Ashby with Oby and Thurne, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Ashby with Oby and Thurne, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Thurne St Edmund is the parish church a Norman church with thatched roof. Thurne is the Saxon word for a thorn bush.

ASHBY (St. Mary), a parish, in the East and West Flegg incorporation, hundred of West Flegg, E. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (N.) from Acle. Thisparish, which was consolidated with those of Thirne and Oby in 1604.

Civil Registration
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.


 * Flegg 1837-1924
 * Yarmouth and Flegg 1925-1938
 * Acle 1939-1974
 * Norwich Outer
 * Norwich

Church records
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Oby parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Thurne parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Browse Bishop's Transcript Images on FamilySearch


 * 1698 Image 4
 * 1705-1706 Image 353
 * 1705-1706 Image 354 Thurne
 * 1715-1716 Image 1175

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Norfolk Record Office reference for combined parish registers of Ashby, Oby and Thurne PD308/1-3, 5-7

This parish's registers do not appear on the FamilySearch website since no microfilm is held for the parish of St Edmund Thurne at the Family History Library.

Probate records
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.

Poor Law Unions
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Flegg/Flegg.shtml

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Ashby with Oby on GenUKI