edit | edit source]
Great Moulton Congregational. The "tin church" is now preserved at the East Anglian Museum of Rural Life in Stowmarket Suffolk.
The building was manufactured by Boulton and Paul of Norwich in the 1890's and served for a century as a meeting place until the Congregational Church built new premises.
Norwich Surrey Chapel Undenominational
Sub-Chapels
Norfolk Record Office Reference FC 76/87
Great Moulton Chapel, Church Meeting minutes
Date 1898-1940
Description Exterior photograph, balance sheets, and papers re sale of chapel, 1970-1971, inserted.
This Undenominational Congregation was formed as a result of the secession from the Church of England in 1845 of Robert Govett (1813-1901), previously curate of St Stephen's parish, Norwich. The immediate cause was Govett's views on infant baptism. Surrey Chapel was built in 1854 to house the congregation. It was financed and managed principally by Govett himself and in consequence it is not until after his death in 1901 that a Committee was formed and the series of Church Meeting and other minutes begins, though Govett's printed pastoral letters commence as early as 1847 (nos. 59-60 in list). Small mission churches were established at Stoke Holy Cross, Bramerton, Great Moulton, Swardeston, Saxlingham Nethergate, Marlingford and elsewhere
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Depwade http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Depwade/Depwade.shtml
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Norfolk Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
- Norfolk: Moulton St Michael on GenUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 353-356. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51162 Date accessed: 19 March 2013.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 25 February 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812,' FamilySearch, accessed 31 March 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941', FamilySearch, accessed 31 March 2014.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Baptism Project 1813 to 1880,' Tinstaafl Transcripts, accessed 10 April 2014.
