Diss St Mary, Norfolk Genealogy

History
Diss St Mary is the earliest church for the town and subsequently with the expansion in the fifteenth century a chapel was built.

St Mary survived as the Ancient parish church; the chapel survived only until the Reformation.

The church was founded in 1290 and John Skelton one of the rectors was also the poet laureate.

The Manning family provided many rectors of Diss and the Mannings formed a continuous line of Rectors from 1778 to 1916.

Church Records
Images of the parish register for this parish are available on Record Search, however the current arrangement of images need future engineering. The Norfolk Record Office reference is PD 100

The earliest registers from 1551 were bound in August 1816 by William Manning Rector and are marked No 1 and contain Baptisms and marriages 1551-1652 Burials 1555-1651 A second bound volume marked No 2 contains Baptisms and marriages 1551-1598 Burials 1555-1598.

There is a non functional Record Search way point suggesting records 1653-1667 which should display Baptisms, marriages, burials 1653-1667

The 1667-1691 images are for Baptisms, marriages, burials 1667-1691

The 1691-1729 images are for Baptisms, marriages, burials 1691-1729

The 1694-1696 images are fo a draft register for 1694-1696

There are then omitted images which do not load. The omitted images are for Baptisms and burials 1729-1778 Marriages 1729-1754 Baptisms and burials 1779-1812  Baptisms and burials 1783-1787

Elsewhere under Record Search way point marked 1779-1812 and 1783-1787 two of these items appear for baptisms and burials but the marriages 1729-1754 do not appear to have been loaded.

There is a further series of unloaded marriages and banns for the years Marriages and banns 1792-1805 Marriages 1805-1812 Banns 1805-1823.