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Guide to Norwich St Michael at Thorn, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Norwich St Michael at Thorn, Norfolk | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Norwich Borough |
| County | Norfolk |
| Poor Law Union | Norwich |
| Registration District | Norwich |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1833 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1608 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Norwich |
| Diocese | Norwich |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Norwich |
| Location of Archive | |
| Norfolk Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Norwich St Michael at Thorn was an Ancient parish in the city and Diocese of Norwich.
It was destroyed by bombing in 1942.
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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Norwich St Michael at Thorn, Norfolk Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Norwich St Michael at Thorn, Norfolk Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FREG | 1813-1853 | 1813-1837 | 1813-1853 | |||
| FS PRs | Undefined | 1833-1909 | ||||
| IGI | 1608-1751 | 1608-1751 | ||||
| TIN | 1813-1880 | |||||
The registers of the church were destroyed in 1942, the surviving banns book for 1833-1903 is deposited at Norfolk Record Office reference PD74 (St Michael in Thorn) and images appear in FamilySearch.
A search of the FamilySearch Catalogue indicates that the following Archdeacon's transcripts are on film but these have not yet been converted to digital images for publication
| Content |
Film |
| Archdeacon's transcripts, 1608-1812 |
FHL BRITISH Film 1305939 |
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
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]
http://www.georgeplunkett.co.uk for historic photographs of the church before demolition after World War bombing
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 'Norfolk Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 27 February 2014.
- ↑ 'England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1538-1900', FamilySearch, accessed 17 March 2014.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Norfolk, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 20 March 2014.
- ↑ 'Norfolk Baptism Project 1813 to 1880,' Tinstaafl Transcripts, accessed 10 April 2014.
