Norwich St Michael Coslany, Norfolk Genealogy

England   Norfolk

Parish History
St Michael Coslany is an Ancient Parish in the city and Diocese of Norwich. It is sometimes abbreviated to St Miles particularly in old documents.

The building is in the care of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust and houses the Norwich Discovery Centre, a science museum for schoolchildren and adult visitors.

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.

Church records
Images of the parish register for this parish are available on Record Search but the registers were damaged by flooding and some parts of the registers are illegible.

Baptisms 1558-1903 are of particular interest for some family baptisms for Harper and Peckover.

Poor Law Union
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?Norwich/Norwich.shtml

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.georgeplunkett.co.uk for historic photographs of the church

Norwich Historic Churches Trust http://www.norwich-churches.org/index.asp