Thuxton, Norfolk Genealogy

Guide to Thuxton, Norfolk ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
THUXTON (St. Paul ), a parish, in the union of Mitford and Launditch, hundred of Mitford, W. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (N. by E.) from Hingham.

Thuxton St Paul is an Ancient parish in the Hingham deanery of the Diocese of Norwich.

The church holds a monthly service and is part of the Barnham Broom, Norfolk and Upper Yare Team of 13 Parishes.

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.


 * Mitford 1837-1938
 * East Dereham 1939-1974

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

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

Records are also available at the Norfolk Record Office.

Genealogy From Periodicals
Palgrove-Moore, Patrick. The Futter Enigma. A discussion of the pedigree of John and (1) Agnes Bryan, (2) Anne Goldingham, and the Visitation of Norfolk, 1563, originally published by the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society from a transcript in the British Library made in 1618. There seems to be a possiblility, that the original one, could be not correct, due to Mr Palgrove-Moore's research. Surnames listed are Bryan, Goldingham, Clarke, Parker, Cotton, and Thwates. Article dated 1563-1588, with family in Suffolk, Throston, Belsted. Article in The Norfolk Ancestor, Old series, vol. 3, pt.7, page 100, Family History Library Ref. 942.61 B2j vol. 3,pt7.

Poor Law Unions
Mitford Launditch Workhouse

Records of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union1776-1948 Norfolk Record Office C/GP 14 Extent 137 pieces The following parishes comprised the 1836 union: Bawdeswell, Beeston, Beetley, Billingford, East Bilney, Bintry, Brisley, Bylaugh, Colkirk, Cranworth, East Dereham, Great Dunham, Little Dunham, North Elmham, Elsing, Foxley, Great Fransham, Little Fransham, Garvestone, Gately, Gressenhall, Guist, Hardingham, Hockering, Hoe, Horningtoft, Kempstone, Letton, East Lexham, West Lexham, Litcham, Longham, Lyng, Mattishall, Mattishall Burgh, Mileham, Oxwick with Pattesley, Reymerstone, Rougham, Scarning, Shipdham, Southburgh, Sparham, Stanfield, Swanton Morley, Thuxton, Tittleshall, East Tuddenham, North Tuddenham, Twyford, Weasenham All Saints, Weasenham St Peter, Wellingham, Wendling, Westfield, Whinburgh, Whissonsett, Wood Rising, Worthing, Yaxham. All fifty parishes of Mitford and Launditch Hundreds were incorporated in 1775 under the terms of An act for the better relief and employment of the poor within the hundreds of Mitford and Launditch, 15 Geo. III, cap. 59. In 1801 the parish of East Dereham separated from the Incorporation, but in 1836 all fifty original parishes plus ten from Eynesford Hundred joined together in a new union. The House of Industry belonging to the old incorporation, built at Gressenhall in 1776-1777, was repaired and altered in 1836 to become the new Union Workhouse. Mitford and Launditch Union Board of Guardians was replaced by Guardians Committee No. 10 in 1930.

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

Websites

 * Norfolk: Thuxton on GenUKI
 * Thuxton St Paul
 * British History online
 * Norfolk Churches website