Thwaite (near Alby), Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk    Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
THWAITE (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Aylsham, hundred of South Erpingham, E. division of Norfolk, 4¾ miles (N.) from Aylsham. Thwaite All Saints is an Ancient parish in the Diocese of Norwich and the Ingworth rural deanery. It should not be confused with the parish of Thwaite in the Brooke rural deanery.( Thwaite (near Loddon), Norfolk)

Alby with Thwaite is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The parish straddles the A140 some 10 km south of Cromer and 30 km north of Norwich, including the settlements of Alby and Thwaite. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.

The church of Thwaite, All Saints, is one of 124 surviving round-tower churches in Norfolk.

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.

Registration Districts


 * Aylsham 1837-1938
 * Norwich Outer 1939-1974
 * Norwich

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

This parish's registers do not appear at FamilySearch Historical Records as no microfilm for the parish is held A search of the Family History Library Catalogue identifies the following Archdeacon's transcripts:

Census records
http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/AlbyWithThwaite.htm transcript of 1891 census

Poor Law Unions
Aylsham Poor Law Union

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

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.

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

Web sites
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/thwaite-all-saints/ parish information

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/Church_Pages/thwaite_alby.htm Photographs and transcription details

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51343#s1 British History online

http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/thwaite/thwaite.htm Norfolk Churches website